Role of lipid accumulation and inflammation in atherosclerosis: focus on molecular and cellular mechanisms

K Malekmohammad, EE Bezsonov… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Atherosclerosis is a chronic lipid-driven and maladaptive inflammatory disease of arterial
intima. It is characterized by the dysfunction of lipid homeostasis and signaling pathways …

Cholesterol-rich lipid rafts as platforms for SARS-CoV-2 entry

SN Palacios-Rápalo, LA De Jesus-Gonzalez… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since its appearance, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2),
the causal agent of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), represents a global problem for …

Nitric oxide in macrophage immunometabolism: hiding in plain sight

EM Palmieri, C McGinity, DA Wink, DW McVicar - Metabolites, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nitric Oxide (NO) is a soluble endogenous gas with various biological functions like
signaling, and working as an effector molecule or metabolic regulator. In response to …

Polarized microtubule remodeling transforms the morphology of reactive microglia and drives cytokine release

M Adrian, M Weber, MC Tsai, C Glock, OI Kahn… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglial reactivity is a pathological hallmark in many neurodegenerative diseases. During
stimulation, microglia undergo complex morphological changes, including loss of their …

Kynurenic acid: the Janus-faced role of an immunomodulatory tryptophan metabolite and its link to pathological conditions

E Wirthgen, A Hoeflich, A Rebl, J Günther - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tryptophan metabolites are known to participate in the regulation of many cells of the
immune system and are involved in various immune-mediated diseases and disorders …

ARF GTPases and their GEFs and GAPs: concepts and challenges

E Sztul, PW Chen, JE Casanova… - Molecular biology of …, 2019 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Detailed structural, biochemical, cell biological, and genetic studies of any gene/protein are
required to develop models of its actions in cells. Studying a protein family in the aggregate …

[HTML][HTML] IL-6, IL-8 and TNF-α levels correlate with disease stage in breast cancer patients

Y Ma, Y Ren, ZJ Dai, CJ Wu, YH Ji… - Advances in Clinical and …, 2017 - advances.umw.edu.pl
Background. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Chinese women. Inflammation
contributes to tumor progression and can be induced by excessive production of pro …

Engineered extracellular vesicles derived from dermal fibroblasts attenuate inflammation in a murine model of acute lung injury

AI Salazar‐Puerta, MA Rincon‐Benavides… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) represents a significant burden to the
healthcare system, with≈ 200 000 cases diagnosed annually in the USA. ARDS patients …

TNF production and release from microglia via extracellular vesicles: impact on brain functions

S Raffaele, M Lombardi, C Verderio, M Fumagalli - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a pleiotropic cytokine powerfully influencing diverse
processes of the central nervous system (CNS) under both physiological and pathological …

Alarmins: feel the stress

P Rider, E Voronov, CA Dinarello, RN Apte… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.aai.org
Over the last decade, danger-associated molecular pattern molecules, or alarmins, have
been recognized as signaling mediators of sterile inflammatory responses after trauma and …