The 'cytokine storm': molecular mechanisms and therapeutic prospects

R Karki, TD Kanneganti - Trends in immunology, 2021 - cell.com
Cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) has generally been described as a collection of clinical
manifestations resulting from an overactivated immune system. Cytokine storms (CSs) are …

The immunology of macrophage activation syndrome

CB Crayne, S Albeituni, KE Nichols… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Synonymous with secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, macrophage activation
syndrome (MAS) is a term used by rheumatologists to describe a potentially life-threatening …

Pediatric hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

SW Canna, RA Marsh - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome describing patients with severe
systemic hyperinflammation. Characteristic features include unremitting fever, cytopenias …

Deep learning sequence-based ab initio prediction of variant effects on expression and disease risk

J Zhou, CL Theesfeld, K Yao, KM Chen, AK Wong… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Key challenges for human genetics, precision medicine and evolutionary biology include
deciphering the regulatory code of gene expression and understanding the transcriptional …

Confirmed efficacy of etoposide and dexamethasone in HLH treatment: long-term results of the cooperative HLH-2004 study

E Bergsten, AC Horne, M Aricó… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life-threatening hyperinflammatory
syndrome comprising familial/genetic HLH (FHL) and secondary HLH. In the HLH-94 study …

Histiocytic disorders

KL McClain, C Bigenwald, M Collin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The historic term 'histiocytosis' meaning 'tissue cell'is used as a unifying concept for
diseases characterized by pathogenic myeloid cells that share histological features with …

Perforin and granzymes: function, dysfunction and human pathology

I Voskoboinik, JC Whisstock, JA Trapani - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
A defining property of cytotoxic lymphocytes is their expression and regulated secretion of
potent toxins, including the pore-forming protein perforin and serine protease granzymes …

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

H Al-Samkari, N Berliner - Annual review of pathology …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is a life-threatening disorder characterized by
unbridled activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells, and macrophages …

Macrophage activation syndrome in the era of biologic therapy

AA Grom, AC Horne, F De Benedetti - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2016 - nature.com
Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) refers to acute overwhelming inflammation caused
by a'cytokine storm'. Although increasingly recognized as a life-threatening complication of …

The presynaptic active zone

TC Südhof - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Neurotransmitters are released by synaptic vesicle exocytosis at the active zone of a
presynaptic nerve terminal. In this review, I discuss the molecular composition and function …