Interactions between nanoparticles and dendritic cells: from the perspective of cancer immunotherapy

J Jia, Y Zhang, Y Xin, C Jiang, B Yan, S Zhai - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) are the primary antigen-presenting cells and play key roles in the
orchestration of the innate and adaptive immune system. Targeting DCs by nanotechnology …

Adverse outcome pathways as a tool for the design of testing strategies to support the safety assessment of emerging advanced materials at the nanoscale

S Halappanavar, S Van Den Brule, P Nymark… - Particle and Fibre …, 2020 - Springer
Toxicity testing and regulation of advanced materials at the nanoscale, ie nanosafety, is
challenged by the growing number of nanomaterials and their property variants requiring …

Citrullinated vimentin mediates development and progression of lung fibrosis

FJ Li, R Surolia, H Li, Z Wang, G Liu… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
The mechanisms by which environmental exposures contribute to the pathogenesis of lung
fibrosis are unclear. Here, we demonstrate an increase in cadmium (Cd) and carbon black …

Chronic exposure to carbon black ultrafine particles reprograms macrophage metabolism and accelerates lung cancer

CY Chang, R You, D Armstrong, A Bandi, YT Cheng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Chronic exposure to airborne carbon black ultrafine (nCB) particles generated from
incomplete combustion of organic matter drives IL-17A–dependent emphysema. However …

Validating metal‐organic framework nanoparticles for their nanosafety in diverse biomedical applications

S Wuttke, A Zimpel, T Bein, S Braig… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising platforms for the synthesis of nanoparticles
for diverse medical applications. Their fundamental design principles allow for significant …

Contribution of adaptive immunity to human COPD and experimental models of emphysema

F Kheradmand, Y Zhang, DB Corry - Physiological Reviews, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the undisputed
role of innate immune cells in this condition have dominated the field in the basic research …

Microglia and amyloid precursor protein coordinate control of transient Candida cerebritis with memory deficits

Y Wu, S Du, JL Johnson, HY Tung, CT Landers… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bloodborne infections with Candida albicans are an increasingly recognized complication of
modern medicine. Here, we present a mouse model of low-grade candidemia to determine …

Effects of tobacco smoke and electronic cigarette vapor exposure on the oral and gut microbiota in humans: a pilot study

CJ Stewart, TA Auchtung, NJ Ajami, K Velasquez… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Background The use of electronic cigarettes (ECs) has increased drastically over the past
five years, primarily as an alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes. However, the adverse …

The microRNA miR-22 inhibits the histone deacetylase HDAC4 to promote TH17 cell–dependent emphysema

W Lu, R You, X Yuan, T Yang, ELG Samuel… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Smoking-related emphysema is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by the TH17 subset
of helper T cells through molecular mechanisms that remain obscure. Here we explored the …

Targeting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes, endotypes, and biomarkers

S Garudadri, PG Woodruff - Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is now well recognized to be a
phenotypically heterogeneous disease, and this heterogeneity is underpinned by biological …