Studies on glycoproteins in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Identification of a myristilated 45kDa merozoite membrane glycoprotein.

abstract：:Human regulatory T cells (Tregs) expressing the transcription factor FoxP3 play indispensable roles for the maintenance of immunological self-tolerance and immune homeostasis. In this review, we discuss immunological characteristics of human FoxP3(+) Tregs and to what extent they are similar to or different from the m...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Miyara M,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD8 co-receptor engages peptide-major histocompatibility complex class I (pMHCI) molecules at a largely invariant site distinct from the T-cell receptor (TCR)-binding platform and enhances the sensitivity of antigen-driven activation to promote effective CD8+ T-cell immunity. A small increase in the strength of th...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Dockree T,Holland CJ,Clement M,Ladell K,McLaren JE,van den Berg HA,Gostick E,L Miners K,Llewellyn-Lacey S,Bridgeman JS,Man S,Bailey M,Burrows SR,Price DA,Wooldridge L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By hybridization with a human interleukin-6 (IL-6) cDNA fragment a corresponding ruminant (ovine) cDNA was isolated from a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated alveolar macrophage library. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA and the predicted amino acid sequence of the protein showed significant homology to the human a...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Andrews AE,Barcham GJ,Ashman K,Meeusen EN,Brandon MR,Nash AD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last lustrum single-cell techniques such as single-cell quantitative PCR, RNA and DNA sequencing, and the state-of-the-art cytometry by time of flight (CyTOF) mass cytometer have allowed a detailed analysis of the sub-composition of different organs from the bone marrow hematopoietic compartment to the brain. T...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Proserpio V,Lönnberg T

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an allergic inflammatory response in the airway, if a failure of the epithelial cell barrier occurs before the systemic immune response is triggered by allergens, more allergens can invade. Using a rat model of asthma, we previously found that mucosal mast cells, which localise to the epithelial layer of the ai...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Liu S,Shudou M,Maeyama K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionarily conserved catabolic process of autophagy involves the degradation of cytoplasmic components through lysosomal enzymes. Basal levels of autophagy maintain cellular homeostasis and under stress conditions high levels of autophagy are induced. It is often under such stress conditions that high levels o...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Denton D,Xu T,Kumar S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic asthma is responsible for widespread morbidity and mortality and its incidence has increased dramatically in industrialized countries over the past two decades. Here, we describe a new murine model of allergic asthma utilizing a novel allergen with intrinsic enzymatic activity similar to that reported for man...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Marsland BJ,Camberis M,Le Gros G

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive immune system arose 600 million years ago in a cold-blooded fish. Over countless generations, our antecedents tuned the function of the T-cell receptor (TCR). The TCR system is arguably the most complex known to science. The TCR evolved hypervariability to fight the hypervariability of pathogens and cance...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Watkins TS,Miles JJ

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A feature common to many blood cell cancers is the uncoupling of normal proliferative and differentiative events, both of which are intimately linked in the cell's developmental programme. In some cancers, further differentiative events have been associated with oncogenic progression and, in other cancers, terminal di...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ho ES,O'Neill HC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier studies have demonstrated that gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists suppress immune system function in female mice. No systematic studies regarding the effect of gender on immune system function following GnRH agonist treatment, however, have been reported. This study, therefore, investigated seq...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rao LV,Cleveland RP,Kimmel RJ,Ataya KM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is important in the development of inflammatory bowel disease. TNF-alpha-deficient mice show more severe colonic inflammation than wild-type (Wt) mice, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Using immunohistochemistry, enzyme-linked-immunosorbent assay and histopathology, we found t...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Xu Y,Hunt NH,Bao S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concanavalin A (Con A)-induced hepatitis is thought to be a T-cell-mediated disease with active destruction of liver cells. Interleukin (IL)-17 is a cytokine produced principally by CD4(+) T cells. However, whether IL-17/IL-17 receptor (IL-17/IL-17R)-mediated responses are involved in T-cell-mediated Con A-induced liv...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yan S,Wang L,Liu N,Wang Y,Chu Y

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins and inhibins are members of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily that have been considered crucial regulators of cell processes, such as differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis, in different cell types. Initial studies about the function of activin A in the immune system focused on the regulation...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Aleman-Muench GR,Soldevila G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A derivative of ammonia caramel colour (AC) is known to induce a selective lymphopenia in rats. Accordingly, the haematological effects were studied in mice of oral administration in drinking water of 2-acetyl-4(5)-tetrahydroxybutylimidazole (THI), the component of AC responsible for lymphopenia. Initially five groups...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Iscaro A,Mackay IR,O'Brien C

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that SRBC can be opsonized with untreated human serum such that lysis by active complement components is minimal but sufficient opsonization occurs to permit high rates of complement-mediated phagocytosis. Phagocytosis of SRBC opsonized with 2% whole human serum by human monocyte-derived...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chan HT,Kedzierska K,O'Mullane J,Crowe SM,Jaworowski A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral immune response, that is, the production of antibodies by B cells, is a critical component of immunity to infection and underlies the protection provided by the majority of successful vaccines. This Special Feature explores some of the latest advances in understanding B cell activation and differentiation,...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Deenick EK

