OLD Category: lung

February 19, 2024 / Nat Commun

  • Mennillo E, Kim YJ, Lee G, Rusu I, Patel RK, Dorman LC, Flynn E, Li S, Bain JL, Andersen C, Rao A, Tamaki S, Tsui J, Shen A, Lotstein ML, Rahim M, Naser M, Bernard-Vazquez F, Eckalbar W, Cho Sj, Beck K, El-Nachef N, Lewin S, Selvig DR, Terdiman JP, Mahadevan U, Oh DY, Fragiadakis GK, Pisco A, Combes AJ, Kattah MG
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is driven by immune and stromal subsets, culminating in epithelial injury. Vedolizumab (VDZ) is an anti-integrin antibody that is effective for treating UC. VDZ is known to…
February 18, 2024 / eBioMedicine

  • Tan CW, Jinjin Chen, Ning Liu, Dharmesh D. Bhuva, Tony Blick, James Monkman, Caroline Cooper, Malvika Kharbanda, Kristen Feher, Belinda Phipson, Emily E. Killingbeck, Liuliu Pan, Youngmi Kim, Yan Liang, Andy Nam, Michael Leon, Paulo Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, Seigo Nagashima, Ana Paula Camargo Martins, Cleber Machado-Souza, Lucia de Noronha, Benjamin Tang, Kirsty Short, John Fraser, Gabrielle T. Belz, Fernando Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, Arutha Kulasinghe, Melissa J. Davis
The utilization of single-cell resolved spatial transcriptomics to delineate immune responses during SARS-CoV-2 infection was able to identify M1 macrophages to have elevated expression of IFI27 in areas of infection.…
February 9, 2024 / EBioMedicine

  • Di Modugno F, Di Carlo A, Spada S, Palermo B, D'Ambrosio L, D'Andrea D, Morello G, Belmonte B, Sperduti I, Balzano V, Gallo E, Melchionna R, Panetta M, Campo G, De Nicola F, Goeman F, Antoniani B, Carpano S, Frige G, Warren S, Gallina F, Lambrechts D, Xiong J, Vincent BG, Wheeler N, Bortone DS, Cappuzzo F, Facciolo F, Tripodo C, Visca P, Nistico P
BACKGROUND: Tertiary Lymphoid Structures (TLS) correlate with positive outcomes in patients with NSCLC and the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in cancer. The actin regulatory protein hMENA undergoes tissue-specific…
February 6, 2024 / Clin Transl Med

  • Xie L, Kong H, Yu J, Sun M, Lu S, Zhang Y, Hu J, Du F, Lian Q, Xin H, Zhou J, Wang X, Powell CA, Hirsch FR, Bai C, Song Y, Yin J, Yang D
Background: Patients who possess various histological subtypes of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) have considerably diverse prognoses. The simultaneous existence of several histological subtypes reduces the clinical accuracy of the diagnosis…
November 30, 2023 / Nat Immunol

  • Lee A, Floyd K, Wu S, Fang Z, Tan TK, Froggatt HM, Powers JM, Leist SR, Gully KL, Hubbard ML, Li C, Hui H, Scoville D, Ruggiero AD, Liang Y, Pavenko A, Lujan V, Baric RS, Nolan GP, Arunachalam PS, Suthar MS, Pulendran B
November 17, 2023 / Respir Res

  • Blumhagen RZ, Kurche JS, Cool CD, Walts AD, Heinz D, Fingerlin TE, Yang IV, Schwartz DA
Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a heterogeneous disease that is pathologically characterized by areas of normal-appearing lung parenchyma, active fibrosis (transition zones including fibroblastic foci) and dense fibrosis. Defining…
November 7, 2023 / Am J Respir Crit Care Med

  • Rojas-Quintero J, Ochsner SA, New F, Divakar P, Yang CX, Wu TD, Robinson J, Shimoga Chandrashekar D, Banovich NE, Rosas IO, Sauler M, Kheradmand F, Gaggar A, Margaroli C, San Jose Estepar R, McKenna NJ, Polverino F
RATIONALE: Within chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema is characterized by a significant yet partially understood B cell immune component. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the transcriptomic signatures from lymphoid follicles (LFs)…
October 3, 2023 / Cell Rep

  • Ng AHC, Hu H, Wang K, Scherler K, Warren SE, Zollinger DR, McKay-Fleisch J, Sorg K, Beechem JM, Ragaglia E, Lacy JM, Smith KD, Marshall DA, Bundesmann MM, Lopez de Castilla D, Corwin D, Yarid N, Knudsen BS, Lu Y, Goldman JD, Heath JR
Local immune activation at mucosal surfaces, mediated by mucosal lymphoid tissues, is vital for effective immune responses against pathogens. While pathogens like severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can…
August 28, 2023 / Commun Biol

  • Oh T, Kim G, Baek SH, Woo Y, Koo BS, Hwang EH, Shim K, An YJ, Kim Y, Won J, Lee Y, Lim KS, Park JH, Hong JJ
Characterizing the host response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) at the molecular level is necessary to understand viral pathogenesis and identify clinically relevant biomarkers. However, in humans,…
August 25, 2023 / iScience

  • Ying L, Zhang C, Reuben A, Tian Y, Jin J, Wang C, Bai J, Liu X, Fang J, Feng T, Xu C, Zhu R, Huang M, Lyu Y, Lu T, Pan X, Zhang J, Su D
The immunogenomic features of tumor-adjacent lungs (TALs) in stage I lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) are not clear. Multiomics analyses of tumor tissues and paired TALs from 59 stage I…
August 22, 2023 / Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol

  • Lingappan K, Olutoye OO 2nd, Cantu A, Cantu Gutierrez ME, Cortes-Santiago N, Hammond JD, Gilley J, Quintero JR, Li H, Polverino F, Gleghorn JP, Keswani SG
Abnormal pulmonary vascular development and function in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a significant factor leading to pulmonary hypertension. The lung has marked cellular diversity that is differentially responsive to…
July 13, 2023 / iScience

  • Castaneda DC, Jangra S, Yurieva M, Martinek J, Callender M, Coxe M, Choi A, García-Bernalt Diego J, Lin J, Wu TC, Marches F, Chaussabel D, Yu P, Salner A, Aucello G, Koff J, Hudson B, Church SE, Gorman K, Anguiano E, García-Sastre A, Williams A, Schotsaert M, Palucka K
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a health crisis with major unmet medical needs. The early responses from airway epithelial cells, the first target of the virus regulating the progression…