Tumor-derived exosomes and their role in cancer progression

TL Whiteside - Advances in clinical chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Tumor cells actively produce, release, and utilize exosomes to promote tumor growth.
Mechanisms through which tumor-derived exosomes subserve the tumor are under intense …

Anti-inflammatory microRNAs and their potential for inflammatory diseases treatment

A Tahamtan, M Teymoori-Rad, B Nakstad… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Inflammation is a complicated biological and pathophysiological cascade of responses to
infections and injuries, and inflammatory mechanisms are closely related to many diseases …

Exosomes and tumor-mediated immune suppression

TL Whiteside - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2016 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Tumor-derived exosomes (TEX) are harbingers of tumor-induced immune suppression: they
carry immunosuppressive molecules and factors known to interfere with immune cell …

Interleukin-2 at the crossroads of effector responses, tolerance, and immunotherapy

W Liao, JX Lin, WJ Leonard - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is a pleiotropic cytokine produced after antigen activation that plays
pivotal roles in the immune response. Discovered as a T cell growth factor, IL-2 additionally …

[HTML][HTML] Function of miR-146a in controlling Treg cell-mediated regulation of Th1 responses

LF Lu, MP Boldin, A Chaudhry, LL Lin, KD Taganov… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Summary Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells maintain immune homeostasis by limiting
different types of inflammatory responses. Here, we report that miR-146a, one of the miRNAs …

MicroRNAs: the fine-tuners of Toll-like receptor signalling

LA O'neill, FJ Sheedy, CE McCoy - Nature reviews immunology, 2011 - nature.com
Toll-like receptor (TLR) signalling must be tightly regulated to avoid excessive inflammation
and to allow for tissue repair and the return to homeostasis after infection and tissue injury …

miR-146 and miR-155: two key modulators of immune response and tumor development

U Testa, E Pelosi, G Castelli, C Labbaye - Non-coding RNA, 2017 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) are a class of evolutionarily-conserved small, regulatory non-
coding RNAs, 19–3 nucleotides in length, that negatively regulate protein coding gene …

MicroRNA-mediated regulation of T helper cell differentiation and plasticity

D Baumjohann, KM Ansel - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract CD4+ T helper (TH) cells regulate appropriate cellular and humoral immune
responses to a wide range of pathogens and are central to the success of vaccines …

The role of miRNA in inflammation and autoimmunity

RP Singh, I Massachi, S Manickavel, S Singh… - Autoimmunity …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract miRNAs are small non-coding RNA molecules that modulate the expression of
multiple protein-encoding genes at the post-transcriptional level. They have recently been …

A guide to miRNAs in inflammation and innate immune responses

C Nejad, HJ Stunden, MP Gantier - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of micro RNA s (miRNAs) in the early 1990's has revolutionized our thinking
of post‐transcriptional gene control. miRNAs are involved in the regulation of almost every …