Generation and maintenance of memory T cells.

abstract：:We are in a 'golden age' of mouse genetics. Genetic engineering and micromanipulation techniques now allow not only the overexpression or misexpression of transgenes randomly inserted into the mouse genome, but also the directed homologous replacement of normal genes with transgenes coding for null or mutant alleles (...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Seldin DC

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of NKT cells has been rapidly advancing over recent years, with many research groups studying how these cells behave and how they can be manipulated to prevent disease. Although good progress has been made, a difficulty is the lack of a clear consensus about how to assay, or even identify, NKT cells....

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Berzins SP,Smyth MJ,Godfrey DI

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classification of T helper (T(H)) cells in subsets has progressively expanded and more effector subsets, besides T(H)1 and T(H)2, have been documented. These include follicular helper T cells (T(FH)), and the more recent T(H)17, 'T(H)9', and 'T(H)22'. In addition, T(H) are no longer thought of as terminally commit...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Veldhoen M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are increasingly recognized as the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Effective, affordable and broadly accessible medicines for their treatment are much sought after. Therapeutic B-cell vaccines aim at inducing neutralizing auto-reactive antibodies against impor...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Röhn TA,Bachmann MF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of the regulation of antigen receptor rearrangement have revealed several completely new levels of control. Not only do antigen receptor loci undergo changes in histone modifications as they become accessible for recombination, but also the number of different histone modifications and the variation at ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Feeney AJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of pathogenic autoantibodies in organ-specific autoimmune diseases is largely T cell dependent. For many of these diseases, the precise specificities and cytokine profiles of the T cells that respond to the corresponding autoantigens have now been identified. This knowledge has been exploited to treat s...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Elson CJ,Barker RN

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three known lineages of antigen-presenting molecules restrict T-cell responses to microbial antigens: MHC class I and MHC encoded class I like molecules present peptides derived from the proteolysis of intracellular pathogens, MHC class ii molecules present peptides derived from the proteolysis of extracellular pathog...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Melián A,Beckman EM,Porcelli SA,Brenner MB

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germinal centers (GCs) are well known for their important role in shaping the secondary B cell repertoire to generate antibodies capable of binding with high-affinity and specificity to foreign antigens. Somatic hypermutation of the Ig variable region genes in GC B cells represents a highly efficient mechanism for gen...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Lau AW,Brink R

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invariant chain (Ii) has been shown to play a critical role in the assembly, intracellular transport and function of MHC class II molecules. Recent studies suggest that these distinct activities can in many cases be attributed to distinct isoforms of Ii or to specific regions within it. Thus, regulation of Ii synt...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Sant AJ,Miller J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell exhaustion represents a continuous spectrum of cellular dysfunction induced during chronic viral infection, facilitating viral persistence and associating with poor clinical outcome. Modulation of T cell exhaustion can restore function in exhausted CD8 T cells, promoting viral clearance. Exhaustion has also bee...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： McKinney EF,Smith KG

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) is the most recent mosquito-transmitted virus to cause a global health crisis following its entrance into a naïve population in the Western Hemisphere. Once the ZIKV outbreak began investigators rapidly established small and large animal models of pathogenesis, developed a number candidate vaccines u...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Richner JM,Diamond MS

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V(D)J recombination in B and T cells is required for the generation of receptors with a broad spectrum of specificity to foreign antigen. A total number of three immunoglobulin (Ig) and four T cell receptor (Tcr) loci can be targeted by the recombinase enzyme (RAG1/2) in a defined series of recombination events, which...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Chaumeil J,Skok JA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that causes most heart attacks and strokes, making it the biggest killer in the world. Although cholesterol-lowering drugs have dramatically reduced these major adverse cardiovascular events, there remains a high residual risk called inflammatory risk. Atherosclerosis ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Kobiyama K,Saigusa R,Ley K

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmark of the innate immune response of higher insects is the rapid and transient synthesis of a battery of broad spectrum antimicrobial peptides by the fat body. The control of the genes encoding these peptides involves cis-regulatory promoter elements homologous to sequences functional in mammalian acute-phase...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Hoffmann JA,Reichhart JM,Hetru C

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T (Treg) cells suppress effector T (Teff) cells and prevent immune-mediated rejection of cancer. Much less appreciated are mechanisms by which Teff cells antagonize Treg cells. Herein, we consider how complex reciprocal interactions between Teff and Treg cells shape their population dynamics within tumors. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Roychoudhuri R,Eil RL,Restifo NP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent high-dimensional technologies have enabled the characterization of heterogeneity in the neutrophil compartment at an unprecedented resolution. In this review, we discuss the emerging notion of heterogeneity within the neutrophil pool, and provide a detailed account of evolving concepts in the field. We place sp...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Rubio-Ponce A,Hidalgo A,Ballesteros I

