Dengue virus NS1 protein activates immune cells via TLR4 but not TLR2 or TLR6.

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：:It is shown how Ig specificities, randomly generated in conventional B cells, come to be expressed in the genetically-determinate B1 population. Thus the adaptive antibody population facilitates the evolution of the natural antibody repertoire, in accordance with the Baldwin effect in the evolution of instinct. The ev...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Anderson RW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide with rising mortality rates predicted in the coming decades. In light of this, there is a continued need for improvement in our understanding of CRC biology and the development of novel treatment options. Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (tEVs)...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Manning S,Danielson KM

更新日期：2018-03-25 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：: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：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a highly prevalent, complex disease, usually caused by cigarette smoke. It causes serious morbidity and mortality and costs the global community billions of dollars per year. While chronic inflammation, extracellular matrix destruction and increased airway epithelial cell apopt...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Hodge S,Hodge G,Scicchitano R,Reynolds PN,Holmes M

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：: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：:After positive selection, the newly differentiated single-positive (SP) thymocytes undergo negative selection to eliminate autoreactive T cells, functional maturation to acquire immunocompetence and egress capability. To investigate whether the intracellular reduction/oxidation (redox) balance has an important role on...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Jin R,Teng F,Xu X,Yao Y,Zhang S,Sun X,Zhang Y,Ge Q

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-15 overexpression in eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders is reported, but IL-15's role in promoting eosinophilic gastroenteritis is largely unknown. Therefore, we generated enterocyte-overexpressed IL-15 transgenic mice using Fabpi promoter. The Fabpi-IL-15 (iIL-15) transgenic mice showed induced ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Mussarat A,Manohar M,Verma AK,Upparahalli Venkateshaiah S,Zaidi A,Sanders NL,Zhu X,Mishra A

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:One of the major limitations for cancer immunotherapy is related to the frequent existence of an intra-tumoral immunosuppressive environment, to which STAT3 (Signal transducer and activator of transcription-3) activation in tumor and dendritic cells (DCs) are believed to contribute. In this study, we tested the hypoth...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Molavi O,Ma Z,Hamdy S,Lai R,Lavasanifar A,Samuel J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of the genes that make up rearranged immunoglobulin genes is critical to many studies. For example, the enumeration of mutations in immunoglobulin genes is important for the prognosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and this requires the accurate identification of the germline genes from which a pa...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Wang Y,Jackson KJ,Sewell WA,Collins AM

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen-presenting cells that consist of functionally and phenotypically heterogeneous populations. Monocyte-derived DCs (moDCs) are a DC subset that have been attracting increasing interest owing to their potent influence on adaptive immune function and their rapid accumulation ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chow KV,Sutherland RM,Zhan Y,Lew AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Biallelic mutations in the human lipopolysaccharide responsive beige-like anchor (LRBA) gene lead to a primary immunodeficiency known as LRBA deficiency, characterized by a broad range of clinical manifestations including autoimmunity, organomegaly, hypogammaglobulinemia and recurrent infections. Considering the pheno...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gámez-Díaz L,Neumann J,Jäger F,Proietti M,Felber F,Soulas-Sprauel P,Perruzza L,Grassi F,Kögl T,Aichele P,Kilimann M,Grimbacher B,Jung S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peyer's patches (PP) are important inductive sites for the mucosal immune response. It is well known that lymphocytes that migrate into PP are mainly of T-cell lineage from thymus-derived cells (i.e. alphabetaTCR(high) cells). In this study, we further characterized the properties of PP lymphocytes in mice using a mou...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Takahashi S,Kawamura T,Kanda Y,Taniguchi T,Nishizawa T,Iiai T,Hatakeyama K,Abo T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal keratitis is a major cause of corneal ulcers, resulting in significant visual impairment and blindness. A phosphorylated glycoprotein secreted by immunocompetent cells, osteopontin (OPN) mediates cluster formation of the host fungal receptors and enhances the phagocytosis and clearance of pathogenic fungi. Howe...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zhao G,Hu M,Li C,Lee J,Yuan K,Zhu G,Che C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP) binds strongly to complement 1q (C1q), a key component of the classical complement pathway. The goals of this study were to determine whether THP altered the activation of the classical complement pathway and whether the carbohydrate portion of THP was involved in this glycoprotein's bindin...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rhodes DC

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Within the immune system multiple mechanisms balance the need for efficient pathogen recognition and destruction with the prevention of tissue damage by excessive, inappropriate or even self-targeting (auto)immune reactions. This immune homeostasis is a tightly regulated system which fails during tumor development, of...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： da Gama Duarte J,Woods K,Andrews MC,Behren A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NK cell activity has been detected in the early murine decidua, and hypothesized to be mediated by granulated metrial gland (GMG) cells. The possibility that natural cytotoxic (NC) cells are also present in the decidua has not been investigated. In this study mAb to NK cells (anti-NK-1.1) and NC cells (anti-NC-1.1) we...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Clarke GR,Roberts TK,Smart YC

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of mast cells in allergic and organ-specific autoimmune responses is highly controversial. In the current study, we aimed to dissect the role of mast cells in systemic autoimmunity in the B6(lpr/lpr) mouse, a spontaneous model of systemic lupus erythematosus. B6(lpr/lpr) mice were interbred with C57Bl/6-K...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： van Nieuwenhuijze AE,Cauwe B,Klatt D,Humblet-Baron S,Liston A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells with a low density of parasite-specific antigens on their surface are postulated to be susceptible to a cell-mediated attack but not to effector mechanisms normally activated following the binding of specific antibody to the infected cell. It is further postulated that such infected cells normally induce a cell-...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bretscher PA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in sequential immunoglobulin G (IgG) class switching are still largely unknown. Sequential IG class switching is linked to higher levels of somatic hypermutation (SHM) in vivo, but it remains unclear if these are generated temporally during an immune response or upon activation in a secondary r...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： de Jong BG,IJspeert H,Marques L,van der Burg M,van Dongen JJ,Loos BG,van Zelm MC

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Many specific antiviral and antitumour immune responses have been attributed to the protective effects of antigen-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Recognition of virus infected or tumour cells by CTL requires presentation of at least one peptide epitope from a virus or tumour-specific antigen by the releva...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Khammanivong V,Liu XS,Liu WJ,Rodda SJ,Leggatt GR,Tindle RW,Frazer IH,Fernando GJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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