Interferon-γ and infectious diseases: Lessons and prospects

JL Casanova, JD MacMicking, CF Nathan - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Infectious diseases continue to claim many lives. Prevention of morbidity and mortality from
these diseases would benefit not just from new medicines and vaccines but also from a …

Phytol: A review of biomedical activities

MT Islam, ES Ali, SJ Uddin, S Shaw, MA Islam… - Food and chemical …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Phytol (PYT) is a diterpene member of the long-chain unsaturated acyclic alcohols. PYT and
some of its derivatives, including phytanic acid (PA), exert a wide range of biological effects …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
These guidelines are a consensus work of a considerable number of members of the
immunology and flow cytometry community. They provide the theory and key practical …

Outer membrane protein A (OmpA) as a potential therapeutic target for Acinetobacter baumannii infection

D Nie, Y Hu, Z Chen, M Li, Z Hou, X Luo, X Mao… - Journal of biomedical …, 2020‏ - Springer
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is an important opportunistic pathogen causing
serious nosocomial infections, which is considered as the most threatening Gram-negative …

The superoxide radical switch in the biology of nitric oxide and peroxynitrite

L Piacenza, A Zeida, M Trujillo… - Physiological …, 2022‏ - journals.physiology.org
The free radical nitric oxide (· NO) is a key mediator in different physiological processes such
as vasodilation, neurotransmission, inflammation, and cellular immune responses, and thus …

Cross-talk between alveolar macrophages and lung epithelial cells is essential to maintain lung homeostasis

EY Bissonnette, JF Lauzon-Joset, JS Debley… - Frontiers in …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The main function of the lung is to perform gas exchange while maintaining lung
homeostasis despite environmental pathogenic and non-pathogenic elements contained in …

Macrophage defense mechanisms against intracellular bacteria

G Weiss, UE Schaible - Immunological reviews, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Macrophages and neutrophils play a decisive role in host responses to intracellular bacteria
including the agent of tuberculosis (TB), M ycobacterium tuberculosis as they represent the …

Oxidative stress, prooxidants, and antioxidants: the interplay

A Rahal, A Kumar, V Singh, B Yadav… - BioMed research …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Oxidative stress is a normal phenomenon in the body. Under normal conditions, the
physiologically important intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are …

Nitric oxide synthase in innate and adaptive immunity: an update

C Bogdan - Trends in immunology, 2015‏ - cell.com
Thirty years after the discovery of its production by activated macrophages, our appreciation
of the diverse roles of nitric oxide (NO) continues to grow. Recent findings have not only …

Plasma agriculture: Review from the perspective of the plant and its ecosystem

P Ranieri, N Sponsel, J Kizer… - Plasma Processes …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plasma agriculture details the role of nonthermal plasma in the development of plants from
seeds to crops. Several publications reported enhanced plant growth, improved stress …