Immune Checkpoints as Therapeutic Targets in Autoimmunity.

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：:γδ T cells represent an evolutionarily primitive T cell subset characterized by distinct T cell receptors (TCRs) and innate and adaptive immune functions. However, the presence of this T cell subset in ancient vertebrates remains unclear. In this study, γδ T cells from a zebrafish (Danio rerio) model were subjected to...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wan F,Hu CB,Ma JX,Gao K,Xiang LX,Shao JZ

更新日期：2017-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Of all the microbial infections relevant to mammals the relationship between parasitic worms and what constitutes and regulates a host protective immune response is perhaps the most complex and evolved. Nippostrongylus brasiliensis is a tissue migrating parasitic roundworm of rodents that exemplifies many of the salie...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Harvie M,Camberis M,Le Gros G

更新日期：2013-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of inflammation in atherosclerosis has been recognized several decades ago and existing treatments provide benefits in part through non-specific anti-inflammatory actions. Compared with other cytokines, interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is associated with acute and chronic inflammation. Anti-inflammatory therapy with ca...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mai W,Liao Y

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is an autoimmune inflammatory brain disease that can develop a variety of neuropsychiatric presentations. However, the underlying nature of its inflammatory neuronal injury remains unclear. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is recently regarded as a damage-associated mol...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Peng Y,Zheng D,Zhang X,Pan S,Ji T,Zhang J,Shen HY,Wang HH

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells are immune cells of the myeloid lineage and are present in connective tissues throughout the body. The activation and degranulation of mast cells significantly modulates many aspects of physiological and pathological conditions in various settings. With respect to normal physiological functions, mast cells ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Krystel-Whittemore M,Dileepan KN,Wood JG

更新日期：2016-01-06 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：:Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor Alpha (PDGFRA) mutations occur in only about 5-7% of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), notably with alterations on exons 12/14/18. The most frequent PDGFRA mutation is the exon 18 D842V, which is correlated to specific clinico-pathological features, such as primary imatini...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Indio V,Ravegnini G,Astolfi A,Urbini M,Saponara M,De Leo A,Gruppioni E,Tarantino G,Angelini S,Pession A,Pantaleo MA,Nannini M

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective immunity requires that a limited TCR repertoire is able to recognize a vast number of foreign peptide-MHCI (peptide-major histocompatibility complex class I) molecules. This challenge is overcome by the ability of individual TCRs to recognize large numbers of peptides. Recently, it was demonstrated that MHCI...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wooldridge L

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are hematopoietic malignancies caused by uncontrolled proliferation of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Recent studies have described several mutant mice exhibiting both AD-like skin inflammation and MPN. Common path...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kawakami T,Ando T,Kawakami Y

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) by its prototypic ligand, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), mediates potent suppression of T-cell dependent immune responses. The suppressive effects of TCDD occur early during CD4(+) T-cell differentiation in the absence of effects on proliferation and have ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rohlman D,Pham D,Yu Z,Steppan LB,Kerkvliet NI

更新日期：2012-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pemphigus and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are severe potentially life-threatening autoimmune diseases. They are classified as B-cell-mediated autoimmune diseases, both depending on autoreactive CD4+ T lymphocytes to modulate the autoimmune B-cell response. Despite the reported association of pemphigus and SLE, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sezin T,Vorobyev A,Sadik CD,Zillikens D,Gupta Y,Ludwig RJ

更新日期：2018-01-17 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：:Leishmaniasis is the third most important vector-borne disease worldwide. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe and frequently lethal protozoan disease of increasing incidence and severity due to infected human and dog migration, new geographical distribution of the insect due to global warming, coinfection with imm...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Palatnik-de-Sousa CB

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-derived chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has achieved gratifying breakthrough in hematologic malignancies but has shown limited success in solid tumor immunotherapy. Monoclonal antibody, TAB004, specifically recognizes the aberrantly glycosylated tumor form of MUC1 (tMUC1) in all subtypes of bre...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zhou R,Yazdanifar M,Roy LD,Whilding LM,Gavrill A,Maher J,Mukherjee P

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) as a disease entity was first codified in the 1930s by soviet scientists investigating patients suffering from hantavirus infection. The group of hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFVs) has since expanded to include members from at least four different virus families: Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae,...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Schönrich G,Raftery MJ

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has generated a significant repercussion on the administration of adoptive cell therapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells. The closing of borders, the reduction of people transit and the confinement of the...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ortiz de Landazuri I,Egri N,Muñoz-Sánchez G,Ortiz-Maldonado V,Bolaño V,Guijarro C,Pascal M,Juan M

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now clear that the outcome of an inflammatory process caused by infections depends on the balance of responses by several components of the immune system. Of particular relevance is the interplay between regulatory T cells (Tregs) and CD4+ T cells that produce IL-17 (Th17 cells) during immunoinflammatory events....

