Cytokines, macrophage lipid metabolism and foam cells: implications for cardiovascular disease therapy

JE McLaren, DR Michael, TG Ashlin, DP Ramji - Progress in lipid research, 2011 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease is the biggest killer globally and the principal contributing factor to
the pathology is atherosclerosis; a chronic, inflammatory disorder characterized by lipid and …

Interferon gamma: a master regulator of atherosclerosis

JE McLaren, DP Ramji - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that is characterized by the development
of fibrotic plaques in the arterial wall. The disease exhibits a complex aetiology and its …

[HTML][HTML] T cell immunity to bacterial pathogens: mechanisms of immune control and bacterial evasion

FR Shepherd, JE McLaren - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The human body frequently encounters harmful bacterial pathogens and employs immune
defense mechanisms designed to counteract such pathogenic assault. In the adaptive …

VDJdb: a curated database of T-cell receptor sequences with known antigen specificity

…, M Attaf, C Rius, K Ladell, JE McLaren… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The ability to decode antigen specificities encapsulated in the sequences of rearranged T-cell
receptor (TCR) genes is critical for our understanding of the adaptive immune system and …

[HTML][HTML] VDJdb in the pandemic era: a compendium of T cell receptors specific for SARS-CoV-2

…, AA Minervina, MV Pogorelyy, K Ladell, JE McLaren… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In 2016, we started a community effort to gather and curate publicly available sequence
data acquired from T cell receptor (TCRs) with defined antigen specificities, as well as …

IL-33 reduces macrophage foam cell formation

JE McLaren, DR Michael, RC Salter… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.aai.org
The development of atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the
formation of arterial fibrotic plaques, has been shown to be reduced by IL-33 in vivo. However, …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal selection in the human Vδ1 T cell repertoire indicates γδ TCR-dependent adaptive immune surveillance

…, K Ladell, SA Kasatskaya, JE McLaren… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
γδ T cells are considered to be innate-like lymphocytes that respond rapidly to stress without
clonal selection and differentiation. Here we use next-generation sequencing to probe how …

MR1-restricted MAIT cells display ligand discrimination and pathogen selectivity through distinct T cell receptor usage

MC Gold, JE McLaren, JA Reistetter… - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - rupress.org
… MC Gold and JE McLaren contributed equally to this paper. … McLaren, Joseph A. Reistetter,
Sue Smyk-Pearson, Kristin Ladell… MC Gold and JE McLaren contributed equally to this paper. …

Islet-reactive CD8+ T cell frequencies in the pancreas, but not in blood, distinguish type 1 diabetic patients from healthy donors

…, A Eugster, T Østerbye, A Maugein, JE McLaren… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The human leukocyte antigen–A2 (HLA-A2)–restricted zinc transporter 8 186–194 (ZnT8
186–194 ) and other islet epitopes elicit interferon-γ secretion by CD8 + T cells preferentially in …

[PDF][PDF] A molecular basis for the control of preimmune escape variants by HIV-specific CD8+ T cells

…, M Hashimoto, MC Iglesias, PG Wilmann, JE McLaren… - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
The capacity of the immune system to adapt to rapidly evolving viruses is a primary feature
of effective immunity, yet its molecular basis is unclear. Here, we investigated protective HIV-1…