Structure and function of the immune system in the spleen

SM Lewis, A Williams, SC Eisenbarth - Science immunology, 2019 - science.org
The spleen is the largest secondary lymphoid organ in the body and, as such, hosts a wide
range of immunologic functions alongside its roles in hematopoiesis and red blood cell …

T cell-mediated immunity to malaria

SP Kurup, NS Butler, JT Harty - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Immunity to malaria has been linked to the availability and function of helper CD4+ T cells,
cytotoxic CD8+ T cells and γδ T cells that can respond to both the asymptomatic liver stage …

The rough guide to monocytes in malaria infection

A Ortega-Pajares, SJ Rogerson - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
While half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, the most vulnerable are still children
under five, pregnant women and returning travelers. Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria …

IFN regulatory factor 3 in health and disease

TM Petro - The Journal of Immunology, 2020 - journals.aai.org
Immunity to viruses requires an array of critical cellular proteins that include IFN regulatory
factor 3 (IRF3). Consequently, most viruses that infect vertebrates encode proteins that …

IL-15 Complex–Induced IL-10 Enhances Plasmodium-specific CD4+ T Follicular Helper Differentiation and Antibody Production

M Bravo, T Dileepan, M Dolan, J Hildebrand… - The Journal of …, 2024 - journals.aai.org
Malaria, which results from infection with Plasmodium parasites, remains a major public
health problem. Although humans do not develop long-lived, sterilizing immunity, protection …

The regulation of CD4+ T cells during malaria

R Kumar, JR Loughland, SS Ng, MJ Boyle… - Immunological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria is a major global health problem. Despite decades of research, there is still no
effective vaccine to prevent disease in the majority of people living in malaria‐endemic …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptome dynamics of CD4+ T cells during malaria maps gradual transit from effector to memory

MSF Soon, HJ Lee, JA Engel, J Straube… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The dynamics of CD4+ T cell memory development remain to be examined at genome
scale. In malaria-endemic regions, antimalarial chemoprevention protects long after its …

Development of B cell memory in malaria

A Ly, DS Hansen - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A single exposure to many viral and bacterial pathogens typically induces life-long immunity,
however, the development of the protective immunity to Plasmodium parasites is strikingly …

Cell autonomous expression of BCL6 is required to maintain lineage identity of mouse CCR6+ ILC3s

Y Li, J Ge, X Zhao, M Xu, M Gou, B Xie… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are similar to T helper (Th) cells in expression of cytokines and
transcription factors. For example, RORγt is the lineage-specific transcription factor for both …

Effects of type I interferons in malaria

I Sebina, A Haque - Immunology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Type I interferons (IFNs) are a family of cytokines with a wide range of biological activities
including anti‐viral and immune‐regulatory functions. Here, we focus on the protozoan …