Establishing Simultaneous T Cell Receptor Excision Circles (TREC) and K-Deleting Recombination Excision Circles (KREC) Quantification Assays and Laboratory Reference Intervals in Healthy Individuals of Different Age Groups in Hong Kong.

abstract：:Malaria is caused by infection with Plasmodium parasites. Various studies with knockout mice have indicated that IFN-γ plays essential roles in protective immunity against blood-stage Plasmodium infection. However, after Plasmodium infection, increased IFN-γ production by various types of cells is involved not only in...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Inoue S,Niikura M,Mineo S,Kobayashi F

更新日期：2013-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease with symptoms of dysmenorrhea, chronic pain, and infertility that affects 6-10% of women of reproductive age. Medical or surgical therapy, such as administration of an anti-gonadotropin or ovarian cystectomy, provide effective pain relief. However, neither therapy can be ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kato T,Yasuda K,Matsushita K,Ishii KJ,Hirota S,Yoshimoto T,Shibahara H

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) has emerged as a significant threat to the productivity of small ruminants worldwide. PPRV is lymphotropic in nature and induces in the hosts a transient but severe immunosuppression, especially innate immunity. However, it remains largely unknown how NK cells respond and are re...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Qi X,Li Z,Li H,Wang T,Zhang Y,Wang J

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies targeting the regulatory immune "checkpoint" receptors CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD-L1 are now standard therapy for diverse malignancies including melanoma, lung cancer, and renal cell carcinoma. Although effective in many patients and able to induce cures in some, targeting these regulatory pathways has...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Dougan M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases due to mycobacteria, including tuberculosis, leprosy, and Buruli ulcer, rank among the top causes of death and disability worldwide. Animal studies have revealed the importance of T cells in controlling these infections. However, the specific antigens recognized by T cells that confer protective immunity and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： James CA,Seshadri C

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial stiffness predicts an increased risk of cardiovascular events. Inflammation plays a major role in large arteries stiffening, related to atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, endothelial dysfunction, smooth muscle cell migration, vascular calcification, increased activity of metalloproteinases, extracellular matr...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mozos I,Malainer C,Horbańczuk J,Gug C,Stoian D,Luca CT,Atanasov AG

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: CXCL13 is preferentially secreted by Follicular Helper T cells (TFH) to attract B cells to germinal centers. Plasma levels of CXCL13 have been reported to be elevated during chronic HIV-infection, however there is limited data on such elevation during early phases of infection and on the effect of ART. Mor...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mehraj V,Ramendra R,Isnard S,Dupuy FP,Lebouché B,Costiniuk C,Thomas R,Szabo J,Baril JG,Trottier B,Coté P,LeBlanc R,Durand M,Chartrand-Lefebvre C,Kema I,Zhang Y,Finkelman M,Tremblay C,Routy JP

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5-year survival rate of primary anorectal malignant melanoma is less than 20%. Optimal treatment of this condition remains controversial regarding locally disease, and whether any preferential survival benefit arises from either abdominoperineal resection or wide local excision remains unknown. The majority of pat...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Faure M,Rochigneux P,Olive D,Taix S,Brenot-Rossi I,Gilabert M

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In lymphocytes, the three NFAT factors NFATc1 (also designated as NFAT2), NFATc2 (NFAT1), and NFATc3 (NFAT4 or NFATx) are expressed and are the targets of immune receptor signals, which lead to a rapid rise of intracellular Ca(++), the activation of phosphatase calcineurin, and to the activation of cytosolic NFATc pro...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rudolf R,Busch R,Patra AK,Muhammad K,Avots A,Andrau JC,Klein-Hessling S,Serfling E

更新日期：2014-02-03 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：:Avian influenza A of the subtype H7N9 has been responsible for almost 1,600 confirmed human infections and more than 600 deaths since its first outbreak in 2013. Although sustained human-to-human transmission has not been reported yet, further adaptations to humans in the viral genome could potentially lead to an infl...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： de Bree LCJ,Marijnissen RJ,Kel JM,Rosendahl Huber SK,Aaby P,Benn CS,Wijnands MVW,Diavatopoulos DA,van Crevel R,Joosten LAB,Netea MG,Dulos J

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:During the entire processes of thymus organogenesis, maturation, and involution, gene regulation occurs post-transcriptionally via recently discovered microRNA (miRNA) transcripts. Numerous reports indicate that miRNAs may be involved in the construction of a normal thymic microenvironment, which constitutes a critica...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Xu M,Gan T,Ning H,Wang L

更新日期：2018-09-11 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：:Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) exerting graft-versus-leukemia/tumor effect and mediating pathogen-specific immunity. Although NK cells are the first donor-derived lymphocytes reconstituting post-HSCT, their distribution of CD56++CD16...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Huenecke S,Cappel C,Esser R,Pfirrmann V,Salzmann-Manrique E,Betz S,Keitl E,Banisharif-Dehkordi J,Bakhtiar S,Königs C,Jarisch A,Soerensen J,Ullrich E,Klingebiel T,Bader P,Bremm M

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:MAIT cells are MR1-restricted T cells that are well-known for their anti-microbial properties, but they have recently been associated with different forms of cancer. Several studies have reported activated MAIT cells within the microenvironment of colorectal tumors, but there is conjecture about the nature of their re...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Berzins SP,Wallace ME,Kannourakis G,Kelly J

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A new paradigm of mucosal vaccination against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been investigated in the macaque model. A vaccine consisting of inactivated simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)mac239 particles together with a living bacterial adjuvant (either the Calmette and Guerin bacillus, Lactobacillu...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Andrieu JM,Chen S,Lai C,Guo W,Lu W

