Fibroblast pathology in inflammatory diseases

K Wei, HN Nguyen, MB Brenner - The Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Fibroblasts are important cells for the support of homeostatic tissue function. In inflammatory
diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, fibroblasts take on …

Promising therapeutic targets for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

J Huang, X Fu, X Chen, Z Li, Y Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic poly-articular chronic autoimmune joint disease that
mainly damages the hands and feet, which affects 0.5% to 1.0% of the population …

Fc-engineering for modulated effector functions—improving antibodies for cancer treatment

R Liu, RJ Oldham, E Teal, SA Beers, MS Cragg - Antibodies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The majority of monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics possess the ability to engage
innate immune effectors through interactions mediated by their fragment crystallizable (Fc) …

Targeting the CCL2/CCR2 axis in cancer immunotherapy: one stone, three birds?

L Fei, X Ren, H Yu, Y Zhan - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
CCR2 is predominantly expressed by monocytes/macrophages with strong proinflammatory
functions, prompting the development of CCR2 antagonists to dampen unwanted immune …

CCL2/CCR2, but not CCL5/CCR5, mediates monocyte recruitment, inflammation and cartilage destruction in osteoarthritis

H Raghu, CM Lepus, Q Wang, HH Wong… - Annals of the …, 2017 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives While various monocyte chemokine systems are increased in expression in
osteoarthritis (OA), the hierarchy of chemokines and chemokine receptors in mediating …

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. LXXXIX. Update on the extended family of chemokine receptors and introducing a new nomenclature for …

F Bachelerie, A Ben-Baruch, AM Burkhardt… - Pharmacological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sixteen years ago, the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Pharmacology
approved a system for naming human seven-transmembrane (7TM) G protein-coupled …

Synovial tissue research: a state-of-the-art review

C Orr, E Vieira-Sousa, DL Boyle, MH Buch… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The synovium is the major target tissue of inflammatory arthritides such as rheumatoid
arthritis. The study of synovial tissue has advanced considerably throughout the past few …

Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 (MCP-1) in obesity and diabetes

J Panee - Cytokine, 2012 - Elsevier
Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) is the first discovered and most extensively
studied CC chemokine, and the amount of studies on its role in the etiologies of obesity-and …

T cell migration in rheumatoid arthritis

M Mellado, L Martínez-Muñoz, G Cascio… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation
in joints, associated with synovial hyperplasia and with bone and cartilage destruction …

Phase 2 study of carlumab (CNTO 888), a human monoclonal antibody against CC-chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2), in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

KJ Pienta, JP Machiels, D Schrijvers, B Alekseev… - Investigational new …, 2013 - Springer
Background CC-chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2) promotes tumor growth by angiogenesis,
macrophage infiltration and tumor invasion, and distant metastasis. Carlumab (CNTO 888) is …