2024
The amalgam of naive CD4+ T cell transcriptional states is reconfigured by helminth infection to dampen the amplitude of the immune response
Even Z, Meli A, Tyagi A, Vidyarthi A, Briggs N, de Kouchkovsky D, Kong Y, Wang Y, Waizman D, Rice T, De Kumar B, Wang X, Palm N, Craft J, Basu M, Ghosh S, Rothlin C. The amalgam of naive CD4+ T cell transcriptional states is reconfigured by helminth infection to dampen the amplitude of the immune response. Immunity 2024, 57: 1893-1907.e6. PMID: 39096910, PMCID: PMC11421571, DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2024.07.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchT cell receptorImmune responseNaive CD4<sup>+</sup> T cellsCD4<sup>+</sup> T cellsIFN-IHelminth infectionsNippostrongylus brasiliensis infectionDecreased immune responseType I interferonNaive TT cellsMemory-likeUnrelated antigensTranscriptional changesExtracellular matrixSPF miceCell receptorsI interferonGerm-freeResponse to certain environmental cuesInfectionMiceFunctional changesCell transcriptional statesTranscriptional heterogeneity
2017
Yeast-expressed recombinant As16 protects mice against Ascaris suum infection through induction of a Th2-skewed immune response
Wei J, Versteeg L, Liu Z, Keegan B, Gazzinelli-Guimarães AC, Fujiwara RT, Briggs N, Jones KM, Strych U, Beaumier CM, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ, Zhan B. Yeast-expressed recombinant As16 protects mice against Ascaris suum infection through induction of a Th2-skewed immune response. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2017, 11: e0005769. PMID: 28708895, PMCID: PMC5529013, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005769.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTh2-skewed immune responseTh2-type responseCholera toxin B subunitImmune responseEgg challengeProtective immunitySignificant protectionPredominant Th2-type responseTh2-type immune responseFeasible vaccine candidateTh1-type responseCommon helminth infectionA. suum infectionAscaris suum infectionExact protective mechanismHost immune systemToxin B subunitA. suumRestimulated splenocytesA. suum eggsChallenge infectionIL-4IL-5Trichuris infectionHelminth infections
2016
The Hygiene Hypothesis and Its Inconvenient Truths about Helminth Infections
Briggs N, Weatherhead J, Sastry KJ, Hotez PJ. The Hygiene Hypothesis and Its Inconvenient Truths about Helminth Infections. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2016, 10: e0004944. PMID: 27632204, PMCID: PMC5025185, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004944.Peer-Reviewed Original Research