Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that orchestrate immune responses to pathogenic and sterile insults by regulating the maturation of inflammatory cytokines and pyroptotic cell death. While inflammasome activation is well-characterized at the bi…
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by sustained immune activation and fluctuating disease activity. Although exhaustion-associated markers are frequently detected on T cells from patients with SLE, the biol…
The gut microbiota is a critical regulator of systemic immune homeostasis; accumulating evidence implicates specific commensal bacteria, termed “pathobionts,” in autoimmune disease pathogenesis. However, the definition of pathobionts remains context-de…
Chronic non-infectious uveitis (NIU) is a vision-threatening inflammatory disease in which relapses often occur despite corticosteroids, conventional immunosuppression, and biologic therapy. A growing body of experimental and human evidence indicates t…
Teleost fish lack canonical germinal centers (GCs); however, they can mount antigen-specific immune responses, raising longstanding questions about how antibody affinity maturation is organized in cold-blooded vertebrates. Melanomacrophage centers (MMC…
BackgroundRheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have a clearly increased possibility to develop tuberculosis (TB). However, the common molecular background, useful diagnostic molecules, and treatment-related targets of this comorbidity are still not suffi…
PurposeTo evaluate the prognostic value of treatment related decline of peripheral absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) in patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LA-HNSCC) after preoperative radiation therapy (RT) with or with…
BackgroundAnti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis typically presents with acute neuroinflammation, and many patients often experience persistent cognitive impairment during the post-acute/recovery phase. While impaired cerebrospina…
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a whole-joint disease involving cartilage, synovium, subchondral bone, and neurovascular structures. Synovitis, damage-associated molecular patterns, and interactions between macrophages and fibroblast-like synoviocytes have been…
