Pathogenesis and therapeutic mechanisms in immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)

A Zufferey, R Kapur, JW Semple - Journal of clinical medicine, 2017 - mdpi.com
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by low
platelet counts. The pathogenesis of ITP remains unclear although both antibody-mediated …

Pathogenesis of immune thrombocytopenia

S Audia, M Mahévas, M Samson, B Godeau… - Autoimmunity …, 2017 - Elsevier
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare autoimmune disease due to an abnormal T cell
response, notably supported by splenic T follicular helper cells, that stimulates the …

Platelets are versatile cells: New discoveries in hemostasis, thrombosis, immune responses, tumor metastasis and beyond

XR Xu, D Zhang, BE Oswald, N Carrim… - Critical reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Platelets are small anucleate blood cells generated from megakaryocytes in the bone
marrow and cleared in the reticuloendothelial system. At the site of vascular injury, platelet …

IVIG-mediated effector functions in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases

C Galeotti, SV Kaveri, J Bayry - International immunology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a pooled preparation of normal IgG obtained from
several thousand healthy donors. It is widely used in the immunotherapy of a large number …

Emerging concepts in immune thrombocytopenia

M Swinkels, M Rijkers, J Voorberg… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disease defined by low platelet counts
which presents with an increased bleeding risk. Several genetic risk factors (eg …

Crosstalk between platelets and microbial pathogens

C Li, J Li, H Ni - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Platelets, small anucleate cells circulating in the blood, are critical mediators in haemostasis
and thrombosis. Interestingly, recent studies demonstrated that platelets contain both pro …

Cellular immune dysfunction in immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)

CGJ McKenzie, L Guo, J Freedman… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, a wealth of information has been reported about the pathogenic
features of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). To this day, however, it is unclear whether the …

Clinical and laboratory predictors of chronic immune thrombocytopenia in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

KMJ Heitink-Polle, J Nijsten… - Blood, The Journal …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
Childhood immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare autoimmune bleeding disorder. Most
children recover within 6 to 12 months, but individual course is difficult to predict. We …

Thrombocytopenia in patients with melanoma receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

E Shiuan, KE Beckermann, A Ozgun, C Kelly… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2017 - Springer
Background Immune checkpoint inhibitors, including antibodies against programmed death
1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4), are being used with increasing …

Low-dose decitabine modulates T-cell homeostasis and restores immune tolerance in immune thrombocytopenia

P Han, Y Hou, Y Zhao, Y Liu, T Yu… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Our previous clinical study showed that low-dose decitabine exhibited sustained responses
in nearly half of patients with refractory immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). The long-term …