FcepsilonRI-mediated antigen endocytosis turns interferon-gamma-treated mouse mast cells from inefficient into potent antigen-presenting cells.

abstract：:Memory CD8(+) T cells regain function during a recall response, but the requirement of signals in addition to antigen during a secondary immune response is unknown. In this study, the ability of interleukin-7 (IL-7) to enhance memory CD8(+ ) CD45RA(- ) CD127(+) T-cell responses in health and in human immunodeficiency ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： O'Connor AM,Crawley AM,Angel JB

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLR) are sentinel receptors capable of recognizing pathogen-associated molecule patterns (PAMP) such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and CpG-containing oligonucleotides (CpG ODN). TLR2 and TLR4 are major receptors for Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial cell wall components, respectively. TLR9 i...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： An H,Yu Y,Zhang M,Xu H,Qi R,Yan X,Liu S,Wang W,Guo Z,Guo J,Qin Z,Cao X

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokine-mediated signalling involves the activation of a Janus kinase (Jak) pathway. We have previously shown that Jak3 mediates CCR9 and CXCR4 signalling in response to CCL25 and CXCL12 in BM progenitors and thymocytes. The lack of peripheral lymph nodes and Peyer's patches observed in Jak3(-/-) mice suggested a po...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： García-Zepeda EA,Licona-Limón I,Jiménez-Sólomon MF,Soldevila G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro treatment with Fusarenon-X, a mycotoxin produced by Fusarium nivale Fn 2B, depressed the mitogenic responses of mouse lymphocytes to the T-cell mitogens, phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and concanavalin A (Con A), but to a lesser extent to B-cell mitogen, a bacterial lypopolysaccharide (LPS). The in vitro treat...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Masuda E,Takemoto T,Tatsuno T,Obara T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of naive CD8(+) T cells in the presence of interleukin-4 modulates their CD8 co-receptor expression and functional differentiation, resulting in the generation of CD8(low) cells that produce type 2 cytokines and display poor cytolytic and anti-tumour activity. Although this CD8(low) phenotype becomes stable...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Olver S,Apte SH,Baz A,Kelso A,Kienzle N

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following exposure of mice to contact sensitizing chemicals, dendritic cells (DC) rapidly accumulate in the draining lymph nodes. A proportion, at least, of the DC which arrive in the nodes bear significant amounts of antigen and are derived from epidermal Langerhans' cells (LC). It is of interest that although LC are...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Cumberbatch M,Gould SJ,Peters SW,Kimber I

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytes such as dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages employ phagocytosis to take up pathogenic bacteria into phagosomes, digest the bacteria and present the bacteria-derived peptide antigens to the adaptive immunity. Hence, efficient antigen presentation depends greatly on a well-regulated phagocytosis process. Lip...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Chua RY,Wong SH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal lamina propria (LP) contains antigen-presenting cells with features of dendritic cells and macrophages, collectively referred to as mononuclear phagocytes (MNPs). Association of MNPs with the epithelium is thought to play an important role in multiple facets of intestinal immunity including imprinting M...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： McDonald KG,Wheeler LW,McDole JR,Joerger S,Gustafsson JK,Kulkarni DH,Knoop KA,Williams IR,Miller MJ,Newberry RD

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular adhesion molecules play a central role in leucocyte migration through peripheral blood and tissues. A crucial stage in these events in selectin-mediated adhesion involving E-selectin expressed on activated endothelium interacting with a range of carbohydrate ligands expressed by specific subpopulations of leu...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Ross EL,Barker JN,Allen MH,Chu AC,Groves RW,MacDonald DM

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis of macrophages infected with pathogenic mycobacteria is an alternative host defence capable of removing the environment supporting bacterial growth. In this work the influence of virulence and bacterial load on apoptosis of alveolar macrophages during the initial phase of infection by Mycobacterium bovis was...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Rodrigues MF,Barsante MM,Alves CC,Souza MA,Ferreira AP,Amarante-Mendes GP,Teixeira HC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse is an animal model for insulin-dependent diabetes that has many similarities to the human disease. NOD mice transgenic for the Ea gene, allowing expression of the E molecule, are protected from diabetes and rarely develop insulitis. An Ea transgene mutated in the promoter region, (De...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Brenden N,Böhme J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocytes are a critical component of the adaptive immune system mediating protection against infection and malignancy, but also implicated in many immune pathologies. Upon recognition of specific antigens T cells clonally expand, traffic to inflamed sites and acquire effector functions, such as the capacity to ki...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Dimeloe S,Burgener AV,Grählert J,Hess C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following prescapular lymphadenectomy, the cellular composition of afferent (peripheral) lymph from eight out of 13 calves in which the afferent and efferent lymphatic ducts had anastomosed was examined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific for bovine lymphoid populations. Afferent lymph leucocytes (ALL) consiste...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Emery DL,MacHugh ND,Ellis JA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that immunoglobulin A (IgA)(-/-) knockout (KO) mice exhibit levels of susceptibility to influenza virus infection that are similar to those of their normal IgA(+/+) littermates. To understand the mechanism of this apparent mucosal immunity without IgA, immunoglobulin isotype and T helpe...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Pacheco S,Acuna CL,Switzer KC,Wang Y,Gilmore X,Harriman GR,Mbawuike IN

