B cells: we need them now more than ever.

abstract：:The iscom is a delivery system, designed for both parenteral and mucosal modes of administration, for both antigens and adjuvants, components which are interchangeable. By the parenteral route a prominent systemic Th1 type of response is evoked, but the mucosal immunoglobulin A (IgA) response was insignificant. Intran...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Morein F,Bengtsson KL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells play a pivotal role in the immune system and are responsible for the synthesis and release of immunoglobulins. Numerous in vitro culture experiments on the yolk sac demonstrated the generation of mature cells of the myeloid and lymphoid lineages under appropriate culture conditions. However, there are no ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Kanayama N,Suganuma N,Terao T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon their activation, CD4 T cells can differentiate into distinct T helper cell subsets with specialised functions. Different T helper cell subsets produce specific cytokines that mediate beneficial and sometimes detrimental effects, depending on the infection or disease setting. CD4 T-cell priming relies on signals ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Coquet JM,Rausch L,Borst J

更新日期：2015-10-01 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

abstract：:The effect of serum on LPS-induced activation of a murine macrophage-like cell line, WEHI-3, was examined. Foetal calf serum strongly inhibited the production of nitric oxide (NO) and TNF-alpha by LPS-stimulated WEHI-3 cells, while it enhanced the production of both by other macrophage-like cell lines, J774.1 and BAM3...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ohki K,Amano F,Yamamoto S,Kohashi O

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by group A streptococcus (GAS) represent a public health problem in both developing and developed countries. The current available methods of prevention are either inadequate or ineffective, which is highlighted by the resurgence in invasive GAS infections over the past two decades. The management of...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Pandey M,Sekuloski S,Batzloff MR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three murine monoclonal antibodies (BC1, BC2 and BC3) were developed against human milk fat globule membrane (HMFGM). By immunoperoxidase staining, it was found that the antigenic determinants had a predominant distribution in breast cancer tissue. In addition, the antibodies reacted preferentially with mucin derived ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Xing PX,Tjandra JJ,Stacker SA,Teh JG,Thompson CH,McLaughlin PJ,McKenzie IF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The review articles in this special feature reflect the current status of knowledge in the field of exercise immunology, with a focus on how exercise affects the human immune system and the health implications for resistance to infections and neoplastic diseases. In an Olympic year, the emphasis of exercise immunology...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gleeson M

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells are multipotent cells capable of differentiating into different mesodermal cell types. Enigmatically, mesenchymal stromal cells present in the bone marrow support early lymphopoiesis yet can inhibit mature lymphocyte growth. Critical features of the bone marrow microenvironment, s...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Prado-Lòpez S,Duffy MM,Baustian C,Alagesan S,Hanley SA,Stocca A,Griffin MD,Ceredig R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are multifunctional cells that participate in numerous biological processes; they actively phagocytose foreign particles and cell debris. Embryonic tissue macrophages are present at early stages of mammalian development; their ontogeny and function is still under investigation. Our study used immunohistoch...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Yamashita A,Kanayama N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of autoimmune disease remains an enigma. Here, the condition is analysed from an evolutionary standpoint, and the thesis developed that viruses, in particular retroviruses, are important to our evolution, and that their inappropriate re-expression by repetitive (? ischaemic) cell damage in individuals...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Boyd GW

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) are ligand-activated transcription factors. There are three genes that code for the PPAR isoforms: PPARalpha, PPARbeta and PPARgamma. In the present review, studies characterizing the various PPAR isoforms are discussed. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Roberts-Thomson SJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ex vivo mammary explant systems are an excellent model to study interactions between epithelium and stromal cell types because they contain physiologically relevant heterotypic interactions in the background of genetically diverse patients. The intact human mammary tissue, termed patient-derived explant (PDE), can be ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gregory KJ,Morin SM,Kubosiak A,Ser-Dolansky J,Schalet BJ,Jerry DJ,Schneider SS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of conventional CD4(+) or CD8(+) T cells is usually driven by the interaction of double-positive CD4(+)CD8(+) thymocytes with epithelial cells. Here, we demonstrate preferential selection of CD8(+) thymocytes from in vitro differentiation of CD4(+)CD8(+) double-positive thymocytes exhibiting the characterist...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Biswas R,Mukherjee S,Sinha D,Ghosh AK,Biswas T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributing role of circulating human dendritic cell (DC) populations and basophils in the presentation and augmentation of Th2 responses remains to be determined. The present study aimed at elucidating the functional role of CD1c(+) myeloid DCs (mDCs), CD123(+) plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs), monocyte-derived DCs and b...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rydnert F,Lundberg K,Greiff L,Lindstedt M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During tuberculosis (TB) infection, the granuloma provides the microenvironment in which antigen-specific T cells colocate with and activate infected macrophages to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although the granuloma is the site for mycobacterial killing, virulent mycobacteria have developed a var...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Saunders BM,Britton WJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I heavy chain/beta(2)m heterodimers assemble with antigenic peptides through interactions with peptide-loading complex proteins, including tapasin and ERp57. In human cells, a cysteine residue within tapasin (C95) has been shown to form a covalent bond with ERp57. In this s...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Simone LC,Wang X,Tuli A,Solheim JC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though smallpox has been eradicated, the threat of accidental or intentional release has highlighted the fact there is little consensus about correlates of protective immunity or immunity against re-infection with the causative poxvirus, variola virus (VARV). As the existing vaccine for smallpox has unacceptable ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Panchanathan V,Chaudhri G,Karupiah G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their recent publication, Kuczma and colleagues have provided evidence that advances the relationship between naive T cells, T cell anergy and T regulatory cells. Their findings strengthen the understanding of how these T cell subsets function in relation to self and microbiota-derived epitopes to promote and maint...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Eggenhuizen PJ,Ng BH,Ooi JD

