Umbilical Cord Blood Natural Killer Cells, Their Characteristics, and Potential Clinical Applications.

abstract：:Functional impairment of T-cells and a concomitant augmented expression of programmed death-1 (PD-1) have been observed in visceral leishmaniasis patients, as well as in experimental models for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis. The PD-1/PD-1-ligand (PD-1/PD-L) interaction negatively regulates T-cell effector funct...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Filippis C,Arens K,Noubissi Nzeteu GA,Reichmann G,Waibler Z,Crauwels P,van Zandbergen G

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) remains a significant global health issue causing annual epidemics, pandemics, and sporadic human infections with highly pathogenic avian or swine influenza viruses. Current inactivated and live vaccines are the mainstay of the public health response to influenza, although vaccine efficacy is l...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sridhar S

更新日期：2016-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of the CARD11/CARMA1-BCL10-MALT1 (CBM) signaling complex upon T or B cell antigen receptor (TCR or BCR) engagement drives lymphocyte activation. Recruitment of pre-assembled BCL10-MALT1 complexes to CARD11 fosters activation of the MALT1 protease and canonical NF-κB signaling. Structural data and in vitro ass...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Seeholzer T,Kurz S,Schlauderer F,Woods S,Gehring T,Widmann S,Lammens K,Krappmann D

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA vaccines have great potential to control infectious disease, particularly those caused by intracellular organisms. They are inexpensive to produce and can be quickly modified to combat emerging infectious threats, but often fail to generate a strong immunologic response limiting enthusiasm for their use in humans ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Solodushko V,Bitko V,Barrington R,Fouty B

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in the Autoimmune Regulator (AIRE) gene cause a rare inherited form of autoimmune disease, autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy, also known as autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1. The patients suffer from multiple endocrine deficiencies, the most common manifes...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Arstila TP,Jarva H

更新日期：2013-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectins, a family of animal lectins, play central roles in immune system regulation, shaping both innate and adaptive responses in physiological and pathological processes. These include rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic multifactorial autoimmune disease characterized by inflammatory responses that affects both a...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mendez-Huergo SP,Hockl PF,Stupirski JC,Maller SM,Morosi LG,Pinto NA,Berón AM,Musuruana JL,Nasswetter GG,Cavallasca JA,Rabinovich GA

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological disorders caused by neuroviral infections are an obvious pathogenic manifestation. However, non-neurotropic viruses or peripheral viral infections pose a considerable challenge as their neuropathological manifestations do not emerge because of primary infection. Their secondary or bystander pathologies de...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mishra R,Banerjea AC

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by inflammation of the synovial lining (synovitis). The inflammation in the RA joint is associated with and driven by immune cell infiltration, synovial hyperproliferation, and excessive production of proinflammatory mediators, such as tumor nec...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Roberts CA,Dickinson AK,Taams LS

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acids (AAs) are necessary nutrients which act not only as building blocks in protein synthesis but also in crucial anabolic cellular signaling pathways. It has been demonstrated that SLC7A5 is a critical transporter that mediates uptake of several essential amino acids in highly proliferative tumors and activate...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yoon BR,Oh YJ,Kang SW,Lee EB,Lee WW

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune bullous dermatoses (AIBD) are characterized by circulating autoantibodies that are either directed against epidermal antigens or deposited as immune complexes in the basement membrane zone (BMZ). The complement system (CS) can be activated by autoantibodies, thereby triggering activation of specific complem...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Edwards G,Diercks GFH,Seelen MAJ,Horvath B,van Doorn MBA,Damman J

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephritic factors comprise a heterogeneous group of autoantibodies against neoepitopes generated in the C3 and C5 convertases of the complement system, causing its dysregulation. Classification of these autoantibodies can be clustered according to their stabilization of different convertases either from the classical ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Corvillo F,Okrój M,Nozal P,Melgosa M,Sánchez-Corral P,López-Trascasa M

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-modulatory effects of β-glucans are generally considered beneficial to fish health. Despite the frequent application of β-glucans in aquaculture practice, the exact receptors and downstream signalling remains to be described for fish. In mammals, Dectin-1 is a member of the C-type lectin receptor (CLR) family a...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Petit J,Bailey EC,Wheeler RT,de Oliveira CAF,Forlenza M,Wiegertjes GF

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 plays important, yet contrasting, roles in host protection against bacterial infections and in the septic response. To determine the role of IL-10 in the host defense against Acinetobacter baumannii infection, wild-type (WT) and IL-10-deficient mice were infected intranasally with the bacteria. IL-10-de...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kang MJ,Jang AR,Park JY,Ahn JH,Lee TS,Kim DY,Lee MS,Hwang S,Jeong YJ,Park JH

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokine biology is mediated by more complex interactions than simple monomolecular ligand-receptor interactions, as chemokines can form higher order quaternary structures, which can also be formed after binding to glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) on endothelial cells, and their receptors are found as dimers and/or oligomer...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Proudfoot AE,Uguccioni M

更新日期：2016-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation requires chromatin decondensation before nuclear swelling and eventual extracellular release of DNA, which occurs together with nuclear and cytoplasmic antimicrobial proteins. A key mediator of chromatin decondensation is protein deiminase 4 (PAD4), which catalyzes histone...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Clark HL,Abbondante S,Minns MS,Greenberg EN,Sun Y,Pearlman E

