Down regulation of Fc receptors by IVIgG.

abstract：:The development of a strong cellular immune response is critical for the control of the intracellular pathogen Toxoplasma gondii. This occurs by activation of a complex, integrated immune response, which utilizes cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems. In the last two decades there have been major advances in...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Lieberman LA,Hunter CA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastric mucosal pathogen Helicobacter pylori induces autoantibodies directed against the gastric proton pump H+,K+-ATPase in 20-30% of infected patients. The presence of these autoantibodies is associated with severity of gastritis, increased atrophy, and apoptosis in the corpus mucosa, and patients with these aut...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Bergman MP,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Appelmelk BJ,D'Elios MM,Amedei A,Azzurri A,Benagiano M,Del Prete G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) as molecules able to redirect T lymphocytes toward tumor cells is currently being exploited in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Despite promising preliminary results, some clinical trials evidenced limitations for this technology that must be overcome for more extensi...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Chicaybam L,Sodré AL,Bonamino M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technology is described which combines the power of T lymphocytes in eliminating unwanted cells and causing beneficial inflammatory reactions with the great advantages of monoclonal antibodies. We show that heteroconjugate antibodies and hybrid antibodies, in which one of the component binding sites is anti-T-cell r...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Staerz UD,Bevan MJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncoding RNA comprises of microRNAs (miRNAs) and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) that are abundantly present in mammalian transcriptome. These noncoding RNAs have been implicated in multiple biological processes through the regulation of gene expression. Each of these noncoding RNAs were found to have multiple genes ta...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Roy S,Awasthi A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrations of both innate immunity and adaptive immunity in genetically predisposed individuals evoked by environmental factors are suggested to be implicated in pathophysiological processes of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Autophagy, a degradation pathway in which cytoplasmic content is engulfed and degraded b...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Zhou XJ,Cheng FJ,Zhang H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptors on human natural killer 9NK cells which can specifically bind the Fc portion of immunoglobulin molecules (Fc receptors) have been extensively studied. The best known and studied Fc receptor on human NK cells is FcgammaRIIIa. Interactions of NK cells with IgG antibodies via this receptor are well known to...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Sulica A,Morel P,Metes D,Herberman RB

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) is a significant problem in women of childbearing ages and is caused by Candida albicans, a commensal organism of the intestinal and reproductive tracts. As a result of this commensalism, most healthy individuals have demonstrable Candida-specific adaptive immunity that is con...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Fidel PL Jr

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells are professional antigen-presenting cells that maintain immune tolerance to self-antigens by deleting or controlling the pathogenicity of auto-reactive T-cells. Dendritic cell-based immunotherapies show great promise for the restoration of tolerance in autoimmune disease. Dendritic cells can be modifie...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Hilkens CM,Isaacs JD,Thomson AW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is a consequence of chronic inflammation and the persistent accumulation of extracellular matrix, for which the cycle of tissue injury and repair becomes a predominant feature. Both the innate and adaptive immune systems play key roles in the progress of fibrosis. The recently identified subsets of innate lym...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Tang J,Tian Z,van Velkinburgh JC,Song J,Wu Y,Ni B

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, advancements in molecular and cell biology have allowed scientists to identify a large number of new antigens from a variety of viral and bacterial pathogens. However, successful development of these antigens into effective vaccines strongly relies on delivery systems able to avoid the rapid...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Cutting SM,Hong HA,Baccigalupi L,Ricca E

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-talk within the innate immune pathways is highly complex and contains many unknowns. Here, we discuss the different combinations of PAMPs, together with the sequence, order, and dosage of consecutive PAMP challenges, which determine the nature of the immune response by macrophages. The engagement of different To...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Tan RS,Ho B,Leung BP,Ding JL

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) from human peripheral blood are susceptible to productive and probably to latent infection with HIV-I. Infection of DC also occurs in vivo since in HIV-seropositive individuals Langerhans' cells of the skin and DC from peripheral blood, (in preparation) are infected. In peripheral blood 3-25% of D...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Knight SC,Macatonia SE,Patterson S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of macaques is the best available animal model for studying the pathogenesis of AIDS. Experimental inoculation of macaques with SIV results in a persistent infection that leads to immunodeficiency, opportunistic infections, and death. Most aspects of the illness, including...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Johnson PR,Hirsch VM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) persists as a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease and is characterized by the production of autoantibodies and immune complexes that affect multiple organs. The underlying mechanism that triggers and sustains disease are complex and involve certain susceptibility genes and enviro...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Seitz HM,Matsushima GK

