Harnessing genomic information for livestock improvement

M Georges, C Charlier, B Hayes - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
The world demand for animal-based food products is anticipated to increase by 70% by
2050. Meeting this demand in a way that has a minimal impact on the environment will …

Interferon regulatory factor 7 in inflammation, cancer and infection

F Qing, Z Liu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7), a member of the interferon regulatory factors (IRFs)
family, is located downstream of the pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)-mediated …

[HTML][HTML] A major role for ferroptosis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis–induced cell death and tissue necrosis

EP Amaral, DL Costa, S Namasivayam… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Necrotic cell death during Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is considered host
detrimental since it facilitates mycobacterial spread. Ferroptosis is a type of regulated …

The tuberculous granuloma and preexisting immunity

SB Cohen, BH Gern, KB Urdahl - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Pulmonary granulomas are widely considered the epicenters of the immune response to
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). Recent animal …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis: success through dormancy

M Gengenbacher, SHE Kaufmann - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health threat, killing nearly 2 million individuals around
this globe, annually. The only vaccine, developed almost a century ago, provides limited …

In search of a new paradigm for protective immunity to TB

C Nunes-Alves, MG Booty, SM Carpenter… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Clinical trials of vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis are well under way and
results are starting to come in. Some of these results are not so encouraging, as exemplified …

Cell-mediated immune responses in tuberculosis

AM Cooper - Annual review of immunology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Tuberculosis is primarily a disease of the lung, and dissemination of the disease depends
on productive infection of this critical organ. Upon aerosol infection with Mycobacterium …

Cavitary tuberculosis: the gateway of disease transmission

ME Urbanowski, AA Ordonez… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis continues to be a major threat to global health. Cavitation is a dangerous
consequence of pulmonary tuberculosis associated with poor outcomes, treatment relapse …

Are innate immune signaling pathways in plants and animals conserved?

FM Ausubel - Nature immunology, 2005 - nature.com
Although adaptive immunity is unique to vertebrates, the innate immune response seems to
have ancient origins. Common features of innate immunity in vertebrates, invertebrate …

[HTML][HTML] A half-century of research on tuberculosis: Successes and challenges

BR Bloom - The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Great progress has been made over the past half-century, but TB remains a formidable
global health problem, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. Understanding the …