Aim: The activation of NLRP3 inflammasome leads to the stimulation of cytokines and is significantly involved in the pathogenesis and progression of autoimmune diseases. The purpose of this study is to examine the associations of NLRP3 gene polymorph...
Background: Non-neutropenic pulmonary aspergillosis is one of the most common and serious fungal infections. Previous studies have shown that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of pattern recognition receptors genes are associated with susceptibi...
The purpose of this case–control study was to examine possible links between NLRP3 gene polymorphisms and the risk of developing posttraumatic osteomyelitis (PTOM) in the Chinese population. A total of 306 patients with PTOM and 368 normal cont...
The Nod-like receptor pyrin containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome has been reported to be a convergent point linking the peripheral immune response induced by psychological stress and neuroinflammatory processes in the brain. We aimed to identify differe...
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a debilitating inflammatory skin disorder, and its pathogenesis remains incompletely understood. This study aimed to investigate the role of the P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) and NLRP3 inflammasome in HS pathogenesis. RNA seq...
Background: Inflammasomes have been shown to play a pivotal role in periodontal disease pathogenesis. However, their role in periodontitis subjects with coronary heart disease remains unclear. This study aimed to obtain the expression of NLRP3 (rs358...
Age and age-dependent inflammation are two main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Aging can also affect clock gene-related impairments such as chronodisruption and has been linked to a decline in melatonin synthesis and aggravation of the NF-...
Neuroinflammatory mechanisms with glial cell activation have been implicated in the pathogenic process of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome is an essential component of the neuroinflammatory response. A role for NLRP3 act...
The aim of this study was to define the relationship between several environmental, laboratory, and genetic factors, i.e., TLR2 and NLRP3 polymorphisms, and Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in children, by comparing three different groups of...
Background/Objectives: Biallelic mutations of NLRP7, a maternal-effect gene encoding a key component of the subcortical maternal complex, are the major monogenic cause of recurrent hydatidiform mole (RHM) and confer a substantial lifetime risk of ges...
Mono-allelic dominant mutations in the desmoplakin gene (DSP) have been linked to known cardiac disorders, such as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy. During the course of DSP cardiomyopathy, episodes of acute...
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of onion and apple functional ingredients in homozygous (fa/fa) obese Zucker rats. Rodents were fed three diets: standard diet [obese control (OC) group], standard diet containing 10% onion [...
The DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 8 (Dgcr8) knockout strategy has been widely used to study the function of canonical microRNAs (miRNAs) in vitro and in vivo. However, primary miRNA (pri-miRNA) transcripts are accumulated in Dgcr8 knockout c...
Ethanol (EtOH)-induced gastric ulcer (GU) is a common model used to investigate mechanisms of mucosal injury and repair. Omeprazole (OMP) is a conventional anti-ulcer drug that effectively suppresses gastric acid secretion, but its efficacy may be en...
Background/Objectives: Autophagy plays a role in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) pathogenesis. Nevertheless, the specific genetic determinants underpinning this process remain poorly characterized. Summary data-based Mendelian randomization (SMR)...
Background: Safe treatment options for ulcerative colitis, a chronic relapsing inflammatory bowel disease, remain limited, and the bioactive fraction of Rosa davurica Pall. root associated with its protective activity against Ulcerative colitis (UC)...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory disorder in which genetic and environmental factors contribute to disease onset. Evidence implicates the inflammasome pathway in MS pathophysiology. However, the interaction between inflammasome-related...
Female infertility and subfertility have been increasing in prevalence worldwide. One contributing factor is ovarian function, which is highly age-dependent. Korean red ginseng is widely used as an herbal medicine and has many beneficial properties....
Gut modulation by multi-strain probiotics (MSPs) is considered an effective strategy for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The combination of nanomaterial-based MSPs can improve their viability and resistance and can allow their targeted rel...
Background/Objectives: Mutations in NACHT, LRR and PYD domain-containing protein 2 (NLRP2) and NLRP7 genes, members of the NOD-like receptor (NLR) family of innate immune sensors, result in recurrent miscarriages and reproductive wastage in women. Th...
Macrophage polarization, regulated appropriately, may play important roles in successful pregnancy. In the face of the vital roles of decidua macrophages in pregnancy, it is insufficient to recognize the trigger of macrophage differentiation and pola...
The NLRP3, one of the most heavily studied inflammasome-related proteins in mammals, remains inadequately characterized in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), despite the significant commercial importance of this salmonid. The NLRP3 inflammasome is compos...
Nod-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) is a multi-protein complex belonging to the innate immune system, whose activation by danger stimuli promotes inflammatory cell death. Evidence supports the crucial role of NLRP3 inflammasome activation in the tran...
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder characterized by chronic low-grade inflammation. The NLRP3 inflammasome has been implicated in various inflammatory conditions, but its role in PCOS remains unclear. This study aimed to...
The widespread and increasing use of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) increases the risk of human exposure, generating concern that ENM may provoke adverse health effects. In this respect, their physicochemical characteristics are critical. The immune...
