Biology of lung macrophages in health and disease

H Aegerter, BN Lambrecht, CV Jakubzick - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tissue-resident alveolar and interstitial macrophages and recruited macrophages are critical
players in innate immunity and maintenance of lung homeostasis. Until recently, assessing …

Targeting macrophages in cancer immunotherapy

Z Duan, Y Luo - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is regarded as the most promising treatment for cancers. Various cancer
immunotherapies, including adoptive cellular immunotherapy, tumor vaccines, antibodies …

Three tissue resident macrophage subsets coexist across organs with conserved origins and life cycles

SA Dick, A Wong, H Hamidzada, S Nejat… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Resident macrophages orchestrate homeostatic, inflammatory, and reparative activities. It is
appreciated that different tissues instruct specialized macrophage functions. However …

The replacement of helper lipids with charged alternatives in lipid nanoparticles facilitates targeted mRNA delivery to the spleen and lungs

ST LoPresti, ML Arral, N Chaudhary… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
The broad clinical application of mRNA therapeutics has been hampered by a lack of
delivery vehicles that induce protein expression in extrahepatic organs and tissues …

Lung fibroblasts facilitate pre-metastatic niche formation by remodeling the local immune microenvironment

Z Gong, Q Li, J Shi, J Wei, P Li, CH Chang, LD Shultz… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Primary tumors are drivers of pre-metastatic niche formation, but the coordination by the
secondary organ toward metastatic dissemination is underappreciated. Here, by single-cell …

The allergy mediator histamine confers resistance to immunotherapy in cancer patients via activation of the macrophage histamine receptor H1

H Li, Y **ao, Q Li, J Yao, X Yuan, Y Zhang, X Yin… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Reinvigoration of antitumor immunity remains an unmet challenge. Our retrospective
analyses revealed that cancer patients who took antihistamines during immunotherapy …

[HTML][HTML] Human neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 require intact Fc effector functions for optimal therapeutic protection

ES Winkler, P Gilchuk, J Yu, AL Bailey, RE Chen… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 has caused the global COVID-19 pandemic. Although passively delivered
neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 show promise in clinical trials, their mechanism …

Macrophages in lung injury, repair, and fibrosis

P Cheng, S Li, H Chen - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fibrosis progression in the lung commonly results in impaired functional gas exchange,
respiratory failure, or even death. In addition to the aberrant activation and differentiation of …

SARS-CoV-2 infection produces chronic pulmonary epithelial and immune cell dysfunction with fibrosis in mice

KH Dinnon III, SR Leist, K Okuda, H Dang… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
A subset of individuals who recover from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) develop
post-acute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

[HTML][HTML] Patrolling alveolar macrophages conceal bacteria from the immune system to maintain homeostasis

AS Neupane, M Willson, AK Chojnacki… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
During respiration, humans breathe in more than 10,000 liters of non-sterile air daily,
allowing some pathogens access to alveoli. Interestingly, alveoli outnumber alveolar …