Tuning immunity through tissue mechanotransduction

H Du, JM Bartleson, S Butenko, V Alonso… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Immune responses are governed by signals from the tissue microenvironment, and in
addition to biochemical signals, mechanical cues and forces arising from the tissue, its …

T cell activation requires force generation

KH Hu, MJ Butte - Journal of Cell Biology, 2016 - rupress.org
Triggering of the T cell receptor (TCR) integrates both binding kinetics and mechanical
forces. To understand the contribution of the T cell cytoskeleton to these forces, we triggered …

The pathobiology of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: the case for neuroglial failure

H Renz-Polster, ME Tremblay, D Bienzle… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Although myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has a specific and
distinctive profile of clinical features, the disease remains an enigma because causal …

Mast cells in cardiac remodeling: focus on the right ventricle

A Mamazhakypov, A Maripov, AS Sarybaev… - Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
In response to various stressors, cardiac chambers undergo structural remodeling. Long-
term exposure of the right ventricle (RV) to pressure or volume overload leads to its …

Neuromuscular strain increases symptom intensity in chronic fatigue syndrome

PC Rowe, KR Fontaine, M Lauver, SE Jasion… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a complex, multisystem disorder that can be disabling.
CFS symptoms can be provoked by increased physical or cognitive activity, and by …

[HTML][HTML] Pediatric tuina treatment for spleen deficiency diarrhea regulated through the skin-brain-gut axis and mast cell degranulation

Y Li, S Fu, F Li, Y Guo, Y Cao, F Ren, R Li… - Journal of Traditional …, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Pediatric tuina is an effective alternative therapy for managing spleen
deficiency diarrhea. The application of spleen-meridian and large-intestine-meridian points …

Atomic force microscopy study of ionomycin‐induced degranulation in RBL‐2H3 cells

J Pi, L Huang, F Yang, J Jiang, H **, J Liu, X Su… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mast cell degranulation is the typical anaphylaxis process of mast cells associated with the
release of cytokines, eicosanoids and their secretory granules, which play very important …

Immunomodulatory contribution of mast cells to the regenerative biomaterial microenvironment

RM Wang, JM Mesfin, M Karkanitsa… - NPJ Regenerative …, 2023 - nature.com
Bioactive immunomodulatory biomaterials have shown promise for influencing the immune
response to promote tissue repair and regeneration. Macrophages and T cells have been …

Single-cell membrane drug delivery using porous pen nanodeposition

Y Yang, J Yu, AM Esfahani, K Seiffert-Sinha, N **, I Lee… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Delivering molecules onto the plasma membrane of single cells is still a challenging task in
profiling cell signaling pathways with single cell resolution. We demonstrated that a large …

Broken connections: the evidence for neuroglial failure in ME/CFS

H Renz-Polster - 2021 - osf.io
In spite of decades of research, the pathobiology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is still poorly understood. Several pathomechanisms have …