Journal ArticleCell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol · 2024
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Dysregulated colonic epithelial cell (CEC) proliferation is a critical feature in the development of colorectal cancer. We show that NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) attenuates colorectal cancer through coordinating CEC regeneration/different ...
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Journal ArticleCytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry · January 1, 2024
The publication of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's guideline H62 has provided the flow cytometry community with much-needed guidance on development and validation of flow cytometric assays (CLSI, 2021). It has also paved the way for additiona ...
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Journal ArticleFront Immunol · 2023
BACKGROUND: Monocytes and monocyte-derived tumor infiltrating cells have been implicated in the immunosuppression and immune evasion associated with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Yet, precisely how monocytes in the periphery and tumor microenvironment ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · September 2022
BACKGROUND: We previously reported results from a phase 1 study testing intratumoral recombinant poliovirus, lerapolturev, in 12 melanoma patients. All 12 patients received anti-PD-1 systemic therapy before lerapolturev, and 11 of these 12 patients also re ...
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Journal ArticleFront Immunol · 2022
INTRODUCTION: B cells are key regulators of immune responses in melanoma. We aimed to explore differences in the histologic location and activation status of B cell follicles in sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) of melanoma patients. METHODS: Flow cytometry was p ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Surg Oncol · July 2021
BACKGROUND: Although sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is a standard procedure used to identify patients at risk for melanoma recurrence, it fails to risk-stratify certain patients accurately. Because processes in SLNs regulate anti-tumor immune responses, ...
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Journal ArticleMol Ther · May 5, 2021
Tumor cells release nucleic acid-containing proinflammatory complexes, termed nucleic acid-containing damage-associated molecular patterns (NA DAMPs), passively upon death and actively during stress. NA DAMPs activate pattern recognition receptors on cells ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Immunol Immunother · February 2021
BACKGROUND: In melanoma patients, microscopic tumor in the sentinel lymph-node biopsy (SLN) increases the risk of distant metastases, but the transition from tumor in the SLN to metastatic disease remains poorly understood. METHODS: Fluorescent staining fo ...
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Journal ArticleUrology · February 2021
OBJECTIVE: To perform an exploratory, descriptive pilot study of the systemic and local immune environment in patients with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and bladder-bowel dysfunction (BBD). METHODS: Consecutive children with VUR undergoing intravesical uret ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · December 2019
BACKGROUND: Sipuleucel-T is an autologous cellular immunotherapy that is FDA approved for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The IMPACT registry trial demonstrated a 4.1 month survi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Urol · October 2019
BACKGROUND: Given improvements in multimodality therapy, survival among children with Wilms tumor (WT) exceeds 90%. However, 15% of children with favorable histology and 50% of children with anaplastic WT experience recurrence or progression. Of patients w ...
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Journal ArticleFront Immunol · 2019
Immunotherapies are rapidly being integrated into standard of care (SOC) therapy in conjunction with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for many cancers and a large number of clinical studies continue to explore immunotherapy alone and as part of comb ...
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Journal ArticleSci Transl Med · September 20, 2017
Tumors thrive in an immunosuppressive microenvironment that impedes antitumor innate and adaptive immune responses. Thus, approaches that can overcome immunosuppression and engage antitumor immunity are needed. This study defines the adjuvant and cancer im ...
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Journal ArticleOncotarget · November 29, 2016
Intratumoral inoculation of viruses with tumor-selective cytotoxicity may induce cancer cell death and, thereby, shrink neoplastic lesions. It is unlikely, however, that viral tumor cell killing alone could produce meaningful, durable clinical responses, a ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · October 18, 2016
ENGINEERING: Correction for "Scavenging nucleic acid debris to combat autoimmunity and infectious disease," by Eda K. Holl, Kara L. Shumansky, Luke B. Borst, Angela D. Burnette, Christopher J. Sample, Elizabeth A. Ramsburg, and Bruce A. Sullenger, which ap ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · August 30, 2016
Nucleic acid-containing debris released from dead and dying cells can be recognized as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) or pattern-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) by the innate immune system. Inappropriate activation of the innate immune ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol Res · 2015
RNA vaccines traditionally consist of messenger RNA synthesized by in vitro transcription using a bacteriophage RNA polymerase and template DNA that encodes the antigen(s) of interest. Once administered and internalized by host cells, the mRNA transcripts ...
