Unexplained post-acute infection syndromes

J Choutka, V Jansari, M Hornig, A Iwasaki - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is not unique in its ability to cause post-acute sequelae; certain acute
infections have long been associated with an unexplained chronic disability in a minority of …

[PDF][PDF] Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

G Morad, BA Helmink, P Sharma, JA Wargo - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Unprecedented advances have been made in cancer treatment with the use of immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, responses are limited to a subset of patients, and …

Risk of autoimmune diseases in patients with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study

R Chang, TYT Chen, SI Wang, YM Hung… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background There are a growing number of case reports of various autoimmune diseases
occurring after COVID-19, yet there is no large-scale population-based evidence to support …

Autoinflammatory and autoimmune conditions at the crossroad of COVID-19

Y Rodríguez, L Novelli, M Rojas, M De Santis… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been categorized as evolving in
overlapping phases. First, there is a viral phase that may well be asymptomatic or mild in the …

[HTML][HTML] Convalescent plasma in Covid-19: Possible mechanisms of action

M Rojas, Y Rodríguez, DM Monsalve… - Autoimmunity …, 2020 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible of the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Therapeutic options including …

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and long COVID: the SARS-CoV-2 viral superantigen hypothesis

M Noval Rivas, RA Porritt, MH Cheng, I Bahar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a febrile pediatric inflammatory
disease that may develop weeks after initial SARS-CoV-2 infection or exposure. MIS-C …

Moving towards personalized treatments of immune-related adverse events

K Esfahani, A Elkrief, C Calabrese, R Lapointe… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
The enhancement of immune responses upon treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors
can have the desired outcome of reinvigorating antitumour immune surveillance, but often at …

VDJdb in 2019: database extension, new analysis infrastructure and a T-cell receptor motif compendium

DV Bagaev, RMA Vroomans, J Samir… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Here, we report an update of the VDJdb database with a substantial increase in the number
of T-cell receptor (TCR) sequences and their cognate antigens. The update further provides …

Complex regulatory effects of gut microbial short-chain fatty acids on immune tolerance and autoimmunity

CH Kim - Cellular & Molecular Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Immune tolerance deletes or suppresses autoreactive lymphocytes and is established at
multiple levels during the development, activation and effector phases of T and B cells …

[HTML][HTML] The roles of Peyer's patches and microfold cells in the gut immune system: relevance to autoimmune diseases

N Kobayashi, D Takahashi, S Takano… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Microfold (M) cells are located in the epithelium covering mucosa-associated lymphoid
tissues, such as the Peyer's patches (PPs) of the small intestine. M cells actively transport …