How human leukocytes track down and destroy pathogens: lessons learned from the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum.

abstract：:We retrospectively analyzed the transplantation outcomes of 31 patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases treated at our center (All Children's Hospital, University of South Florida) since its inception in 1986. The primary immune diseases included severe combined immunodeficiency, Wiscott-Aldrich syndrome, X-lin...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Petrovic A,Dorsey M,Miotke J,Shepherd C,Day N

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed that interleukin (IL)-28B gene polymorphisms were associated with hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection and treatment outcomes. We tested whether single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IL-28A and IL-28B are associated with HCV infection among Egyptians with HCV genotype 4 infections. We enrolled...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Zakaria ZA,Knapp S,Hashem M,Zaghla H,Thursz M,Waked I,Abdelwahab S

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LSP1 is an F-actin bundling cytoskeletal protein expressed in hematopoietic lineage and endothelial cells. We investigated the function of this protein by generating and analyzing an LSP1-deficient mouse strain and in this review we describe our findings together with those of other investigators. The results show a c...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Jongstra-Bilen J,Jongstra J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various multisubunit receptors of the immune system share similarities in structure and induce closely related signal transduction pathways upon ligand binding. Examples include the T cell antigen receptor (TCR), the B cell antigen receptor (BCR), and the high-affinity receptor for immunoglobulin E (Fc epsilon RI). Al...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Caplan S,Baniyash M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WASP, the product of the gene mutated in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, is expressed only in hematopoietic cells and is the archetype of a family of proteins that include N-WASP and Scar/WAVE. WASP plays a critical role in T cell activation and actin reorganization. WASP has multiple protein-interacting domains. Through it...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Ramesh N,Geha R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a nonacute transforming retrovirus that causes mammary tumors in susceptible strains of mice. Upon milk-borne transmission, B cells in the gut become infected and subsequently present a virus-encoded superantigen to cognate T cells. These T cells become activated and, in turn, stimu...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Czarneski J,Rassa JC,Ross SR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (.NO) is a freely diffusible inter- and intracellular messenger produced by a variety of mammalian cells including vascular endothelium, neurons, smooth muscle cells, macrophages, neutrophils, platelets, and pulmonary epithelium. In smooth muscle cells, platelets, and neutrophils, .NO raises intracellular...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Aslan M,Freeman BA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In performing host-defense functions, cells of the immune system become activated by soluble chemokine signals and must migrate through endothelial cell or solid tissue barriers to reach sites of inflammation or infection. Regulated adhesive interactions of immune cells with endothelium, extracellular matrix component...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Hauck CR,Klingbeil CK,Schlaepfer DD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corn, soybean, spinach leaf, and tomato aquaporins have been shown to share homology with human aquaporin-4, which is abundantly expressed by brain astrocytic endfeet. Thus, antibodies formed against the dietary aquaporins may potentially cross-react with brain aquaporin, leading to blood-brain barrier permeability an...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Lambert J,Mejia S,Vojdani A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has a long tradition of excellence in immunology research and training. Faculty, students, and postdoctoral fellows walk through hallways that are pictorial reminders of the days when Dr. Jonas Salk worked here to develop the polio vaccine, or when Dr. Niels Jerne chaire...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Finn OJ,Salter RD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The examination of the immune T cell response to herpes simplex virus (HSV) antigen glycoprotein D (gD) in an ongoing infection has revealed a uniquely broad range of antigenic determinants seen. This has been shown in the murine T cell response to gD determinants where over 60% of the overlapping peptides are recogni...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Heber-Katz E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-HMGCR antibodies represent a characteristic serological feature of statin-exposed and statin-unexposed patients with immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM). We assessed anti-HMGCR antibodies in patients with suspected IMNM following statin exposure and patients with other autoimmune rheumatic diseases. We ev...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Shovman O,Gilburd B,Chayat C,Lazar AD,Amital H,Blank M,Bentow C,Mahler M,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now apparent that naïve peripheral T cells are a dynamic population where active processes prevent inappropriate activation while supporting survival. The process of thymic education makes naïve peripheral T cells dependent on interactions with self-MHC for survival. However, as these signals can potentially res...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Modiano JF,Johnson LD,Bellgrau D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in molecular medicine have shown that soluble MHC-multimers can be valuable tools for both analysis and modulation of antigen-specific immune responses in vitro and in vivo. In this review, we describe the use of dimeric human and mouse major histocompatibility complexes, MHC-Ig, as part of an artifici...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Oelke M,Schneck JP

