The era of thromboinflammation: platelets are dynamic sensors and effector cells during infectious diseases

L Guo, MT Rondina - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Platelets are anucleate cells produced by megakaryocytes. In recent years, a robust body of
literature supports the evolving role of platelets as key sentinel and effector cells in infectious …

Interaction between the complement system and infectious agents–a potential mechanistic link to neurodegeneration and dementia

N Shinjyo, W Kagaya, M Pekna - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As part of the innate immune system, complement plays a critical role in the elimination of
pathogens and mobilization of cellular immune responses. In the central nervous system …

A comprehensive rhythmicity analysis of host proteins and immune factors involved in malaria pathogenesis to decipher the importance of host circadian clock in …

S Rankawat, K Kundal, S Chakraborty… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Circadian rhythms broadly impact human health by regulating our daily
physiological and metabolic processes. The circadian clocks substantially regulate our …

Decoding the complexities of human malaria through systems immunology

TM Tran, PD Crompton - Immunological reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The complexity of the Plasmodium parasite and its life cycle poses a challenge to our
understanding of the host immune response against malaria. Studying human immune …

Multiplexed quantitative proteomics provides mechanistic cues for malaria severity and complexity

V Kumar, S Ray, S Aggarwal, D Biswas… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Management of severe malaria remains a critical global challenge. In this study, using a
multiplexed quantitative proteomics pipeline we systematically investigated the plasma …

The defensive interactions of prominent infectious protozoan parasites: the host's complement system

S Rashidi, R Mansouri, M Ali-Hassanzadeh, A Muro… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The complement system exerts crucial functions both in innate immune responses and
adaptive humoral immunity. This pivotal system plays a major role dealing with pathogen …

New insights into microvascular injury to inform enhanced diagnostics and therapeutics for severe malaria

C Erice, KC Kain - Virulence, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Severe malaria (SM) has high mortality and morbidity rates despite treatment with potent
antimalarials. Disease onset and outcome is dependent upon both parasite and host factors …

An update on cerebral malaria for therapeutic intervention

C Panda, RK Mahapatra - Molecular Biology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Background Cerebral malaria is often pronounced as a major life-threatening neurological
complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection. The complex pathogenic landscape of the …

Oxidative and nitrosative stresses in cerebral malaria: can we target them to avoid a bad prognosis?

DMS Pereira, AR Carvalho Júnior… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
There is currently a global effort to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality. However, malaria
still results in the deaths of thousands of people every year. Malaria is caused by …

Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Rabies Virus-Infected Human and Canine Brains

PK Harsha, S Ranganayaki, G Yale, G Dey… - Neurochemical …, 2022 - Springer
Rabies is a fatal encephalitis caused by the Rabies lyssavirus (RABV). The presence of
minimal neuropathological changes observed in rabies indicates that neuronal dysfunction …