Childhood allergies and asthma: New insights on environmental exposures and local immunity at the lung barrier.

abstract：:Induction of antiviral immunity in vertebrates and invertebrates relies on members of the RIG-I-like receptor and Dicer families, respectively. Although these proteins have different size and domain composition, members of both families share a conserved DECH-box helicase domain. This helicase, also known as a duplex ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Paro S,Imler JL,Meignin C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapy of cancer through adoptive transfer of genetically engineered T-cells constitutes a more powerful strategy than attempts to mobilize the endogenous T-cell repertoire. Application of this technology in patients offers great opportunities towards a long-awaited breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy. However...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Offringa R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While remarkable progress has been made using genetically altered mice to understand the importance of different cytokines in protecting against experimental infections or co-infections, an examination of the opportunistic infections that occur during HIV infection of humans does not yet show a clear picture of cytoki...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Mosier DE

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current models suggest that continuous antigenic stimulation of memory B cells is required to maintain long-term antibody production. In view of recent developments concerning plasma cell longevity, a new model is described that incorporates the important role of long-lived plasma cells in sustaining persistent antibo...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Slifka MK,Ahmed R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While Interleukin-5 (IL-5) is initially identified by its ability to support the growth and differentiation of activated B cells, overexpression of IL-5 significantly increases eosinophil numbers and antibody levels predominantly from an expanded population of B-1 cells in vivo. Conversely, mice lacking a functional g...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Takatsu K,Nakajima H

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors of diverse origin have recently been shown to express CD95 ligand and to induce apoptosis in CD95-expressing targets in vitro; however, in vivo, enhanced tumor growth and rejection have both been observed as a consequence of either immunosuppressive or proinflammatory functions of CD95 ligand. The final in vivo...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Walker PR,Saas P,Dietrich PY

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence that different antigen-presenting cells use specialized mechanisms for antigen uptake. Macropinocytosis and the activity of the mannose receptor have been identified as efficient mechanisms of antigen capture in dendritic cells. The mechanism of uptake determines the intracellular compartment...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Lanzavecchia A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although twelve years have passed since the identification of HIV as the cause of AIDS, we do not yet know how HIV kills its target, the CD4+ T cell, nor how this killing cripples the immune system. Prominent theories include direct killing of infected CD4+ T cells by the action or accumulation of cytopathic viral DNA...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Finkel TH,Banda NK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has been refinement in our ability to delay the progression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection through the use of nucleoside analogues, singly or in combination. Progress has also been made in our ability to detect drug-resistant isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and to begin ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Lane HC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of the complement system is much more ancient than that of adaptive immunity, which is only found in jawed vertebrates. Recently, complement components of the alternative and lectin pathways have been identified in jawless fishes, and even in some deuterostome invertebrates. The primitive complement system ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Nonaka M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consolidating the information that we have on pharmacogenetics and on cytokine genetics to produce patient-oriented individualized drug regimens is an important challenge in transplantation medicine. Using a multi-variant approach based on genetic profile and other relevant clinical factors a score system may be devel...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Girnita DM,Burckart G,Zeevi A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of genetic epidemiology methods using recent human genetic mapping information, together with the growing availability of candidate genes, has led to major advances in the identification of host genes involved in human infectious diseases. Within the past year, highlights include the mapping of a locus...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Abel L,Dessein AJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an enormously successful human pathogen that can infect its host for decades without causing clinical disease, only to reactivate when host immunity is compromised. A normal immune response thus contains bacterial spread without inducing sterilizing immunity, therefore benefitting both ho...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Huynh KK,Joshi SA,Brown EJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful vaccination relies on driving the immune response towards high specificity, affinity and longevity. Germinal centers facilitate the evolution of antigen-specific B cells by iterative rounds of diversification, selection, and differentiation to memory and plasma cells. Experimental evidence points to B cell ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Dufaud CR,McHeyzer-Williams LJ,McHeyzer-Williams MG

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and biochemical analyses have identified multiple DNA-binding and non-DNA-binding proteins that functionally regulate MHC class II genes. These include RFX, X2BP, NF-Y, CIITA, OCT-2 and Bob1. One of the essential non-DNA-binding proteins, CIITA, appears to function as a limiting molecular switch that is respon...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Boss JM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are in a 'golden age' of mouse genetics. Genetic engineering and micromanipulation techniques now allow not only the overexpression or misexpression of transgenes randomly inserted into the mouse genome, but also the directed homologous replacement of normal genes with transgenes coding for null or mutant alleles (...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Seldin DC

