Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

The role of the immune microenvironment in bone, cartilage, and soft tissue regeneration: from mechanism to therapeutic opportunity

Y Xiong, BB Mi, Z Lin, YQ Hu, L Yu, KK Zha… - Military Medical …, 2022 - Springer
Bone, cartilage, and soft tissue regeneration is a complex spatiotemporal process recruiting
a variety of cell types, whose activity and interplay must be precisely mediated for effective …

Treg cell-derived osteopontin promotes microglia-mediated white matter repair after ischemic stroke

L Shi, Z Sun, W Su, F Xu, D Xie, Q Zhang, X Dai, K Iyer… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
The precise mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of regulatory T (Treg) cells on long-
term tissue repair remain elusive. Here, using single-cell RNA sequencing and flow …

Immunotherapy: building a bridge to a cure for type 1 diabetes

JA Bluestone, JH Buckner, KC Herold - Science, 2021 - science.org
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which T cells attack and destroy the
insulin-producing β cells in the pancreatic islets. Genetic and environmental factors increase …

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 …

Hair follicle immune privilege and its collapse in alopecia areata

M Bertolini, K McElwee, A Gilhar… - Experimental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anagen stage hair follicles (HFs) exhibit “immune privilege (IP)” from the level of the bulge
downwards to the bulb. Both passive and active IP mechanisms protect HFs from …

The immunobiology of preterm labor and birth: intra-amniotic inflammation or breakdown of maternal–fetal homeostasis

N Gomez-Lopez, J Galaz, D Miller… - …, 2022 - rep.bioscientifica.com
In brief The syndrome of preterm labor comprises multiple established and novel etiologies.
This review summarizes the distinct immune mechanisms implicated in preterm labor and …

Ferroptosis: a double-edged sword mediating immune tolerance of cancer

Q Dang, Z Sun, Y Wang, L Wang, Z Liu, X Han - Cell death & disease, 2022 - nature.com
The term ferroptosis was put forward in 2012 and has been researched exponentially over
the past few years. Ferroptosis is an unconventional pattern of iron-dependent programmed …

Engineering islets from stem cells for advanced therapies of diabetes

J Siehler, AK Blöchinger, M Meier… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that affects more than 460 million people
worldwide. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells, whereas …

Interleukin-2 and regulatory T cells in rheumatic diseases

AGA Kolios, GC Tsokos, D Klatzmann - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2021 - nature.com
Failure of regulatory T (Treg) cells to properly control immune responses leads invariably to
autoimmunity and organ damage. Decreased numbers or impaired function of Treg cells …