Pathogenetic mechanisms and treatment targets in cerebral malaria

A Hadjilaou, J Brandi, M Riehn, MA Friese… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Malaria, the most prevalent mosquito-borne infectious disease worldwide, has accompanied
humanity for millennia and remains an important public health issue despite advances in its …

Normalizing the environment recapitulates adult human immune traits in laboratory mice

LK Beura, SE Hamilton, K Bi, JM Schenkel… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Our current understanding of immunology was largely defined in laboratory mice, partly
because they are inbred and genetically homogeneous, can be genetically manipulated …

The ins and outs of cerebral malaria pathogenesis: immunopathology, extracellular vesicles, immunometabolism, and trained immunity

F Sierro, GER Grau - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Complications from malaria parasite infections still cost the lives of close to half a million
people every year. The most severe is cerebral malaria (CM). Employing murine models of …

CD8+ T Cells Induce Fatal Brainstem Pathology during Cerebral Malaria via Luminal Antigen-Specific Engagement of Brain Vasculature

PA Swanson, GT Hart, MV Russo, D Nayak… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Cerebral malaria (CM) is a severe complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection that
results in thousands of deaths each year, mostly in African children. The in vivo mechanisms …

Daily rhythms of TNFα expression and food intake regulate synchrony of Plasmodium stages with the host circadian cycle

IC Hirako, PA Assis, NS Hojo-Souza, G Reed… - Cell host & …, 2018 - cell.com
The Plasmodium cell cycle, wherein millions of parasites differentiate and proliferate, occurs
in synchrony with the vertebrate host's circadian cycle. The underlying mechanisms are …

Targeting glutamine metabolism rescues mice from late-stage cerebral malaria

EB Gordon, GT Hart, TM Tran… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The most deadly complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection is cerebral malaria (CM)
with a case fatality rate of 15–25% in African children despite effective antimalarial …

FDA-approved kinase inhibitors in preclinical and clinical trials for neurological disorders

A Lui, J Vanleuven, D Perekopskiy, D Liu, D Xu… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancers and neurological disorders are two major types of diseases. We previously
developed a new concept termed “Aberrant Cell Cycle Diseases”(ACCD), revealing that …

miR-155 modifies inflammation, endothelial activation and blood-brain barrier dysfunction in cerebral malaria

KR Barker, Z Lu, H Kim, Y Zheng, J Chen, AL Conroy… - Molecular …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract miR-155 has been shown to participate in host response to infection and
neuroinflammation via negative regulation of blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity and T cell …

Enhanced translation expands the endo-lysosome size and promotes antigen presentation during phagocyte activation

VEB Hipolito, JA Diaz, KV Tandoc, C Oertlin… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The mechanisms that govern organelle adaptation and remodelling remain poorly defined.
The endo-lysosomal system degrades cargo from various routes, including endocytosis …

The host mTOR pathway and parasitic diseases pathogenesis

S Rashidi, R Mansouri, M Ali-Hassanzadeh… - Parasitology …, 2021 - Springer
The mechanistic (or mammalian) target of rapamycin (mTOR) is considered as a critical
regulatory enzyme involved in essential signaling pathways affecting cell growth, cell …