Inflammatory Markers for Arterial Stiffness in Cardiovascular Diseases.

abstract：:Aim: The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II genes HLA-DRB1, HLA-DPB1, and HLA-DQB1 with the humoral immune response elicited by inactivated Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine (IJEV). Methods: A total of 373 individuals aged 3-12 years in the Inner Mong...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yao Y,Yang H,Shi L,Liu S,Li C,Chen J,Zhou Z,Sun M,Shi L

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis or whooping cough, mainly caused by Bordetella pertussis, is a severe respiratory disease that can affect all age groups but is most severe and can be life-threatening in young children. Vaccines against this disease are widely available since the 1950s. Despite high global vaccination coverage, the disease ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Solans L,Locht C

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal-associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells recognize vitamin B-based antigens presented by the non-polymorphic MHC class I related-1 molecule (MR1). Both MAIT T cell receptors (TCR) and MR1 are highly conserved among mammals, suggesting an important, and conserved, immune function. For many years, the antigens they r...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Corbett AJ,Awad W,Wang H,Chen Z

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Several approaches have been developed to improve or replace the only available vaccine for tuberculosis (TB), BCG (Bacille Calmette Guerin). The development of subunit protein vaccines is a promising strategy because it combines specificity and safety. In addition, subunit protein vaccines can be designed to have sel...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Junqueira-Kipnis AP,Marques Neto LM,Kipnis A

更新日期：2014-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent clinical observations indicate that bacterial vaccines induce cross-protection against infections produced by different microorganisms. MV130, a polyvalent bacterial sublingual preparation designed to prevent recurrent respiratory infectious diseases, reduces the infection rate in patients with recurrent respir...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vázquez A,Fernández-Sevilla LM,Jiménez E,Pérez-Cabrera D,Yañez R,Subiza JL,Varas A,Valencia J,Vicente A

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:In the elderly population, the influenza infection and its clinical complications are important causes of hospitalization and death, particularly, in longer-lived age. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of influenza virus circulation on mortality in the elderly and adults, in years with differ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Freitas ARR,Donalisio MR

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks, blood-feeding arthropods, and secrete immunosuppressive molecules that inhibit host immune responses and provide survival advantages to pathogens. In this study, we characterized the immunosuppressive function of a novel tick salivary protein, DsCystatin, from Dermacentor silvarum of China. DsCystatin directly ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sun T,Wang F,Pan W,Wu Q,Wang J,Dai J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clematichinenoside AR (C-AR) is a triterpene saponin isolated from the root of Clematis manshurica Rupr., which is a herbal medicine used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of arthritis. C-AR exerts anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties, but little is known about its action in the suppressi...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Li Y,Zheng JY,Liu JQ,Yang J,Liu Y,Wang C,Ma XN,Liu BL,Xin GZ,Liu LF

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed graft function (DGF) occurs in a significant proportion of deceased donor kidney transplant recipients and was associated with graft injury and inferior clinical outcome. The aim of the present multi-center study was to identify the immunological and non-immunological predictors of DGF and to determine its inf...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Morath C,Döhler B,Kälble F,Pego da Silva L,Echterdiek F,Schwenger V,Živčić-Ćosić S,Katalinić N,Kuypers D,Benöhr P,Haubitz M,Ziemann M,Nitschke M,Emmerich F,Pisarski P,Karakizlis H,Weimer R,Ruhenstroth A,Scherer S,Tr

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in microsurgical techniques and immunomodulatory protocols have contributed to the expansion of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) with very encouraging immunological, functional, and cosmetic results. Rejection remains however a major hurdle that portends serious threats to recipients. Rejectio...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sarhane KA,Tuffaha SH,Broyles JM,Ibrahim AE,Khalifian S,Baltodano P,Santiago GF,Alrakan M,Ibrahim Z

更新日期：2013-11-25 00:00:00

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：:Monocyte differentiation to macrophages is triggered by migration across the endothelial barrier, which is constituted by both endothelial cells and their underlying basement membrane. We address here the role of the endothelial basement membrane laminins (laminins 411 and 511) in this monocyte to macrophage switch. C...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Li L,Song J,Chuquisana O,Hannocks MJ,Loismann S,Vogl T,Roth J,Hallmann R,Sorokin L

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that the treatment with nanoparticles (NPs) loaded with tolerogenic cytokines suppressed the manifestations of lupus-like disease induced by the transfer of donor CD4+ T cells from DBA/2 mice into (C57BL/6 × DBA/2)F1 (BDF1) mice. Although the protective effects were ascribed to the induction of ad...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Horwitz DA,Liu A,Bickerton S,Castaldo G,Matarese G,Fahmy TM,La Cava A

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are uniquely potent antigen presenting cells that acquire microbial products and prime adaptive immune responses against pathogens. Furthermore, DCs also play a key role in induction and maintenance of tolerance. Although numerous studies have assessed the diverse functions of DCs, many unanswere...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zelante T,Fric J,Wong AY,Ricciardi-Castagnoli P

更新日期：2012-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in the incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria (GNBs) such as Acinetobacter and Klebsiella species. In view of the shortage of novel drugs in the pipeline, alternative strategies to prevent, and treat infections by GNBs are urgently needed. Previously,...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Youssef EG,Zhang L,Alkhazraji S,Gebremariam T,Singh S,Yount NY,Yeaman MR,Uppuluri P,Ibrahim AS

