Myocardial infarction accelerates breast cancer via innate immune reprogramming

GJ Koelwyn, AAC Newman, MS Afonso… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Disruption of systemic homeostasis by either chronic or acute stressors, such as obesity or
surgery, alters cancer pathogenesis. Patients with cancer, particularly those with breast …

Extracellular cGAMP is a cancer-cell-produced immunotransmitter involved in radiation-induced anticancer immunity

JA Carozza, V Böhnert, KC Nguyen, G Skariah… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) is an intracellular second messenger that is synthesized in
response to cytosolic double-stranded DNA and activates the innate immune STING …

VISTA is a checkpoint regulator for naïve T cell quiescence and peripheral tolerance

MA ElTanbouly, Y Zhao, E Nowak, J Li, E Schaafsma… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A central tenet of the clonal selection theory (CST), the current cornerstone
of adaptive immunity, states that naïve T cells are selected on the basis of specificity to …

Cxcr4 distinguishes HSC-derived monocytes from microglia and reveals monocyte immune responses to experimental stroke

Y Werner, E Mass, P Ashok Kumar, T Ulas… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Monocyte-derived and tissue-resident macrophages are ontogenetically distinct
components of the innate immune system. Assessment of their respective functions in …

Multi-omic profiling of primary mouse neutrophils predicts a pattern of sex-and age-related functional regulation

RJ Lu, S Taylor, K Contrepois, M Kim, JI Bravo… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Neutrophils are the most abundant human white blood cell and constitute a first line of
defense in the innate immune response. Neutrophils are short-lived cells and thus the …

Engineering kinetics of TLR7/8 agonist release from bottlebrush prodrugs enables tumor-focused immune stimulation

SH Bhagchandani, F Vohidov, LE Milling, EY Tong… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Imidazoquinolines (IMDs), such as resiquimod (R848), are of great interest as potential
cancer immunotherapies because of their ability to activate Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) …

Murine macrophages or their secretome delivered in alginate dressings enhance impaired wound healing in diabetic mice

G Theocharidis, S Rahmani, S Lee, Z Li, A Lobao… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Diabetic foot ulceration is a devastating diabetic complication with unmet needs. We
explored the efficacy of calcium-crosslinked alginate dressings in topically delivering …

Boosting the biogenesis and secretion of mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes

J Wang, EE Bonacquisti, AD Brown, J Nguyen - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
A limitation of using exosomes to their fullest potential is their limited secretion from cells, a
major bottleneck to efficient exosome production and application. This is especially true for …

Fasting-activated ventrolateral medulla neurons regulate T cell homing and suppress autoimmune disease in mice

L Wang, M Cheng, Y Wang, J Chen, F Xie… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dietary fasting markedly influences the distribution and function of immune cells and exerts
potent immunosuppressive effects. However, the mechanisms through which fasting …

γδ-Enriched CAR-T cell therapy for bone metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer

JS Frieling, L Tordesillas, XE Bustos, MC Ramello… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Immune checkpoint blockade has been largely unsuccessful for the treatment of bone
metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Here, we report a combinatorial …