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Sam K P Kung

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Ouyang M, Ao Z, Olukitibi T, Lawrynuik P, Shieh C, Kung S, et al.
Vaccines (Basel) . 2023 Sep; 11(9). PMID: 37766083
COVID-19 and influenza both cause enormous disease burdens, and vaccines are the primary measures for their control. Since these viral diseases are transmitted through the mucosal surface of the respiratory...
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Movassagh H, Shan L, Koussih L, Alamri A, Ariaee N, Kung S, et al.
PLoS One . 2021 Jun; 16(6):e0252868. PMID: 34185781
Regulation of dendritic cell functions is a complex process in which several mediators play diverse roles as a network in a context-dependent manner. The precise mechanisms underlying dendritic cell functions...
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Edechi C, Ikeogu N, Akaluka G, Terceiro L, Machado M, Salako E, et al.
Front Oncol . 2021 Mar; 11:639859. PMID: 33777801
The prolactin inducible protein (PIP) is expressed to varying degrees in more than 90% of breast cancers (BCs). Although high levels of PIP expression in BC has been shown to...
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Alamri A, Fisk D, Upreti D, Kung S
Int J Mol Sci . 2021 Jan; 22(3). PMID: 33498725
Dendritic cells (DC) connect the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system and carry out numerous roles that are significant in the context of viral disease. Their functions include...
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Ren X, Alamri A, Hipolito J, Lin F, Kung S
Methods Enzymol . 2020 Jan; 631:357-370. PMID: 31948557
Understanding how NK cells interact with tumor cells under specific microenvironment will be informative in development of NK-cell based immunotherapy. Applications of microfluidic devices in in vitro studies of NK-cell...
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Hipolito J, Peretz-Soroka H, Zhang M, Yang K, Karimi-Abdolrezaee S, Lin F, et al.
Micromachines (Basel) . 2019 Dec; 10(12). PMID: 31817408
The importance of the bi-directional natural killer-dendritic cell crosstalk in coordinating anti-tumour and anti-microbial responses in vivo has been well established. However, physical parameters associated with natural killer-dendritic cell interactions...
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Lee C, Aizawa K, Jiang J, Kung S, Jain R
Sci Adv . 2019 Dec; 5(8):eaav0318. PMID: 31803841
JLP belongs to the JIP family whose members serve as scaffolding proteins that link motor proteins and their cargo for intracellular transport. Although JLP is mainly cytoplasmic, it accumulates as...
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Onyilagha C, Kuriakose S, Ikeogu N, Kung S, Uzonna J
J Immunol . 2019 Jun; 203(4):964-971. PMID: 31243088
NK cells are key innate immune cells that play critical roles in host defense. Although NK cells have been shown to regulate immunity to some infectious diseases, their role in...
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Alamri A, Rahman R, Zhang M, Alamri A, Gounni A, Kung S
Front Immunol . 2018 Jun; 9:1005. PMID: 29867980
Natural killer (NK) cells and dendritic cells (DCs) are two innate immune cells that are critical in regulating innate and adaptive immunity. Cellular functions and migratory responses of NK or...
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Sheppard S, Schuster I, Andoniou C, Cocita C, Adejumo T, Kung S, et al.
Cell Rep . 2018 Mar; 22(13):3385-3392. PMID: 29590608
TRAIL is an apoptosis-inducing ligand constitutively expressed on liver-resident type 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILC1s) and a subset of natural killer (NK) cells, where it contributes to NK cell anti-tumor,...