Background: Economically disadvantaged patients diagnosed with serious mental illness (SMI) experience post-hospitalizations disparities due to fragmented care transitions.
Purpose: To describe the pre-implementation strategies used to adapt and implement a nurse-led transitional care intervention (Thrive) to meet the needs of economically disadvantaged patients diagnosed with an SMI.
Methods: Two pre-implementation strategies, Evidence Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) meetings and Formative Evaluation (FE) research, were used to adapt intervention components.
Allergic diseases continue to increase in prevalence across the globe. Decades of research has uncovered the cytokines and transcription factors that are central to the allergic immune response, but only in the last few years have we begun to understand the metabolic requirements of allergic immunity. Here, we discuss the metabolic features of so-called 'type 2' lymphocytes, which are heavily implicated in allergy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are unconventional T cells that recognize microbial riboflavin pathway metabolites presented by evolutionarily conserved MR1 molecules. We explored the human MAIT cell compartment across organ donor-matched blood, barrier, and lymphoid tissues. MAIT cell population size was donor dependent with distinct tissue compartmentalization patterns and adaptations: Intestinal CD103 resident MAIT cells presented an immunoregulatory CD39CD27 profile, whereas MAIT cells expressing NCAM1/CD56 dominated in the liver and exhibited enhanced effector capacity with elevated response magnitude and polyfunctionality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThawing of viably frozen human tissue T cells, ILCs, and NK cells and subsequent single-cell RNA sequencing reveals that recovery of cellular subclusters is variably impacted. While freeze-thawing does not alter the transcriptional profiles of cells, it upregulates genes and gene pathways associated with stress and activation.
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