2020
Characteristics and Outcomes of Pulmonary Angioplasty With or Without Stenting for Sarcoidosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension: Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis
daSilva-deAbreu A, Bracamonte-Baran W, Condado J, Babaliaros V, Tafur-Soto J, Mandras S. Characteristics and Outcomes of Pulmonary Angioplasty With or Without Stenting for Sarcoidosis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension: Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Current Problems In Cardiology 2020, 46: 100616. PMID: 32532452, DOI: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2020.100616.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSarcoidosis-associated pulmonary hypertensionIndividual participant dataPulmonary angioplastyPulmonary hypertensionCase reportIndividual Participant Data Meta-AnalysisMulticenter registry studyNYHA FC IIIPulmonary vascular stenosisControlled Clinical TrialsSmall case seriesData Meta-AnalysisRegistry studyCase seriesFC IIIFocal stenosisDefinitive diagnosisClinical trialsPulmonary vesselsOutcome dataVascular stenosisStage IIIPatientsAngioplastySignificant improvementInnate Lymphoid Cells Play a Pathogenic Role in Pericarditis
Choi H, Won T, Hou X, Chen G, Bracamonte-Baran W, Talor M, Jurčová I, Szárszoi O, Čurnova L, Stříž I, Hooper J, Melenovský V, Čiháková D. Innate Lymphoid Cells Play a Pathogenic Role in Pericarditis. Cell Reports 2020, 30: 2989-3003.e6. PMID: 32130902, PMCID: PMC7332109, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.040.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsCell MovementChemokine CCL11Disease SusceptibilityEosinophilsFemaleFibroblastsGene Expression RegulationHeartHeart Function TestsHumansImmunity, InnateInterleukin-1 Receptor-Like 1 ProteinInterleukin-33Interleukin-5LymphocytesMaleMediastinumMice, Inbred BALB CPericarditisSignal TransductionUp-RegulationConceptsInnate lymphoid cellsEosinophilic pericarditisPathogenic roleMediastinal cavityLymphoid cellsGroup 2 innate lymphoid cellsCardiac fibroblastsDevelopment of pericarditisCardiac inflammationEotaxin-1Healthy controlsPericardial fluidCardiac diseasePericarditisB cellsSerous cavitiesILC2sEosinophilsPatientsMiceHeartCellsCritical roleFibroblastsInflammation
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
2017
Modification of host dendritic cells by microchimerism-derived extracellular vesicles generates split tolerance
Bracamonte-Baran W, Florentin J, Zhou Y, Jankowska-Gan E, Haynes W, Zhong W, Brennan T, Dutta P, Claas F, van Rood J, Burlingham W. Modification of host dendritic cells by microchimerism-derived extracellular vesicles generates split tolerance. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2017, 114: 1099-1104. PMID: 28096390, PMCID: PMC5293109, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1618364114.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdoptive TransferAnimalsB7-2 AntigenB7-H1 AntigenCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesChimerismDendritic CellsExtracellular VesiclesFemaleFetomaternal TransfusionH-2 AntigensHistocompatibility Antigen H-2DHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIImmune ToleranceIsoantigensMaleMaternal-Fetal ExchangeMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicModels, ImmunologicalPregnancyT-Cell Antigen Receptor SpecificityConceptsHost dendritic cellsCD4 T cellsDendritic cellsPD-L1Maternal microchimerismT cellsMyeloid DCsPlasmacytoid DCsMHC alloantigensTransgenic CD4 T cellsMyeloid dendritic cellsPlasmacytoid dendritic cellsExtracellular vesiclesAdoptive transferAntitumor immunityMaternal antigensTransplant toleranceTumor immunityMurine modelSerum EVsPhysiologic linkMHC complexesMiceSerum fractionsMode of action