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-4 (IL-4) has previously been implicated in a protective response to Staphylococcus aureus corneal infection. Consequently, the specific role of IL-4 during S. aureus corneal infection was investigated using IL-4 gene knockout mice. The eyes of IL-4-/- mice and wild-type mice were challenged topically with ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Cole N,Hume EB,Khan S,Garthwaite L,Schubert T,Reeve V,Willcox MD

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multimammate rat Mastomys natalensis, when infected with the filarial parasite Acanthocheilonema viteae, develops amicrofilaraemia. Worm recovery and the duration and intensity of microfilaraemia were analysed and related to the humoral and cellular immune responses of the host by using an antibody-dependent cell-...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chandrashekar R,Rao UR,Subrahmanyam D

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses numerous mechanisms to avoid elimination by the infected host. In this study, we investigated the possibility whether, similar to other pathogens, M. tuberculosis exploits natural CD4+ CD25+ T-regulatory cells (Treg) to suppress the effector function of responding host lymphocytes, thus...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Quinn KM,McHugh RS,Rich FJ,Goldsack LM,de Lisle GW,Buddle BM,Delahunt B,Kirman JR

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian testis is an immunoprivileged organ where male germ cell autoantigens are immunologically ignored. Both systemic immune tolerance to autoantigens and local immunosuppressive milieu contribute to the testicular immune privilege. Testicular immunosuppression has been intensively studied, but information on...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Li N,Liu Z,Zhang Y,Chen Q,Liu P,Cheng CY,Lee WM,Chen Y,Han D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several histone deacetylases (HDACs) are involved in the regulation of forkhead box protein P3 (FOXP3) expression and function by affecting features of FOXP3 protein stability. FOXP3, a forkhead family transcription factor specially expressed in regulatory T (Treg) cells, controls the expression of many key immune-reg...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zhang H,Xiao Y,Zhu Z,Li B,Greene MI

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been described that polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) enhance the replication of CC-chemokine receptor 5/macrophage-tropic (R5) HIV in cultures of monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs). In this study, the inhibitory effect of glycyrrhizin (GL) on R5 HIV replication influenced by PMNs was investigated in MDM cu...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yoshida T,Kobayashi M,Li XD,Pollard RB,Suzuki F

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the production and characterization of three monoclonal antibodies (mAb) recognizing ovine vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1). The mAb were raised against sheep umbilical vein endothelial cells (ShUVEC) and flow cytometric analysis demonstrated that one mAb, QE4G9, was cross-reactive with hu...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Grooby WL,Krishnan R,Russ GR

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central pathogenic feature of AIDS is the dramatic loss of CD4+ lymphocytes. Despite more than a decade of intense research, the exact mechanism by which HIV causes this is still not understood. A major model for T cell depletion, proposed originally by Ameison and Capron in a report published in 1991, is that HIV...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Jaworowski A,Crowe SM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increase in the practice of sport by more and more numerous people in the Western countries is associated with an increase in muscle injuries, and in demand for improving muscle function and acceleration of muscle recovery after damage. Most of the treatments used target inflammation. Indeed, several lines of experime...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chazaud B

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell proliferative responses to rye and Bermuda grass pollen allergens have been studied in a series of 51 atopic and 18 non-atopic subjects. Mean T cell responses were higher in the atopic group than in the non-atopic group (P < 0.001), and there was a strong correlation between the magnitude of reaction in the T c...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Blaher B,McCluskey J,Puy R,Czarny D,Rolland JM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained-release vaccine delivery systems may enhance the immunogenicity of subunit vaccines and reduce the need for multiple vaccinations. The aim of this study was to develop a thermoresponsive hydrogel using poloxamer 407-chitosan (CP) grafted copolymer as a delivery system for single-shot sustained-release vaccin...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bobbala S,Gibson B,Gamble AB,McDowell A,Hook S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trace element zinc is essential for the survival and function of all cells. Zinc deficiency, whether nutritional or genetic, is fatal if left untreated. The effects of zinc deficiency are particularly obvious in the skin, seen as an erythematous rash, scaly plaques, and ulcers. Electron microscopy reveals degenera...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Wilson D,Varigos G,Ackland ML

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance abuse is a growing world-wide problem. The big four drugs of abuse that might lend themselves to immunotherapy are nicotine, cocaine, morphine/heroin and methamphetamine. Tobacco abuse has a well-known enormous impact on major chronic cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, while the last three, aside from th...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Kinsey BM,Jackson DC,Orson FM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:γδ T cells producing interleukin-17A (γδT17) are thought to develop spontaneously in the thymus and to be maintained in the periphery. Previous studies suggested a role for T-helper 17 (Th17) cells in the maintenance of γδT17 via the expression of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGFβ1). However, we have previously foun...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gupta PK,Wagner SR,Wu Q,Shilling RA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00