Pathogenesis of herpes simplex keratitis: The host cell response and ocular surface sequelae to infection and inflammation

AM Lobo, AM Agelidis, D Shukla - The ocular surface, 2019 - Elsevier
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV) keratitis is a leading cause of infectious blindness.
Clinical disease occurs variably throughout the cornea from epithelium to endothelium and …

Emerging roles of heparanase in viral pathogenesis

N Thakkar, T Yadavalli, D Jaishankar, D Shukla - Pathogens, 2017 - mdpi.com
Heparan sulfate (HS) is ubiquitously expressed on mammalian cells. It is a polysaccharide
that binds growth factors, cytokines, and chemokines, and thereby controls several important …

Viral activation of heparanase drives pathogenesis of herpes simplex virus-1

AM Agelidis, SR Hadigal, D Jaishankar, D Shukla - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) causes lifelong recurrent pathologies without a
cure. How infection by HSV-1 triggers disease processes, especially in the immune …

An off-target effect of BX795 blocks herpes simplex virus type 1 infection of the eye

D Jaishankar, AM Yakoub, T Yadavalli… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) causes recurrent mucocutaneous lesions in the eye
that may advance to corneal blindness. Nucleoside analogs exemplified by acyclovir (ACV) …

Targeting herpes simplex virus-1 gD by a DNA aptamer can be an effective new strategy to curb viral infection

T Yadavalli, A Agelidis, D Jaishankar… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2017 - cell.com
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is an important factor for vision loss in developed
countries. A challenging aspect of the ocular infection by HSV-1 is that common treatments …

Emerging roles of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in viral pathogenesis

R Koganti, A Memon, D Shukla - Seminars in Thrombosis and …, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Heparan sulfate is a glycosaminoglycan present in nearly all mammalian tissues. Heparan
sulfate moieties are attached to the cell surface via heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) …

The role of tissue resident memory CD4 T cells in herpes simplex viral and HIV infection

TR O'Neil, K Hu, NR Truong, S Arshad, BL Shacklett… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) were first described in 2009. While initially the major
focus was on CD8+ TRM, there has recently been increased interest in defining the …

Nanoparticle ocular immunotherapy for herpesvirus surface eye infections evaluated in cat infection model

M Lappin, K Wotman, L Chow, M Williams, J Hawley… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Ocular herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1) infections can trigger conjunctivitis, keratitis, uveitis,
and occasionally retinitis, and is a major cause of blindness worldwide. The infections are …

Standalone or combinatorial phenylbutyrate therapy shows excellent antiviral activity and mimics CREB3 silencing

T Yadavalli, R Suryawanshi, R Koganti, J Hopkins… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Herpesviruses are ubiquitous human pathogens that tightly regulate many cellular pathways
including the unfolded protein response to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress …

New paradigms for the study of ocular alphaherpesvirus infections: insights into the use of non-traditional host model systems

MR Pennington, EC Ledbetter, GR Van de Walle - Viruses, 2017 - mdpi.com
Ocular herpesviruses, most notably human alphaherpesvirus 1 (HSV-1), canid
alphaherpesvirus 1 (CHV-1) and felid alphaherpesvirus 1 (FHV-1), infect and cause severe …