更新日期：2014-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Duck plague virus (DPV) is a representative pathogen transmitted among aquatic animals that causes gross lesions and immune inhibition in geese and ducks. The mechanism of organ tropism and innate immune evasion of DPV has not been completely deciphered due to a lack of cell models to study the innate immune manipulat...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Tian B,Cai D,He T,Deng L,Wu L,Wang M,Jia R,Zhu D,Liu M,Yang Q,Wu Y,Zhao X,Chen S,Zhang S,Huang J,Ou X,Mao S,Yu Y,Zhang L,Liu Y,Cheng A

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi infection) is increasingly recognized as a significant source of morbidity worldwide. Here, we show that blood plasmablasts and CD27- memory B cells are elevated in untreated Lyme disease, with higher plasmablast levels associated with more rapid resolution of clinical symptoms. Stro...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Blum LK,Adamska JZ,Martin DS,Rebman AW,Elliott SE,Cao RRL,Embers ME,Aucott JN,Soloski MJ,Robinson WH

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Trauma represents a major socioeconomic burden worldwide. After a severe injury, hemorrhagic shock (HS) as a frequent concomitant aspect is a central driver of systemic inflammation and organ damage. The kidney is often strongly affected by traumatic-HS, and acute kidney injury (AKI) poses the patient at great risk fo...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Halbgebauer R,Karasu E,Braun CK,Palmer A,Braumüller S,Schultze A,Schäfer F,Bückle S,Eigner A,Wachter U,Radermacher P,Resuello RRG,Tuplano JV,Nilsson Ekdahl K,Nilsson B,Armacki M,Kleger A,Seufferlein T,Kalbitz M,Gebh

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic spontaneous urtcaria (CSU) can represent the leading sign of a wide spectrum of systemic diseases, including primary immunodeficiencies. We describe the case of a young adult female with coexisting CSU and common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) successfully treated with omalizumab. The patient, with a history...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Comberiati P,Costagliola G,Carli N,Legitimo A,D'Elios S,Consolini R,Peroni DG

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant Adenovirus (Ad) based vectors have been utilized extensively as a gene transfer platform in multiple pre-clinical and clinical applications. These applications are numerous, and inclusive of both gene therapy and vaccine based approaches to human or animal diseases. The widespread utilization of these vect...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Aldhamen YA,Seregin SS,Amalfitano A

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant breakthroughs in understanding of immunological and physiological features of autoimmune diseases, there is currently no specific therapeutic option with prolonged remission. Cell-based therapy using engineered-T cells has attracted tremendous attention as a practical treatment for autoimmune disea...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sadeqi Nezhad M,Seifalian A,Bagheri N,Yaghoubi S,Karimi MH,Adbollahpour-Alitappeh M

更新日期：2020-11-26 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：:DiGeorge syndrome is an immunodeficiency characterized by thymic dysplasia resulting in T cell lymphopenia. Most patients suffer from increased susceptibility to infections and heightened prevalence of autoimmune disorders, such as autoimmune thrombocytopenia. B cells in DiGeorge syndrome show impaired maturation, wit...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Klocperk A,Paračková Z,Bloomfield M,Rataj M,Pokorný J,Unger S,Warnatz K,Šedivá A

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study develops an original co-infection model in mice using Brucella melitensis, the most frequent cause of human brucellosis, and Trypanosoma brucei, the agent of African trypanosomiasis. Although the immunosuppressive effects of T. brucei in natural hosts and mice models are well established, we observed that t...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Machelart A,Van Vyve M,Potemberg G,Demars A,De Trez C,Tima HG,Vanwalleghem G,Romano M,Truyens C,Letesson JJ,Muraille E

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensory nervous and immune systems, historically considered autonomous, actually work in concert to promote host defense and tissue homeostasis. These systems interact with each other through a common language of cell surface G protein-coupled receptors and receptor tyrosine kinases as well as cytokines, growth fa...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Foster SL,Seehus CR,Woolf CJ,Talbot S

更新日期：2017-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic glycolysis is a recognized feature shared by tumors, leading to the accumulation of lactic acid in their local microenvironments. Like the tumors, the blastocysts, placenta, trophoblasts and decidual immune cells can also produce a large amount of lactic acid through aerobic glycolysis during the early pregnan...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ma LN,Huang XB,Muyayalo KP,Mor G,Liao AH

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:TLR8 is an endosomal sensor of RNA degradation products in human phagocytes, and is involved in the recognition of viral and bacterial pathogens. We previously showed that in human primary monocytes and monocyte derived macrophages, TLR8 senses entire Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae (group B strepto...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Moen SH,Ehrnström B,Kojen JF,Yurchenko M,Beckwith KS,Afset JE,Damås JK,Hu Z,Yin H,Espevik T,Stenvik J

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Human natural killer (NK) cells are functionally regulated by killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and their interactions with HLA class I molecules. As KIR expression in a given NK cell is stochastically established, KIR repertoire perturbations reflect a dominance of discrete NK-cell subsets as the conse...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zambello R,Teramo A,Barilà G,Gattazzo C,Semenzato G

更新日期：2014-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Vascular microthrombotic lesions in lupus nephritis with or without antiphospholipid antibodies may relate to worse renal outcomes. Whether microthrombotic lesions are a consequence of renal inflammation or independently contribute to renal damage is unclear. Our aim was to investigate the relationship bet...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Gonzalo-Gil E,García-Herrero C,Toldos O,Usategui A,Criado G,Pérez-Yagüe S,Barber DF,Pablos JL,Galindo M

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00