Serum Sclerostin as a Possible Biomarker in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Case-Control Study.

abstract：:The present study was aimed at determining the activity of aqueous and methanolic extracts of Tinospora cordifolia (AETC and METC) against Salmonella typhimurium. In vitro anti-Salmonella activity of T. cordifolia was determined through the broth dilution and agar well diffusion assays. The immune-stimulating potentia...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Alsuhaibani S,Khan MA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP) is isolated from the fruit of Chinese herbal Lycium barbarum. Previous studies had demonstrated that LBP could inhibit tumor growth and enhance the immunity in mice. However, the effect of LBP on systemic and local immune responses in vivo, especially on phenotypic and functional c...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Deng X,Luo S,Luo X,Hu M,Ma F,Wang Y,Lai X,Zhou L

更新日期：2018-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorogenic acid (CA) is a phenolic compound commonly found in human plant-based diets. CA is the main component of many traditional Chinese medicine preparations, and in recent years, it has been found to have hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and other pharmacological properties. Specifica...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Yan Y,Zhou X,Guo K,Zhou F,Yang H

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable shortages in the supply of available organs continue to plague the field of solid organ transplantation. Despite changes in allocation, as well as the utilization of extended criteria and living donors, the number of patients waiting for organs continues to grow at an alarming pace. Xenotransplantation, c...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Shah JA,Lanaspa MA,Tanabe T,Watanabe H,Johnson RJ,Yamada K

更新日期：2018-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain (NPP) is intolerable, persistent, and specific type of long-term pain. It is considered to be a direct consequence of pathological changes affecting the somatosensory system and can be debilitating for affected patients. Despite recent progress and growing interest in understanding the pathogenesis of...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Wan W,Cao L,Khanabdali R,Kalionis B,Tai X,Xia S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) remain a common and major problem in healthcare. Severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions (SCARs), such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS)/toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) with mortality rate ranges from 10% to more than 30%, can be life threatening. A number of recent studies demonstrated ...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Fan WL,Shiao MS,Hui RC,Su SC,Wang CW,Chang YC,Chung WH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotype and functional properties of antigen-presenting cells (APC), that is, circulating monocytes and generated in vitro macrophages and dendritic cells, were investigated in the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) differing in lymphocyte reactivity to M. tuberculosis antigens (PPD-reactive versus PPD-an...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Sakhno LV,Shevela EY,Tikhonova MA,Nikonov SD,Ostanin AA,Chernykh ER

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Safflower has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. The two forms of preparations for safflower which are widely used in China are injection and decoction. The first step of the process for preparing an injection involves extracting safflower with water, which actually yields a decoction. This study i...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Liao H,Li Y,Zhai X,Zheng B,Banbury L,Zhao X,Li R

更新日期：2019-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics was used to simulate large molecules of the immune system (major histocompatibility complex class I, presented epitope, T-cell receptor, and a CD8 coreceptor.) To characterize the relative orientation and movements of domains local coordinate systems (based on principal component analysis) were gene...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Schreiner W,Karch R,Ribarics R,Cibena M,Ilieva N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TACI is a membrane receptor of BAFF and APRIL, contributing to the differentiation and survival of normal B cells. Although malignant B cells are also subjected on TACI signaling, there is a remarkable intradisease and interindividual variability of TACI expression in B-cell malignancies. The aim of our study was to e...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Mamara A,Germenis AE,Kompoti M,Palassopoulou M,Mandala E,Banti A,Giannakoulas N,Speletas M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferon (IFN-I) plays a critical role in the antitumor immune response. In our previous study, we showed that IFN-I-inducible 2'-5' oligoadenylate synthetase-like 1 (OASL1) negatively regulated IFN-I production upon tumor challenge similar to that of viral infection. Thus, OASL1-deficient (Oasl1-/-) mice wer...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Sim CK,Lee JH,Baek IJ,Lee SW,Lee MS

更新日期：2019-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) represent a milestone in pharmacological development. Their superiority is based on the combination of high specificity, low toxicity, and long half-life that characterizes biologics. If biologics have Achilles' heel, it is their potential immunogenicity. To better understand t...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Boysen M,Schlicksupp L,Dreher I,Loebbert R,Richter M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a fungus that is an opportunistic pathogen of humans. Normally, C. albicans exists as a harmless commensal and does not trigger inflammatory responses by resident macrophages in skin mucosa, which may be caused by a tolerance of skin macrophage to C. albicans. IL-34 is a recently discovered cytokin...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Xu R,Sun HF,Williams DW,Jones AV,Al-Hussaini A,Song B,Wei XQ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating T follicular helper (cTfh) cells are known to be involved in numerous immune-mediated diseases, but their pathological role in psoriasis is less fully investigated. Herein, we aimed to identify whether cTfh cells contributed to the pathogenesis of psoriasis. The frequency and function of cTfh cells were co...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Wang Y,Wang L,Yang H,Yuan W,Ren J,Bai Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the characteristics of Chinese SLE patients by analyzing the association between specific autoantibodies and clinical manifestations of 2104 SLE patients from registry data of CSTAR cohort. Significant (P<0.05) associations were found between anti-Sm antibody, anti-rRNP antibody, and malar rash; betwee...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Li J,Leng X,Li Z,Ye Z,Li C,Li X,Zhu P,Wang Z,Zheng Y,Li X,Zhang M,Tian XP,Li M,Zhao J,Zhang FC,Zhao Y,Zeng X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the expression levels of the immune checkpoint proteins, programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), B7-H3, B7-H4, and V-domain Ig suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA), as well as the significance thereof, in clear cell carcinoma (CCC) of the cervix (a rare histological subt...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Zong L,Zhang Q,Zhou Y,Kong Y,Yu S,Chen J,Zhang Y,Xiang Y