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subfamily of serine proteases is uniquely expressed by cytotoxic natural killer lymphocytes and T cells. Protease cleavage of different natural substrates is now implicated in the cytotoxic mechanisms of target cell membrane pore formation, DNA fragmentation and cytostasis. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Hudig D,Ewoldt GR,Woodard SL

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has seen significant advances in our understanding of critical roles of negative immunoregulatory signals delivered through the B7-CD28 superfamily in regulating T cell activation and tolerance. Structural data on CTLA-4 have provided novel insights into the inhibitory functions of CTLA-4. Initial charac...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Greenwald RJ,Latchman YE,Sharpe AH

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoid cell differentiation relies on precisely orchestrated gene activation and repression events. Gene targeting studies have demonstrated crucial roles for the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos in regulating multiple stages of B and T cell development. Recent experiments suggest that Ikaros and Aiolos set B...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Cortes M,Wong E,Koipally J,Georgopoulos K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains one of the greatest impediments to development in many tropical regions of the world. Understanding host immune responses to malaria parasites is crucial for the effective design and implementation of new vaccines and drugs. Recent research has seen the identification of the first pattern recognition r...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Engwerda CR,Good MF

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The canonical NF-κB pathway instructs the expression of inflammatory genes by the RelA:p50 transcription factor in response to diverse cell-activating stimuli. However, this mainstay RelA:p50 transcriptional output must also be curated so as to provide for stimulus-type-specific and cell-type-specific inflammatory res...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Chawla M,Roy P,Basak S

更新日期：2020-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:B cells that fail to pass a developmental checkpoint, either as immature or mature B cells, can be rescued by creating a new B cell antigen receptor through nested secondary immunoglobulin gene rearrangements, a process termed receptor editing. Tolerance-mediated receptor editing occurs in self-reactive immature bone ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Hertz M,Nemazee D

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell death is an integral part of the functioning of the immune system. For T cells, potentially autoreactive or 'useless' cells are removed through apoptosis in response to signals (or lack of signals) from their T cell receptor complex. A myriad of proteins that can initiate or protect cells from cell death have rec...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Winoto A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Not surprisingly, most of the publications on enzyme immunoassays or latex agglutination tests in 1990 have been applications for specific antigens or antibodies. Nevertheless, a large number of studies of considerable interest to all users have been reported. In this short review, we have chosen to highlight investig...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Tijssen P,Adam A

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLP) has advanced significantly in the past two years. The gene that is aberrant in the condition - SH2D1A/SAP, which encodes SAP (signaling lymphocytic activation molecule [SLAM]-associated protein) - was cloned, the crystal structure of its product was ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Howie D,Sayos J,Terhorst C,Morra M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental models of transplantation provide strong support for the role of regulatory cells in tolerance. However, limited studies of humans who display sustained tolerance following transplantation have not definitively demonstrated a role for regulatory cells in this process. Rather than excluding or minimizing t...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Newell KA,Phippard D,Turka LA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially, direct oncolysis was thought to be the sole mechanism through which oncolytic viruses (OVs) exert their anti-tumor effect, and the immune system was perceived as the major obstacle in oncolytic virotherapy. Over the last decade, there has been a lot of debate on whether the immune system is a friend or foe ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Chaurasiya S,Chen NG,Fong Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig-to-primate organ survival has been extended from a few minutes to weeks and occasionally months, following the development of transgenic pigs that express human complement-regulatory proteins, efficient antibody removal technologies and immunosuppressive strategies. The current limitation to the clinical applicati...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Logan JS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are spared from programmed cell death in the thymus after an appropriate interaction between the T-cell receptor and a self peptide/MHC complex; this step is referred to as positive selection. Recent work has focused on precise identification of the positively selecting ligand, and the cell that presents it. F...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Hogquist KA,Jameson SC,Bevan MJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) have been associated with benign and malignant epithelial proliferations in either skin or mucosa. Two HPV oncogenic proteins, E6 and E7, are important in the induction and maintenance of cellular transformation and are co-expressed in the majority of HPV-containing carcinomas. Therefore,...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wu TC

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00