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Macrophage death following influenza vaccination initiates the inflammatory response that promotes dendritic cell function in the draining lymph node

Chatziandreou, Nikolaos ; Farsakoglu, Yagmur ; Palomino-Segura, Miguel ; D’Antuono, Rocco ; Pizzagalli, Diego Ulisse ; Sallusto, Federica ; Lukacs-Kornek, Veronika ; Uguccioni, Mariagrazia ; Corti, Davide ; Turley, Shannon J. ; Lanzavecchia, Antonio ; Carroll, Michael C. ; Gonzalez, Santiago F.

In: Cell reports, 2017, vol. 18, no. 10, p. 2427-2440

The mechanism by which inflammation influences the adaptive response to vaccines is not fully understood. Here, we examine the role of lymph node macrophages (LNMs) in the induction of the cytokine storm triggered by inactivated influenza virus vaccine. Following vaccination, LNMs undergo inflammasome-independent necrosis-like death that is reliant on MyD88 and Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7)...

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Influenza vaccination induces NK-cell-mediated type-II IFN response that regulates humoral immunity in an IL-6-dependent manner

Farsakoglu, Yagmur ; Palomino-Segura, Miguel ; Latino, Irene ; Zanaga, Silvia ; Chatziandreou, Nikolaos ; Pizzagalli, Diego Ulisse ; Rinaldi, Andrea ; Bolis, Marco ; Sallusto, Federica ; Stein, Jens V. ; Gonzalez, Santiago F.

In: Cell reports, 2019, vol. 26, no. 9, p. 2307-2315.e5

The role of natural killer (NK) cells in the immune response against vaccines is not fully understood. Here, we examine the function of infiltrated NK cells in the initiation of the inflammatory response triggered by inactivated influenza virus vaccine in the draining lymph node (LN). We observed that, following vaccination, NK cells are recruited to the interfollicular and medullary areas of...

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Leukocyte tracking database, a collection of immune cell tracks from intravital 2-photon microscopy videos

Pizzagalli, Diego Ulisse ; Farsakoglu, Yagmur ; Palomino-Segura, Miguel ; Palladino, Elisa ; Sintes, Jordi ; Marangoni, Francesco ; Mempel, Thorsten R. ; Koh, Wan Hon ; Murooka, Thomas T. ; Thelen, Flavian ; Stein, Jens V. ; Pozzi, Giuseppe ; Marcus Thelen ; Krause, Rolf ; Gonzalez, Santiago Fernandez

In: Scientific data, 2018, vol. 5, p. 180129

Recent advances in intravital video microscopy have allowed the visualization of leukocyte behavior in vivo, revealing unprecedented spatiotemporal dynamics of immune cell interaction. However, state-of-the-art software and methods for automatically measuring cell migration exhibit limitations in tracking the position of leukocytes over time. Challenges arise both from the complex migration...