Induction of Human Lung Mast Cell Apoptosis by Granule Permeabilization: A Novel Approach for Targeting Mast Cells.

abstract：:The unique capabilities of gamma-delta (γδ) T cells to recognize cells under stressed conditions, particularly infected or transformed cells, and killing them or regulating the immune response against them, paved the way to the development of promising therapeutic strategies for cancer and infectious diseases. From a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Simões AE,Di Lorenzo B,Silva-Santos B

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical and early human clinical studies of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) to prevent and treat HIV infection support the clinical utility and potential of bNAbs for prevention, postexposure prophylaxis, and treatment of acute and chronic infection. Observed and potential limitations of bNAbs from these r...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Hua CK,Ackerman ME

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in the containment of HIV replication during primary infection, though their functions are impaired during chronic HIV infection. Infants experience more rapid HIV disease progression than adults, but contributions of infant NK cells to containing HIV infection are unkn...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Slyker JA,Lohman-Payne B,John-Stewart GC,Dong T,Mbori-Ngacha D,Tapia K,Atzberger A,Taylor S,Rowland-Jones SL,Blish CA

更新日期：2012-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells play a vital role in eliminating pathogenic infections. To activate, naïve T cells search lymph nodes (LNs) for dendritic cells (DCs). Positioning and movement of T cells in LNs is influenced by chemokines including CCL21 as well as multiple cell types and structures in the LNs. Previous studies have suggested...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Tasnim H,Fricke GM,Byrum JR,Sotiris JO,Cannon JL,Moses ME

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are considered key players in the prevention of allograft rejection in transplanted patients. Belatacept (BLT) is an effective alternative to calcineurin inhibitors that appears to preserve graft survival and function; however, the impact of this drug in the homeostasis of Tregs in transplan...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Alvarez Salazar EK,Cortés-Hernández A,Alemán-Muench GR,Alberú J,Rodríguez-Aguilera JR,Recillas-Targa F,Chagoya de Sánchez V,Cuevas E,Mancilla-Urrea E,Pérez García M,Mondragón-Ramírez G,Vilatobá M,Bostock I,Hernández-Méndez E,

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine-elicited cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) recognizing conserved fragments of a pathogen's proteome could greatly impact infectious diseases and cancers. Enabling this potential are recent advances in mass spectrometry that identify specific target peptides among the myriad HLA-bound peptides on altered cells. Ult...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Reinherz EL,Keskin DB,Reinhold B

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The role of the lectin pathway of complement in the pathogenesis of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) is largely unknown. Pattern recognition receptors (PRR) of the lectin pathway are involved in the clearance of apoptotic cells either via activation of the complement system or as direct opsonins. As recent ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vogt S,Trendelenburg M,Tamm M,Stolz D,Hostettler KE,Osthoff M

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometry has emerged as a useful technology that has facilitated our understanding of the human immune system. Primary immune deficiency disorders (PIDDs) are a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders affecting the immune system. More than 350 genes causing various PIDDs have been identified. While the initia...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rawat A,Arora K,Shandilya J,Vignesh P,Suri D,Kaur G,Rikhi R,Joshi V,Das J,Mathew B,Singh S

更新日期：2019-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent events have made it clear that potentially pandemic strains of influenza regularly pose a threat to human populations. Therefore, it is essential that we develop better strategies to enhance vaccine design and evaluation to predict those that will be poor responders to vaccination and to identify those that are...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： DiPiazza A,Richards KA,Knowlden ZA,Nayak JL,Sant AJ

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapies that can either activate or suppress innate immune responses are being investigated as treatments against infectious diseases and the pathology they can cause. The objective of these therapies is to elicit protective immune responses thereby limiting the harm inflicted by the pathogen. The Toll-like re...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mifsud EJ,Tan AC,Jackson DC

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies can rapidly evolve in specific response to antigens. Affinity maturation drives this evolution through cycles of mutation and selection leading to enhanced antibody specificity and affinity. Elucidating the biophysical mechanisms that underlie affinity maturation is fundamental to understanding B-cell immun...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Jeliazkov JR,Sljoka A,Kuroda D,Tsuchimura N,Katoh N,Tsumoto K,Gray JJ

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell-based immunotherapy strategies have profoundly improved the clinical management of several solid tumors and hematological malignancies. A recently developed and promising immunotherapy approach is to redirect polyclonal MHC-unrestricted T lymphocytes toward cancer cells by bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) that eng...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Satta A,Grazia G,Caroli F,Frigerio B,Di Nicola M,Raspagliesi F,Mezzanzanica D,Zaffaroni N,Gianni AM,Anichini A,Figini M

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, progressive autoimmune disease of the central nervous system in which inflammation plays a key role in the induction, development, and progression. Most of the MS patients present with relapsing-remitting (RR) form, characterized by flare-ups followed by periods of recov...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： D'Angelo C,Reale M,Costantini E,Di Nicola M,Porfilio I,de Andrés C,Fernández-Paredes L,Sánchez-Ramón S,Pasquali L

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface, characterized by loss of tear film homeostasis and ocular symptoms, in which neurosensory abnormalities have recently been shown to play an etiological role. Although the role of inflammation has been widely studied in DED, the kinetics of immune...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Jamali A,Seyed-Razavi Y,Chao C,Ortiz G,Kenyon B,Blanco T,Harris DL,Hamrah P

