Membrane-cytoskeleton interactions during the formation of the immunological synapse and subsequent T-cell activation.

abstract：:The interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)/interleukin-12 (IL-12) pathway is a pivotal player in the immune system and is central to controlling mycobacterial infections. We highlight the most recent and relevant advances in understanding this pathway and their repercussions on basic and clinical science. Human mutations in IFN...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Rosenzweig SD,Holland SM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM) is a highly conserved region in the cytoplasmic domain of signaling chains and receptors and is a critical mediator of intracellular signals. ITAM-mediated signals depend on the Syk or zeta-associated protein of 70 kDa tyrosine kinases, and ITAM signaling is re...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Humphrey MB,Lanier LL,Nakamura MC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes that encode molecules involved in antigen presentation within the class I and class II regions of the mammalian major histocompatibility complex (MHC) include several that are highly polymorphic. There is evidence that this polymorphism is maintained by positive selection, most likely overdominant selection,...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Yeager M,Hughes AL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aged animals and humans exhibit a decreased T-cell activation response although they also exhibit increased susceptibility to responses to self-antigens and a loss of self-tolerance. The age-related alteration in T-cell reactivity, polyclonal expansion of T cells, and enhanced production of autoantibodies may reflect ...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Hsu HC,Scott DK,Mountz JD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of the complement system by canonical and non-canonical mechanisms results in the generation of multiple C3 and C5 cleavage fragments including anaphylatoxins C3a and C5a as well as opsonizing C3b/iC3b. It is now well appreciated that anaphylatoxins not only act as pro-inflammatory mediators but as immu...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Verschoor A,Karsten CM,Broadley SP,Laumonnier Y,Köhl J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful immune response depends on the migration of lymphocytes into lymph nodes or inflamed tissues where they make contact with antigen-presenting cells. We are interested in how one member of the integrin family, leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1), controls the function and, in particular, the mig...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Smith A,Stanley P,Jones K,Svensson L,McDowall A,Hogg N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review a novel strategy for tolerance induction developed in rhesus macaques and termed STEALTH. We summarize the evolution of the STEALTH model, the results of successful trials in inducing long-term, stable transplant tolerance in rhesus kidney and diabetic islet recipients and discuss information related to the ...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Thomas JM,Hubbard WJ,Sooudi SK,Thomas FT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils play a prominent pro-inflammatory role in allergic inflammation. Studies utilizing flow chambers, intravital video-microscopy, and cytokine and adhesion molecule-deficient mice have provided important insight into the mechanisms of eosinophil trafficking in inflamed blood vessels and into tissues in vivo. ...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Broide D,Sriramarao P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processes of T-cell development and activation employ similar immature and mature receptors as well as similar signal transduction pathways to achieve different outcomes. Many signaling molecules are shared between the receptor signaling pathways, including two families of cytoplasmic protein tyrosine kinases, the...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Chu DH,Morita CT,Weiss A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton network forms a key link between T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) stimulation and T-cell effector functions, providing a structural basis for T-cell morphological changes and signal transduction. Accumulating evidence positions the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp), a scaffolding protein that...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Matalon O,Reicher B,Barda-Saad M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses have often been associated with autoimmune diseases. One mechanism by which self-destruction can be triggered is molecular mimicry. Many examples of cross-reactive immune responses between pathogens and self-antigens have been described. This review presents two transgenic models of autoimmune disease induced ...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： von Herrath MG,Evans CF,Horwitz MS,Oldstone MB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that mast cells (MCs), in addition to acute allergic reactions, are involved in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases and in particular in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). MCs reside in connective tissues and in synovial tissue of joints. They produce an array of proinflammatory medi...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Eklund KK

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of some remarkable progress in our understanding of the immune response to parasites and in the molecular cloning of dozens of genes encoding for potentially protective proteins, no definitive step has yet been made towards operational vaccines against major human parasitic diseases. The reasons for our prese...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Capron A,Dessaint JP

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GITR [glucocorticoid inducible tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR)-related protein] and 4-1BB are costimulatory TNFR family members that are expressed on regulatory and effector T cells as well as on other cells of the immune system. Here we discuss the role of GITR and 4-1BB on T cells during viral infections and i...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Snell LM,Lin GH,McPherson AJ,Moraes TJ,Watts TH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer immunotherapy utilizing T-cell checkpoint inhibitors has shown tremendous clinical success. Yet, this mode of treatment is effective in only a subset of patients. Unresponsive patients tend to have non-T-cell-inflamed tumors that lack markers associated with the activation of adaptive anti-tumor immune response...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Akalu YT,Rothlin CV,Ghosh S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are a diverse subset of innate immune cells that are key regulators of the host response to human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection. HIV-1 directly and indirectly modulates DC function to hinder the formation of effective antiviral immunity and fuel immune activation. This review focuses...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Miller E,Bhardwaj N

