Separate roles of IL-6 and oncostatin M in mouse macrophage polarization in vitro and in vivo.

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：:This article attempts to assemble theoretical-teleological argument to explore possible answers to the question of why class I MHC molecules bind smaller peptides than class II MHC molecules and the associated question of why the size of peptides binding to class I molecules is approaching the limit of the self-non-se...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Blanden RV

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:The surface phenotype of T cells reflects both their relative maturity and their activation state. To determine the pattern of surface markers characteristic of activated T cells, purified mature T cells were stimulated in vitro for periods of 0.5-5 days with Concanavalin-A (Con-A) or phorbol myristic acetate (PMA) an...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Kelly K,Shortman K,Scollay R

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latex beads, 250 and 610 nm in diameter, and parapox virus isolated from ecthyma in sheep, were injected into intestinal loops containing either jejunal or ileal Peyer's patches (PP) of 3-4 week old calves. Uptake of latex and parapox virus was restricted to the ileal PP, 30-60 min after injection. The latex beads see...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Landsverk T

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for non-living adjuvant vectors that will allow a full range of local and systemic immune responses to orally administered purified antigens. Here we describe our experience with lipophilic immune-stimulating complexes (ISCOMs) containing the saponin adjuvant Quil A. When given orally, ISCOMs containin...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Smith RE,Donachie AM,Mowat AM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early pregnancy factor (EPF), an extracellular chaperonin 10 homologue, has immunosuppressive and growth factor properties. In order to carry out more extensive studies on the in vivo characteristics of EPF, a recombinant form of the molecule has been prepared. Recombinant human EPF (rEPF) was expressed in Escherichia...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Morton H,McKay DA,Murphy RM,Somodevilla-Torres MJ,Swanson CE,Cassady AI,Summers KM,Cavanagh AC

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:Acute rejection is the major determinant for the long-term survival of donor liver after liver transplantation (LT). The aim of this study was to examine the therapeutic potential of interleukin (IL)-10-FasL-overexpressing immature dendritic cells (imDCs) to induce local immunosuppression in liver grafts. imDCs derive...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chen L,Zhang L,Zhu Z,He W,Gao L,Zhang W,Liu J,Huang A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two related folate antagonists aminopterin (AMN) and methotrexate (MTX) were used to produce drug-antibody conjugates and their tumouricidal effects compared in vitro and in vivo. Active ester derivatives were produced with the use of N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) and covalently coupled to monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) re...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Kanellos J,Pietersz GA,Cunningham Z,McKenzie IF

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone of cells secreting an antibody to an epidermal antigen was generated from a patient with a blistering skin lesion. Although produced by fusion of human lymphocytes to a HAT-sensitive myeloma, this clone of cells did not have characteristics of a hybridoma. A true hybridoma was produced by fusion of this clone ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Hohmann AW,Coleman M,Comacchio RM,Skinner JM,Bradley J

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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 signals that determine the survival/death of the thymic epithelial cells (TECs) component during embryonic development of the thymus are largely unknown. In this study, we combine different in vivo and in vitro experimental approaches to define the role played by the tyrosine kinase receptors EphB2 and EphB3 and t...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： García-Ceca J,Alfaro D,Montero-Herradón S,Zapata AG

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are potent immune effector cells that can respond to infection and cancer, as well as allowing maternal adaptation to pregnancy. In response to malignant transformation or pathogenic invasion, NK cells can secrete cytokine and may be directly cytolytic, as well as exerting effects indirectly ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Pegram HJ,Andrews DM,Smyth MJ,Darcy PK,Kershaw MH

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:There is increasing evidence that a small percentage of individuals exposed to the hepatitis C virus have the capacity to generate a strong cellular immune response against the virus and avoid persistent infection, and perhaps do so repeatedly after re-exposure. This article reviews the evidence that the responses ide...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Elliot LN,Lloyd AR,Ziegler JB,Ffrench RA

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Lipid rafts are small laterally mobile microdomains that are highly enriched in lymphocyte signaling molecules. GM1 gangliosides are a common lipid raft component and have been shown to be important in many T-cell functions. The aggregation of specific GM1 lipid rafts can control many T-cell activation events, includi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Mitchell JS,Brown WS,Woodside DG,Vanderslice P,McIntyre BW

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:The alpha-gal epitope (Galalpha1-3Galbeta1-(3)4GlcNAc-R) is abundantly synthesized on glycolipids and glycoproteins of non-primate mammals and New World monkeys by the glycosylation enzyme alpha1,3galactosyltransferase (alpha1,3GT). In humans, apes and Old World monkeys, this epitope is absent because the alpha1,3GT g...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Galili U

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyse Th2-type immune responses in sheep by the assay of interleukin (IL)-5 in biological fluids, the ovine IL-5 gene was cloned and expressed in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 insect cells using the baculovirus expression vector system. The recombinant product was purified as BAC-OV-IL-5 from the supernatant...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bosward K,Emery DL,McWaters PW,Husband AJ,Bendixsen T

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple levels of regulation of collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase 1; MMP-1), have been demonstrated in a clonal rat epithelial cell line (A5P/B10). Secreted enzyme could not be demonstrated in culture medium from A5P/B10 cells but, using antibodies specific for collagenase, the enzyme was detected within the cyto...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Whitelock JM,Paine ML,Gibbins JR,Kefford RF,O'Grady RL

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the past 20 years footrot vaccines have evolved from simple bacterins to highly specific recombinant DNA (rDNA) fimbrial vaccines. The development of these vaccines has left a trail of discoveries, challenges and solutions; these processes continue as we move closer to understanding the requirements of a footrot v...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： O'Meara TJ,Egerton JR,Raadsma HW

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) is an important negative regulator of T-cell activation. T-cell activation involves partitioning of receptors into discrete membrane compartments known as lipid rafts and the formation of an immunological synapse (IS) between the T cell and antigen-presenting cell (APC). Here we sh...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Wu TH,Zhen Y,Zeng C,Yi HF,Zhao Y

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of antigens in transgenic plants has been increasingly used in the development of experimental vaccines, particularly oriented to the development of edible vaccines. Hence, this technology becomes highly suitable to express immunogenic proteins from pathogens. Foot and mouth disease virus, bovine rotavi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Dus Santos MJ,Wigdorovitz A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are estimated to be 350 million chronic carriers of hepatitis B infection worldwide. Patients with chronic hepatitis B are at risk of liver cirrhosis with associated mortality because of hepatocellular carcinoma and other complications. An important goal, therefore, is the development of an effective therapeutic...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Aguilar JC,Lobaina Y,Muzio V,García D,Pentón E,Iglesias E,Pichardo D,Urquiza D,Rodríguez D,Silva D,Petrovsky N,Guillén G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, is a member of the poxvirus family and one of the most virulent human pathogens known. Although smallpox was eradicated almost 30 years ago, it is not understood why the mortality rates associated with the disease were high, why some patients recovered, and what constitu...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Stanford MM,McFadden G,Karupiah G,Chaudhri G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural suppressor (NS) cell line (Clone 59) was established from the bone marrow of adult C3H/Hej mice in the presence of WEHI-3 conditioned media. Clone 59 cells suppressed the generation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes from normal mouse spleen. This suppression was seen at a responder-to-suppressor cell ratio of 1000:1 ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yanagië H,Sugiyama H,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：1995-08-01 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