Targeting natural killer cells to enhance vaccine responses

A Cox, H Cevik, HA Feldman, LM Canaday… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Vaccination serves as a cornerstone of global health. Successful prevention of infection or
disease by vaccines is achieved through elicitation of pathogen-specific antibodies and long …

Therapeutic potential of targeting plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in COVID-19

TF Kellici, ES Pilka, MJ Bodkin - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Latest research shows that SERPINE1 overexpression has an important role in Coronavirus
2019 (COVID-19)-associated coagulopathy leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome …

Transcriptome and proteome profiling of activated cardiac fibroblasts supports target prioritization in cardiac fibrosis

MR Moita, MM Silva, C Diniz, M Serra… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Activated cardiac fibroblasts (CF) play a central role in cardiac fibrosis, a
condition associated with most cardiovascular diseases. Conversion of quiescent into …

Evaluation of the interaction between tumor growth factor-β and interferon type I pathways in patients with COVID-19: focusing on ages 1 to 90 years

M Abbasifard, AH Fakhrabadi, F Bahremand… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background Evidence revealed that age could affect immune responses in patients with the
acute respiratory syndrome of coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. This study investigated …

Innovative non-PrP-targeted drug strategy designed to enhance prion clearance

A Colini Baldeschi, M Zattoni, S Vanni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Prion diseases are a group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the
accumulation of misfolded prion protein (called PrPSc). Although conversion of the cellular …

SERPINB5 is a prognostic biomarker and promotes proliferation, metastasis and epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) in lung adenocarcinoma

X He, Y Ma, Z Huang, G Wang, W Wang… - Thoracic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Serine protease inhibitors clade B serpins (SERPINBs) are the largest subclass
of protease inhibitors, once thought of as a tumor suppressor gene family. However, some …

COVID-19: Vaccine delivery system, drug repurposing and application of molecular modeling approach

SR Abd El Hadi, EE Zien El-Deen… - Drug design …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has spread across the world,
resulting in a pandemic COVID-19 which is a human zoonotic disease that is caused by a …

Dual function of a bumblebee (Bombus ignitus) serine protease inhibitor that acts as a microbicidal peptide and anti-fibrinolytic venom toxin

BY Kim, YH Kim, MJ Park, HJ Yoon, KY Lee… - Developmental & …, 2022 - Elsevier
In bee venoms, low–molecular-weight peptides, including serine protease inhibitors (SPIs),
exhibit multifunctional activities. Although SPIs in bee venoms are relatively well known …

Network pharmacology and bioinformatics analyses identify intersection genes of vitamin D3 and COVID-19 as potential therapeutic targets

S Wang, H Gao, X Wang, X Ma, L Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: The persistent pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the discovery
of gastrointestinal transmission routes and the possible susceptibility of cancer patients to …

Regulation of epidermal barrier function and pathogenesis of psoriasis by serine protease inhibitors

J Wang, J Li, L Zhou, H Hou, K Zhang - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Serine protease inhibitors (Serpins) are a protein superfamily of protease inhibitors that are
thought to play a role in the regulation of inflammation, immunity, tumorigenesis …