Editorial: in this issue.

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) are the most potent and versatile antigen-presenting cells (APC) in the immune system. DC have an exceptional ability to comprehend the immune context of a captured antigen based on molecular signals identified from its vicinity. The analyzed information is then conveyed to other immune effector c...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Volovitz I,Melzer S,Amar S,Bocsi J,Bloch M,Efroni S,Ram Z,Tárnok A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm protein 17 belongs to the cancer/testis antigen family and was found to play a key role in the cell fusion process between the mammalian spermatozoa and egg. Sperm protein 17-specific autoantibodies in vasectomized males suggest its high expression in the testis. Sperm protein 17 expression levels are low or abs...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Chiriva-Internati M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine production in human whole blood exhibits diurnal rhythmicity. Peak production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, IL-1 and IL-12 occurs during the night and early morning at a time when plasma cortisol is lowest. The existence of a causal relationship between plasma cortisol and production...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Petrovsky N,Harrison LC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which infects over 90% of adults, appears to have evolved to exploit the normal biology of B-cell development in order to persist as a life-long asymptomatic infection. However, EBV can contribute to oncogenesis. It has become evident that alterations in the expression of microRNAs (miRNA...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Lopes LF,Ruiz Miyazawa KW,de Almeida ER,Serafim KG,de Almeida Gualtieri K,Costa IC,Felipe I,Pavanelli WR,Watanabe MA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of the immune system in order specifically to attack autologous tumor cell has been a distant goal, largely due to the poor definition of tumor-associated antigens. By focussing on B cell lymphomas which express a molecularly defined clonal marker, the idiotypic immunoglobulin, it has been possible to gen...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： George AJ,Stevenson FK

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B cell-stimulating molecules, BAFF (B cell activating factor) and APRIL (a proliferation-inducing ligand), are critical factors in the maintenance of the B cell pool and humoral immunity. In addition, BAFF and APRIL are involved in the pathogenesis of a number of human autoimmune diseases, with elevated levels of ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Samy E,Wax S,Huard B,Hess H,Schneider P

更新日期：2017-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are extremely diverse and variable, mainly because SLE is a multi-factorial disease. Variable combinations of contributing genes at multiple loci in individual patients probably result in diverse disease phenotypes. Genes that predispose to SLE are undoubte...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Shirai T,Hirose S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagosome-lysosome (P-L) fusion is one of the central immune-effector responses of host. It is known that phagosome maturation process is associated with numerous signaling cascades and among these, important role of calcium (Ca2+) signaling has been realized recently. Ca2+ plays key roles in actin rearrangement, acti...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Pradhan G,Raj Abraham P,Shrivastava R,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, extensive studies have indicated that IL-17A plays an important role in tumor progression and metastasis, but the underlying mechanisms are not immediately clear. In this review, we examined the literature from the recent years concerning the study of IL-17A in four kinds of tumor transfer paths, in...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Xu LL,Li ZJ,Niu XL,Deng WM

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response to the phosphorylcholine (PC) hapten elicited by PC-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) is composed of 2 groups of antibodies with specificity to either PC or phenylphosphorylcholine which were designated as group I and II anti-PC antibodies, respectively. We demonstrate that anti-PC IgE antibody expre...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Blaser K,Heusser CH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agonistic anti-CD40 antibody is a potent stimulator of anti-tumor immune responses due to its action on both immune and tumor cells. It has the ability to "precondition" dendritic cells, allowing them to prime effective cytotoxic T-cell responses. Thus, anti-CD40 antibody provides an ideal therapy for combination with...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Khong A,Nelson DJ,Nowak AK,Lake RA,Robinson BW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current advances in understanding of the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease have encouraged the development of many new therapies targeted at specific and non-specific mediators of the inflammatory bowel disease inflammatory pathway. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, two common inflammatory bowel disease...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Ghosh N,Chaki R,Mandal V,Lin GD,Mandal SC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-talk within the innate immune pathways is highly complex and contains many unknowns. Here, we discuss the different combinations of PAMPs, together with the sequence, order, and dosage of consecutive PAMP challenges, which determine the nature of the immune response by macrophages. The engagement of different To...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Tan RS,Ho B,Leung BP,Ding JL

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tec family kinases are the second largest family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases, of critical importance to the biology of cells derived from the bone marrow. Significant progress in this area during the last decade revealed a role for several of these kinases in inflammatory and oncologic disorders. This led to the ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Faris M,Bot A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 30 years, human papilloma virus (HPV) has been shown to play a role in the development of various cancers. Most notably, HPV has been linked to malignant progression in neoplasms of the anogenital region. However, high-risk HPV has also been suggested to play a significant role in the development of canc...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Cobos C,Figueroa JA,Mirandola L,Colombo M,Summers G,Figueroa A,Aulakh A,Konala V,Verma R,Riaz J,Wade R,Saadeh C,Rahman RL,Pandey A,Radhi S,Nguyen DD,Jenkins M,Chiriva-Internati M,Cobos E