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sehrawat S,Rouse BT

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease is the leading global health concern and responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other type of disorder. Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease in the arterial wall, which underpins several types of cardiovascular disease. It has emerged that a strong relationship exists betwee...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zaric BL,Radovanovic JN,Gluvic Z,Stewart AJ,Essack M,Motwalli O,Gojobori T,Isenovic ER

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), such as acetate, butyrate, and propionate, modulate immune responses in the gut. However, the effect of SCFAs on mucosal vaccine-induced immune cell migration is poorly understood. Here, we investigated whether SCFAs modulate chemokine expression induced by the killed whole-cell oral c...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sim JR,Kang SS,Lee D,Yun CH,Han SH

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are the guardians of the immune system since they are located in the majority of peripheral tissues. In addition, they are crucial for the induction of an effective immune response based on their unique capacity to stimulate naive T cells. During co-evolution, the human pathogen herpes simplex vi...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Birzer A,Krawczyk A,Draßner C,Kuhnt C,Mühl-Zürbes P,Heilingloh CS,Steinkasserer A,Popella L

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination against Salmonella Typhi using the Vi capsular polysaccharide, a T-cell independent antigen, can protect from the development of typhoid fever. This implies that antibodies to Vi alone can protect in the absence of a T cell-mediated immune response; however, protective Vi antibodies have not been well-char...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Dahora LC,Jin C,Spreng RL,Feely F,Mathura R,Seaton KE,Zhang L,Hill J,Jones E,Alam SM,Dennison SM,Pollard AJ,Tomaras GD

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax is the most common species that cause malaria outside of the African continent. The development of an efficacious vaccine would contribute greatly to control malaria. Recently, using bacterial and adenoviral recombinant proteins based on the P. vivax circumsporozoite protein (CSP), we demonstrated the...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Gimenez AM,Lima LC,Françoso KS,Denapoli PMA,Panatieri R,Bargieri DY,Thiberge JM,Andolina C,Nosten F,Renia L,Nussenzweig RS,Nussenzweig V,Amino R,Rodrigues MM,Soares IS

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) receptor signaling dampens the functionality of T cells faced with repetitive antigenic stimulation from chronic infections or tumors. Using intracerebral (i.c.) inoculation with mouse polyomavirus (MuPyV), we have shown that CD8 T cells establish a PD-1hi, tissue-resident memory populat...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Shwetank,Frost EL,Mockus TE,Ren HM,Toprak M,Lauver MD,Netherby-Winslow CS,Jin G,Cosby JM,Evavold BD,Lukacher AE

更新日期：2019-04-17 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：:Diabetic retinopathy is a vision-threatening disease affecting neurons and microvasculature of the retina. The development of this disease is associated with the action of inflammatory factors that are connected to the activation of microglial cells, the resident tissue macrophages of the CNS. In the quiescent state, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kinuthia UM,Wolf A,Langmann T

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies have revolutionized cancer therapy. However, delivery to tumor cells in vivo is hampered by the large size (150 kDa) of conventional antibodies. The minimal target recognition module of a conventional antibody is composed of two non-covalently associated variable domains (VH and VL). The proper o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Bannas P,Hambach J,Koch-Nolte F

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein (NAIP)/NOD-like receptor (NLR) containing a caspase activating and recruitment domain (CARD) 4 (NLRC4) inflammasome complexes are activated in response to proteins from virulent bacteria that reach the cell cytosol. Specific NAIP proteins bind to the agonists and then physically a...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Lage SL,Longo C,Branco LM,da Costa TB,Buzzo Cde L,Bortoluci KR

更新日期：2014-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarization has been a useful concept for describing activated macrophage phenotypes and gene expression profiles. However, macrophage activation status within tumors and other settings are often inferred based on only a few markers. Complicating matters for relevance to human biology, many macrophage activation mark...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sudan B,Wacker MA,Wilson ME,Graff JW

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier data suggest that progesterone-induced blocking factor (PIBF) is involved in implantation. The present study therefore aims to investigate the consequences of functional PIBF deficiency during the peri-implantation period. CD1 female mice were injected intraperitoneally with 2 μg anti-PIBF monoclonal antibody ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Csabai T,Pallinger E,Kovacs AF,Miko E,Bognar Z,Szekeres-Bartho J

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00