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Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (sTREM-1) is a new biomarker that can be used for the diagnosis and monitoring of urinary system infections. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum sTREM-1 in patients w...

Platelets play crucial roles in the development and progression of coronary artery disease (CAD). The triggering receptor expressed in myeloid cells-like transcript-1 (TLT-1) is stored in platelet α granules, and activated platelets release a s...

Stroke is a neurological emergency, where the mechanism of the blood supply to the brain is impaired, resulting in brain cell ischemia and death. Neuroinflammation is a key component in the ischemic cascade that results in cell damage and death after...

Inflammatory cells are major players in the onset of cancer. The degree of inflammation and type of inflammatory cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) are responsible for tilting the balance between tumor progression and regression. Cancer-relate...

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (TREM-1), a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, plays a crucial role in amplifying inflammatory responses, thereby contributing to the pathogenesis and progression of various inflammatory disease...

Background: Lipocalin-2 (LCN2) is an acute-phase protein that has been linked to insulin resistance, diabetes, and neuroinflammatory diseases. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2 (TREM2) has been also implicated in microglia-mediated neu...

Triggering Receptor Expressed in Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) is a membrane receptor in myeloid cells that mediates cellular phagocytosis and inflammation. TREM2 and its soluble extracellular domain are clearly implicated in neuroinflammation and neurodeg...

Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) is a receptor found in microglia within the central nervous system (CNS) as well as in several other cell types throughout the body. TREM2 has been highlighted as a “double-edged sword&rd...

The triggering receptors expressed on myeloid cells (TREMs) are a family of activating immune receptors that regulate the inflammatory response. TREM-1, which is expressed on monocytes and/or macrophages and neutrophils, functions as an inflammation...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), accounting for more than 90% of cases of primary liver cancer, is the third most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Chronic inflammation precedes the development of cirrhosis and HCC. TREM (triggering rece...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are as menacing as ever and still continue to kill adults worldwide, notwithstanding tremendous efforts to decrease their consequent mortality and morbidity. Lately, a growing body of research indicated that inflammatio...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. The extracellular deposits of Amyloid beta (Aβ) in the brain—called amyloid plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles—intracellular tau aggregates, are morphologic...

Neuroinflammation driven by microglial activation is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a key regulator of microglial inflammation, yet strategies to modulate its expression remai...

Background: Astrocytes and microglia play an important role in the inflammatory process of multiple sclerosis (MS). We investigated the associations between the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of glial fibrillary acid protein (GFAP) and soluble trig...

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebrovascular disease directly implicated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis through amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition, which may cause the development and progression of dementia. Despite extens...

Background: The aim of this study is to investigate the diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum levels of the soluble form of triggering receptor-1 expressed on myeloid cells (sTREM-1) in neonatal meningitis. Methods: Serum sTREM-1 le...

Background: Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by Leishmania parasites. A Th1 immune response is necessary in the acute phase to control the pathogen. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM)-1 is a potent amplifier of inf...

Background: The prognostic value of quick sepsis-related organ failure assessment (qSOFA) outside intensive care units has been criticized. Therefore, we aimed to improve its ability in predicting 30-day all-cause mortality, and in ruling out the cas...

The story of high mobility group protein B1 (HMGB1) in cancer is complicated and the function of HMGB1 in different cancers is uncertain. This review aims to retrieve literature regarding HMGB1 from English electronic resources, analyze and summarize...

Background: The host response in culture-negative sepsis (CnS) has been marginally explored upon emergency department (ED) admission. It would be of paramount importance to create a clinical prediction rule to support the emergency department physici...

In 2022, stroke emerged as the most significant cerebrovascular disorder globally, causing 6.55 million deaths. Microglia, crucial for CNS preservation, can exacerbate brain damage in ischemic stroke by triggering neuroinflammation. This process is m...

The tumor microenvironment of glioblastoma IDH-wildtype is highly immune suppressive and is characterized by a strong component of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). To interfere with the immune suppressive functions of MDSCs, a comprehensive...

Colony-stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF-1R)-related leukoencephalopathy (CRL) is a neurodegenerative disease that triggers early demyelination, leading to an adult-onset dementia. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2 (TREM2) is a microg...

TREM1 and TREM2 are members of the triggering receptors expressed on myeloid cells (TREM) family. Both TREM1 and TREM2 are immunoglobulin superfamily receptors. Their main function is to identify foreign antigens and toxic substances, thereby adjusti...

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2 (TREM2) is a key myeloid immune checkpoint for macrophage plasticity. However, its functional landscape in urology is still incomplete. This review addresses this gap by providing the first systematic...