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:B7 proteins CD80 (B7-1) and CD86 (B7-2) are expressed on most antigen-presenting cells and provide critical co-stimulatory or inhibitory input to T cells via their T-cell-expressed receptors: CD28 and CTLA-4. CD28 is expressed on effector T cells and regulatory T cells (Tregs), and CD28-dependent signals are required ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Brzostek J,Gascoigne NR,Rybakin V

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) is one of the primary diseases that cause vision loss or even blindness after herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 infection. HSK-associated vision impairment is predominantly due to corneal scarring and neovascularization caused by inflammation. In the infected cornea, HSV can activate innate a...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wang L,Wang R,Xu C,Zhou H

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:High aspect ratio zinc oxide nanowires (ZnONWs) have become one of the most important products in nanotechnology. The wide range applications of ZnONWs have heightened the need for evaluating the risks and biological consequences to these particles. In this study, we investigated inflammatory pathways activated by ZnO...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Alghsham RS,Satpathy SR,Bodduluri SR,Hegde B,Jala VR,Twal W,Burlison JA,Sunkara M,Haribabu B

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable clinical efficacy of anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis points at the critical involvement of B cells in the disease. However, the exact pathogenic contribution of B cells is poorly understood. In this publication we review new data on the role of CD20+ B cel...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： 't Hart BA,Jagessar SA,Haanstra K,Verschoor E,Laman JD,Kap YS

更新日期：2013-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances in our understanding of neutrophil biology were made in the past several years. The exciting discovery that neutrophils deploy neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) to catch pathogens paved the way for a series of additional studies to define the molecular mechanisms of NET generation and the biol...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rahman S,Gadjeva M

更新日期：2014-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient tuberculosis (TB) control depends on early TB prediction and prevention. Solution to these tasks requires knowledge of TB protection correlates (TB CoPs), i.e., laboratory markers that are mechanistically involved in the protection and which allow to determine how well an individual is protected against TB o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Lyadova I,Nikitina I

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a chronic bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Cytokines are known to play vital role as a peacekeeper during inflammatory and other immunocompromised conditions such as leprosy. This study has tried to bridge the gap of information on cytokine gene polymorphisms and its potential role in the p...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Tarique M,Naz H,Saini C,Suhail M,Shankar H,Khanna N,Sharma A

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is a common autoimmune blistering disease in which autoantibodies target the hemidesmosomal components BP180 and/or BP230 in basal keratinocytes. In BP, 80 to 90% of autoantibodies target the juxtamembranous extracellular non-collagenous 16th A (NC16A) domain of BP180. Recently, the administrat...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mai Y,Nishie W,Izumi K,Shimizu H

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human natural killer (NK) cells are functionally regulated by killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and their interactions with HLA class I molecules. As KIR expression in a given NK cell is stochastically established, KIR repertoire perturbations reflect a dominance of discrete NK-cell subsets as the conse...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zambello R,Teramo A,Barilà G,Gattazzo C,Semenzato G

更新日期：2014-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary lymphoid tissues such as lymph nodes are essential for the interactions between antigen presenting cells and lymphocytes that result in adaptive immune responses that protect the host against invading pathogens. The specialized architecture of these organs facilitates the cognate interactions between antigen...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Brendolan A,Caamaño JH

更新日期：2012-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During hypoxia, cells undergo transcriptional changes to adjust to metabolic stress, to promote cell survival, and to induce pro-angiogenic factors. Hypoxia-induced factors (HIFs) regulate these transcriptional alterations. Failure to restore oxygen levels results in cell death by necrosis. IL-1α is one of the most im...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rider P,Kaplanov I,Romzova M,Bernardis L,Braiman A,Voronov E,Apte RN

更新日期：2012-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Neosporosis is considered as one of the main causes of abortion and severe economic losses in dairy industry. The Canis genus serving as one of the confirmed definitive hosts of the apicomplexan parasite Neospora caninum (N. caninum) plays a critical role in its life cycle. However, the effects of N. caninum on its de...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wei Z,Hermosilla C,Taubert A,He X,Wang X,Gong P,Li J,Yang Z,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted virus. The high-risk HPV types (i.e., HPV16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59) are considered to be the main etiological agents of genital tract cancers, such as cervical, vulvar, vaginal, penile, and anal cancers, and of a subset of head and...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Garbuglia AR,Lapa D,Sias C,Capobianchi MR,Del Porto P

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 is a distinctive infection characterized by elevated inter-human transmission and presenting from absence of symptoms to severe cytokine storm that can lead to dismal prognosis. Like for HIV, lymphopenia and drastic reduction of CD4+ T cell counts in COVID-19 patients have been linked with poor clinical outco...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Peng X,Ouyang J,Isnard S,Lin J,Fombuena B,Zhu B,Routy JP

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:PU.1 is an ETS-family transcription factor that plays a broad range of roles in hematopoiesis. A direct regulator of myeloid, dendritic-cell, and B cell functional programs, and a well-known antagonist of terminal erythroid cell differentiation, it is also expressed in the earliest stages of T-cell development of each...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rothenberg EV,Hosokawa H,Ungerbäck J

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00