The Essential Role Played by B Cells in Supporting Protective Immunity Against Trichuris muris Infection Is by Controlling the Th1/Th2 Balance in the Mesenteric Lymph Nodes and Depends on Host Genetic Background.

abstract：:Background: Disease progression monitoring through CD4 counts alone can be inadequate in HIV infection as ongoing immune activation may result in Serious non-AIDS events (SNAEs). SNAEs involve monocyte activation driven chronic inflammation with significant sequelae observed even during HAART. Here, we attempted to de...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Prabhu VM,Singh AK,Padwal V,Nagar V,Patil P,Patel V

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, defined as CD161++TCR iVα7.2+ T cells, play an important role in the innate defense against bacterial infections, and their functionality is impaired in chronic viral infections. Here, we investigated the frequency and functional role of MAIT cells in chronic hepatitis B vi...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yong YK,Saeidi A,Tan HY,Rosmawati M,Enström PF,Batran RA,Vasuki V,Chattopadhyay I,Murugesan A,Vignesh R,Kamarulzaman A,Rajarajeswaran J,Ansari AW,Vadivelu J,Ussher JE,Velu V,Larsson M,Shankar EM

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Fibrosis is a hallmark of systemic sclerosis (SSc), an intractable disease where innovative strategies are still being sought. Among novel anti-fibrotic approaches, mesenchymal stromal/stem cell (MSC)-based therapy appears promising. Previously, we reported anti-fibrotic effects of MSC in an experimental m...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Maria ATJ,Rozier P,Fonteneau G,Sutra T,Maumus M,Toupet K,Cristol JP,Jorgensen C,Guilpain P,Noël D

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to peptide-recognizing T cells, invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells express a semi-invariant T cell receptor that specifically recognizes self- or foreign-lipids presented by CD1d molecules. There are three major functionally distinct effector states for iNKT cells. Owning to these innate-like effector...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wang H,Hogquist KA

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a serious public health problem on the rise worldwide. In this work, we utilized the zebrafish to introduce a new model of intestinal inflammation triggered by food intake. Taking advantage of the translucency of the larvae and the availability of transgenic zebrafish lin...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Coronado M,Solis CJ,Hernandez PP,Feijóo CG

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells constitutively express ß-catenin and expand in solid tumors such as colon and skin cancer. However, the role of ß-catenin signaling in mast cells and the cause or effect of mast cell expansion and tumor growth has yet to be established. In earlier studies we used mast cell depletion and protease staining ap...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Saadalla A,Lima MM,Tsai F,Osman A,Singh MP,Linden DR,Dennis KL,Haeryfar SMM,Gurish MF,Gounari F,Khazaie K

更新日期：2019-12-03 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：: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：:Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is highly effective in the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or B-cell lymphoma, providing alternative therapeutic options for patients who failed to respond to conventional treatment or relapse. Moreover, it can bridge other therapeutic strategies an...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Xu X,Sun Q,Liang X,Chen Z,Zhang X,Zhou X,Li M,Tu H,Liu Y,Tu S,Li Y

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular adenosine monophosphate (AMP) is indispensable for cellular metabolic processes, and it is interconverted to ADP and/or ATP or activates AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). However, the specific biological function of extracellular AMP has not been identified. We evaluated the effect of extracellular AM...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Hua Y,Liu D,Zhang D,Wang X,Wei Q,Qin W

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical management of neuropathic pain is unsatisfactory, mainly due to its resistance to the effects of available analgesics, including opioids. Converging evidence indicates the functional interactions between chemokine and opioid receptors and their influence on nociceptive processes. Recent studies highlight that...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kwiatkowski K,Pawlik K,Ciapała K,Piotrowska A,Makuch W,Mika J

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:iNKT cells are CD1d-restricted T cells recognizing lipid antigens. The prototypic iNKT cell-agonist α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) alongside compounds with similar structures induces robust proliferation and cytokine production of iNKT cells and protects against cancer in vivo. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that detec...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Clark K,Yau J,Bloom A,Wang J,Venzon DJ,Suzuki M,Pasquet L,Compton BJ,Cardell SL,Porcelli SA,Painter GF,Zajonc DM,Berzofsky JA,Terabe M

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Around four decades ago, it had been observed that there were cell lines as well as cells in the fetal liver that expressed antibody μ heavy (μH) chains in the apparent absence of bona fide light chains. It was thus possible that these cells expressed another molecule(s), that assembled with μH chains. The ensuing stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Winkler TH,Mårtensson IL

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system represents an effective arsenal of innate immunity as well as an interface between innate and adaptive immunity. Activation of the complement system culminates with the assembly of the C5b-9 terminal complement complex on cell membranes, inducing target cell lysis. Translation of this sequence of...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vlaicu SI,Tatomir A,Rus V,Rus H

更新日期：2019-05-09 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：:Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CART) therapy, administration of certain T cell-agonistic antibodies, immune check point inhibitors, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) caused by streptococcal as well as staphylococ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kale SD,Mehrkens BN,Stegman MM,Kastelberg B,Carnes H,McNeill RJ,Rizzo A,Karyala SV,Coutermarsh-Ott S,Fretz JA,Sun Y,Koff JL,Rajagopalan G

