Immunology

Self-assembling short immunostimulatory duplex RNAs with broad-spectrum antiviral activity

1. Longlong Si
2. Haiqing Bai
3. Crystal Yuri Oh
4. Amanda Jiang
5. Fan Hong
6. Tian Zhang
7. Yongxin Ye
8. Tristan X. Jordan
9. James Logue
10. Marisa McGrath
11. Chaitra Belgur
12. Karina Calderon
13. Atiq Nurani
14. Wuji Cao
15. Kenneth E. Carlson
16. Rachelle Prantil-Baun
17. Steven P. Gygi
18. Dong Yang
19. Colleen B. Jonsson
20. Benjamin R. tenOever
21. Matthew Frieman
22. Donald E. Ingber

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Decidual immune response following COVID-19 during pregnancy varies by timing of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection

1. Lillian J. Juttukonda
2. Elisha M. Wachman
3. Jeffery Boateng
4. Mayuri Jain
5. Yoel Benarroch
6. Elizabeth S. Taglauer

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Widespread discrepancy in Nnt genotypes and genetic backgrounds complicates granzyme A and other knockout mouse studies

1. Daniel J Rawle
2. Thuy T Le
3. Troy Dumenil
4. Cameron Bishop
5. Kexin Yan
6. Eri Nakayama
7. Phillip I Bird
8. Andreas Suhrbier

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This paper is of interest not only for immunologists studying the inflammation, but also for biomedical researchers studying various biological processes using C57BL/6 mice. The data in this paper indicate that genetic differences between C57BL/6 substrains can affect reproducibility and generalizability in a broad range of biological studies with mouse models reported to date.

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Single-domain antibodies efficiently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, including Omicron variant

1. Irina A. Favorskaya
2. Dmitry V. Shcheblyakov
3. Ilias B. Esmagambetov
4. Inna V. Dolzhikova
5. Irina A. Alekseeva
6. Anastasia I. Korobkova
7. Daria V. Voronina
8. Ekaterina I. Ryabova
9. Artem A. Derkaev
10. Anna V. Kovyrshina
11. Anna A. Iliukhina
12. Andrey G. Botikov
13. Olga L. Voronina
14. Daria A. Egorova
15. Olga V. Zubkova
16. Natalia N. Ryzhova
17. Ekaterina I. Aksenova
18. Marina S. Kunda
19. Denis Y. Logunov
20. Boris S. Naroditsky
21. Alexandr L. Gintsburg

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Airway epithelial interferon response to SARS-CoV-2 is inferior to rhinovirus and heterologous rhinovirus infection suppresses SARS-CoV-2 replication

1. Elizabeth R. Vanderwall
2. Kaitlyn A. Barrow
3. Lucille M. Rich
4. David F. Read
5. Cole Trapnell
6. Oghenemega Okoloko
7. Steven F. Ziegler
8. Teal S. Hallstrand
9. Maria P. White
10. Jason S. Debley

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Thymic macrophages consist of two populations with distinct localization and origin

1. Tyng-An Zhou
2. Hsuan-Po Hsu
3. Yueh-Hua Tu
4. Hui-Kuei Cheng
5. Chih-Yu Lin
6. Nien-Jung Chen
7. Jin-Wu Tsai
8. Ellen A Robey
9. Hsuan-Cheng Huang
10. Chia-Lin Hsu
11. Ivan L Dzhagalov

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The authors comprehensively dissected the ontogeny and characteristics of thymic macrophages. These findings are helpful for better understanding of the function of macrophages in thymic tissue environment.

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Hematodinium sp. infection does not drive collateral disease contraction in a crustacean host

1. Charlotte E Davies
2. Jessica E Thomas
3. Sophie H Malkin
4. Frederico M Batista
5. Andrew F Rowley
6. Christopher J Coates

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The present work aims to increase our understanding of marine epizootics caused by the dinoflagelate parasite Hematodinium sp. in crabs. The work includes a large data set of field collected specimens from a wide geographical area. The authors have evaluated presence or absence of this parasite as well as co-infections by several other groups of pathogens and model the main factors that shape crab community structure. The topic of study is very important in the context of current marine pandemics and, therefore, adequate examination of this data set may lead to significant advances in the field. Refinement of the approaches to produce quantitative data is needed in order to reach to more solid conclusions.

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Excessive inflammatory and metabolic responses to acute SARS-CoV-2 infection are associated with a distinct gut microbiota composition

1. Werner C. Albrich
2. Tarini Shankar Ghosh
3. Sinead Ahearn-Ford
4. Flora Mikaeloff
5. Nonhlanhla Lunjani
6. Brian Forde
7. Noémie Suh
8. Gian-Reto Kleger
9. Urs Pietsch
10. Manuel Frischknecht
11. Christian Garzoni
12. Rossella Forlenza
13. Mary Horgan
14. Corinna Sadlier
15. Tommaso Rochat Negro
16. Jérôme Pugin
17. Hannah Wozniak
18. Andreas Cerny
19. Ujjwal Neogi
20. Paul W. O’Toole
21. Liam O’Mahony

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Targeting the chemokine receptor CXCR4 with histamine analogue to reduce inflammation in juvenile arthritis: a proof of concept for COVID-19 therapeutic approach

1. Nassima Bekaddour
2. Nikaïa Smith
3. Benoit Beitz
4. Alba Llibre
5. Tom Dott
6. Anne Baudry
7. Anne-Sophie Korganow
8. Sébastien Nisole
9. Richard Mouy
10. Sylvain Breton
11. Brigitte Bader-Meunier
12. Darragh Duffy
13. Benjamin Terrier
14. Benoit Schneider
15. Pierre Quartier
16. Mathieu P Rodero
17. Jean-Philippe Herbeuval

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Mutagenic Distinction between the Receptor-Binding and Fusion Subunits of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein and Its Upshot

1. Robert Clark Penner

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