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Synthesis, Structure, and Anticancer Activity of Arene-Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Acylpyrazolones Bearing Aliphatic Groups in the Acyl Moiety

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

A series of neutral ruthenium(II) arene complexes [(arene)Ru(Q(R))Cl] (arene = p-cymene (cym) or hexamethylbenzene (hmb)) containing 4-acyl-5-pyrazolonate Q(R) ligands with different electronic and steric substituents (R = 4-cyclohexyl, 4-stearoyl, or 4-ad ...

American Chemical Society2016

Fibronectin EDA and CpG synergize to enhance antigen-specific Th1 and cytotoxic responses

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Alexandre de Titta, Ziad Julier, Eleonora Simeoni, Alizée Jéléna Grimm

Subunit vaccines, employing purified protein antigens rather than intact pathogens, require the addition of adjuvants for enhanced immunogenicity with a correct balance between strong activation of the immune system and low toxicity. Here we show that the ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Scleractinian coral morphogenesis : searching for stem cells and precursors of the skeletogenic calicodermis

Agathe Eliette Marie Lecointe

Metamorphosis is a crucial step in the life cycle of a scleractinian coral: The swimming coral larva, the planula, settles, and metamorphoses into a sessile calcifying primary polyp, which subsequently grows into an adult colony. Importantly, morphogenesis ...

EPFL2016

Dinuclear arene ruthenium thiolato complexes with fluorous side-chains

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

Four complexes of the general formula (eta(6)-p-MeC6H4Pri)(2)Ru-2(mu-SC2H4R)(3), R = (CF2)(7)CF3 (1), (CF2)(5)CF3 (2), (CF2)(3)CF3 (3) and (CH2)(5)CH3 (4) were synthesized and characterized. The molecular structures of complexes 1 and 3 were confirmed ...

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Perivascular Macrophages Limit Permeability

Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Esra Güç, Michele De Palma, Mario Leonardo Squadrito

Objective-Perivascular cells, including pericytes, macrophages, smooth muscle cells, and other specialized cell types, like podocytes, participate in various aspects of vascular function. However, aside from the well-established roles of smooth muscle cell ...

American Heart Association2016

Lymphotoxin-Dependent B Cell-FRC Crosstalk Promotes De Novo Follicle Formation and Antibody Production following Intestinal Helminth Infection

Luc Xavier Marie Lebon, Ilaria Mosconi, Nicola Harris, Lalit Kumar Dubey

Secondary lymphoid tissues provide specialized niches for the initiation of adaptive immune responses and undergo a remarkable expansion in response to inflammatory stimuli. Although the formation of B cell follicles was previously thought to be restricted ...

Elsevier2016

Type I Interferon Signaling Prevents IL-1 beta-Driven Lethal Systemic Hyperinflammation during Invasive Bacterial Infection of Soft Tissue

Alessandra Piersigilli

Type I interferons (IFN-Is) are fundamental for antiviral immunity, but their role in bacterial infections is contradictory and incompletely described. Streptococcus pyogenes activates IFN-I production in innate immune cells, and IFN-I receptor 1 (Ifnar1)- ...

Cell Press2016

Digital microfluidics for time-resolved cytotoxicity studies on single non-adherent yeast cells

Martinus Gijs, Matteo Cornaglia

Single cell analysis (SCA) has gained increased popularity for elucidating cellular heterogeneity at genomic, proteomic and cellular levels. Flow cytometry is considered as one of the most widely used techniques to characterize single cell responses; howev ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

6-Thioguanine-loaded polymeric micelles deplete myeloid-derived suppressor cells and enhance the efficacy of T cell immunotherapy in tumor-bearing mice

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Iraklis Kourtis, Laura Jeanbart

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a heterogeneous population of immature myeloid cells that suppress effector T cell responses and can reduce the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. We previously showed that ultra-small polymer nanoparticles eff ...

Springer2015

Bioengineering approaches to emulate the stem cell niche

Sylke Höhnel

Stem cell therapies hold tremendous potential for tissue and organ regeneration. Yet, there remains significant need for better ex vivo culture and manipulation methods. On the one hand, many tissue-specific stem cells cannot be propagated without causing ...

EPFL2015

Conditional Deletion of Ferritin H in Mice Reduces B and T Lymphocyte Populations

Liviu Vanoaica, Maike Jaworski

The immune system and iron availability are intimately linked as appropriate iron supply is needed for cell proliferation, while excess iron, as observed in hemochromatosis, may reduce subsets of lymphocytes. We have tested the effects of a ferritin H gene ...

Public Library of Science2014

Targeting and Modulating Tumor-Associated Sites with Novel Nanoparticle-Based Immunotherapies

Laura Jeanbart

Cancer is a global disease and a leading cause of death worldwide. While surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy comprise the classical tools to eradicate tumors, they do not cure cancer, cannot prevent metastases, lead to side effects, and most importantly ...

EPFL2013