Publications by authors named "B Mariotti"

Background: The physiological relevance of cell-to-cell communication mediated by small extracellular vesicle-encapsulated microRNAs (sEV-miRNAs) remains debated because of the limiting representativity of specific miRNAs within the extracellular pool. We hypothesize that sEV-miRNA non-canonical function consisting of the stimulation of Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) may rely on a global shift of the sEV cargo rather than on the induction of one or few specific miRNAs. Psoriasis represents an ideal model to test such hypothesis as it is driven by overt activation of TLR7-expressing plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) following keratinocyte damage.

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Sézary syndrome (SS) is a rare and aggressive T-cell lymphoma with a poor prognosis in advanced stages. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) offers a potential cure, but complications such as graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) remain a clinical challenge. Mogamulizumab, a humanized anti-CC chemokine receptor 4 (CCR4) antibody, is sometimes used as a bridge to transplantation, but its potential interactions with allo-HCT are unclear.

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The two primary classes of opioid substances are morphine and its synthetic derivative, heroin. Opioids can cross the placental barrier, reaching fetal circulation. Therefore, at any gestational age, the fetus is highly exposed to pharmacologically active opioid metabolites and their associated adverse effects.

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We present the case of a young adult, who developed several hepatic post-HCT complications, which made differential diagnosis extremely difficult.

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Precise molecular characterization of circulating polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cells (PMN-MDSCs) is hampered by their mixed composition of mature and immature cells and lack of specific markers. Here, we focus on mature CD66bCD10CD16CD11b PMN-MDSCs (mPMN-MDSCs) from either cancer patients or healthy donors receiving G-CSF for stem cell mobilization (GDs). By RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments, we report the identification of a distinct gene signature shared by the different mPMN-MDSC populations under investigation, also validated in mPMN-MDSCs from GDs and tumor-associated neutrophils (TANs) by single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) experiments.

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