Is Toll-like receptor 4 involved in the severity of COVID-19 pathology in patients with cardiometabolic comorbidities?

SCS Brandao, JOX Ramos, LT Dompieri… - Cytokine & Growth …, 2021 - Elsevier
The severe form of COVID-19 is marked by an abnormal and exacerbated immunological
host response favoring to a poor outcome in a significant number of patients, especially …

TRPV4—a missing link between mechanosensation and immunity

L Michalick, WM Kuebler - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Transient receptor potential vanilloid-type 4 (TRPV4) cation channel is widely expressed in
all tissues as well as in immune cells and its function as mechanosensitive Ca2+ channel …

CD147 antibody specifically and effectively inhibits infection and cytokine storm of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants delta, alpha, beta, and gamma

J Geng, L Chen, Y Yuan, K Wang, Y Wang… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 mutations contribute to increased viral transmissibility and immune escape,
compromising the effectiveness of existing vaccines and neutralizing antibodies. An in-depth …

Targeting G Protein–Coupled Receptors in Immuno-Oncological Therapies

J Stagg, JS Gutkind - Annual Review of Pharmacology and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The advent of cancer immunotherapy based on PD-1 and CTLA-4 immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However, many cancers do not respond …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage Sprouty4 deficiency diminishes sepsis-induced acute lung injury in mice

R Chen, C Cao, H Liu, W Jiang, R Pan, H He, K Ding… - Redox Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Inflammation and oxidative stress play critical roles in sepsis-induced acute lung
injury (ALI). Sprout4 (Spry4) is involved in regulating inflammation and tissue injury; …

Urgent reconsideration of lung edema as a preventable outcome in COVID-19: inhibition of TRPV4 represents a promising and feasible approach

WM Kuebler, SE Jordt… - American Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Lethality of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the 2020 pandemic, currently still in the
exponentially accelerating phase in most countries, is critically driven by disruption of the …

Macrophage TLR4 and PAR2 signaling: role in regulating vascular inflammatory injury and repair

S Rayees, I Rochford, JC Joshi, B Joshi… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Macrophages play a central role in dictating the tissue response to infection and
orchestrating subsequent repair of the damage. In this context, macrophages residing in the …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage SAMSN1 protects against sepsis-induced acute lung injury in mice

W Jiang, C Ma, J Bai, X Du - Redox biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Inflammation and oxidative stress contribute to the progression of sepsis-induced
acute lung injury (ALI). SAM domain, SH3 domain and nuclear localization signals 1 …

[HTML][HTML] Role of macrophage TRPV4 in inflammation

B Dutta, RK Arya, R Goswami, MO Alharbi… - Laboratory …, 2020 - Elsevier
Transient receptor ion channels have emerged as immensely important channels/receptors
in diverse physiological and pathological responses. Of particular interest is the transient …

Diverse roles of TRPV4 in macrophages: A need for unbiased profiling

TN Nguyen, G Siddiqui, NA Veldhuis… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) is a non-selective mechanosensitive ion
channel expressed by various macrophage populations. Recent reports have characterized …