ReviewDiscovery immunology2024
Deciphering the relationship between temperature and immunity.
Review in Discovery immunology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Extreme temperature events and hospitalizations for 59 autoimmune diseases in Korea: A nationwide outcome-wide, time-stratified, case-crossover study.Environmental research · 2026Article
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- Pathway thermodynamic analysis postulates change in glutamate metabolism as a key factor in modulating immune responses.Immunometabolism (Cobham, Surrey) · 2026Article
- Effects of Intravenous Lidocaine on Rheumatoid Arthritis in Preclinical Rat Model and Clinical Trial.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- The cycle of infectious fever - how it affects bacterial infections.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Review
- Fever Inspiration: Precision Engineering for Safe and Systemic Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Biointerface interaction regulation based on organic semiconducting polymers.Fundamental research · 2026Review
- Fever in Sepsis Revisited: Is a Little Heat What We Need?Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Review
- The blood transcriptome of musk deer under heat stress condition reveals the regulatory mechanism of genes to maintain homeostasis metabolism.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Effects of Climate Change on the Immune System: A Narrative Review.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Steroid hormone levels vary with sex, aging, lifestyle, and genetics.Science advances · 2025Article
- Metabolic and stress response adaptations in T cells to fever and physiological heat.Trends in immunology · 2025Review
- Context matters: Immunology meets ecology.Discovery immunology · 2025Article
- Extreme temperatures modulate gene expression in the airway epithelium of the lungs in mice and asthma patients.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- What's cooking? The effect of temperature on the immune response.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Association Between Diurnal Temperature Range and Risk of Cardiomyopathy-Induced Hospitalisation in Henan, China: A Time-Series Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- The Impact of Climate Change on Immunity and Gut Microbiota in the Development of Disease.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- How (Eco)immunology can augment global EcoHealth programmes: opportunities, needs, and challenges.Discovery immunology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Fever is a hallmark symptom of disease across the animal kingdom. Yet, despite the evidence linking temperature fluctuation and immune response, much remains to be discovered about the molecular mechanisms governing these interactions. In patients with rheumatoid arthritis, for instance, it is clinically accepted that joint temperature can predict disease progression. But it was only recently demonstrated that the mitochondria of stimulated T cells can rise to an extreme 50°C, potentially indicating a cellular source of these localized 'fevers'. A challenge to dissecting these mechanisms is a bidirectional interplay between temperature and immunity. Heat shock response is found in virtually all organisms, activating protective pathways when cells are exposed to elevated temperatures. However, the temperature threshold that activates these pathways can vary within the same organism, with human immune cells, in particular, demonstrating differential sensitivity to heat. Such inter-cellular variation may be clinically relevant given the small but significant temperature differences seen between tissues, ages, and sexes. Greater understanding of how such small temperature perturbations mediate immune responses may provide new explanations for persistent questions in disease such as sex disparity in disease prevalence. Notably, the prevalence and severity of many maladies are rising with climate change, suggesting temperature fluctuations can interact with disease on multiple levels. As global temperatures are rising, and our body temperatures are falling, questions regarding temperature-immune interactions are increasingly critical. Here, we review this aspect of environmental interplay to better understand temperature's role in immune variation and subsequent risk of disease.
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