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages, a kind of innate immune cells, derive from monocytes in circulation and play a crucial role in the innate and adaptive immunity. Under the stimulation of the signals from local microenvironment, macrophages generally tend to differentiate into two main functional phenotypes depending on their high plastic...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Peng H,Xian D,Liu J,Pan S,Tang R,Zhong J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and/or epigenetic changes provide antigen-derived diversity in neoplastic cells. Beside, these cells do not initiate immune response of host organisms. A variety of factors are responsible for the resistant to treatment, including individual variations in patients and somatic cell genetic differences in tumors...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Witkowska M,Smolewski P

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disorder; abnormal T cell immunity plays a critical role in the development of RA. Recently, A20 was identified as a key negative regulator for T cell activation and inflammatory signaling and may be involved in RA pathogenesis. In this study, we analyzed the exp...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Wang X,Zhu L,Liao Z,Zhang F,Xu L,Xu Y,Chen S,Yang L,Zhou Y,Li Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell mediated drug hypersensitivity reactions may range from mild rash to severe fatal reactions. Among them, drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) or drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome (DIHS), Stevens-Johnson syndrome/ toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN), are some of the most life-threa...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Cheng CY,Su SC,Chen CH,Chen WL,Deng ST,Chung WH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cancer immunotherapy has shown significant promise in mediating efficacious responses, it remains encumbered by tumor heterogeneity, loss of tumor-specific antigen targets, and the regulatory milieu both regionally and systemically. Cross talk between the innate and adaptive immune response may be requisite t...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Sayour EJ,Mitchell DA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that is characterized by synovial hyperplasia and progressive joint destruction. The activation of RA synovial fibroblasts (SFs), also called fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS), contributes significantly to perpetuation of the disease. Genetic and ...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Araki Y,Mimura T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll/IL-1R-domain-containing adaptor-inducing IFN-β (TRIF) is an important adaptor for TLR3- and TLR4-mediated inflammatory signaling pathways. Recent studies have shown that TRIF plays a key role in vessel inflammation and atherosclerosis; however, the precise mechanisms are unclear. We investigated the mechanisms of...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Wu Y,Ye J,Guo R,Liang X,Yang L

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) remains a major problem in organ transplantation, which represents the main cause of graft dysfunction posttransplantation. Hepatic IRI is characterized by an excessive inflammatory response within the liver. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been shown to be immunomodulatory cells a...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Li S,Zheng X,Li H,Zheng J,Chen X,Liu W,Tai Y,Zhang Y,Wang G,Yang Y

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-G has a relevant role in immune response regulation. The overall structure of the HLA-G coding region has been maintained during the evolution process, in which most of its variable sites are synonymous mutations or coincide with introns, preserving major functional HLA-G properties. The HLA-G promoter region is d...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Castelli EC,Veiga-Castelli LC,Yaghi L,Moreau P,Donadi EA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Several efforts have been made to find out a valuable marker to assist the diagnosis and differentiation of gangrenous/perforated appendicitis. We aimed to determine the diagnostic capacity of soluble B7H3 (sB7H3) in acute appendicitis (AA) and its accuracy as a predictor of the severity of appendicitis. Me...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Du X,Chen Y,Zhu J,Bai Z,Hua J,Li Y,Lv H,Zhang G

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most devastating cancer types despite the improvement of modern medicine. In our present study, we found that dickkopf-related protein 2 (DKK2) shares a higher expression in PDAC compared with adjacent pancreas tissue in tissue microarray. In addition, an elev...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Yang J,Jiang Y,He R,Liu W,Yang M,Tao L,Fu X,Shen Y,Li J,Liu D,Huo Y,Zhang J,Hua R,Zhang Z,Sun Y

更新日期：2019-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone diseases are associated with great morbidity; thus, the understanding of the mechanisms leading to their development represents a great challenge to improve bone health. Recent reports suggest that a large number of molecules produced by immune cells affect bone cell activity. However, the mechanisms are incomple...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Mori G,D'Amelio P,Faccio R,Brunetti G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to determine the modulatory effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus on the IL-23/Th17 immune axis in experimental colitis. DSS-induced mouse models of UC were to be saline, hormones, and different concentrations of Lactobacillus acidophilus intervention. The expression of interleukin- (IL-) 17, t...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Chen L,Zou Y,Peng J,Lu F,Yin Y,Li F,Yang J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:This study is aimed at exploring the relation between IL-33 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods:SNPStats (online software) was used to test the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in controls. Generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction (GMDR) was adopted...

journal_title：Journal of immunology research

authors： Zhu X,Xie L,Qin H,Liang J,Yang Y,Xu J,Zhang T

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00