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to establish a panel of MHC-peptide multimers suitable as a positive control in the detection of HLA A*0201 restricted antigen specific T cells (ASTC) by flow cytometry. MHC Dextramers were loaded with HLA A*0201 binding peptides from viral antigens and melanoma targets identified from a literature search and...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Fløe A,Løppke C,Hilberg O,Wejse C,Brix L,Jacobsen K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are an innate population of T cells identified by the expression of an invariant T-cell receptor and reactivity to lipid-based antigens complexed with CD1d. They account for a small percentage of lymphocytes, but are extremely potent and play central roles in immunity to infecti...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： O'Keeffe J,Podbielska M,Hogan EL

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal human anti-IgG preparations purified from mixed IgM-IgG cryoglobulins were tested for their antigenic specificity by haemagglutination-inhibition assay. A panel of fourteen IgG preparations of the four gamma chain subclasses were prepared from myeloma sera and used as inhibitors of haemagglutination. Each o...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Johnston SL,Abraham GN

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific IgE and IgG responses to highly purified Ambrosia (ragweed) allergens, Amb a V, Amb t V and Amb p V from the artemisiifolia (short), trifida (giant) and psilostachya (western) species are strongly associated with HLA-DR2 and Dw2 (DR2.2) in allergic Caucasoid individuals. To investigate the molecular basis of ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Huang SK,Marsh DG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophils express Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) at low levels, and the role of this receptor in neutrophil responses to microbial stimuli has been questioned. Genetic manipulation of these cells to enable the study of the role of proteins such as TLR4 in their function is challenging. Here, we show that primary ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Dick EP,Prince LR,Prestwich EC,Renshaw SA,Whyte MK,Sabroe I

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-specific suppressor factor, owl monkey suppressor factor, OMSF, from leukaemic owl monkey peripheral T lymphocytes has been isolated and characterized. OMSF is a glycoprotein of a molecular weight of 66,000 which can be produced from purified owl monkey enhancing factor, OMEF, by both Tris buffer dialysis and by...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Mulcahy HL,Rubin AS,MacDonald AB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suramin, a polyanionic and polycyclic compound, was initially used for the treatment of trypanosomiasis and onchocerciasis. In the last decade, it has been used in therapy of cancer and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The influence of suramin on the expression of various markers by human mononuclear phagoc...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Schiller C,Spittler A,Willheim M,Szépfalusi Z,Agis H,Köller M,Peterlik M,Boltz-Nitulescu G

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various strains of anaerobic coryneforms and the closely related Propionibacteria have been compared in vivo with respect to their anti-tumour activity. Their effectiveness has been correlated with their serological relationship and to some extent with their ability to stimulate the lymphoreticular system. Organisms b...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： McBride WH,Dawes J,Dunbar N,Ghaffar A,Woodruff MF

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukosialin or CD43 is a heavily O-glycosylated transmembrane protein expressed on all cells of the haematopoietic cell lineage with the exception of red blood cells and mature B cells. This antigen has been identified in human, mouse and rat with monoclonal antibodies. Although orthologues of many human and rodent le...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Szlanka T,Toth GK,Ocsovszki I,Keresztes G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal macrophages from CBA mice incubated with recombinant murine tumour necrosis factor (TNF-alpha) are effective in killing the protozoa parasite Leishmania major in vitro. The leishmanicidal activity is directly correlated with the level of nitrite (NO2-) in the culture supernatants. The killing of intracellul...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Liew FY,Li Y,Millott S

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hapten-specific lymphocyte proliferation assay, which measures the in vitro stimulation of DNA synthesis (as assessed by [3H]thymidine incorporation), was used to determine systemic immunization induced by an epicutaneously applied hapten in addition to the more commonly used method which measures ear (or footpad) s...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Kanamori S,Takada K,Kawana S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a single dose of cyclophosphamide (ranging from 12 x 5 mg/m2 to 500 mg/m2) on rat spleens have been studied using quantitative morphometric techniques. The results obtained show that a single dose of cyclophosphamide (500 mg/m2) caused the destruction of primary and secondary follicles and less extensiv...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kumararatne DS,Gagnon RF,Smart Y

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement activation within lymph nodes has been shown to alter lymphocyte traffic through the node. Challenge of cannulated sheep lymph nodes with either immune complexes or complement activators was found to initiate the phenomenon of cell shutdown associated with antigenic challenge of lymph nodes in primed animal...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： McConnell I,Hopkins J

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we aimed to elucidate the physiological role of gammadelta intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) in the mouse intestine. For this purpose, we used T-cell receptor (TCR) Vgamma4/Vdelta5 transgenic mice (KN 6 Tg: BALB/c background, H-2d), and compared the immunological and physiological characteristics of the ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Matsumoto S,Nanno M,Watanabe N,Miyashita M,Amasaki H,Suzuki K,Umesaki Y

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that the single autosomal recessive lpr and gld genes are responsible for the accumulation of unusual T-cell subsets. Although these subsets have been assigned to the T-cell lineage, they share certain antigenic cell surface markers with mature B lymphocytes. Consequently the maturational path...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Waterfield JD,Fairhurst M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-human milk fat globule membrane monoclonal antibodies HMFG-1 and HMFG-2 recognize epitopes within the protein core of human polymorphic epithelial mucin (PEM). These have been identified as PDTR and DTR, respectively. Using the solid phase synthesis of immobilized tetrameric peptides, we have systematically inves...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Briggs S,Price MR,Tendler SJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00