Genes in the MHC that may affect antigen processing.

abstract：:Recent research in systemic lupus erythematosus and animal models of lupus has provided new insight into the pathogenesis of this complex autoimmune disease. Progress has been made towards understanding the genetic contributions to disease susceptibility and induction, as well as towards elucidation of the lymphocyte ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Drake CG,Kotzin BL

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Applications of the polymerase chain reaction have revolutionized the field of immunogenetics, particularly in studies of human leukocyte antigen class II polymorphism, and more recently in the analysis of T-cell receptor usage. However, the enormous diversity and variability of the T-cell receptor complex have made t...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Panzara MA,Oksenberg JR,Steinman L

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of defined tumor antigens and their application in therapeutic cancer vaccines has not yet resulted in a successful therapy for cancer patients. Recent data suggest that this might be because most current clinical immunotherapeutic strategies rely on a tolerized tumor-reactive T-cell repertoire, resultin...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Overwijk WW

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although twelve years have passed since the identification of HIV as the cause of AIDS, we do not yet know how HIV kills its target, the CD4+ T cell, nor how this killing cripples the immune system. Prominent theories include direct killing of infected CD4+ T cells by the action or accumulation of cytopathic viral DNA...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Finkel TH,Banda NK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred years ago, the 1918 H1N1 Pandemic killed 20 million people worldwide. Despite the introduction of a worldwide surveillance system, large-scale production of influenza vaccines coupled with annual vaccination schemes, influenza remains a major public health concern. Prevention of influenza on a population b...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Andrews SF,McDermott AB

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Rheumatoid arthritis is often considered to be an autoimmune disease in which the abnormal immunological response is triggered by an infectious agent(s) but progress towards identifying such extrinsic factors has so far been unrevealing. In contrast, the genetic component of host susceptibility is slowly becoming clea...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wordsworth P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymocytes co-expressing the CD4 and CD8 co-receptors differentiate into mature T cells that express either CD4 or CD8 and have helper or cytotoxic functions, respectively. Recent studies indicate that commitment to the CD4+ or CD8+ lineages occurs stochastically, but retention of the appropriate co-receptor is requir...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Davis CB,Littman DR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell responses are regulated by integrating positive and negative signals from costimulatory and inhibitory receptors. While the function of specific T cell costimulatory molecules during infections has been appreciated for some time, recent observations have now revealed a crucial role for inhibitory receptors in r...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Crawford A,Wherry EJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppressor T cells down-regulate the activity of other cells in the immune system, and, albeit controversial, are believed to play a role in immunological tolerance and immunoregulation. Significant progress has been made in characterizing suppressor T cells and their receptors, and in elucidating mechanisms of immuno...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Murphy DB

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strong genetic association of ERAP1 (endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 1) with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), which is restricted to HLA-B27 positive cases, has profound pathogenetic implications. ERAP1 is involved in trimming peptides to optimal length for binding to HLA class 1 molecules, thereby not only affec...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Keidel S,Chen L,Pointon J,Wordsworth P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevailing paradigm ascribes activation of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) to the detection of CpG-motifs within pathogen derived DNA. However, new work ties natural phospho-diester (PD) DNA recognition by TLR9 to the detection of the DNA sugar backbone 2' deoxyribose. PD 2' deoxyribose homopolymers lacking DNA bases ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wagner H

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal vaccines may be used both to prevent mucosal infections through the activation of antimicrobial immunity and to treat systemic inflammatory diseases through the induction of antigen-specific mucosal tolerance. New, efficient mucosal adjuvants for human use have been designed based on, amongst others, bacterial...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Eriksson K,Holmgren J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of Type 1 diabetes research has been quick to embrace the era of translational medicine in the recent epoch. Building upon some 30 years of intense immunological research, the past decade has been marked by a series of clinical trials designed to evaluate the potential beneficial effects of a range of immune...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Roep BO,Peakman M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen presentation by CD80/CD86-positive 'professional APCs' induces T-cell activation, whereas antigen presentation in the absence of sufficient CD80/CD86 costimulation may induce a form of tolerance. Blocking CD80/CD86 constimulation inhibits autoimmune disease progression in a variety of animal models, but whethe...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Lu P,Wang YL,Linsley PS