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesive phenotypes expressed by Plasmodium-falciparum-infected erythrocytes were previously thought simply to permit sequestration of parasites in the peripheral circulation. Recent work has illuminated how falciparum-infected erythrocytes may modulate the function of monocytes, macrophages and myeloid dendritic ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Urban BC,Roberts DJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination against intracellular pathogens requires generation of a pool of memory T cells able to respond upon infection and mediate either killing of the infected cell or induce killing mechanisms in the infected cell. T cell-inducing vaccines must aim to target the antigen to antigen-presenting cells (APCs) so tha...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Griffiths KL,Khader SA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V(D)J recombination not only comprises the molecular mechanism that insures diversity of the immune system but also constitutes a critical checkpoint in the developmental program of B and T lymphocytes. The analysis of human patients with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) has enabled (and will enable in the fut...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： de Villartay JP,Poinsignon C,de Chasseval R,Buck D,Le Guyader G,Villey I

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells participate in the process of allograft rejection by promoting both the recruitment and the activation of alloreactive T cells. There have been three major recent advances in the field of interactions between T cells and endothelial cells that are of direct relevance to the process of cell-m...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Briscoe DM,Alexander SI,Lichtman AH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eosinophil is regarded as a key mediator of the pathology and abnormal physiology of bronchial asthma. Current investigations are directed at understanding how eosinophils are attracted into the respiratory tract and how they bring about the abnormalities characteristic of this disease. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Seminario MC,Gleich GJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune system function declines with age. Here we review and compare age-associated changes in murine and human B cell pools and humoral immune responses. We summarize changes in B cell generation and homeostasis, as well as notable changes at the subcellular level; then discuss how these changes help to explain alter...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Scholz JL,Diaz A,Riley RL,Cancro MP,Frasca D

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most viral vaccines provide protection from infection through the generation of neutralizing antibodies (nAbs). The repertoire of B cells responding to immunization is the starting material from which nAbs eventually arise. Immunization strategies are increasingly targeting precise B cell specificities to mimic nAbs g...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Havenar-Daughton C,Abbott RK,Schief WR,Crotty S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adoptive transfer of donor-type CD4(+)CD25(+)FOXP3(+) regulatory T cells (Treg) protects from graft-versus-host disease in murine bone marrow transplantation models. Results from first clinical trials exploring such strategies have recently been presented and seem to confirm the efficacy of Treg for the prevention...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Edinger M,Hoffmann P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological memory can be regulated during either its development or its maintenance phases. Controversy and confusion surround both methods of regulation, especially in the field of T-cell memory. Recent work has helped in improving our definition of 'a memory cell', but this has been complicated by another major p...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Gray D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate and adaptive immune responses target pathogenic fungi and provide defense against fungal infections. Recent studies demonstrate that specific host receptors recognize ligands that are unique to fungi and activate signaling cascades that lead to phagocytosis of fungi, generation of pro-inflammatory mediators, fo...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Hohl TM,Rivera A,Pamer EG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor vaccinology is as old as immunological thought and as young as our rapidly evolving understanding of antigen processing and presentation. The recent availability of carbohydrate and peptide tumor antigens suitable for vaccine construction, conjugate and recombinant vector technologies capable of augmenting helpe...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Livingston PO

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer results from a tumor cell intrinsic dysregulation of oncogenes, tumor suppressor and stability genes as well as from the avoidance of immunosurveillance. A complex network of cellular interactions allows one to mount cognate anti-tumor immune responses. Recently, discoveries have been made regarding the links b...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Ghiringhelli F,Apetoh L,Housseau F,Kroemer G,Zitvogel L

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages have specialized functions in different tissue microenvironments such as lymphohaemopoietic organs and the nervous system. Recently, progress has been made in defining cellular and molecular properties of isolated and tissue macrophages in the developing and adult animal. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Gordon S,Fraser I,Nath D,Hughes D,Clarke S

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression variation is critical for the normal development and physiology of immune cells. Using cDNA microarrays, a systematic, genomic-scale view of gene expression in immune cells at many stages of differentiation and activation can be obtained. From the high vantagepoint provided by this technology, the gene...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Alizadeh AA,Staudt LM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00