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:This article reviews the evidence for the danger model in the context of immune response to tumors and the insufficiency of the immune system to eliminate tumor growth. Despite their potential immunogenicity tumors do not induce significant immune responses which could destroy malignant cells. According to the danger model, the immune surveillance system fails to detect tumor antigens because transformed cells do not send any danger signals which could activate dendritic cells and initiate an immune response. Instead, tumor cells or antigen presenting cells turn off the responding T cells and induce tolerance. The studies reviewed herein based on model tumor antigens, recombinant viral vectors and detection of tumor specific T cells by MHC/peptide tetramers underscore the critical role of tumor antigen presentation and the context in which it occurs. They indicate that antigen presentation only by activated but not by cancer or resting dendritic cells is necessary for the induction of immune responses to tumor antigens. It becomes apparent that the inability of dendritic cells to become activated provides a biological niche for tumor escape from immune destruction and seems to be a principal mechanism for the failure of tumor immune surveillance.
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2002-01-01 00:00:00pages
295-302issue
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1734-154Xjournal_volume
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杂志文章,评审abstract::Aspergillus fumigatus is one of the most prevalent airborne fungal pathogens causing infections worldwide. Most A. fumigatus strains are susceptible to azoles, which are administered as the first line therapeutics. However, during last decade the acquired resistance to triazoles by these species has been described. Th...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.18388/abp.2015_1143
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1981-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::To downregulate expression of the beta1 integrin subunit in endothelial cells, plasmid encoding the ribozyme cassette containing hammerhead ribozyme flanked at the 5' terminus by tRNA(Val) and at the 3' terminus by constitutive transport element sequences was constructed. When used to transfect immortalized human endo...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1978-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Diabetes is one of the major challenges of modern medicine, as it is considered a global epidemic of the XXI century. The disease often leads to the development of serious, health threatening complications. Diabetic foot syndrome is a characteristic set of anatomical and molecular changes. At the macroscopic level, ma...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.18388/abp.2020_2884
更新日期:2020-03-19 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The photochemical characteristics of mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts isolated from the leaves of C4 species were investigated in Zea mays (NADP-ME type), Panicum miliaceum (NAD-ME type) and Panicum maximum (PEP-CK type) plants. The aim of this work was to gain information about selected photochemical properti...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::To establish the identity of testis-specific hsp70 gene-related transcript, the expression pattern of the hsp70 gene family in testis and liver of rats subjected to whole body hyperthermia was investigated. In control liver two hsp70 gene-related transcripts of about 2.2 and 2.5 kb were detected. Increased body temper...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) is an enzyme with proteolytic activity against matrix proteins, particularly basement membrane constituents. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at -1306, which disrupts a Sp1-type promoter site (CCACC box), displayed a strikingly lower promoter activity with the T allele. In the ...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.18388/abp.2019_2865
更新日期:2019-11-20 00:00:00
abstract::Basing on the use of highly specific antibodies it has been proved that ACTH induces synthesis of cytochrome P-450 and adrenodoxin in cultured adrenal cortex cells. ...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 更正并重新发布的文章,杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cirrhosis leads to an inability of the liver to perform its biochemical functions. It can also lead to hepatocellular carcinoma in which, as we showed lately, arginase isoenzyme pattern changes. The present work presents our results on arginase isoenzymes and their possible role in liver cirrhosis. The study was perfo...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The paper relates on the current advancements in the synthesis of complex cyclic terpenoids by superacidic induced cyclization of open chain precursors. It is shown that functional groups disposal in the initial substrate strongly influences the reaction outcome. Possible variations of the investigated compound struct...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recombination of subunits of rat liver arginase A1 and rat kidney arginase A4 yielded a product which in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and DEAE-cellulose chromatography separated into five proteins with arginase activity. Proteins I and V corresponded in polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis, DEAE-cellulose chromato...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The capabilities of porcine adrenal cortex mitochondria to oxidize glycerol-3-phosphate (GP) were studied. In comparison with bovine adrenal cortex mitochondria, porcine mitochondria oxidized GP about three times more actively (18.9 vs 6.1 nmol O(2)/min per mg protein in the presence of ADP) and the activity of mitoch...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:0451041075
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::An increasing body of evidence suggests that glycolipid domains are present on the plasma membrane surface of mammalian cells and play a key role in signal transduction. We have investigated the modulation of glycolipid-protein interaction consequent to a specific event occurring at the plasma membrane. For this purpo...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Human mitochondrial polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) is an exoribonuclease localized in mitochondria. The exact physiological function of this enzyme is unknown. Recent studies have revealed the existence of a relationship between induction of hPNPase mRNA and both cellular senescence and growth arrest of melano...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Translation of viral proteins from subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) is a common strategy among positive-stranded RNA viruses. Unlike host mRNA, sgRNA of Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) does not possess a cap at its 5' end nor a poly(A) tail at the 3' terminus, both of which are known to be crucial for translation of RNA in eukar...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We recently reported that kinobeon A, produced from safflower cells, suppressed the free radical-induced damage of cell and microsomal membranes. In the present study, we investigated whether kinobeon A quenches singlet oxygen, another important active oxygen species. Kinobeon A inhibited the singlet oxygen-induced ox...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cultivated carrot and its wild ancestor co-occur in most temperate regions of the world and can easily hybridize. The genetic basis of the process of domestication in carrot is not well understood. Recent results of an investigation on genetic diversity structure of cultivated and wild carrot and signatures for domest...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::X-ray crystallography provides important insights into structure-function relationship in biomolecules. However, protein crystals are usually hard to obtain which hinders our understanding of multiple important processes. Crystallization requires large amount of protein sample, whereas recombinant proteins are often u...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.18388/abp.2015_1026
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:In this work we studied the relationship between the enhanced expression of DR5 receptor and the effect of combination of TRAIL and ionizing radiation on cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induction in human leukemia cell line HL-60. MATERIAL AND METHODS:DR5, APO2.7 and cell cycle were analyzed by flow cytomet...
journal_title:Acta biochimica Polonica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00