Toll-like receptors in immunity and inflammatory diseases: Past, present, and future

K Vijay - International immunopharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
The immune system is a very diverse system of the host that evolved during evolution to
cope with various pathogens present in the vicinity of environmental surroundings inhabited …

Toll-like receptors and their crosstalk with other innate receptors in infection and immunity

T Kawai, S Akira - Immunity, 2011 - cell.com
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that
play a central role in host cell recognition and responses to microbial pathogens. TLR …

Innate sensing of malaria parasites

RT Gazzinelli, P Kalantari, KA Fitzgerald… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Innate immune receptors have a key role in immune surveillance by sensing
microorganisms and initiating protective immune responses. However, the innate immune …

Malaria immunity in man and mosquito: insights into unsolved mysteries of a deadly infectious disease

PD Crompton, J Moebius, S Portugal… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by parasites of the obligate intracellular
Apicomplexa phylum the most deadly of which, Plasmodium falciparum, prevails in Africa …

Toll-like receptors in health and disease in the brain: mechanisms and therapeutic potential

ML Hanke, T Kielian - Clinical science, 2011 - portlandpress.com
The discovery of mammalian TLRs (Toll-like receptors), first identified in 1997 based on their
homology with Drosophila Toll, greatly altered our understanding of how the innate immune …

Parasite recognition and signaling mechanisms in innate immune responses to malaria

DC Gowda, X Wu - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Malaria caused by the Plasmodium family of parasites, especially P. falciparum and P. vivax,
is a major health problem in many countries in the tropical and subtropical regions of the …

Inflammatory mechanisms in the lung

B Moldoveanu, P Otmishi, P Jani, J Walker… - Journal of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Inflammation is the body's response to insults, which include infection, trauma, and
hypersensitivity. The inflammatory response is complex and involves a variety of …

Malarial hemozoin: from target to tool

LM Coronado, CT Nadovich, C Spadafora - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Malaria is an extremely devastating disease that continues to affect millions of
people each year. A distinctive attribute of malaria infected red blood cells is the presence of …

Malarial hemozoin is a Nalp3 inflammasome activating danger signal

C Dostert, G Guarda, JF Romero, P Menu, O Gross… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Characteristic symptoms of malaria include recurrent fever attacks and
neurodegeneration, signs that are also found in patients with a hyperactive Nalp3 …

TLR9 as a key receptor for the recognition of DNA

Y Kumagai, O Takeuchi, S Akira - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Unmethylated DNA with CpG-motifs is recognized by Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) and
pleiotropic immune responses are elicited. Macrophages and conventional dendritic cells …