The Immune Response to Tumors as a Tool toward Immunotherapy by F. Pandolfi, R. Cianci, D. Pagliari, F. Casciano, C. Bagalà, A. Astone, R. Landolfi, C. Barone

“…Immunotherapy may also use cytokines especially proinflammatory cytokines to enhance the activity of cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) derived from tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). …”
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Tumor-Induced Local and Systemic Impact on Blood Vessel Function by J. Cedervall, A. Dimberg, A-K. Olsson

“…In addition, leukocytes, such as cytotoxic T-cells, have to travel across the vessel wall to enter the tumor tissue where they contribute to killing of cancer cells. …”
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Overview of Cell Death Mechanisms Induced by Rose Bengal Acetate-Photodynamic Therapy by Elisa Panzarini, Valentina Inguscio, Luciana Dini

“…Their interaction triggers photochemical reactions leading to Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) generation, that mediate cytotoxicity and cell death. In the present paper, the most important findings about the synthetic dye Rose Bengal Acetate (RBAc), an emerging photosensitizer for its efficient induction of cell death, will be reported with the aim to integrate RBAc phototoxicity to novel therapeutic PDT strategies against tumour cells. …”
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Cytotoxic activity of Fomitopsis betulina against normal and cancer cells – a comprehensive literature review by Paulina Nowotarska, Maciej Janeczek, Benita Wiatrak

“…The review was conducted by searching PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science databases up to July 2024, using specific MeSH terms and keywords related to cytotoxicity, cancer cells, and normal cells. Articles were included if they investigated both cancer and normal cell cultures, reported IC50 values, and used validated cytotoxicity assays (e.g. …”
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Inducers of Autophagy and Cell Death: Focus on Copper Metabolism by Weikang Ling, Shuo Li, Yang Zhu, Xin Wang, Dongmei Jiang, Bo Kang

“…However, an imbalance in copper homeostasis can induce oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and inhibition of the ubiquitin-proteasome system, ultimately leading to significant cytotoxicity and cell death. According to recent research, copper can bind to lipoylation sites on proteins involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, causing aggregation of lipoylated proteins, the loss of Fe-S cluster proteins, proteotoxic stress, and ultimately, cell death. …”
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Crosstalk between Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells and Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Tumor Growth and Immunosuppression of Breast Cancer by Jarupa Soongsathitanon, Pranisa Jamjuntra, Nuttavut Sumransub, Supaporn Yangngam, Marjorie De la Fuente, Glauben Landskron, Peti Thuwajit, Marcela A. Hermoso, Chanitra Thuwajit

“…The immune cells including tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) (cytotoxic T cells (CTLs), regulatory T cells (Tregs), and helper T cell (Th)), monocyte-infiltrating cells (MICs), myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), mast cells (MCs), and natural killer cells (NKs) play an important part in the immunological balance, fluctuating TME between protumoral and antitumoral responses. …”
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Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Report of Response to Rituximab by Uroosa Ibrahim, Sara Parylo, Shiksha Kedia, Shafinaz Hussein, Jean Paul Atallah

“…Large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia is a rare form of low grade leukemia characterized by large cytotoxic T cells or natural killer cells on morphological examination. …”
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Regulatory T Cells in the Immunodiagnosis and Outcome of Kidney Allograft Rejection by O. Franzese, A. Mascali, A. Capria, V. Castagnola, L. Paganizza, N. Di Daniele

“…The immune reaction directed against a renal allograft has been suggested to be characterized by two major components: a destructive one, mediated by CD4+ helper and CD8+ cytotoxic T cells, and a protective response, mediated by Tregs. …”
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Autoimmune Hepatitis: Progress from Global Immunosuppression to Personalised Regulatory T Cell Therapy by Nwe Ni Than, Hannah C. Jeffery, Ye H. Oo

“…Innate immune cells are crucial in the initial onset of disease and their response is followed by adaptive T (Th1, Th17, and cytotoxic T cells) and B cell responses evidenced by liver histology and peripheral blood serology. …”
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Stroma-derived Dickkopf-1 contributes to the suppression of NK cell cytotoxicity in breast cancer by Seunghyun Lee, Biancamaria Ricci, Jennifer Tran, Emily Eul, Jiayu Ye, Qihao Ren, David Clever, Julia Wang, Pamela Wong, Michael S. Haas, Sheila A. Stewart, Cynthia X. Ma, Todd A. Fehniger, Roberta Faccio

“…Importantly, increased DKK1 levels and reduced cytotoxic NK cells are detected in women with progressive breast cancer. …”
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Involvement of Different CD4+ T Cell Subsets Producing Granzyme B in the Immune Response to Leishmania major Antigens by Ikbel Naouar, Thouraya Boussoffara, Melika Ben Ahmed, Nabil Belhaj Hmida, Adel Gharbi, Sami Gritli, Afif Ben Salah, Hechmi Louzir

