Mechanistic insights into the interaction between the host gut microbiome and malaria

RK Mandal, NW Schmidt - PLoS Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Malaria is a devastating infectious disease and significant global health burden caused by
the bite of a Plasmodium-infected female Anopheles mosquito. Gut microbiota was recently …

γδ T cells as immunotherapy for malaria: balancing challenges and opportunities

AM Vigário, A Pamplona - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Malaria remains a relevant global health problem. In 2021, the WHO estimated 247 million
cases worldwide, which led to more than 600,000 deaths, mainly due to severe malaria …

Malaria blood stage infection suppresses liver stage infection via host-induced interferons but not hepcidin

H Patel, NK Minkah, S Kumar, G Zanghi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites first replicate as liver stages (LS), which then seed
symptomatic blood stage (BS) infection. Emerging evidence suggests that these stages …

Signature cytokine-associated transcriptome analysis of effector γδ T cells identifies subset-specific regulators of peripheral activation

D Inácio, T Amado, A Pamplona, D Sobral… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Abstract γδ T cells producing either interleukin-17A (γδ17 cells) or interferon-γ (γδIFN cells)
are generated in the mouse thymus, but the molecular regulators of their peripheral …

Current Trends in Nanotechnology-based Drug Delivery Systems for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria: A Review

R Deshmukh, B Dewangan, RK Harwansh… - Current Drug …, 2025 - ingentaconnect.com
Malaria is still a major endemic disease transmitted in humans via Plasmodium-infected
mosquitoes. The eradication of malarial parasites and the control measures have been …

Key actors in neuropathophysiology: The role of γδ T cells

D Bulgur, RM Moura, JC Ribot - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The neuroimmune axis has been the focus of many studies, with special emphasis on the
interactions between the central nervous system and the different immune cell subsets. T …

IL-17A/IFN-γ producing γδ T cell functional dichotomy impacts cutaneous leishmaniasis in mice

JS Dos-Santos, L Firmino-Cruz… - Journal of Leukocyte …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract γδ T cells play diverse roles in immune responses, producing either interleukin (IL)-
17A or interferon γ (IFN-γ). Here, we investigated the impact of this functional dichotomy on …

Liver-stage Plasmodium infection tunes clinical outcomes

A Kaushansky, N Minkah - Trends in parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
Chora and colleagues show that infection of the liver by Plasmodium modulates severity of
disease in the experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) model by generating gamma delta (ɣδ) …

Vψ1+ ψδ T cell-derived IL-4 initiates CD8 T cell immunity

S Le, D Murphy, S Liu, Z Ge, R May, A Cozijnsen… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Dendritic cells (DC) are pivotal for initiating adaptive immunity, a process triggered by the
activation of DC via pathogen products or damage. Here, we describe an additional layer to …

Symptomatic malaria enhances protection from reinfection with homologous Plasmodium falciparum parasites

CF Markwalter, JEV Petersen, EE Zeno… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A signature remains elusive of naturally-acquired immunity against Plasmodium falciparum.
We identified P. falciparum in a 14-month cohort of 239 people in Kenya, genotyped at …