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serotype-specific antibody responses to unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) evaluated by a World Health Organization (WHO)-standardized enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) are the gold standard for diagnosis of specific polysaccharide antibody deficiency (SAD). The American Academy o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Schaballie H,Bosch B,Schrijvers R,Proesmans M,De Boeck K,Boon MN,Vermeulen F,Lorent N,Dillaerts D,Frans G,Moens L,Derdelinckx I,Peetermans W,Kantsø B,Jørgensen CS,Emonds MP,Bossuyt X,Meyts I

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:NLRC5 is a member of the NLR family that acts as a transcriptional activator of MHC class I genes. In line with the function of several related NLR proteins in innate immune responses, there is, however, also ample evidence that NLRC5 contributes to innate and adaptive immune responses beyond the regulation of MHC cla...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Benkő S,Kovács EG,Hezel F,Kufer TA

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary carbohydrate fibers are known to prevent immunological diseases common in Western countries such as allergy and asthma but the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. Until now beneficial effects of dietary fibers are mainly attributed to fermentation products of the fibers such as anti-inflammatory short-c...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sahasrabudhe NM,Beukema M,Tian L,Troost B,Scholte J,Bruininx E,Bruggeman G,van den Berg M,Scheurink A,Schols HA,Faas MM,de Vos P

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transition from resting to cell cycle in response to antigenic stimulation is an essential step for naïve CD8+ T cells to differentiate to effector and memory cells. Leaving the resting state requires dramatic changes of chromatin status in the key cell cycle inhibitors but the details of these concerted events are no...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Chen G,Subedi K,Chakraborty S,Sharov A,Lu J,Kim J,Mi X,Wersto R,Sung MH,Weng NP

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), DNA webs released into the extracellular environment by activated neutrophils, are thought to play a key role in the entrapment and eradication of microbes. However, NETs are highly cytotoxic and a likely source of autoantigens, suggesting that NET release is tightly regulated. N...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Majewski P,Majchrzak-Gorecka M,Grygier B,Skrzeczynska-Moncznik J,Osiecka O,Cichy J

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bi-allelic null mutations affecting UNC13D, STXBP2, or STX11 result in defects of lymphocyte cytotoxic degranulation and commonly cause familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) in early life. Patients with partial loss of function are increasingly being diagnosed after presenting with alternative features of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Gray PE,Shadur B,Russell S,Mitchell R,Buckley M,Gallagher K,Andrews I,Thia K,Trapani JA,Kirk EP,Voskoboinik I

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous chimeric antigen receptor-modified (CAR) T cells with specificity for CD19 showed potent antitumor efficacy in clinical trials against relapsed and refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). Contrary to T cells, natural killer (NK) cells kill their targets in a non-antigen-specific manner and d...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Müller S,Bexte T,Gebel V,Kalensee F,Stolzenberg E,Hartmann J,Koehl U,Schambach A,Wels WS,Modlich U,Ullrich E

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating data suggest that neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) exert a key function in several diseases. Peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) regulates NET formation via citrullination of histones. The aim of this study was to examine the role of miR-155 in controlling PAD4-dependent generation of NETs. Bone marr...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Hawez A,Al-Haidari A,Madhi R,Rahman M,Thorlacius H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies to develop cell-based therapies for cancer and other diseases have consistently shown that purified human natural killer (NK) cells secrete cytokines and kill target cells after in vitro culture with high concentrations of cytokines. However, these assays poorly reflect the conditions that are likely to prevai...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Nielsen CM,Wolf AS,Goodier MR,Riley EM

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:After birth, the intestinal immune system enters a critical developmental stage, in which tolerogenic and pro-inflammatory cells emerge to contribute to the overall health of the host. The neonatal health is continuously challenged by microbial colonization and food intake, first in the form of breast milk or formula ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Parigi SM,Eldh M,Larssen P,Gabrielsson S,Villablanca EJ

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Intralesional Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) has long been a relatively inexpensive therapy for inoperable cutaneous metastatic melanoma (CMM), although intralesional BCG skin mechanisms remain understudied. We analyzed intralesional BCG-treated CMM lesions combined with in vitro studies to further...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Lardone RD,Chan AA,Lee AF,Foshag LJ,Faries MB,Sieling PA,Lee DJ

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Caspase-1 is a zymogen whose activation predominantly depends upon the assembly of ASC monomers into insoluble prion-like polymers (specks). ASC polymers support caspase-1 dimer formation inducing a proximity mediated auto-activation of caspase-1. Therefore, the amount and nature of ASC monomers and polymer...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Gavrilin MA,McAndrew CC,Prather ER,Tsai M,Spitzer CR,Song MA,Mitra S,Sarkar A,Shields PG,Diaz PT,Wewers MD

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune checkpoint inhibitors that block the programmed cell death protein 1/PD-L1 pathway have significantly improved the survival of patients with advanced melanoma. Immunotherapies are only effective in 15-40% of melanoma patients and resistance is associated with defects in antigen presentation and interferon signa...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Alavi S,Stewart AJ,Kefford RF,Lim SY,Shklovskaya E,Rizos H

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful outcome to pregnancy is dependent on the ability of the maternal uterine microenvironment to regulate inflammation processes and establish maternal tolerance. Recently, B cells have been shown to influence pregnancy outcomes as aberrations in their numbers and functions are associated with obstetric compl...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Guzman-Genuino RM,Eldi P,Garcia-Valtanen P,Hayball JD,Diener KR

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are increasingly recognized as important mediators of intercellular communication. In this study, we aimed to further characterize the role of macrophage-derived EVs in immune responses against hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the potential of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) to modulate thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Cai C,Koch B,Morikawa K,Suda G,Sakamoto N,Rueschenbaum S,Akhras S,Dietz J,Hildt E,Zeuzem S,Welsch C,Lange CM

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00