An interferon‐γ‐related cytokine storm in SARS patients

KJ Huang, IJ Su, M Theron, YC Wu… - Journal of medical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Fourteen cytokines or chemokines were analyzed on 88 RT‐PCR‐confirmed severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients. IFN‐γ, IL‐18, TGF‐β, IL‐6, IP‐10, MCP‐1, MIG, and IL‐…

Basigin is a receptor essential for erythrocyte invasion by Plasmodium falciparum

…, LY Bustamante, SJ Bartholdson, AK Bei, M Theron… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Erythrocyte invasion by Plasmodium falciparum is central to the pathogenesis of malaria.
Invasion requires a series of extracellular recognition events between erythrocyte receptors …

Indels, structural variation, and recombination drive genomic diversity in Plasmodium falciparum

…, P Vauterin, R Pearson, S Campino, M Theron… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has a great capacity for evolutionary adaptation
to evade host immunity and develop drug resistance. Current understanding of parasite …

Neutralization of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites by antibodies against PfRH5

…, DK Awuah, DGW Alanine, M Theron… - The Journal of …, 2014 - journals.aai.org
There is intense interest in induction and characterization of strain-transcending neutralizing
Ab against antigenically variable human pathogens. We have recently identified the human …

[HTML][HTML] Hemozoin (malarial pigment) directly promotes apoptosis of erythroid precursors

AA Lamikanra, M Theron, TWA Kooij, DJ Roberts - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Severe malarial anemia is the most common syndrome of severe malaria in endemic areas.
The pathophysiology of chronic malaria is characterised by a striking degree of abnormal …

[HTML][HTML] Acute myeloid leukemia patients' clinical response to idasanutlin (RG7388) is associated with pre-treatment MDM2 protein expression in leukemic blasts

…, S Assouline, M Hashemyan, M Theron… - …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CD34+/CD45dim/CD117+ 0.00018 0.74 [0.63, 0.86] 0.00054 0.74 [0.61, 0.87] first part of
study NP28679. Eighty-nine patients with AML were treated with idasanutlin-based therapy, …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitation of malaria parasite-erythrocyte cell-cell interactions using optical tweezers

AJ Crick, M Theron, T Tiffert, VL Lew, P Cicuta… - Biophysical journal, 2014 - cell.com
Erythrocyte invasion by Plasmodium falciparum merozoites is an essential step for parasite
survival and hence the pathogenesis of malaria. Invasion has been studied intensively, but …

A probable role for IFN-γ in the development of a lung immunopathology in SARS

M Theron, KJ Huang, YW Chen, CC Liu, HY Lei - Cytokine, 2005 - Elsevier
Recent work carried out in our laboratory showed the existence of a cytokine storm in SARS
patients, dominated by Th1-type mediators. We thus hypothesized that IFN-γ may play a …

An adaptable two‐color flow cytometric assay to quantitate the invasion of erythrocytes by Plasmodium falciparum parasites

M Theron, RL Hesketh, S Subramanian… - Cytometry Part …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmodium falciparum genotyping has recently undergone a revolution, and genome‐wide
genotype datasets are now being collected for large numbers of parasite isolates. By …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic analysis of the molecular neuropathology of tuberous sclerosis using a human stem cell model

…, N Ruderisch, V Costa, FC Weber, M Theron… - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a genetic disease characterized by
benign tumor growths in multiple organs and neurological symptoms induced by mTOR …