“…First, we found that PBMCs from HZCL individuals proliferate and produce high levels of IFN-γ and granzyme B (GrB), used as a marker of activated cytotoxic T cells, in response to the parasite antigens. …”
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Decreased Regulatory T Cells in Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Lesions: Imbalance between Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cells in Atherosclerosis by Ilonka Rohm, Yevgeniya Atiskova, Stefanie Drobnik, Michael Fritzenwanger, Daniel Kretzschmar, Rudin Pistulli, Jürgen Zanow, Thomas Krönert, Gita Mall, Hans Reiner Figulla, Atilla Yilmaz

“…The following results were observed: in unstable lesions, significantly higher numbers of proinflammatory cells like DCs, T helper cells, cytotoxic T cells, and natural killer cells were detected compared to stable plaques. …”
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Photochemical Treatment of Drosophila APCs Can Eliminate Associated Viruses and Maintain the APC Function for Generating Antigen-Specific CTLs Ex Vivo by Jun Ye, Chunxia Yang, Zeling Cai, Weixing Shi, Hong Yu

“…Drosophila cells transfected with MHC class I and a number of costimulation molecules including B7.1, ICAM, LFA-3, and CD70 are potent antigen-presenting cells (APCs) for the generation of antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) in vitro. Using Drosophila APCs, CTLs specific for melanoma antigens have been generated in vitro and adoptively transferred to melanoma patients. …”
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Quantitative impact of immunomodulation versus oncolysis with cytokine-expressing virus therapeutics by Peter S. Kim, Joseph J. Crivelli, Il-Kyu Choi, Chae-Ok Yun, Joanna R. Wares

“…We found that the model closely matches previously published data, and while viral oncolysis is fundamental in reducing tumor burden, increased stimulation of cytotoxic T cells leads to a short-term reduction in tumor size, but a faster relapse. …”
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Development of a novel multi-epitope subunit mRNA vaccine candidate to combat Acinetobacter baumannii by Shiyang Ma, Fei Zhu, Peipei Zhang, Yizhong Xu, Ziyou Zhou, Hang Yang, Caixia Tan, Jie Chen, Pinhua Pan

“…We screened 11 immunodominant epitopes for cytotoxic T cells, 5 for helper T cells, and 10 for Linear B-cell based on promising candidate proteins omp33-36, ompA and ompW, the selection of these three proteins is based on reverse vaccinology screening and previous work by other researchers. …”
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Supplementation with Branched-Chain Amino Acids Induces Unexpected Deleterious Effects on Astrocyte Survival and Intracellular Metabolism with or without Hyperammonemia: A Prelimin... by Ting Wang, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Toshimi Chiba, Keisuke Kakisaka, Yasuhiro Takikawa

“…Methods. We performed cytotoxicity and cell proliferation tests on astrocytes following BCAA treatment with and without ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) and then compared the results with the effects of BCAA on hepatocytes and neurons. …”
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Solanum Procumbens-Derived Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Suppress Lung Cancer In Vitro through Elevation of ROS by Ibrahim Ibrahim Abdel Aziz, Almaimani A. Riyad, Almasmoum A. Hussian, Ghaith M. Mazen, Moorthy Kannaiyan

“…Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), cytotoxicity, and cell viability assays revealed that the SP-ZnONP caused the cell death and the inhibition concentration (IC50) was calculated to be 61.28 μg/mL. …”
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Footprint of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: A Study of Immune Landscape and Other Factors Shielding Mortality by Noura Al-Dayan, Divya Venugopal, Sugapriya Dhanasekaran

“…Activation of virus-specific CD4+ T cells and CD8+ cytotoxic T cells selectively targets the infected cells and strengthens the immunoregulatory system. …”
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Lessons Learned from Experimental Human Model of Zinc Deficiency by Ananda S. Prasad

“…In an experimental model of human mild zinc deficiency, we reported decreased thymulin (a thymopoietic hormone) activity in Th1 cells, decreased mRNAs of IL-2 and IFN-gamma genes, and decreased activity of natural killer cells (NK) and T cytotoxic T cells. The effect of zinc deficiency on thymulin activity and IL-2 mRNA was seen within eight to twelve weeks of the institution of zinc-deficient diet in human volunteers, whereas lymphocyte zinc decreased in 20 weeks and plasma zinc decreased in 24 weeks after instituting zinc-deficient diet. …”
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Comparison of Intranasal Outer Membrane Vesicles with Cholera Toxin and Injected MF59C.1 as Adjuvants for Malaria Transmission Blocking Antigens AnAPN1 and Pfs48/45 by Michael Pritsch, Najib Ben-Khaled, Michael Chaloupka, Sebastian Kobold, Nicole Berens-Riha, Annabell Peter, Gabriele Liegl, Sören Schubert, Michael Hoelscher, Thomas Löscher, Andreas Wieser

“…T cell responses (cytotoxic T cells, Th1, Th17, and regulatory T cells) were determined by flow cytometry. …”
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