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Neurobiol Dis
January 2025
Department of Biomedicine & Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience - DANDRITE, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address:
The underlying cause of neuronal loss in Parkinson's disease (PD) remains unknown, but evidence implicates neuroinflammation in PD pathobiology. The pro-inflammatory cytokine soluble tumor necrosis factor (TNF) seems to play an important role and thus has been proposed as a therapeutic target for modulation of the neuroinflammatory processes in PD. In this regard, dominant-negative TNF (DN-TNF) agents are promising antagonists that selectively inhibit soluble TNF signaling, while preserving the beneficial effects of transmembrane TNF.
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January 2025
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy.
Macrophages are cells of the innate immune system with very peculiar characteristics, so plastic that they respond rapidly to environmental changes by assuming different and sometimes contrasting functions, such as initiating a physiological inflammatory response or interrupting it and repairing damaged tissues [...
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January 2025
Centre of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Understanding the development and maintenance of immunological memory is important for efforts to eliminate parasitic diseases like leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis encompasses a range of pathologies, resulting from infection with protozoan parasites belonging to the subgenera and of the genus A striking feature of these infections is that natural or drug-mediated cure of infection generally confers life-long protection against disease. The generation of protective T cell responses are necessary to control infections.
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January 2025
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States.
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction resulting from a dysregulated host response to infections that is initiated by the body's innate immune system. Nearly a decade ago, we discovered that bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and serum amyloid A (SAA) upregulated Connexin 43 (Cx43) and Pannexin 1 (Panx1) hemichannels in macrophages. When overexpressed, these hemichannels contribute to sepsis pathogenesis by promoting ATP efflux, which intensifies the double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase R (PKR)-dependent inflammasome activation, pyroptosis, and the release of pathogenic damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) molecules, such as HMGB1.
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January 2025
State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-Products, School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are crucial for the immune defense of many organisms, serving as a potent mechanism for neutrophils to capture and eliminate extracellular pathogens. While NETosis and its antimicrobial mechanisms have been well studied in mammals, research on NETs formation in teleost fish remains limited. In this study, we used the large yellow croaker () as the study model to investigate NETosis and its role in pathogen defense.
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