2020
Severe respiratory viral infection induces procalcitonin in the absence of bacterial pneumonia
Gautam S, Cohen AJ, Stahl Y, Toro P, Young GM, Datta R, Yan X, Ristic NT, Bermejo SD, Sharma L, Restrepo M, Dela Cruz CS. Severe respiratory viral infection induces procalcitonin in the absence of bacterial pneumonia. Thorax 2020, 75: 974-981. PMID: 32826284, DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214896.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPure viral infectionBacterial coinfectionViral infectionInfluenza infectionSevere respiratory viral infectionsAbility of procalcitoninRetrospective cohort studyViral respiratory infectionsRespiratory viral infectionsMarker of severityRespiratory viral illnessSevere viral infectionsSpecificity of procalcitoninCharacteristic curve analysisCellular modelHigher procalcitoninProcalcitonin expressionElevated procalcitoninCohort studyViral illnessRespiratory infectionsAntibiotic administrationBacterial pneumoniaSevere diseaseProcalcitonin
2019
Integrating multiomics longitudinal data to reconstruct networks underlying lung development
Ding J, Ahangari F, Espinoza CR, Chhabra D, Nicola T, Yan X, Lal CV, Hagood JS, Kaminski N, Bar-Joseph Z, Ambalavanan N. Integrating multiomics longitudinal data to reconstruct networks underlying lung development. American Journal Of Physiology - Lung Cellular And Molecular Physiology 2019, 317: l556-l568. PMID: 31432713, PMCID: PMC6879899, DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00554.2018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsAnimals, NewbornChildChild, PreschoolDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Regulatory NetworksHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansImmunity, InnateInfantInfant, NewbornLungMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicroRNAsOrganogenesisProteomicsPulmonary AlveoliRNA, MessengerSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptomeConceptsSingle-cell RNA-seq dataLung developmentDynamic regulatory networksOmics data setsRNA-seq dataIndividual cell typesHuman lung developmentRegulatory networksDNA methylationLaser capture microdissectionEpigenetic changesExpression trajectoriesKey pathwaysCell typesActive pathwaysCapture microdissectionRegulatorKey eventsInnate immunityNew insightsSpecific key eventsPathwayComprehensive understandingProteomicsMethylation
2014
T cell-intrinsic role of IL-6 signaling in primary and memory responses
Nish SA, Schenten D, Wunderlich FT, Pope SD, Gao Y, Hoshi N, Yu S, Yan X, Lee HK, Pasman L, Brodsky I, Yordy B, Zhao H, Brüning J, Medzhitov R. T cell-intrinsic role of IL-6 signaling in primary and memory responses. ELife 2014, 3: e01949. PMID: 24842874, PMCID: PMC4046568, DOI: 10.7554/elife.01949.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdaptive ImmunityAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCells, CulturedCoculture TechniquesDose-Response Relationship, DrugImmunity, InnateImmunizationImmunologic MemoryInterleukin-1betaInterleukin-6Interleukin-6 Receptor alpha SubunitMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutOvalbuminRecombinant ProteinsSignal TransductionT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTh1 CellsTh17 CellsConceptsIL-6T cellsIL-6 receptor α chainT cell memory formationT cell-intrinsic roleAbsence of TregsDepletion of TregsPrimary Th1 responseEffector T cellsT cell responsesFunctional memory cellsAdaptive immune responsesT cell-specific deletionInnate immune recognitionCell-intrinsic roleCell-specific deletionReceptor α chainTfh functionTh1 responseTh17 responsesIL-1βIL-2Immune responseTregsSuppressive effectSignaling through the Adaptor Molecule MyD88 in CD4+ T Cells Is Required to Overcome Suppression by Regulatory T Cells
Schenten D, Nish SA, Yu S, Yan X, Lee HK, Brodsky I, Pasman L, Yordy B, Wunderlich FT, Brüning JC, Zhao H, Medzhitov R. Signaling through the Adaptor Molecule MyD88 in CD4+ T Cells Is Required to Overcome Suppression by Regulatory T Cells. Immunity 2014, 40: 78-90. PMID: 24439266, PMCID: PMC4445716, DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2013.10.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdaptive ImmunityAnimalsCells, CulturedImmunity, InnateImmunologic MemoryImmunosuppression TherapyInterleukin-1Interleukin-18MiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicMyeloid Differentiation Factor 88Organ SpecificityReceptors, Interleukin-1Signal TransductionT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTh1 CellsTh17 CellsConceptsToll-like receptorsTh1 cell responsesT cellsCell-specific ablationCell responsesIL-1Interleukin-1 receptor family memberT helper 17 (Th17) cell responsesTreg cell-mediated suppressionTreg cell-specific ablationT cell-specific ablationRegulatory T cellsT regulatory (Treg) cellsCell-mediated suppressionMemory T cellsAdaptor molecule MyD88Adaptive immune responsesIL-1 actsTreg cellsRegulatory cellsReceptor family membersMolecule MyD88Th1 cellsImmune responseMyD88