The role of monocytes and macrophages in autoimmune diseases: a comprehensive review

WT Ma, F Gao, K Gu, DK Chen - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Monocytes (Mo) and macrophages (Mϕ) are key components of the innate immune system
and are involved in regulation of the initiation, development, and resolution of many …

Drug delivery to macrophages: a review of targeting drugs and drug carriers to macrophages for inflammatory diseases

W He, N Kapate, CW Shields IV, S Mitragotri - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Macrophages play a key role in defending against foreign pathogens, healing wounds, and
regulating tissue homeostasis. Driving this versatility is their phenotypic plasticity, which …

Functional and metabolic alterations of gut microbiota in children with new-onset type 1 diabetes

X Yuan, R Wang, B Han, CJ Sun, R Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Gut dysbiosis has been linked to type 1 diabetes (T1D); however, microbial capacity in T1D
remains unclear. Here, we integratively profiled gut microbial functional and metabolic …

Gut microbiome in type 1 diabetes: A comprehensive review

P Zheng, Z Li, Z Zhou - Diabetes/metabolism research and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease, which is characterized by the
destruction of islet β cells in the pancreas triggered by genetic and environmental factors. In …

Perivascular macrophages in health and disease

A Lapenna, M De Palma, CE Lewis - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Macrophages are a heterogeneous group of cells that are capable of carrying out distinct
functions in different tissues, as well as in different locations within a given tissue. Some of …

Islet inflammation in type 2 diabetes

M Böni-Schnetzler, DT Meier - Seminars in immunopathology, 2019 - Springer
Metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes are associated with meta-inflammation. β-Cell
failure is a major component of the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. It is now well …

Macrophages, low-grade inflammation, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia: a mutual ambiguous relationship in the development of metabolic diseases

GP Püschel, J Klauder, J Henkel - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022 - mdpi.com
Metabolic derangement with poor glycemic control accompanying overweight and obesity is
associated with chronic low-grade inflammation and hyperinsulinemia. Macrophages, which …

Metabolic adaptations of tissue-resident immune cells

G Caputa, A Castoldi, EJ Pearce - Nature immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Unlike other cells in the body, immune cells have to be able to enter and adapt to life within
diverse tissues. Immune cells develop within dedicated immune system organs, such as the …

Ly6CHi Blood Monocyte/Macrophage Drive Chronic Inflammation and Impair Wound Healing in Diabetes Mellitus

A Kimball, M Schaller, A Joshi, FM Davis… - … , and vascular biology, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Objective—Wound monocyte-derived macrophage plasticity controls the initiation and
resolution of inflammation that is critical for proper healing, however, in diabetes mellitus, the …

Single-cell RNA sequencing of murine islets shows high cellular complexity at all stages of autoimmune diabetes

PN Zakharov, H Hu, X Wan, ER Unanue - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Tissue-specific autoimmune diseases are driven by activation of diverse immune cells in the
target organs. However, the molecular signatures of immune cell populations over time in an …