Biology of lung macrophages in health and disease

H Aegerter, BN Lambrecht, CV Jakubzick - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tissue-resident alveolar and interstitial macrophages and recruited macrophages are critical
players in innate immunity and maintenance of lung homeostasis. Until recently, assessing …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N Xie… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

[HTML][HTML] Alternatively activated macrophages; a double-edged sword in allergic asthma

MH Abdelaziz, SF Abdelwahab, J Wan, W Cai… - Journal of translational …, 2020 - Springer
Background Macrophages are heterogenous phagocytic cells with an important role in the
innate immunity. They are, also, significant contributors in the adaptive immune system …

[HTML][HTML] Alveolar macrophages in the resolution of inflammation, tissue repair, and tolerance to infection

B Allard, A Panariti, JG Martin - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Pathogen persistence in the respiratory tract is an important preoccupation, and of particular
relevance to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. The equilibrium between elimination …

Macrophage polarization and allergic asthma

A Saradna, DC Do, S Kumar, QL Fu, P Gao - Translational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Allergic asthma is associated with airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness.
Macrophage polarization has been shown to have a profound impact on asthma …

[HTML][HTML] IL33: roles in allergic inflammation and therapeutic perspectives

BCL Chan, CWK Lam, LS Tam, CK Wong - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin (IL)-33 belongs to IL-1 cytokine family which is constitutively produced from the
structural and lining cells including fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and epithelial cells of skin …

[HTML][HTML] Recruited monocytes and type 2 immunity promote lung regeneration following pneumonectomy

AJ Lechner, IH Driver, J Lee, CM Conroy, A Nagle… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
To investigate the role of immune cells in lung regeneration, we used a unilateral
pneumonectomy model that promotes the formation of new alveoli in the remaining lobes …

[HTML][HTML] FABP5 controls macrophage alternative activation and allergic asthma by selectively programming long-chain unsaturated fatty acid metabolism

Y Hou, D Wei, Z Zhang, H Guo, S Li, J Zhang, P Zhang… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Fatty acids (FAs) are widely involved in diverse biological functions. In mice with myeloid-
specific deletion of fatty acid-binding protein 5 (FABP5), OVA-induced allergic airway …

[HTML][HTML] The role of type 2 innate lymphoid cells in allergic diseases

H Zheng, Y Zhang, J Pan, N Liu, Y Qin, L Qiu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Allergic diseases are significant diseases that affect many patients worldwide. In the past
few decades, the incidence of allergic diseases has increased significantly due to …

Alternative macrophage activation is increased in asthma

PO Girodet, D Nguyen, JD Mancini… - American journal of …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
The immune responses of type 2 T helper cells (Th2) play an important role in asthma and
promote the differentiation of alternatively activated (M2) macrophages. M2 macrophages …