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[Journal of Clinical Investigation] Using androgen receptor (AR) deficient and Foxp3 fate-mapping mice, researchers determined that AR signaling increased Treg suppression during Alternaria extract challenge by stabilizing Foxp3+ Tregs and limiting the number of ST2+ ex-Tregs and IL-13+ Th2 and ex-Tregs.

[Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology] The authors outline the evidence in support of neutrophils as drivers of hepatocellular carcinoma and detail their mechanistic roles in development, progression and metastasis, highlighting the reasons that neutrophils are well worth investigating despite the challenges associated with studying them.

[PLoS Pathogens] Investigators assessed the influence of COVID-19 plasma hypercytokinemia on the functional responses of myeloid immune cells upon bacterial challenges from acute-phase COVID-19 patients and their corresponding recovery (rec)-phase.

[Experimental and Molecular Medicine] Investigators found that CU06-1004, as a vascular leakage blocker, could improve cardiac function by inhibiting cardiac microvascular endothelial cells' hyperpermeability and subsequently reducing the neutrophil’s plugging and infiltration in infarcted hearts.

[American Journal of Hematology] Researchers evaluated 7861 patients with hematologic malignancies who received either a cord blood transplantr without anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) or an HLA 1-3 antigen–mismatched related donor peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation using low-dose ATG.

[Cell] Researchers identified highly activated, CD16+ T cells with increased cytotoxic functions in severe COVID-19.