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Journal ArticlePlast Reconstr Surg · September 2014
BACKGROUND: Pathologic cutaneous scarring affects over 40 million people worldwide and costs billions of dollars annually. Understanding mechanisms of fibroblast activation and granulation tissue contraction is the first step toward preventing pathologic s ...
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Journal ArticleCell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol · 2024
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Dysregulated colonic epithelial cell (CEC) proliferation is a critical feature in the development of colorectal cancer. We show that NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) attenuates colorectal cancer through coordinating CEC regeneration/different ...
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Journal ArticleCytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry · January 1, 2024
The publication of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's guideline H62 has provided the flow cytometry community with much-needed guidance on development and validation of flow cytometric assays (CLSI, 2021). It has also paved the way for additiona ...
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Journal ArticleFront Immunol · 2023
BACKGROUND: Monocytes and monocyte-derived tumor infiltrating cells have been implicated in the immunosuppression and immune evasion associated with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Yet, precisely how monocytes in the periphery and tumor microenvironment ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · September 2022
BACKGROUND: We previously reported results from a phase 1 study testing intratumoral recombinant poliovirus, lerapolturev, in 12 melanoma patients. All 12 patients received anti-PD-1 systemic therapy before lerapolturev, and 11 of these 12 patients also re ...
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Journal ArticleFront Immunol · 2022
INTRODUCTION: B cells are key regulators of immune responses in melanoma. We aimed to explore differences in the histologic location and activation status of B cell follicles in sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) of melanoma patients. METHODS: Flow cytometry was p ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Surg Oncol · July 2021
BACKGROUND: Although sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is a standard procedure used to identify patients at risk for melanoma recurrence, it fails to risk-stratify certain patients accurately. Because processes in SLNs regulate anti-tumor immune responses, ...
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Journal ArticleMol Ther · May 5, 2021
Tumor cells release nucleic acid-containing proinflammatory complexes, termed nucleic acid-containing damage-associated molecular patterns (NA DAMPs), passively upon death and actively during stress. NA DAMPs activate pattern recognition receptors on cells ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Immunol Immunother · February 2021
BACKGROUND: In melanoma patients, microscopic tumor in the sentinel lymph-node biopsy (SLN) increases the risk of distant metastases, but the transition from tumor in the SLN to metastatic disease remains poorly understood. METHODS: Fluorescent staining fo ...
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Journal ArticleUrology · February 2021
OBJECTIVE: To perform an exploratory, descriptive pilot study of the systemic and local immune environment in patients with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and bladder-bowel dysfunction (BBD). METHODS: Consecutive children with VUR undergoing intravesical uret ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · December 2019
BACKGROUND: Sipuleucel-T is an autologous cellular immunotherapy that is FDA approved for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The IMPACT registry trial demonstrated a 4.1 month survi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Urol · October 2019
BACKGROUND: Given improvements in multimodality therapy, survival among children with Wilms tumor (WT) exceeds 90%. However, 15% of children with favorable histology and 50% of children with anaplastic WT experience recurrence or progression. Of patients w ...
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Journal ArticleFront Immunol · 2019
Immunotherapies are rapidly being integrated into standard of care (SOC) therapy in conjunction with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for many cancers and a large number of clinical studies continue to explore immunotherapy alone and as part of comb ...
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Journal ArticleSci Transl Med · September 20, 2017
Tumors thrive in an immunosuppressive microenvironment that impedes antitumor innate and adaptive immune responses. Thus, approaches that can overcome immunosuppression and engage antitumor immunity are needed. This study defines the adjuvant and cancer im ...