Since NLRP3 inflammasome plays a pivotal role in several neurodegenerative disorders, we hypothesized that levels of inflammasome components could help in diagnosis or prognosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Gene and protein expression was...
Previous studies showed that the NLR family pyrin domain-containing 5 (NLRP5) and NLRP9 genes are two important reproductive genes; however, their effects on sheep litter size are unknown. Therefore, in this study, we first genotyped seven sheep bree...
The inflammatory gene NLRP7 is the major gene responsible for recurrent complete hydatidiform moles (CHM), an abnormal pregnancy that can develop into gestational choriocarcinoma (CC). However, the role of NLRP7 in the development and immune toleranc...
The NLRP3 inflammasome is an important mediator of the host inflammatory response, and downregulation of inflammation is important in cancer treatment. Here, we investigated four different pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines, AsPC-1, B...
As an important member of non-coding RNAs, lncRNAs play a significant role in various biological processes, including regulating the immune response after bacterial infection. In this study, we identified a novel lncRNA (NLRP14-OT) in turbot (Scophth...
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a systemic disease caused by mutations in either the TSC1 (encoding hamartin) or TSC2 (encoding tuberin) gene, with mutations in the TSC2 gene potentially leading to more severe clinical symptoms. Neurological symp...
Preeclampsia (PE) is a human pregnancy-specific syndrome with abnormal activation of cells from the innate immune system. The present study evaluated whether silibinin (SB) treatment of monocytes from preeclamptic women could modulate NLRP1 and NLRP3...
Background and Objectives: The results of the studies show that the intensity and volume of aerobic exercise activity produce different responses of the immune system. This study aims to show how the signaling pathway of the inflammatory NLRP3 comple...
Gestational diseases such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes cause inflammasome activation and pyroptosis in the placenta and changes in placental kisspeptin levels. Although maternal hypothyroidism also reduces the kisspeptin/Kiss1R system at...
Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes expressed by immune cells in response to distinct stimuli that trigger inflammatory responses and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Evidence suggests a different role of inflammasome NLRP3 in IBD. NLR...
The immune system plays a critical role in bone homeostasis and, consequently, in the pathophysiology of postmenopausal osteoporosis (OP) since estrogen deficiency induces the inflammasome and increases production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such...
Idiopathic recurrent pericarditis (IRP) can be the hallmark of an autoinflammatory syndrome with recurrent attacks of chest pain and symptom-free intervals following an acute episode. The recurrence rate may be 35% in the pediatric population, freque...
Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that trigger processes through caspase-1 activation, leading to the maturation of proinflammatory cytokines, such as IL-1β and IL-18. The gene encoding the inflammasome stimulatory protein NLRP3 is conser...
IBV is a key pathogenic agent in poultry, causing significant respiratory and renal diseases. This study investigated NLRP3 inflammasome and pyroptosis involvement in IBV-infected chicken macrophage HD11 cells. IBV infection triggered a time-dependen...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic disease characterized by a progressive decline in lung function due to airflow limitation, mainly related to IL-1β-induced inflammation. We have hypothesized that single nucleotide polymo...
Inflammasomes are protein complexes involved in the regulation of different biological conditions. Over the past few years, the role of NLRP3 in different tumor types has gained interest. In breast cancer (BC), NLRP3 has been associated with multiple...
The cytosolic immune receptor NLRP3 (nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeat (LRR), and pyrin domain (PYD)-containing protein 3) oligomerizes into the core of a supramolecular complex termed inflammasome in response to microbes and danger sign...
Acute myocardial necrosis activates the immune response and inflammatory processes. Although the initial response is helpful in restoring tissue injury, dysregulated and exacerbated inflammation contributes to the progression of cardiac remodeling. I...
Background: Gestational choriocarcinoma (GC) is a highly malignant trophoblastic tumor that often develops from a complete hydatidiform mole (HM). NLRP7 is the major gene responsible for recurrent HM and is involved in the innate immune response, inf...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which promotes serious health problems, is related to the increase in the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor family, pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome and pyroptosis by a hig...
Chronic low-grade inflammation, through the specific activation of the NACHT leucine-rich repeat- and PYD-containing (NLRP)3 inflammasome-interleukin (IL)-1β pathway, is an important contributor to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascul...
The NLRP3 inflammasome, estrogen and antimicrobial peptides have all been found to have a vital role in the protection of the bladder urothelium. However, the interdependence between these protective factors during a bladder infection is currently un...
Background: Dysregulation of the innate immune system is a key feature of autoinflammatory disorders, characterized by recurrent or chronic inflammation in the absence of high-titer autoantibodies and antigen-specific T cells. Among regulators of inn...
Colorectal cancer represents one of the most serious complications of inflammatory bowel disease. The NLRP3 inflammasome plays a pivotal role in the onset and progression of inflammatory bowel disease and is also implicated in colorectal cancer. This...
Background: Cancer patients are prescribed antibiotics, such as macrolides and lactamides, for infection treatment. However, the effect of these antibiotics on NLRP3 activation remains largely unknown. Method: Lung cancer (A549) and prostate cancer (...
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