Engineering immune tolerance with biomaterials

JM Gammon, CM Jewell - Advanced healthcare materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Autoimmune diseases, rejection of transplanted organs and grafts, chronic inflammatory
diseases, and immune‐mediated rejection of biologic drugs impact a large number of …

Nanoparticles for inducing antigen-specific T cell tolerance in autoimmune diseases

N Benne, D Ter Braake, AJ Stoppelenburg… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Autoimmune diseases affect many people worldwide. Current treatment modalities focus on
the reduction of disease symptoms using anti-inflammatory drugs which can lead to side …

Inhalation of dimethyl fumarate-encapsulated solid lipid nanoparticles attenuate clinical signs of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and pulmonary …

BF Pinto, LNB Ribeiro, GBRF Da Silva… - Clinical …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Abstract Rationale: The FDA-approved Dimethyl Fumarate (DMF) as an oral drug for
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) treatment based on its immunomodulatory activities. However, it also …

Soluble antigen arrays disarm antigen-specific B cells to promote lasting immune tolerance in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

BL Hartwell, CJ Pickens, M Leon, L Northrup… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Autoreactive lymphocytes that escape central immune tolerance may be silenced via an
endogenous peripheral tolerance mechanism known as anergy. Antigen-specific therapies …

Recent advances in antigen-specific immunotherapies for the treatment of multiple sclerosis

O Kammona, C Kiparissides - Brain Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system and is
considered to be the leading non-traumatic cause of neurological disability in young adults …

Harnessing the potential of the NALT and BALT as targets for immunomodulation using engineering strategies to enhance mucosal uptake

ML Seefeld, EL Templeton, JM Lehtinen… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Mucosal barrier tissues and their mucosal associated lymphoid tissues (MALT) are attractive
targets for vaccines and immunotherapies due to their roles in both priming and regulating …

Multivalent soluble antigen arrays exhibit high avidity binding and modulation of B cell receptor-mediated signaling to drive efficacy against experimental autoimmune …

BL Hartwell, CJ Pickens, M Leon… - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
A pressing need exists for antigen-specific immunotherapies (ASIT) that induce selective
tolerance in autoimmune disease while avoiding deleterious global immunosuppression …

Antigen-specific binding of multivalent soluble antigen arrays induces receptor clustering and impedes B cell receptor mediated signaling

BL Hartwell, FJ Martinez-Becerra, J Chen… - …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A pressing need exists for autoimmune disease therapies that act in an antigen-specific
manner while avoiding global immunosuppression. Multivalent soluble antigen arrays …

Soluble antigen arrays for selective desensitization of insulin-reactive B cells

MA Leon, SM Wemlinger, NR Larson… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Autoimmune diseases are believed to be highly dependent on loss of immune tolerance to
self-antigens. Currently, no treatments have been successful clinically in inducing …

Biomaterial-based approaches to engineering immune tolerance

AE Emerson, EM Slaby, SC Hiremath… - Biomaterials Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of biomaterial-based therapeutics to induce immune tolerance holds great
promise for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, allergy, and graft rejection in …