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8(+) T cells kill pancreatic β-cells in a cell-cell contact-dependent mechanism in the non-obese diabetic mouse. CD4(+) T lymphocytes are also able to kill pancreatic β-cells, but they do not directly contact β-cells and may use another cell type as the actual cytotoxic cell. Natural killer (NK) cells could have thi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Angstetra E,Graham KL,Zhao Y,Irvin AE,Elkerbout L,Santamaria P,Slattery RM,Kay TW,Thomas HE

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secreted hexameric form of the dengue virus (DENV) non-structural protein 1 (NS1) has recently been shown to elicit inflammatory cytokine release and disrupt endothelial cell monolayer integrity. This suggests that circulating NS1 contributes to the vascular leak that plays a major role in the pathology of dengue ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Modhiran N,Watterson D,Blumenthal A,Baxter AG,Young PR,Stacey KJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for new, powerful adjuvants suitable for use with sub-unit and peptide vaccines in humans. We have measured the humoral immune response in BALB/c mice to vaccine formulations using recombinant HBsAg antigens, and gamma inulin and alum adjuvants. Using Merck, Sharpe & Dohme (MSD) HBsAg at 10 mic...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Leslie DE,Nicholson S,Dimitrakakis M,Johnston N,Gust ID

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis, a group of visceral and cutaneous diseases, is caused by parasites belonging to one genus comprising approximately 13 different species. Many methods including serological, biochemical and molecular biological techniques have been used by various workers to characterize these different species and isola...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Arora SK,Kapoor GS,Sehgal S

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:Peripheral tolerance mechanisms limit autoimmunity by constitutively eliminating self-reactive CD8+ T cells from the periphery in a process called deletion. Previous work has demonstrated that this deletion process is mediated by BIM-dependent apoptotic death due to transcriptional induction of the Bim gene. Currently...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Wagle MV,Parish IA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginase-1 (Arg-1)-expressing M2-like macrophages are associated with Th2-skewed immune responses, allergic airway pathology, ectopic B16 melanoma cancer growth in murine models, and can be induced by Oncostatin M (OSM) transient overexpression in vivo. Here, we compare OSM to the gp130-cytokine IL-6 in mediating macr...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Dubey A,Izakelian L,Ayaub EA,Ho L,Stephenson K,Wong S,Kwofie K,Austin RC,Botelho F,Ask K,Richards CD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of myeloid cells into macrophages and granulocytes is accompanied by marked changes in adhesive phenotype. Here we seek to understand the regulation of expression and functionality of the VLA-4 (alpha 4 beta 1), LPAM-1 (alpha 4 beta 7) and HML-1 (alpha E beta 7) integrins on monocytes/macrophages a...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yang Y,Harrison JE,Print CG,Lehnert K,Sammar M,Lazarovits A,Krissansen GW

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is related to dysfunction of intestinal immunity. Neutrophils have an important role in innate immunity via the oxidative burst, using the p47phox- and gp91(phox)-containing NAD(P)H oxidase known as Nox2. In dextran sulphate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis, no significant difference in in...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bao S,Carr ED,Xu YH,Hunt NH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today's generally accepted view of the self-nonself discrimination was voiced by Miller(1) in 2004 in a thought-provoking essay. In spite of its popularity, this position has its limitations, which are analyzed here with a view toward establishing an interactive discussion that hopefully will culminate in agreed upon ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Cohn M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years a great deal of research has examined how T cell-dependent immune responses are initiated and subsequently regulated. Ligation of the TCR with an antigenic peptide bound to an MHC protein on a professional APC provides the crucial antigen-specific stimulus required for T cell activation. Intera...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： McCoy KD,Le Gros G

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00