Soluble TIM-3 as a biomarker of progression and therapeutic response in cancers and other of human diseases

C Bailly, X Thuru, L Goossens, JF Goossens - Biochemical pharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoints inhibition is a privileged approach to combat cancers and other human
diseases. The TIM-3 (T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3) inhibitory …

Molecular pathogenesis of fibrosis, thrombosis and surfactant dysfunction in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients

A Krygier, D Szmajda-Krygier, R Świechowski… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The global scope and scale of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic led to huge amounts of important
data from clinical observations and experimental analyses being collected, in particular …

Involvement of matrix metalloproteinases in COVID-19: molecular targets, mechanisms, and insights for therapeutic interventions

R Salomão, V Assis, IV de Sousa Neto, B Petriz… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The costs worldwide of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have
been tremendous. With millions of deaths in different countries, understanding biomarkers is …

PD-L1 and PD-1 are associated with clinical outcomes and alveolar immune cell activation in acute respiratory distress syndrome

ED Morrell, SE Holton, A Wiedeman… - American Journal of …, 2024 - atsjournals.org
The relationship between the PD-L1 (Programmed Death-Ligand 1)/PD-1 pathway, lung
inflammation, and clinical outcomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is poorly …

Cytokine patterns in COVID-19 patients: which cytokines predict mortality and which Protect against?

M Basheer, E Saad, M Kananeh, L Asad… - Current Issues in …, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background/Aim: People infected with SARS-CoV-2 may develop COVID-19 in a wide
range of clinical severity. Pulmonary fibrosis is characterized by several grades of chronic …

Matrix Metalloproteinases in Health and Disease in the Times of COVID-19

C Fernandez-Patron, E Hardy - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Much has been written about matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in health and disease
conditions, but their roles in the setting of COVID-19 and associated illnesses remain …

Regulation of PD-L1 Expression by Nuclear Receptors

Y Kiriyama, H Nochi - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The suppression of excessive immune responses is necessary to prevent injury to the body,
but it also allows cancer cells to escape immune responses and proliferate. Programmed …

Role of the PD-1 and PD-L1 axis in COVID-19

SR Bonam, H Hu, J Bayry - Future Microbiology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Tweetable abstract Severe COVID-19 patients display dysregulated expression of
checkpoint molecules PD-1 and its ligand PD-L1, suggesting that these checkpoint …

Role of matrix metalloproteinases in multi-system inflammatory syndrome and acute COVID-19 in children

N Pavan Kumar, A Venkataraman, P Varadarjan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a serious
inflammatory sequela of SARS-CoV2 infection. The pathogenesis of MIS-C is vague and …

Metalloprotease-Dependent S2′-Activation Promotes Cell–Cell Fusion and Syncytiation of SARS-CoV-2

JV Harte, SL Wakerlin, AJ Lindsay, JV McCarthy… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 cell–cell fusion and syncytiation is an emerging pathomechanism in COVID-
19, but the precise factors contributing to the process remain ill-defined. In this study, we …