ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018
Eosinophil Extracellular Traps and Inflammatory Pathologies-Untangling the Web!
Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers.
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- Eosinophil Extracellular Traps in Health and Disease: From Host Defense to Chronic Inflammation.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Mechanisms of Eosinophil Degranulation.Cells · 2026Review
- Eosinophil extracellular traps: heterogeneity of their stimuli, components, and functions.Trends in cell biology · 2026Review
- One size does not fit all: uncontrolled T2 inflammation on tezepelumab-a case series.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2026Article
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- The Major Role of Type 2 Inflammation in Asthma: From the Perspective of Immunological Mechanism.BioMed research international · 2026Review
- Predictive value of peripheral blood eosinophil levels and dynamics for efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer: a real-world study.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Transient lung eosinophilia during breakthrough influenza infection in vaccinated mice is associated with protective and balanced Type 1/2 immune responses.Journal of virology · 2025Article
- S100A9 regulates eosinophil extracellular trap and activates NF-κB signaling in endometrial cancer: a machine learning-based biomarker discovery.Cancer cell international · 2025Article
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- Targeting Neutrophil/Eosinophil Extracellular Traps by Aptamer-Functionalized Nanosheets to Overcome Recalcitrant Inflammatory Disorders.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Activation of the Complement/Lectin Pathway, Angiopoietin/Tie-2/VEGF-System, Cytokines and Chemokines in Different Angioedema Subtypes.European journal of immunology · 2025Article
- Spatial Eosinophil Phenotypes as Immunopathogenic Determinants in Inflammatory Diseases.Cells · 2025Review
- Novel RORγt inverse agonists limit IL-17-mediated liver inflammation and fibrosis.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2025Article
- Dietary Vitamin C Intake Affects Lung Function Through White Blood Cell.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Differential roles of eosinophils in cardiovascular disease.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2025Review
- Advances in pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and their cellular interactions in asthma pathogenesis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- New mechanistic insights into macrophage extracellular trap formation induced by a parasitic nematode,Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Eosinophils are an enigmatic white blood cell, whose immune functions are still under intense investigation. Classically, the eosinophil was considered to fulfill a protective role against parasitic infections, primarily large multicellular helminths. Although eosinophils are predominantly associated with parasite infections, evidence of a role for eosinophils in mediating immunity against bacterial, viral, and fungal infections has been recently reported. Among the mechanisms by which eosinophils are proposed to exert their protective effects is the production of DNA-based extracellular traps (ETs). Remarkably, DNA serves a role that extends beyond its biochemical function in encoding RNA and protein sequences; it is also a highly effective substance for entrapment of bacteria and other extracellular pathogens, and serves as valuable scaffolding for antimicrobial mediators such as granule proteins from immune cells. Extracellular trap formation from eosinophils appears to fulfill an important immune response against extracellular pathogens, although overproduction of traps is evident in pathologies. Here, we discuss the discovery and characterization of eosinophil extracellular traps (EETs) in response to a variety of stimuli, and suggest a role for these structures in the pathogenesis of disease as well as the establishment of autoimmunity in chronic, unresolved inflammation.
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