Podocytes and Proteinuria in ANCA-Associated Glomerulonephritis: A Case-Control Study.

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is increasingly recognized for its association with autoimmune and inflammatory complications. Despite recent advances in immunophenotypic and genetic discovery, clinical care of CVID remains limited by our inability to accurately model risk for non-infectious disease developmen...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Farmer JR,Ong MS,Barmettler S,Yonker LM,Fuleihan R,Sullivan KE,Cunningham-Rundles C,USIDNET Consortium.,Walter JE

更新日期：2018-01-09 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：:Adverse life circumstances evoke a common "conserved transcriptional response to adversity" (CTRA) in mammalian leukocytes. To investigate whether this pattern is preserved in lower vertebrates, maraena whitefish (Coregonus maraena) were exposed for 9 days to different stocking densities: ~10 kg/m3 (low density), ~33 ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Korytář T,Nipkow M,Altmann S,Goldammer T,Köllner B,Rebl A

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal nematodes are among the most prevalent parasites infecting humans and livestock worldwide. Infective larvae of the soil-transmitted nematode Ascaris spp. enter the host and start tissue migration by crossing the intestinal epithelial barrier. The initial interaction of the intestinal epithelium with t...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ebner F,Kuhring M,Radonić A,Midha A,Renard BY,Hartmann S

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is assumed to be an autoimmune disease initiated by autoreactive T cells that recognize central nervous system antigens. Although adaptive immunity is clearly involved in MS pathogenesis, innate immunity increasingly appears to be implicated in the disease. We and others have presented evidence...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Chanvillard C,Jacolik RF,Infante-Duarte C,Nayak RC

更新日期：2013-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Standardization of myositis specific antibody (MSA) detection is of high importance because these antibodies are relevant for diagnosis and stratification of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) and have the potential to be used in classification criteria. Many laboratories rely on immunopr...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mahler M,Betteridge Z,Bentow C,Richards M,Seaman A,Chinoy H,McHugh N

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG), a glycoprotein secreted by plasma B-cells, plays a major role in the human adaptive immune response and are associated with a wide range of diseases. Glycosylation of the Fc binding region of IgGs, responsible for the antibody's effector function, is essential for prompting a proper immune resp...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wahl A,van den Akker E,Klaric L,Štambuk J,Benedetti E,Plomp R,Razdorov G,Trbojević-Akmačić I,Deelen J,van Heemst D,Slagboom PE,Vučković F,Grallert H,Krumsiek J,Strauch K,Peters A,Meitinger T,Hayward C,Wuhrer M,Beekm

更新日期：2018-02-26 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：:Therapy with Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKI) aiming stable deep molecular response is the gold standard to treat Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). NKT-like cells (CD3+CD56+) combine characteristics of T and NK cells. The physiopathological role of these cells remains unknown although the literature refers their associa...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Almeida JS,Couceiro P,López-Sejas N,Alves V,Růžičková L,Tarazona R,Solana R,Freitas-Tavares P,Santos-Rosa M,Rodrigues-Santos P

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are the brain-innate immune cells which actively surveil their environment and mediate multiple aspects of neuroinflammation, due to their ability to acquire diverse activation states and phenotypes. Simplified, M1-like microglia are defined as pro-inflammatory cells, while the alternative M2-like cells prom...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Collmann FM,Pijnenburg R,Hamzei-Taj S,Minassian A,Folz-Donahue K,Kukat C,Aswendt M,Hoehn M

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current quest for a complete cure for HIV/AIDS, highly sensitive HIV-1 latency detection methods are critical to verify full viral eradication. Until now, the in vitro quantitative viral outgrowth assays (qVOA) have been the gold standard for assessing latent HIV-1 viral burden. However, these assays have been ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Schmitt K,Akkina R

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cytokine and inflammatory-related transcripts are found in the ventral midbrain, a dopamine neuron-rich region associated with schizophrenia symptoms. In fact, half of schizophrenia cases can be defined as having a "high inflammatory/immune biotype." Recent studies implicate both complement and macrophages i...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Purves-Tyson TD,Robinson K,Brown AM,Boerrigter D,Cai HQ,Weissleder C,Owens SJ,Rothmond DA,Shannon Weickert C

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction and modulation of the immune response to vaccination can be rationally designed by combining different vaccine formulations for priming and boosting. Here, we investigated the impact of heterologous prime-boost approaches on the vaccine-specific cellular and humoral responses specific for a mycobacterial...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ciabattini A,Pettini E,Fiorino F,Lucchesi S,Pastore G,Brunetti J,Santoro F,Andersen P,Bracci L,Pozzi G,Medaglini D

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor antigen-driven selection may expand T cells having T cell receptors (TCRs) of shared antigen specificity but different amino acid or nucleotide sequence in a process known as TCR convergence. Substitution sequencing errors introduced by TCRβ (TCRB) repertoire sequencing may create artifacts resembling TCR conver...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Looney TJ,Topacio-Hall D,Lowman G,Conroy J,Morrison C,Oh D,Fong L,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Immunotherapies targeting CTLA-4 and PD-1 have elicited promising responses in a variety of cancers. However, the relatively low response rates warrant the identification of additional immunosuppressive pathways. V domain immunoglobulin suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA) plays a critical role in antitum...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Xie X,Zhang J,Shi Z,Liu W,Hu X,Qie C,Chen W,Wang Y,Wang L,Jiang J,Liu J