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Journal ArticleOncotarget · November 29, 2016
Intratumoral inoculation of viruses with tumor-selective cytotoxicity may induce cancer cell death and, thereby, shrink neoplastic lesions. It is unlikely, however, that viral tumor cell killing alone could produce meaningful, durable clinical responses, a ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · October 18, 2016
ENGINEERING: Correction for "Scavenging nucleic acid debris to combat autoimmunity and infectious disease," by Eda K. Holl, Kara L. Shumansky, Luke B. Borst, Angela D. Burnette, Christopher J. Sample, Elizabeth A. Ramsburg, and Bruce A. Sullenger, which ap ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · August 30, 2016
Nucleic acid-containing debris released from dead and dying cells can be recognized as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) or pattern-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) by the innate immune system. Inappropriate activation of the innate immune ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol Res · 2015
RNA vaccines traditionally consist of messenger RNA synthesized by in vitro transcription using a bacteriophage RNA polymerase and template DNA that encodes the antigen(s) of interest. Once administered and internalized by host cells, the mRNA transcripts ...
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Journal ArticlePlast Reconstr Surg · September 2014
BACKGROUND: Pathologic cutaneous scarring affects over 40 million people worldwide and costs billions of dollars annually. Understanding mechanisms of fibroblast activation and granulation tissue contraction is the first step toward preventing pathologic s ...
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Journal ArticleProtein Cell · January 2013
Plexins and semaphorins are a large family of proteins that are involved in cell movement and response. The importance of plexins and semaphorins has been emphasized by their discovery in many organ systems including the nervous (Nkyimbeng-Takwi and Chapov ...
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Journal ArticleMethods Mol Biol · 2013
The creation of bone marrow and fetal liver chimeric mice has proven to be a valuable tool in the field of immunology. Chimeric mice are used to study the contribution of various cell types of hematopoietic versus non-hematopoietic origin in the course of ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2013
Toll-like receptor (TLR) family members, 3, 7 and 9 are key components in initiation and progression of autoimmune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). These TLRs are often referred to as nucleic acid-sensing TLRs based on their ability to ...
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Journal ArticleNat Immunol · September 2012
Several members of the NLR family of sensors activate innate immunity. In contrast, we found here that NLRC3 inhibited Toll-like receptor (TLR)-dependent activation of the transcription factor NF-κB by interacting with the TLR signaling adaptor TRAF6 to at ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · August 7, 2012
Development of effective, yet safe, antithrombotic agents has been challenging because such agents increase the propensity of patients to bleed. Recently, naturally occurring polyphosphates such as extracellular DNA, RNA, and inorganic polyphosphates have ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2012
Plexins are a family of genes (A,B,C, and D) that are expressed in many organ systems. Plexins expressed in the immune system have been implicated in cell movement and cell-cell interaction during the course of an immune response. In this study, the expres ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol · May 15, 2011
Long-lived humoral immune responses depend upon the generation of memory B cells and long-lived plasma cells during the germinal center (GC) reaction. These memory compartments, characterized by class-switched IgG and high-affinity Abs, are the basis for s ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2011
Plexins are cell surface receptors widely studied in the nervous system, where they mediate migration and morphogenesis though the Rho family of small GTPases. More recently, plexins have been implicated in immune processes including cell-cell interaction, ...
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Journal ArticleJ Exp Med · May 10, 2010
Colitis-associated cancer (CAC) is a major complication of inflammatory bowel diseases. We show that components of the inflammasome are protective during acute and recurring colitis and CAC in the dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) and azoxymethane + DSS models. ...
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Journal ArticleImmunity · April 17, 2009
The nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich-repeat-containing (NLR) family of pattern-recognition molecules mediate host immunity to various pathogenic stimuli. However, in vivo evidence for the involvement of NLR proteins in viral sensing has not been ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · September 2, 2008
The semaphorin and plexin family of ligand and receptor proteins provides important axon guidance cues required for development. Recent studies have expanded the role of semaphorins and plexins in the regulation of cardiac, circulatory and immune system fu ...
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