The JAK-STAT pathway at 30: Much learned, much more to do

RL Philips, Y Wang, HJ Cheon, Y Kanno, M Gadina… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The discovery of the Janus kinase (JAK)-signal transducer and activator of transcription
(STAT) pathway arose from investigations of how cells respond to interferons (IFNs) …

Diversity, mechanisms, and significance of macrophage plasticity

M Locati, G Curtale, A Mantovani - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Macrophages are a diverse set of cells present in all body compartments. This diversity is
imprinted by their ontogenetic origin (embryonal versus adult bone marrow–derived cells); …

[HTML][HTML] A unique microglia type associated with restricting development of Alzheimer's disease

H Keren-Shaul, A Spinrad, A Weiner… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a detrimental neurodegenerative disease with no effective
treatments. Due to cellular heterogeneity, defining the roles of immune cell subsets in AD …

Macrophage polarization

PJ Murray - Annual review of physiology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Macrophage polarization refers to how macrophages have been activated at a given point in
space and time. Polarization is not fixed, as macrophages are sufficiently plastic to integrate …

Trained immunity: a program of innate immune memory in health and disease

MG Netea, LAB Joosten, E Latz, KHG Mills, G Natoli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Host immune responses are classically divided into innate immune
responses, which react rapidly and nonspecifically upon encountering a pathogen, and …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin potential identified by shared single-cell profiling of RNA and chromatin

S Ma, B Zhang, LM LaFave, AS Earl, Z Chiang, Y Hu… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell differentiation and function are regulated across multiple layers of gene regulation,
including modulation of gene expression by changes in chromatin accessibility. However …

Challenges in unsupervised clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data

VY Kiselev, TS Andrews, M Hemberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows researchers to collect large catalogues
detailing the transcriptomes of individual cells. Unsupervised clustering is of central …

Regulation of type I interferon responses

LB Ivashkiv, LT Donlin - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2014 - nature.com
Type I interferons (IFNs) activate intracellular antimicrobial programmes and influence the
development of innate and adaptive immune responses. Canonical type I IFN signalling …

From monocytes to M1/M2 macrophages: phenotypical vs. functional differentiation

P Italiani, D Boraschi - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Studies on monocyte and macrophage biology and differentiation have revealed the
pleiotropic activities of these cells. Macrophages are tissue sentinels that maintain tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-resident macrophage enhancer landscapes are shaped by the local microenvironment

Y Lavin, D Winter, R Blecher-Gonen, E David… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Macrophages are critical for innate immune defense and also control organ homeostasis in
a tissue-specific manner. They provide a fitting model to study the impact of ontogeny and …