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell signaling is an essential requirement for mammalian cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi. Depending on the parasite strain and the parasite developmental form, distinct signaling pathways may be induced. In this short review, we focus on the data coming from studies with metacyclic trypomastigotes (MT) generated in...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Maeda FY,Cortez C,Yoshida N

更新日期：2012-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) exhibit an indolent disease course and unresponsive B cell receptors (BCRs) exemplified by an anergic phenotype of their leukemic cells. In up to 5% of patients, CLL transforms from an indolent subtype to an aggressive form of B cell lymphoma (Richter's syndrome), ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Märklin M,Fuchs AR,Tandler C,Heitmann JS,Salih HR,Kauer J,Quintanilla-Martinez L,Wirths S,Kopp HG,Müller MR

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading global health problem that is aggravated by emergence of drug-resistant strains, which account for increasing number of treatment-refractory cases. Thus, eradication of this disease will strongly require better therapeutic strategies. Identification of host factors promoting disease...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ndlovu H,Marakalala MJ

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) is a genetic condition caused by mutations involving ATM (Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated). This gene is responsible for the expression of a DNA double stranded break repair kinase, the ATM protein kinase. The syndrome encompasses combined immunodeficiency and various degrees of neurological a...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mandola AB,Reid B,Sirror R,Brager R,Dent P,Chakroborty P,Bulman DE,Roifman CM

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune regulator AIRE controls the negative selection of self-reactive T-cells as well as the induction of regulatory T-cells in the thymus by mastering the transcription and presentation of tissue restricted antigens (TRAs) in thymic cells. However, extrathymic AIRE expression of hitherto unknown clinical sig...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Bergström B,Lundqvist C,Vasileiadis GK,Carlsten H,Ekwall O,Ekwall AH

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer death among women. For many patients the most effective treatment is a resection surgery that removes the tumor. Within this subset, patients sometimes receive chemotherapy treatment (CT) prior to surgery aiming to reduce tumor size in order to preserve heal...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Valdés-Ferrada J,Muñoz-Durango N,Pérez-Sepulveda A,Muñiz S,Coronado-Arrázola I,Acevedo F,Soto JA,Bueno SM,Sánchez C,Kalergis AM

更新日期：2020-07-09 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：: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：:Memory CD8+ T cells have long been considered a promising population for adoptive cell therapy (ACT) due to their long-term persistence and robust re-stimulatory response. NIH3T3 is an immortalized mouse embryonic fibroblast cell line. We report that NIH3T3-conditioned medium (CM) can augment effector functions of CTL...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Qin Y,Lee Y,Seo J,Kim T,Shin JH,Park SH

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 10% of individuals latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) develop active tuberculosis (TB) during their lifetime. Although it is well recognized that T-helper 1 immune responses are crucial for containing latent TB infection, the full array of host factors conferring protective immunity ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ronacher K,Sinha R,Cestari M

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are one of the most efficient in vivo gene delivery platforms. Over the past decade, clinical trials of AAV vector-mediated gene transfer led to some of the most exciting results in the field of gene therapy and, recently, to the market approval of an AAV-based drug in Europe. With...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Basner-Tschakarjan E,Mingozzi F

更新日期：2014-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is polygenic with more than 100 genes identified to date. These include HLA-B27 and the aminopeptidases (ERAP1, ERAP2, and LNPEPS), which are involved in antigen processing and presentation to T-cells, and several genes (IL23R, IL6R, STAT3, JAK2, IL1R1/2, IL12B, and IL7R) ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vecellio M,Cohen CJ,Roberts AR,Wordsworth PB,Kenna TJ

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells are implicated as detrimental players in inflammatory lung diseases, particularly asthma. Mast cells respond to activating stimuli by releasing a wide panel of pro-inflammatory compounds that can contribute profoundly to the pathology, and there is currently an unmet need for strategies that efficiently ame...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Paivandy A,Sandelin M,Igelström H,Landelius P,Janson C,Melo FR,Pejler G

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen capturing at the periphery is one of the earliest, crucial functions of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to initiate immune responses. Langerhans cells (LCs), the epidermal APCs migrate to draining lymph nodes (DLNs) upon acquiring antigens. An arsenal of endocytic molecules is available to this end, including ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Becerril-García MA,Yam-Puc JC,Maqueda-Alfaro R,Beristain-Covarrubias N,Heras-Chavarría M,Gallegos-Hernández IA,Calderón-Amador J,Munguía-Fuentes R,Donis-Maturano L,Flores-Langarica A,Flores-Romo L

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human coronavirus (HCoV) is one of the most common causes of respiratory tract infections throughout the world. Two phenomena observed so far in the development of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic deserve further attention. First, the relative absence of clinical signs of infections in children, second, the early appearance of...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Fierz W,Walz B

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00