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have elucidated unanticipated connections between the immune and skeletal systems, and this relationship has led to the development of a new field known as osteoimmunology. The goal of research in this field is to: (1) further understand how the bone microenvironment influences immune cell ontogeny and ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Mensah KA,Li J,Schwarz EM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is an autoimmune disease associated with complement activation. It is unclear whether the ratio of serum C3 and C4 concentrations (C3/C4 ratio) can predict renal outcomes in IgAN patients. A total of 1503 patients diagnosed with IgAN via renal biopsy were recorded in this study. Poor renal outco...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Pan M,Zhou Q,Zheng S,You X,Li D,Zhang J,Chen C,Xu F,Li Z,Zhou Z,Zhang J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by cartilage and bone loss resulting in pain, deformity, and loss of joint function. Anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) has been implicated in RA pathogenesis and predicts radiographical joint damage and clinical severity. Therefore, the purpose of thi...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Dusad A,Duryee MJ,Shaw AT,Klassen LW,Anderson DR,Wang D,Ren K,Gravallese EM,O'Dell JR,Mikuls TR,Thiele GM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have been used as targeted treatments against cancer for more than a decade, with mixed results. Research is needed to understand mAb mechanisms of action with the goal of improving the efficacy of currently used mAbs and guiding the design of novel mAbs. While some mAb-induced tumor cell k...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Rogers LM,Veeramani S,Weiner GJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used MAb to L3T4 to examine the function of L3T4+ T cells in normal and autoimmune mice. Treatment of mice with MAb to L3T4 profoundly depleted L3T4+ cells from the blood, spleen, and lymph nodes, but not the thymus. In BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice, selective depletion of L3T4+ cells blocked both primary and second...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Wofsy D,Seaman WE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not unusual for antigens and potentially responsive T cells to co-exist in the same organism while these T cells remain silent and do not mount life-threatening immune responses. A rich array of mechanisms has been proposed to explain these observations. T cell silencing is controlled in multiple levels. Initial...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Melero I,Arina A,Chen L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe herein a 61-year-old woman who presented with fever, night sweats and cough. The diagnosis of pneumonia was established, but with symptom recurrence following antibiotic therapy, further diagnostics were performed. Biopsy via bronchoscopy revealed cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, and later on follow-up, a...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Gueta I,Shoenfeld Y,Orbach H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indigenous oral microflora and the host are normally in a state of equilibrium; however, the introduction of a pathogen can result in innate and adaptive immune responses that either contribute to the development of the disease or lead to host immunity. The interactions between the microorganisms and the host are ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Michalek SM,Katz J,Childers NK,Martin M,Balkovetz DF

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review of the events leading to the New Era of Immunology focuses on the important leads provided by the Experiments of Nature. Not only did they provide the path that led to our present knowledge of the ontogeny of the immune system, but also to an entirely new perspective of lymphocytic malignancies. The power ...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Peterson RD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) have been associated with several names and functions over time, reflecting the limited availability of specific markers and their ability to produce large amounts of type I interferons, present antigens, as well as prime disparate T-cell helper responses. Yet, there is increasing e...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Barchet W,Blasius A,Cella M,Colonna M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3d is the final degradation product of the third component of complement (C3). When conjugated to an antigen, C3d enhances immune responses to the fused antigen. Therefore, this molecule has been used as an adjuvant to enhance the immune responses to various foreign and self-proteins. C3d binds to the complement rece...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Toapanta FR,Ross TM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of our work is to understand, from the molecular to the organismal level, the principles that drive and sustain lifelong infection by viruses. These infectious agents live in a dynamic equilibrium (homeostasis) with their hosts in which both immune and nonimmune pathways contribute to viral homeostasis. Disru...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Ghazal P,García-Ramírez J,González-Armas JC,Kurz S,Angulo A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the biologic and molecular genetic underpinnings of multiple myeloma (MM) have identified the pleiotropic, pro-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-6 (IL-6), as a factor crucial to the growth, proliferation and survival of myeloma cells. IL-6 is also a potent stimulator of osteoclastogenesis and a sculptor of...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Rosean TR,Tompkins VS,Tricot G,Holman CJ,Olivier AK,Zhan F,Janz S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human α-fucosidase (EC 3.2.1.51) is an enzyme (hydrolase) of particular biological and medical interest, as the inherited deficiency in its activity leads to fucosidosis, a pathology belonging to severe glycoprotein lysosomal storage disorders. Although its importance has increased in latest years, data about its plas...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Endreffy I,Bjørklund G,Szerafin L,Chirumbolo S,Urbina MA,Endreffy E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently established new bone marrow transplantation (BMT) methods for the treatment of intractable diseases. The methods include the perfusion method (PM) for the collection of bone marrow cells, and intra-bone marrow (IBM)-BMT for the direct injection of collected whole bone marrow cells into the bone marrow...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Ikehara S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is defined by buds of granulation tissue within lung distal airspaces. The diagnosis requires the histopathologic evidence of organizing pneumonia along with a suggestive clinical and radiographic pattern. This disorder is characterized by a good response to cortico...

journal_title：Immunologic research

authors： Rojas CM,Borella E,Palma L,Ragozzino S,De Ramón E,Gomez-Huelgas R,Punzi L,Doria A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00