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, lack of lineage markers confounded the classification of dendritic cells (DC) in the intestine and impeded a full understanding of their location and function. We have recently shown that the chemokine receptor XCR1 is a lineage marker for cross-presenting DC in the spleen. Now, we provide evidence that i...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Becker M,Güttler S,Bachem A,Hartung E,Mora A,Jäkel A,Hutloff A,Henn V,Mages HW,Gurka S,Kroczek RA

更新日期：2014-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) is a major complication of allogenic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Targeting costimulatory molecules with antagonist antibodies could dampen the excessive immune response that occurs, while preserving the beneficial graft vs leukemia (GVL) of the allogeneic response. Previou...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Burlion A,Brunel S,Petit NY,Olive D,Marodon G

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-1β plays a crucial role in the differentiation of human Th17 cells. We report here that IL-1RI expression is significantly increased in both naive and memory CD4+ T cells derived from relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RR MS) patients in comparison to healthy controls. Interleukin 1 receptor (IL-1R)I expressio...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sha Y,Markovic-Plese S

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and other severe non-SCID primary immunodeficiencies (non-SCID PID) can be treated by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation, but when histocompatibility leukocyte antigen-matched donors are lacking, this can be a high-risk procedure. Correcting the patient's o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ott de Bruin LM,Volpi S,Musunuru K

更新日期：2015-05-21 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

abstract：:Obesity-associated inflammation stems from a combination of cell-intrinsic changes of individual immune cell subsets and the dynamic crosstalk amongst a broad array of immune cells. Although much of the focus of immune cell contributions to metabolic disease has focused on adipose tissue-associated cells, these potent...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Liu R,Nikolajczyk BS

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity is one of the main protection mechanisms against viral infections, but how this system works at the maternal-fetal interface, especially during HIV infection, is still poorly known. In this study, we investigated the relationship between pregnancy and innate mechanisms associated with HIV immunity by e...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Pereira NZ,Branco ACCC,Manfrere KCG,de Lima JF,Yoshikawa FSY,Milanez HMBPM,Pereira NV,Sotto MN,Duarte AJDS,Sato MN

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The limited efficacy of seasonal influenza vaccines is usually attributed to ongoing variation in the major antigenic targets for protective antibody responses including hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). Hence, vaccine development has largely focused on broadening antigenic epitopes to generate cross-reactive...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sato-Kaneko F,Yao S,Lao FS,Shpigelman J,Messer K,Pu M,Shukla NM,Cottam HB,Chan M,Chu PJ,Burkhart D,Schoener R,Matsutani T,Carson DA,Corr M,Hayashi T

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In adaptation to rising stimulant strength, innate monocytes can be dynamically programed to preferentially express either pro- or anti-inflammatory mediators. Such dynamic innate adaptation or programing may bear profound relevance in host health and disease. However, molecular mechanisms that govern innate adaptatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yuan R,Geng S,Li L

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural cysteine to serine variation at position 31 of Tat in HIV-1C disrupts the dicysteine motif attenuating the chemokine function of Tat. We ask if there exists a trade-off in terms of a gain of function for HIV-1C Tat due to this natural variation. We constructed two Tat-expression vectors encoding Tat protei...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Menon M,Budhwar R,Shukla RN,Bankar K,Vasudevan M,Ranga U

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:H7N9 viruses pose a threat to human health and they are no less harmful to the poultry industry than the H5N1 avian influenza viruses. However, the pathogenesis, transmissibility, and the host immune response of the H7N9 virus in chickens and mice remain unclear. In this study, we found that H7N9 viruses replicated in...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Jiao P,Song Y,Huang J,Xiang C,Cui J,Wu S,Qu N,Wang N,Ouyang G,Liao M

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are the main orchestrators of protective immunity in the stomach; however, limited information on the presence and function of the gastric T subsets is available mainly due to the difficulty in recovering high numbers of viable cells from human gastric biopsies. To overcome this shortcoming we optimized a cell...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Booth JS,Toapanta FR,Salerno-Goncalves R,Patil S,Kader HA,Safta AM,Czinn SJ,Greenwald BD,Sztein MB

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of many retinal degenerations, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is punctuated by an ill-defined network of sterile inflammatory responses. The delineation of innate and adaptive immune milieu among the broad leukocyte infiltrate, and the gene networks, which construct these responses, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Natoli R,Mason E,Jiao H,Chuah A,Patel H,Fernando N,Valter K,Wells CA,Provis J,Rutar M

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is a common autoimmune blistering disease in which autoantibodies mainly target the hemidesmosomal component BP180 (also known as type XVII collagen) in basal keratinocytes. Various triggering factors are known to induce BP onset, including radiotherapy, burns, ultraviolet exposure, surgery, an...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mai Y,Nishie W,Sato K,Hotta M,Izumi K,Ito K,Hosokawa K,Shimizu H

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Sex differences in immune responses to influenza vaccine may impact efficacy across populations. Methods: In a cohort of 138 older adults (50-74 years old), we measured influenza A/H1N1 antibody titers, B-cell ELISPOT response, PBMC transcriptomics, and PBMC cell compositions at 0, 3, and 28 days post-immu...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Voigt EA,Ovsyannikova IG,Kennedy RB,Grill DE,Goergen KM,Schaid DJ,Poland GA

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of allergic diseases continues to rise. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have indicated that allergic diseases occur in a time-based order: from atopic dermatitis and food allergy in infancy to gradual development into allergic asthma and allergic rhinitis in childhood. This phenomenon is defined...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yang L,Fu J,Zhou Y

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00