T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

CAR-based therapies: opportunities for immuno-medicine beyond cancer

H Aghajanian, JG Rurik, JA Epstein - Nature metabolism, 2022 - nature.com
One of the most exciting new therapies for cancer involves the use of autologous T cells that
are engineered to recognize and destroy cancerous cells. Patients with previously …

MHC class II presentation in autoimmunity

IA Ishina, MY Zakharova, IN Kurbatskaia, AE Mamedov… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antigen presentation by major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) molecules is
crucial for eliciting an efficient immune response by CD4+ T cells and maintaining self …

Cell-based therapies for rheumatoid arthritis: opportunities and challenges

YJ Li, Z Chen - Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common immune-mediated inflammatory disease
characterized by chronic synovitis that hardly resolves spontaneously. The current treatment …

Antigen-specific depletion of CD4+ T cells by CAR T cells reveals distinct roles of higher- and lower-affinity TCRs during autoimmunity

J Yi, AT Miller, AS Archambault, AJ Jones… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Both higher-and lower-affinity self-reactive CD4+ T cells are expanded in autoimmunity;
however, their individual contribution to disease remains unclear. We addressed this …

Exploiting single-cell tools in gene and cell therapy

D Bode, AH Cull, JA Rubio-Lara, DG Kent - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Single-cell molecular tools have been developed at an incredible pace over the last five
years as sequencing costs continue to drop and numerous molecular assays have been …

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based cell therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM); current Progress and future approaches

V Mohammadi, AJ Maleki, M Nazari… - Stem Cell Reviews and …, 2024 - Springer
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease that destroys insulin-producing
pancreatic β-cells. Insulin replacement therapy is currently the mainstay of treatment for …

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell and regulatory T cell therapy in non-oncology diseases: A narrative review of studies from 2017 to 2023

MY Sun, W Li, W Chen - Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, the remarkable success of chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy in
treating certain tumors has led to numerous studies exploring its potential application to treat …

CARs: a new approach for the treatment of autoimmune diseases

Y Sun, Y Yuan, B Zhang, X Zhang - Science China Life Sciences, 2023 - Springer
The development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based therapeutic interventions
represented a breakthrough in cancer treatment. Following the success of the CAR-T-cell …

[HTML][HTML] Multipurposing CARs: same engine, different vehicles

AKMN Hossian, CS Hackett, RJ Brentjens, S Rafiq - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
T cells genetically engineered to recognize and eliminate tumor cells through synthetic
chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have demonstrated remarkable clinical efficacy against B …