More than just a barrier: the immune functions of the airway epithelium in asthma pathogenesis

A Frey, LP Lunding, JC Ehlers, M Weckmann… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Allergic bronchial asthma is a chronic disease of the airways that is characterized by
symptoms like respiratory distress, chest tightness, wheezing, productive cough, and acute …

[HTML][HTML] Pregnancy and viral infections: Mechanisms of fetal damage, diagnosis and prevention of neonatal adverse outcomes from cytomegalovirus to SARS-CoV-2 …

C Auriti, DU De Rose, A Santisi, L Martini… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Some maternal infections, contracted before or during pregnancy, can be transmitted to the
fetus, during gestation (congenital infection), during labor and childbirth (perinatal infection) …

An overview of the immune mechanisms of viral myocarditis

N Lasrado, J Reddy - Reviews in medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Viral myocarditis has been identified as a major cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) that
can lead to heart failure. Historically, Coxsackieviruses and adenoviruses have been …

Identification of multiple potential viral diseases in a large urban center using wastewater surveillance

C McCall, H Wu, B Miyani, I Xagoraraki - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Viruses are linked to a multitude of human illnesses and can disseminate widely in
urbanized environments causing global adverse impacts on communities and healthcare …

Twenty-five years of structural parvovirology

M Mietzsch, JJ Pénzes, M Agbandje-McKenna - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Parvoviruses, infecting vertebrates and invertebrates, are a family of single-stranded DNA
viruses with small, non-enveloped capsids with T= 1 icosahedral symmetry. A quarter of a …

Biological classification of childhood arthritis: roadmap to a molecular nomenclature

PA Nigrovic, RA Colbert, VM Holers, S Ozen… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Chronic inflammatory arthritis in childhood is heterogeneous in presentation and course.
Most forms exhibit clinical and genetic similarity to arthritis of adult onset, although at least …

Congenital viral infection: traversing the uterine-placental interface

L Pereira - Annual review of virology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Why certain viruses cross the physical barrier of the human placenta but others do not is
incompletely understood. Over the past 20 years, we have gained deeper knowledge of …

Footprint of the host restriction factors APOBEC3 on the genome of human viruses

F Poulain, N Lejeune, K Willemart, NA Gillet - PloS pathogens, 2020 - journals.plos.org
APOBEC3 enzymes are innate immune effectors that introduce mutations into viral
genomes. These enzymes are cytidine deaminases which transform cytosine into uracil …

The healthy human virome: from virus–host symbiosis to disease

EV Koonin, VV Dolja, M Krupovic - Current opinion in virology, 2021 - Elsevier
Viruses are ubiquitous, essential components of any ecosystem, and of multicellular
organism holobionts. Numerous viruses cause acute infection, killing the host or being …

[HTML][HTML] Viral infections and the neonatal brain

LS de Vries - Seminars in pediatric neurology, 2019 - Elsevier
This review includes the congenital infections best known by the acronym TORCH
(Toxoplasma gondii, rubella virus, cytomegalovirus, and herpes virus), as well as Zika virus …