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γδ T cells kill Plasmodium falciparum in a granzyme- and granulysin-dependent mechanism during the late blood stage

Hernández-Castañeda, Maria Andrea ; Happ, Katharina ; Cattalani, Filippo ; Wallimann, Alexandra ; Blanchard, Marianne ; Fellay, Isabelle ; Scolari, Brigitte ; Lannes, Nils ; Mbagwu, Smart Ikechukwu ; Fellay, Benoît ; Filgueira, Luis ; Mantel, Pierre-Yves ; Walch, Michael

In: The Journal of Immunology, 2020, vol. 204, no. 7, p. 1798–1809

Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria, have a complex life cycle. The exponential growth of the parasites during the blood stage is responsible for almost all malaria-associated morbidity and mortality. Therefore, tight immune control of the intraerythrocytic replication of the parasite is essential to prevent clinical malaria. Despite evidence that the particular lymphocyte subset ...

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Substantial inter-subject variability in blood pressure responses to glucose in a healthy, non-obese population

Monnard, Cathriona R. ; Fellay, Benoît ; Scerri, Isabelle ; Grasser, Erik K.

In: Frontiers in Physiology, 2017, vol. 8, p. -

Aim: A large inter-subject variability in the blood pressure (BP) response to glucose drinks has been reported. However, the underlying factors remain elusive and we hypothesized that accompanying changes in glucose metabolism affect these BP responses.Methods: Cardiovascular and glycemic changes in response to a standard 75 g oral-glucose-tolerance-test were investigated in 30 healthy, non-obese...

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Bevacizumab specifically decreases elevated levels of circulating KIT+CD11b+ cells and IL-10 in metastatic breast cancer patients

Cattin, Sarah ; Fellay, Benoît ; Pradervand, Sylvain ; Trojan, Andreas ; Ruhstaller, Thomas ; Rüegg, Curzio ; Fürstenberger, Gregor

In: Oncotarget, 2016, vol. 7, no. 10, p. 11137–11150

Whether bevacizumab exerts its anti-tumor properties through systemic effects beyond local inhibition of angiogenesis and how these effects can be monitored in patients, remain largely elusive. To address these questions, we investigated bone marrow-derived cells and cytokines in the peripheral blood of metastatic breast cancer patients undergoing therapy with...