Mucosal vaccines—fortifying the frontiers

EC Lavelle, RW Ward - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Mucosal vaccines offer the potential to trigger robust protective immune responses at the
predominant sites of pathogen infection. In principle, the induction of adaptive immunity at …

The COVID-19 puzzle: deciphering pathophysiology and phenotypes of a new disease entity

MF Osuchowski, MS Winkler, T Skirecki… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, with
devastating consequences. While the medical community has gained insight into the …

Natural killer cells in cancer biology and therapy

SY Wu, T Fu, YZ Jiang, ZM Shao - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
The tumor microenvironment is highly complex, and immune escape is currently considered
an important hallmark of cancer, largely contributing to tumor progression and metastasis …

Natural killer cell homing and trafficking in tissues and tumors: from biology to application

GH Ran, YQ Lin, L Tian, T Zhang, DM Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells, a subgroup of innate lymphoid cells, act as the first line of defense
against cancer. Although some evidence shows that NK cells can develop in secondary …

Pulmonary innate immune response determines the outcome of inflammation during pneumonia and sepsis-associated acute lung injury

V Kumar - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The lung is a primary organ for gas exchange in mammals that represents the largest
epithelial surface in direct contact with the external environment. It also serves as a crucial …

Natural killer cell immunotypes related to COVID-19 disease severity

C Maucourant, I Filipovic, A Ponzetta, S Aleman… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Understanding innate immune responses in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is
important to decipher mechanisms of host responses and interpret disease pathogenesis …

The broad spectrum of human natural killer cell diversity

AG Freud, BL Mundy-Bosse, J Yu, MA Caligiuri - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells provide protection against infectious pathogens and cancer. For
decades it has been appreciated that two major NK cell subsets (CD56 bright and CD56 …

Tissue determinants of human NK cell development, function, and residence

P Dogra, C Rancan, W Ma, M Toth, T Senda… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Immune responses in diverse tissue sites are critical for protective immunity and
homeostasis. Here, we investigate how tissue localization regulates the development and …

[HTML][HTML] Immunology of COVID-19: current state of the science

N Vabret, GJ Britton, C Gruber, S Hegde, J Kim… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected millions of people worldwide, igniting …

Human NK cells: From development to effector functions

AS Perera Molligoda Arachchige - Innate immunity, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
NK cells are the major lymphocyte subset of the innate immune system that mediates
antiviral and anti-tumor responses. It is well established that they develop mechanisms to …