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ReviewCurrent opinion in immunology2025

T follicular helper cell development during malaria.

Regina M Antonetti, Manan Shah, Noah S Butler

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Review in Current opinion in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Regina M AntonettiInterdisciplinary Immunology Graduate Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
Manan ShahInterdisciplinary Immunology Graduate Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
Noah S ButlerInterdisciplinary Immunology Graduate Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. Electronic address: noah-butler@uiowa.edu.

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN IMMUNOLOGYT32AI007485 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Kevin L Legge · 1995 to 2026
$5.4M
Regulation of Plasmodium-specific CD4+ T CellsR01AI127481 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI Noah Sullivan Butler · 2016 to 2026
$3.8M
Development and function of CD4+ memory T cells during malariaR01AI125446 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI Noah Sullivan Butler · 2016 to 2026
$3.7M
Mechanisms and consequences of extrafollicular B cell activation during malariaR01AI167058 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI BUTLER, NOAH SULLIVAN · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI125446NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127481NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI167058NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007485
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malaria is a life-threatening disease affecting more than 200 million people worldwide. CD4 T helper 1 (Th1) and T follicular helper (Tfh) cells are critical for stimulating phagocyte activation and humoral immunity, yet sterilizing, protective immune memory responses rarely develop. Malaria induces unique physiologic changes in the infected host that may give rise to nonconventional Tfh subsets and inefficient memory responses. While our understanding of the differentiation of conventional Tfh cells induced by Plasmodium infection is growing, how and whether malaria-associated environmental cues induce Tfh populations exhibiting mixed phenotype and function are not well defined. Moreover, little is known about the development and function of Tfh memory cells during malaria. In this review, we discuss the phenotype and known functions of Tfh subsets and memory development induced during malaria and highlight key priority knowledge gaps that remain to be addressed.

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MalariaPlasmodiumT Follicular Helper CellsAnimalsCell DifferentiationHumansImmunologic Memory

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PMID41135202
PMCPMC12616646

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