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toll-like receptors (TLRs) of the innate immune system detect host invasion by pathogens and initiate immune responses. All of the TLRs use the adaptor MyD88 to transduce a signal; however, two newly identified signaling molecules, TIRAP and TRIF, interact with a subset of the TLRs, suggesting a signaling specific...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Kopp E,Medzhitov R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with helminths has been associated with lower rates of asthma and other allergic diseases. This has been attributed, in part, to the ability of helminths to induce regulatory T cells that suppress inappropriate immune responses to allergens. Recent compelling evidence suggests that helminths may promote regu...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Logan J,Navarro S,Loukas A,Giacomin P

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Follicular helper T cells provide signals that promote B cell development, proliferation, and production of affinity matured and appropriately isotype switched antibodies. In addition to their classical locations within B cell follicles and germinal centers therein, B cell helper T cells are also found in extrafollicu...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Seth A,Craft J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteric microbial pathogens interact with the gut epithelium to establish infection. Recently, it has become clear that many microorganisms that colonize or traverse the intestinal mucosa do so via the specialized M cells. Recent work has shown that Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhimurium specifically target M ce...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Jones B,Pascopella L,Falkow S

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-receptors have been shown to regulate the antigen-receptor signaling threshold for B cell responses by modulating the activation of signaling molecules that are essential for transmitting a signal through the antigen-receptor. Co-receptors appear to modulate the signaling threshold for B cell tolerance distinctly f...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Tsubata T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch family of evolutionarily conserved proteins regulates a broad spectrum of cell-fate decisions and differentiation processes during fetal and post-natal development. The best characterized role of Notch signaling during mammalian hematopoiesis and lymphopoiesis is the essential function of the Notch1 receptor...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Radtke F,Wilson A,MacDonald HR

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has seen the publication of significant new findings on the regulation of CD23 expression, the precise interaction of CD23 with CD21 and its functional consequences. Moreover, new advances have been made in unravelling the biochemical network of events downstream from the triggering of CD23 in human B ce...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Bonnefoy JY,Lecoanet-Henchoz S,Aubry JP,Gauchat JF,Graber P

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune system that can kill an array of tumor and infected cells and secrete cytokines that participate in the shaping of the adaptive immune response. While it was believed that NK cell effector responses are acquired during maturation and then fixed, it appears that...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Narni-Mancinelli E,Ugolini S,Vivier E

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17-producing T cells have recently been classified as a new effector T-cell subset, termed Th17, which is distinct from Th1, Th2 and Treg subsets. There has been much progress in the past year, leading to identification of the molecular mechanisms that drive differentiation of Th17 T cells. This has helped to clari...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Stockinger B,Veldhoen M

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Epstein-Barr virus induces a potent cytotoxic T lymphocyte response in man that is preferentially directed towards a particular subset of the virus latent cycle antigens; the immunodominance of these proteins, apparent in both primary and memory responses, may reflect some differential access to the HLA class I proces...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Rickinson AB,Lee SP,Steven NM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity, our inborn immediate defence mechanism, was thought for a long time to be non-specific and, consequently, research into innate mechanisms often took second place to research into adaptive immunity. In recent decades, however, the spotlight has shone on groundbreaking advances into mechanisms of innate...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Coutinho A,Poltorack A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has been refinement in our ability to delay the progression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection through the use of nucleoside analogues, singly or in combination. Progress has also been made in our ability to detect drug-resistant isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and to begin ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Lane HC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft versus host disease (GVHD) remains the major obstacle to the application of bone marrow transplantation across HLA barriers. Recent advances in our understanding of GVHD pathophysiology have resulted in the evaluation in animal models and in clinical trials of some novel approaches to avoiding and treating GVHD....

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Sykes M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00