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/Fas ligand (FasL) pathway has been shown to be important in T lymphocyte-mediated cell death and is a key peripheral immunoregulatory mechanism that limits expansion of antigen-activated lymphocytes. The expression of Fas by commonly transplanted organs such as the heart, lung, kidney, and liver suggests that ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Martinez OM,Krams SM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical and non-classical monocytes are two well-defined subsets of monocytes displaying distinct roles. They differentially express numerous genes relevant to their primary role. Using five independent transcriptomic microarray datasets, we ruled out several inconsistent genes and identified common genes consistent...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Anbazhagan K,Duroux-Richard I,Jorgensen C,Apparailly F

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B cell repertoire consists of three tiers of clonotype diversity. One tier, which is the product of H chain V region rearrangements in the absence of N additions, is of limited diversity (less than 10(8) clonotypes) so that clonotypes of this tier would be expected to recur within and among B cells of individuals ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Decker DJ,Klinman NR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastric mucosal pathogen Helicobacter pylori induces autoantibodies directed against the gastric proton pump H+,K+-ATPase in 20-30% of infected patients. The presence of these autoantibodies is associated with severity of gastritis, increased atrophy, and apoptosis in the corpus mucosa, and patients with these aut...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Bergman MP,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Appelmelk BJ,D'Elios MM,Amedei A,Azzurri A,Benagiano M,Del Prete G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple cytokines and growth factors are critical for the prognosis of cancer which has been regarded as a worldwide health problem. Recently, neuropeptides, soluble factors regulating a series of functions in the central nervous system, have also been demonstrated to stimulate the proliferation and migration of tumo...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Ye Y,Liu P,Wang Y,Li H,Wei F,Cheng Y,Han L,Yu J

更新日期：2016-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of finding an effective vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is hampered by our uncertainty of the mechanism(s) responsible for the pathogenesis as well as the lack of knowledge of protective mechanisms. The effects of HIV on the immune system are myriad and thus the truly significant manife...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Lewis DE,Giorgi JV

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrations of both innate immunity and adaptive immunity in genetically predisposed individuals evoked by environmental factors are suggested to be implicated in pathophysiological processes of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Autophagy, a degradation pathway in which cytoplasmic content is engulfed and degraded b...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Zhou XJ,Cheng FJ,Zhang H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid organ transplantation has become a clinical practice after the development of different immunosuppressive drugs that allowed controlling rejection. The price to be paid for that is the permanent risk of infections and malignancies and a significant drug-associated toxicity. The establishment of transplant tolera...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Meier D,Rumbo M,Gondolesi GE

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptors on human natural killer 9NK cells which can specifically bind the Fc portion of immunoglobulin molecules (Fc receptors) have been extensively studied. The best known and studied Fc receptor on human NK cells is FcgammaRIIIa. Interactions of NK cells with IgG antibodies via this receptor are well known to...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Sulica A,Morel P,Metes D,Herberman RB

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABO-incompatible liver transplantation (ABOi LT) using conventional immunosuppression has been considered a contraindication due to the high risk for antibody-mediated complications potentially resulting in graft loss. However, organ shortage has led to the development of anti-A/B antibody reducing immunosuppressive p...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Dahlgren US,Bennet W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates often respond poorly to conventional vaccines or microbial infections. Immaturity of the immune system has been considered to play a role in this regard. However, accumulating evidence shows that in certain conditions, neonatal inoculation of antigens leads to protective immunity. In the particular case of DN...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Bot A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uveitis is underappreciated as a sight-threatening cause of blindness. There are two broad causative classes of uveitis: infectious and non-infectious. Non-infectious uveitis is considered a prototypical autoimmune disorder based mainly on data from experimental models in the mouse. Several different experimental mode...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Forrester JV,Klaska IP,Yu T,Kuffova L

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines play an important role in the generation of the immune system and in virtually every aspect of an immune response. The role of chemokines in antitumor immunity has been less straightforward to discern. A dichotomy exists in the field. One area of research has focused on the impact of tumor-derived chemokine...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Brault MS,Kurt RA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In these studies we have emphasized the apparent developmental hierarchy of B cell development and assigned a role for the multispecific self idiotype reactive B cells which develop first, in promoting the development of later appearing clones of B cells. These early sets of interconnecting clones of B cells bridge be...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Vakil M,Kearney JF

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells are professional antigen-presenting cells that maintain immune tolerance to self-antigens by deleting or controlling the pathogenicity of auto-reactive T-cells. Dendritic cell-based immunotherapies show great promise for the restoration of tolerance in autoimmune disease. Dendritic cells can be modifie...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Hilkens CM,Isaacs JD,Thomson AW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00