2019
Non-cytotoxic Cardiac Innate Lymphoid Cells Are a Resident and Quiescent Type 2-Commited Population
Bracamonte-Baran W, Chen G, Hou X, Talor M, Choi H, Davogustto G, Taegtmeyer H, Sung J, Hackam D, Nauen D, Čiháková D. Non-cytotoxic Cardiac Innate Lymphoid Cells Are a Resident and Quiescent Type 2-Commited Population. Frontiers In Immunology 2019, 10: 634. PMID: 30984196, PMCID: PMC6450181, DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00634.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInnate lymphoid cellsIL-33 productionProgenitor-like featuresLymphoid cellsType 2IL-25 receptorNatural killer cellsSubsets of leukocytesAntigen-specific receptorsILC2 expansionInflammatory ILC2sAdoptive transferCardiac inflammationIL-33Killer cellsInflammatory conditionsMouse modelHealthy humansIschemic conditionsCardiac fibroblastsGATA3 expressionILC2Pathologic environmentHealthy heartIschemia
2018
Sca‐1+ cardiac fibroblasts promote development of heart failure
Chen G, Bracamonte‐Baran W, Diny N, Hou X, Talor M, Fu K, Liu Y, Davogustto G, Vasquez H, Taegtmeyer H, Frazier O, Waisman A, Conway S, Wan F, Čiháková D. Sca‐1+ cardiac fibroblasts promote development of heart failure. European Journal Of Immunology 2018, 48: 1522-1538. PMID: 29953616, PMCID: PMC6696927, DOI: 10.1002/eji.201847583.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHeart failureCardiac fibroblastsGM-CSFCardiac inflammationIL-17AFibroblast subsetsSca-1Post-infarct heart failureMyocardial infarction mouse modelExperimental autoimmune myocarditisHeart failure patientsCytokine production profileCardiac biopsy samplesAutoimmune myocarditisIschemic originFailure patientsIschemic cardiomyopathyInflammatory Ly6CImmune cellsMouse modelFl/Biopsy samplesMyocarditisMouse heartsSpecific ablation