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than a decade of intensive research, the precise role of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in determining the course of the infection remains open to argument. It is established that HIV-specific CTL appear early in the infection and are temporally associated with the...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Goulder P,Price D,Nowak M,Rowland-Jones S,Phillips R,McMichael A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive immunity has traditionally been considered a unique feature of vertebrate physiology. Unlike innate immune responses, which remain essentially unchanged upon exposure to a recurrent challenge with the same stimulus, adaptive immune cells possess the ability to learn and remember. Thus, secondary adaptive resp...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Paust S,Senman B,von Andrian UH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a cholestatic liver disease characterised by immune-mediated destruction of the biliary epithelial cells (BEC) lining the intrahepatic bile ducts (non-suppurative destructive cholangitis (NSDC)). Autoantibody and autoreactive T-cell responses specific for the self-antigen pyruvate de...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Yeaman SJ,Kirby JA,Jones DE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two distinct pathways by which T cells may recognize MHC alloantigens. The direct pathway involves T-cell recognition of intact MHC molecules expressed by donor antigen-presenting cells (APCs). The second, or indirect, pathway describes T-cell recognition of peptides derived from the processing and presentat...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Suciu-Foca N,Harris PE,Cortesini R

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The screening of tumor-derived expression libraries for antigens detected by high-titer immunoglobulin G antibodies from the sera of patients with cancer by SEREX (serological identification of antigens by recombinant expression cloning) allows a systematic search for antigens of human cancers. SEREX has led to the id...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Preuss KD,Zwick C,Bormann C,Neumann F,Pfreundschuh M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that control the maturation and production of interleukin-1 family members and play crucial roles in host defense against pathogens. However, dysregulated activation of inflammasomes is associated with intense inflammation, leading to the development of inflammatory diseases. T...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Takahama M,Akira S,Saitoh T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:Dengue viruses (DENV) are the mosquito-borne viruses of greatest global public health importance. DENV circulate as four serotypes with significant immunologic cross-reactivity that does not provide protection from secondary infection with heterologous serotypes. The strong association of severe dengue illness,...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Mathew A,Rothman AL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TET proteins are DNA demethylases that can oxidize 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to generate 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) and other oxidized mC bases (oxi-mCs). Importantly, TET proteins govern cell fate decisions during development of various cell types by activating a cell-specific gene expression program. In this review...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Tsagaratou A

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells (MCs) are major effector cells of immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated allergic inflammation. However, it has become increasingly clear that they also play important roles in diverse physiological and pathological processes. Recent advances have focused on the importance of MCs in both innate and adaptive immune...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Vliagoftis H,Befus AD

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiotypic networks, after being a dominating paradigm for more than a decade, have fallen out of fashion in parallel with the rapid success of molecular immunobiology. Today signs of a possible renaissance in idiotypic network studies are visible. For system biologists and also for physicists, the network idea remains...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Behn U

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human leukocyte receptor complex (LRC) contains at least 26 genes which belong to the immunoglobulin superfamily The genes include two clusters of immunoglobulin-like transcript (ILT)/leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor (LIR)/monocyte-macrophage inhibitory receptor (MIR) loci, a cluster of killer cell inhibitor...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Volz A,Wende H,Laun K,Ziegler A

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation underpins the development of atherosclerosis. Initiation and progression of vascular inflammation involves a complex cellular network, with macrophages as major contributors. Activated macrophages produce proinflammatory mediators, bridge innate and adaptive immunity, regulate lipid retention, and partici...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Yan ZQ,Hansson GK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of the microenvironment of human tumors led to the description of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) characterized by mature dendritic cells in a T-cell zone adjacent to B-cell follicle including a germinal center. TLS represent sites of lymphoid neogenesis that develop in most solid cancers. Anal...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Dieu-Nosjean MC,Giraldo NA,Kaplon H,Germain C,Fridman WH,Sautès-Fridman C

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system is organized as a number of distinct lymphoid organs interconnected by recirculating lymphocytes. These organs, such as lymph nodes, spleen, and gut-associated Peyer's patches, are compartmentalized, providing separate niches for T and B cells. In addition, regional compartmentalization of lymphoid o...

journal_title：Immunological reviews

authors： Kraal G,Samsom JN,Mebius RE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00