T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Treg cell-based therapies: challenges and perspectives

C Raffin, LT Vo, JA Bluestone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapies using regulatory T (Treg) cells are currently undergoing clinical trials for
the treatment of autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease. In …

The emerging landscape of immune cell therapies

EW Weber, MV Maus, CL Mackall - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell therapies present an entirely new paradigm in drug development. Within this class,
immune cell therapies are among the most advanced, having already demonstrated …

Intricacies of TGF-β signaling in Treg and Th17 cell biology

J Wang, X Zhao, YY Wan - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Balanced immunity is pivotal for health and homeostasis. CD4+ helper T (Th) cells are
central to the balance between immune tolerance and immune rejection. Th cells adopt …

Next-generation regulatory T cell therapy

LMR Ferreira, YD Muller, JA Bluestone… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are a small subset of immune cells that are dedicated to
curbing excessive immune activation and maintaining immune homeostasis. Accordingly …

Regulatory T cells in autoimmune disease

M Dominguez-Villar, DA Hafler - Nature immunology, 2018 - nature.com
In recent years, the understanding of regulatory T cell (Treg cell) biology has expanded
considerably. Key observations have challenged the traditional definition of Treg cells and …

The balance of Th17 versus Treg cells in autoimmunity

GR Lee - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
T helper type 17 (Th17) cells and pTreg cells, which share a common precursor cell (the
naïve CD4 T cell), require a common tumor growth factor (TGF)-β signal for initial …

Treg enhancing therapies to treat autoimmune diseases

PJ Eggenhuizen, BH Ng, JD Ooi - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are a small yet critical subset of CD4+ T cells, which have the role
of maintaining immune homeostasis by, for example, regulating self-tolerance, tumor …

Hypertension: do inflammation and immunity hold the key to solving this epidemic?

MS Madhur, F Elijovich, MR Alexander, A Pitzer… - Circulation …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Elevated cardiovascular risk including stroke, heart failure, and heart attack is present even
after normalization of blood pressure in patients with hypertension. Underlying immune cell …

Function and role of regulatory T cells in rheumatoid arthritis

Q Jiang, G Yang, Q Liu, S Wang, D Cui - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic and heterogeneous autoimmune disease with
symmetrical polyarthritis as its critical clinical manifestation. The basic cause of autoimmune …