Trained immunity—basic concepts and contributions to immunopathology

J Ochando, WJM Mulder, JC Madsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Trained immunity is a functional state of the innate immune response and is characterized
by long-term epigenetic reprogramming of innate immune cells. This concept originated in …

Pathogenesis and virulence of Candida albicans

JP Lopes, MS Lionakis - Virulence, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Candida albicans is a commensal yeast fungus of the human oral, gastrointestinal, and
genital mucosal surfaces, and skin. Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis, iatrogenic …

Inducing trained immunity in pro-metastatic macrophages to control tumor metastasis

C Ding, R Shrestha, X Zhu, AE Geller, S Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and myeloid cells are critical in the
metastatic microenvironment. Here, we explore the implications of reprogramming pre …

Defining trained immunity and its role in health and disease

MG Netea, J Domínguez-Andrés, LB Barreiro… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Immune memory is a defining feature of the acquired immune system, but activation of the
innate immune system can also result in enhanced responsiveness to subsequent triggers …

Enhancing cancer immunotherapy with nanomedicine

DJ Irvine, EL Dane - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic targeting of the immune system in cancer is now a clinical reality and marked
successes have been achieved, most notably through the use of checkpoint blockade …

Trained immunity: adaptation within innate immune mechanisms

J Domínguez-Andrés, JC Dos Santos… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The mechanisms underlying innate immune memory have been extensively explored in the
last decades but are in fact largely unknown. Although the specificity of adaptive immune …

Toll-like receptors and the control of immunity

KA Fitzgerald, JC Kagan - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The study of innate immunity and its link to inflammation and host defense encompasses
diverse areas of biology, ranging from genetics and biophysics to signal transduction and …

Amino assets: how amino acids support immunity

B Kelly, EL Pearce - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Amino acids are fundamental building blocks supporting life. Their role in protein synthesis
is well defined, but they contribute to a host of other intracellular metabolic pathways …

The COVID-19 vaccine race: challenges and opportunities in vaccine formulation

J Wang, Y Peng, H Xu, Z Cui, RO Williams - Aaps Pharmscitech, 2020 - Springer
In the race for a safe and effective vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID)-19,
pharmaceutical formulation science plays a critical role throughout the development …

Functional hallmarks of healthy macrophage responses: their regulatory basis and disease relevance

KM Sheu, A Hoffmann - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Macrophages are first responders for the immune system. In this role, they have both effector
functions for neutralizing pathogens and sentinel functions for alerting other immune cells of …