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and establishment of the B Cell Repertoire is the net result of both genetic and environmental forces. The primary event at the genetic level is Ig gene rearrangement resulting in numerous possible combination of genes which can be further modified by somatic events such as N segment addition and somat...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Kearney JF,Won WJ,Benedict C,Moratz C,Zimmer P,Oliver A,Martin F,Shu F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article summarizes a series of experiments which have been performed to describe an antigen-specific suppressor cell pathway for the suppression of the erythema and edema associated with an animal model of rheumatoid arthritis, collagen induced arthritis (CIA). Initial studies utilized the adoptive transfe...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Kresina TF

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABO-incompatible liver transplantation (ABOi LT) using conventional immunosuppression has been considered a contraindication due to the high risk for antibody-mediated complications potentially resulting in graft loss. However, organ shortage has led to the development of anti-A/B antibody reducing immunosuppressive p...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Dahlgren US,Bennet W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) are the most potent and versatile antigen-presenting cells (APC) in the immune system. DC have an exceptional ability to comprehend the immune context of a captured antigen based on molecular signals identified from its vicinity. The analyzed information is then conveyed to other immune effector c...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Volovitz I,Melzer S,Amar S,Bocsi J,Bloch M,Efroni S,Ram Z,Tárnok A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human membrane and soluble Fc epsilon receptors (Fc epsilon RI, Fc epsilon RII/CD23) and Fc gamma receptors (Fc gamma RI/CD64, Fc gamma RII/CD32, Fc gamma RIII/CD16) have been implicated in a number of diseases. Their functional roles such as capture and clearance of immune complexes, antibody-dependent cell cytotoxic...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Rouard H,Tamasdan S,Moncuit J,Moutel S,Michon J,Fridman WH,Teillaud JL

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In these studies we have emphasized the apparent developmental hierarchy of B cell development and assigned a role for the multispecific self idiotype reactive B cells which develop first, in promoting the development of later appearing clones of B cells. These early sets of interconnecting clones of B cells bridge be...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Vakil M,Kearney JF

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue, we are hosting several reviews on topics of broad interests, such as therapeutic or prophylactic antibodies, and the role of autophagy in autoimmunity. ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Bot A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus gordonii was engineered to express the microbicidal molecule H6, which is an antiidiotypic single chain antibody mimicking a yeast killer toxin. S. gordonii is a human commensal which we developed as a model system for mucosal delivery of heterologous proteins. The in vivo can...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Oggioni MR,Beninati C,Boccanera M,Medaglini D,Spinosa MR,Maggi T,Conti S,Magliani W,De Bernardis F,Teti G,Cassone A,Pozzi G,Polonelli L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B cell repertoire consists of three tiers of clonotype diversity. One tier, which is the product of H chain V region rearrangements in the absence of N additions, is of limited diversity (less than 10(8) clonotypes) so that clonotypes of this tier would be expected to recur within and among B cells of individuals ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Decker DJ,Klinman NR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer immunotherapy comprises different therapeutic strategies that exploit the use of distinct components of the immune system, with the common goal of specifically targeting and eradicating neoplastic cells. These varied approaches include the use of specific monoclonal antibodies, checkpoint inhibitors, cytokines,...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Figueroa JA,Reidy A,Mirandola L,Trotter K,Suvorava N,Figueroa A,Konala V,Aulakh A,Littlefield L,Grizzi F,Rahman RL,Jenkins MR,Musgrove B,Radhi S,D'Cunha N,D'Cunha LN,Hermonat PL,Cobos E,Chiriva-Internati M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) establishes a latent infection within sensory neurons and periodically reactivates in response to stress. HSV's ability to inhabit neurons for the life of the host involves a number of virally encoded functions that tightly regulate the latency-reactivation cycle, preventing uncontrolled spr...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Bloom DC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Human leukocyte antigen G (HLA-G) is a non-classical HLA class I molecule involved in inducing tolerance at the feto-maternal interface and in escape of immune response by tumor cells. The aim of the study is to review the published literature on the expression of HLA-G in malignant melanomas and its clinicop...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Marletta S,Girolami I,Munari E,Pantanowitz L,Bernasconi R,Torresani E,Brunelli M,Eccher A

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge on the physiological role of CD4(+) T lymphocytes has improved in the last decade: available data convincingly demonstrate that, besides the 'helper' activity, CD4(+) T cells may be also endowed with lytic properties. The cytotoxic function of these effector cells has a relevant role in the control of pa...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Martorelli D,Muraro E,Merlo A,Turrini R,Rosato A,Dolcetti R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a prototypic antibody-mediated autoimmune disease. Since the primary target antigen of the autoimmune response is known and a well-characterized animal model is available, MG is often considered an excellent situation for the application of novel specific immunotherapies, many of which are di...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Infante AJ,Kraig E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells are infected with viruses, they may trigger their apoptosis programs. In unicellular organisms, this may have protected cell populations by limiting viral replication from infected cells. Multicellular organisms can also trigger the apoptosis program after viral infection. In response, viruses have evolved ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Aubert M,Jerome KR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00