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), represent significant global health challenges, affecting millions and straining healthcare systems. These...

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has significantly affected global health, with severe inflammatory responses leading to tissue damage and persistent symptoms. Macrophage-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are involved in the modulation...

Chronic neuroinflammation and impaired protein clearance are hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). Central to these processes are microglia, the brain’...

We report an effective surface immobilization protocol for capture of Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2), a receptor whose elevated concentration in cerebrospinal fluid has recently been associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD)....

The pro-inflammatory immune response driven by microglia is a key contributor to the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. Though the research of microglia spans over a century, the last two decades have increased our understanding expo...

Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), a member of the IL-6 cytokine family, is highly expressed throughout the body in multiple tissues and cell types. LIF is primarily known to induce the differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells, but recent studies sho...

Rotavirus (RV) is one of the main etiologic agents associated with diarrheal diseases (DDs), being responsible for approximately 200 thousand deaths annually. Currently, there are still many aspects regarding the virus biology, cell cycle, and pathop...

Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase 1 (WARS1) is an endogenous ligand of mammalian Toll-like receptors (TLR) 2 and TLR4. Microarray data, using mRNA from WARS1-treated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), had indicated WARS1 to mainly activate...

Here, we investigate changes in inflammation-related gene-expression in peripheral mononuclear blood cells (PBMC) by strength training. A total of 14 women aged ≥65 years were randomized into 3 months of either 3×/week intensive strength tra...

Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 1 (TREM-1) amplifies the immune response, operating synergistically with Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) in the production of inflammatory mediators. TREM-1 signaling depends on the adapter protein DAP12, whi...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) produce enhanced immunoglobulin A (IgA) against the microbiota compared to healthy individuals, which has been correlated with disease severity. Since IgA complexes can potently activate myeloid cells vi...

Primary microglial leukodystrophy or leukoencephalopathy are disorders in which a genetic defect linked to microglia causes cerebral white matter damage. Pigmented orthochromatic leukodystrophy, adult-onset orthochromatic leukodystrophy associated wi...

Sympathetic nerves innervate bone marrow and various immune organs, where norepinephrine—the primary sympathetic neurotransmitter—directly interacts with immune cells that express adrenergic receptors. This article reviewed the key molecu...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous hematological malignancy. To treat the disease successfully, new therapeutic strategies are urgently needed. One of these strategies can be the use of neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R) antagonists (e.g., ap...

Depending on the species, microglial cells represent 5–20% of glial cells in the adult brain. As the innate immune effector of the brain, microglia are involved in several functions: regulation of inflammation, synaptic connectivity, programmed cell...

TREM2 (triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells) is involved in the development of malignancies. However, the function of TREM2 in colorectal cancer has not been clearly elucidated. Here, we investigated TREM2 function for the first time in col...

During innate immune responses, myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88) functions as a critical signaling adaptor protein integrating stimuli from toll-like receptors (TLR) and the interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R) family and translates them...

Trefoil factor family peptides (TFF1, TFF2, TFF3), together with mucins, are typical exocrine products of mucous epithelia. Here, they act as a gastric tumor suppressor (TFF1) or they play different roles in mucosal innate immune defense (TFF2, TFF3)...

In the past 25 years, a considerable number of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAb) against a variety of tumor-associated antigens (TAA) have become available for the targeted treatment of hematologic and solid cancers. Such antibodies opsonize ca...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the airway, and it is characterized by a wheezing breathing sound, variable airflow obstruction and the presence of inflammatory cells in the submucosa of the bronchi. Viral infection, pollutants and...

Background: Bone marrow (BM)-derived myeloid–lymphatic endothelial cell progenitors (M-LECPs) promote formation of tumor lymphatics that are responsible for metastasis to lymph nodes. The regenerative capacity of BM progenitors to other lineage...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a lethal neurodegenerative disorder primarily affecting the aged population. The etiopathogenesis of AD, especially that of the sporadic type, remains elusive. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2),...

Galectin-3 (Gal-3) is an evolutionarily conserved and multifunctional protein that drives inflammation in disease. Gal-3’s role in the central nervous system has been less studied than in the immune system. However, recent studies show it exacerbates...

Inflammatory processes preceding clinical manifestation of brain diseases are moving increasingly into the focus of positron emission tomographic (PET) investigations. A key role in inflammation and as a target of PET imaging efforts is attributed to...

Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) progresses owing to damage and depletion of nucleus pulposus (NP) cells. Cytoprotection mitigates oxidative stress, nutrient deprivation, and mechanical stress, which lead to cell damage and necrosis. We aimed t...