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a prospective study of 312 patients (194 with multiple myeloma, 118 with lymphomas) receiving high-dose conditioning chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HSCT). Polymorphisms of MBL2 and MASP2 genes were investigated and serial measurements of serum concentrations of m...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Świerzko AS,Michalski M,Sokołowska A,Nowicki M,Eppa Ł,Szala-Poździej A,Mitrus I,Szmigielska-Kapłon A,Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka M,Michalak K,Gołos A,Wierzbowska A,Giebel S,Jamroziak K,Kowalski ML,Brzezińska O,Thiel S,Jenseniu

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:While developing adaptive immune responses, young infants are especially vulnerable to serious infections, including sepsis, meningitis, and pneumonia. Antimicrobial proteins and peptides (APPs) are key effectors that function as broad-spectrum anti-infectives. This review seeks to summarize the clinically relevant fu...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Battersby AJ,Khara J,Wright VJ,Levy O,Kampmann B

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The standard treatment options for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are focused on non-specific immunosuppression. Over the past few years, scientific studies and ongoing clinical trials have shifted the paradigm with rapid advances in developing biologics and small molecules. A number of monoclonal...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vukelic M,Li Y,Kyttaris VC

更新日期：2018-11-16 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：:Piscirickettsia salmonis, an aggressive intracellular pathogen, is the etiological agent of salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS). This is a chronic multisystemic disease that generates high mortalities and large losses in Chilean salmon farming, threatening the sustainability of the salmon industry. Previous reports ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Pérez-Stuardo D,Espinoza A,Tapia S,Morales-Reyes J,Barrientos C,Vallejos-Vidal E,Sandino AM,Spencer E,Toro-Ascuy D,Rivas-Pardo JA,Reyes-López FE,Reyes-Cerpa S

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of pathological anti-FVIII antibodies, or "inhibitors," is the most serious complication of therapeutic FVIII infusions, affecting up to 1/3 of severe Hemophilia A (HA) patients. Inhibitor formation is a classical T-cell dependent adaptive immune response. As such, it requires help from the innate immune sys...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Karim AF,Soltis AR,Sukumar G,Königs C,Ewing NP,Dalgard CL,Wilkerson MD,Pratt KP

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Among all T and NK cell subsets, regulatory T (Treg) cells typically respond to the lowest concentrations of IL-2 due to elevated surface expression of the IL-2R alpha chain (IL2RA; CD25) and the high affinity IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) complex. This enhanced sensitivity forms the basis for low-dose (LD) IL-2 therapy for t...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ghelani A,Bates D,Conner K,Wu MZ,Lu J,Hu YL,Li CM,Chaudhry A,Sohn SJ

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that the cross-talk between the gut microbiota and human immune system during the first year of life is an important regulator of the later development of atopic diseases. We explored the changes in the gut microbiota, blood regulatory T cells, and atopic sensitization in a birth-cohort of Eston...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ruohtula T,de Goffau MC,Nieminen JK,Honkanen J,Siljander H,Hämäläinen AM,Peet A,Tillmann V,Ilonen J,Niemelä O,Welling GW,Knip M,Harmsen HJ,Vaarala O

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) with selective production of cytokines typically attributed to subsets of T helper cells forces immunologists to reassess the mechanisms by which selective effector functions arise. The parallelism between ILCs and T cells extends beyond these two cell types and comprises ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sciumè G,Shih HY,Mikami Y,O'Shea JJ

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing number of diseases in humans, including trauma, certain cancers, and infection, are known to be associated with l-arginine deficiency. In addition, l-arginine must be supplemented by diet during pregnancy to aid fetal development. In conditions of l-arginine depletion, T cell proliferation is impaired. We ha...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yu HR,Tsai CC,Chang LS,Huang HC,Cheng HH,Wang JY,Sheen JM,Kuo HC,Hsieh KS,Huang YH,Yang KD,Hsu TY

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing prevalence in obesity has become a significant public concern. C57BL/6J mice are prone to diet-induced obesity (DIO) when fed high-fat diet (HFD), and develop chronic inflammation and metabolic syndrome, making them a good model to analyze mechanisms whereby obesity elicits pathologies. DIO mice demonstrate...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Lainez NM,Jonak CR,Nair MG,Ethell IM,Wilson EH,Carson MJ,Coss D

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:T follicular helper (Tfh) cells are the subset of CD4 T helper cells that are required for generation and maintenance of germinal center reactions and the generation of long-lived humoral immunity. This specialized T helper subset provides help to cognate B cells via their expression of CD40 ligand, IL-21, IL-4, and o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Hale JS,Ahmed R

更新日期：2015-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Haploinsufficiency A20 (HA20) is a newly described monogenic disease characterized by a wide spectrum of manifestations and caused by heterozygous mutations in TNFAIP3 which encodes A20 protein. TNFAIP3 mutation leads to disruption of the A20 ovarian tumor (OTU) domain and/or the zinc finger (ZnF) domain. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Chen Y,Ye Z,Chen L,Qin T,Seidler U,Tian D,Xiao F

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Most animals maintain mutually beneficial symbiotic relationships with their intestinal microbiota. Resident microbes in the gastrointestinal tract breakdown indigestible food, provide essential nutrients, and, act as a barrier against invading microbes, such as the enteric pathogen Vibrio cholerae. Over the last deca...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Davoodi S,Foley E

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00