Towards targeting the breast cancer immune microenvironment

MA Harris, P Savas, B Virassamy… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The tumour immune microenvironment is shaped by the crosstalk between cancer cells,
immune cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and other stromal components. Although the …

Vaccine adjuvants: Tailoring innate recognition to send the right message

EC Lavelle, CP McEntee - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Adjuvants play pivotal roles in vaccine development, enhancing immunization efficacy
through prolonged retention and sustained release of antigen, lymph node targeting, and …

A humanized mouse that mounts mature class-switched, hypermutated and neutralizing antibody responses

DP Chupp, CE Rivera, Y Zhou, Y Xu, PS Ramsey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Humanized mice are limited in terms of modeling human immunity, particularly with regards
to antibody responses. Here we constructed a humanized (THX) mouse by grafting non-γ …

Immune cells, gut microbiota, and vaccines: a gender perspective

P Rio, M Caldarelli, M Chiantore, F Ocarino, M Candelli… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
The development of preventive and therapeutic vaccines has played a crucial role in
preventing infections and treating chronic and non-communicable diseases, respectively …

Androgen drives melanoma invasiveness and metastatic spread by inducing tumorigenic fucosylation

Q Liu, E Adhikari, DK Lester, B Fang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Melanoma incidence and mortality rates are historically higher for men than women.
Although emerging studies have highlighted tumorigenic roles for the male sex hormone …

The impact of sex on HIV immunopathogenesis and therapeutic interventions

E Mihealsick, A Word, EP Scully - The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2024 - jci.org
Globally, the majority of people living with HIV are women or girls, but they have been a
minority of participants in clinical trials and observational studies of HIV. Despite this …

Macrophage plasticity and function in cancer and pregnancy

T Yin, X Li, Y Li, X Zang, L Liu, M Du - Frontiers in immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
As the soil of life, the composition and sha** process of the immune microenvironment of
the uterus is worth exploring. Macrophages, indispensable constituents of the innate …

Immunological clues to sex differences in parasitic diseases

J Sellau, CS Hansen, RI Gálvez, L Linnemann… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
The effect of sex on the prevalence and severity of parasitic diseases is an emerging area of
research. Several factors underlie sex-based differences, including sociocultural influences …

The immune–endocrine interplay in sex differential responses to viral infection and COVID-19

V D'Onofrio, RP Sékaly - Trends in Immunology, 2024 - cell.com
Men are at higher risk for develo** severe COVID-19 than women, while women are at
higher risk for develo** post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). This highlights the …

Sex differences in tissue immunity

F Puttur, CM Lloyd - Science, 2024 - science.org
There are differences in the prevalence of inflammatory diseases between the sexes (sexual
dimorphism), but the underlying mechanisms that regulate tissue immunity remain unclear …