Cytokines and chemokines in cerebral malaria pathogenesis

J Dunst, F Kamena, K Matuschewski - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral malaria is among the major causes of malaria-associated mortality and effective
adjunctive therapeutic strategies are currently lacking. Central pathophysiological processes …

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 …

Cerebral malaria: mechanisms of brain injury and strategies for improved neurocognitive outcome

R Idro, K Marsh, CC John, CRJ Newton - Pediatric research, 2010 - nature.com
Cerebral malaria is the most severe neurological complication of infection with Plasmodium
falciparum. With> 575,000 cases annually, children in sub-Saharan Africa are the most …

CXCL10/IP-10 in infectious diseases pathogenesis and potential therapeutic implications

M Liu, S Guo, JM Hibbert, V Jain, N Singh… - Cytokine & growth factor …, 2011 - Elsevier
C–X–C motif chemokine 10 (CXCL10) also known as interferon γ-induced protein 10kDa (IP-
10) or small-inducible cytokine B10 is a cytokine belonging to the CXC chemokine family …

Trained immunity: A “new” weapon in the fight against infectious diseases

A Dagenais, C Villalba-Guerrero, M Olivier - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Innate immune cells can potentiate the response to reinfection through an innate form of
immunological memory known as trained immunity. The potential of this fast-acting …

Innate immunity to malaria

MM Stevenson, EM Riley - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2004 - nature.com
Malaria is a major cause of disease and death in tropical countries. A safe and effective
vaccine is essential to achieve significant and sustained reductions in malaria-related …

Immunological processes in malaria pathogenesis

L Schofield, GE Grau - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2005 - nature.com
Malaria is possibly the most serious infectious disease of humans, infecting 5–10% of the
world's population, with 300–600 million clinical cases and more than 2 million deaths …

Heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide suppress the pathogenesis of experimental cerebral malaria

A Pamplona, A Ferreira, J Balla, V Jeney, G Balla… - Nature medicine, 2007 - nature.com
Cerebral malaria claims more than 1 million lives per year. We report that heme oxygenase-
1 (HO-1, encoded by Hmox1) prevents the development of experimental cerebral malaria …

[HTML][HTML] The neuroprotective functions of transforming growth factor beta proteins

A Dobolyi, C Vincze, G Pál, G Lovas - International journal of molecular …, 2012 - mdpi.com
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) proteins are multifunctional cytokines whose neural
functions are increasingly recognized. The machinery of TGF-β signaling, including the …

Evolutionary causes and consequences of immunopathology

AL Graham, JE Allen, AF Read - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Immune responses can cause severe disease, despite the role immunity plays in
defending against parasitism. Indeed, immunopathology is a remarkably common cause of …