Eph/ephrinB signalling is involved in the survival of thymic epithelial cells.

abstract：:Construction of libraries of artificial antibodies has been reported by several groups of investigators. Various forms of antibody fused to surface protein, cpII, are expressed on the surface of filamentous phage. Since phages that encode desired antibodies can be easily grown in Escherichia coli after selection with ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Iba Y,Kurosawa Y

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with Sarcocystis muris showed a significant reduction in plaque-forming cells (PFC) and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DHS) responses to an unrelated protein antigen, bovine gamma-globulin, when compared with uninfected controls. This immunosuppression was observed only when infection preceded immunizati...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gill HS,Charleston WA,Moriarty KM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As host immunological defenses are impaired during HIV infection, it is difficult to elicit good responses when attempting to develop therapeutic vaccines against HIV. To try to solve this situation, adjuvants, particularly cytokines, are currently under evaluation. Owing to the fact that adenosine deaminase (ADA) is ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Climent N,Martinez-Navio JM,Gil C,Garcia F,Rovira C,Hurtado C,Miralles L,Gatell JM,Gallart T,Mallol J,Lluis C,Franco R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The iscom is a delivery system, designed for both parenteral and mucosal modes of administration, for both antigens and adjuvants, components which are interchangeable. By the parenteral route a prominent systemic Th1 type of response is evoked, but the mucosal immunoglobulin A (IgA) response was insignificant. Intran...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Morein F,Bengtsson KL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an allergic inflammatory response in the airway, if a failure of the epithelial cell barrier occurs before the systemic immune response is triggered by allergens, more allergens can invade. Using a rat model of asthma, we previously found that mucosal mast cells, which localise to the epithelial layer of the ai...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Liu S,Shudou M,Maeyama K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus causes lower respiratory tract infections in infancy and old age, affecting also immunocompromised patients. The viral fusion protein is an important vaccine candidate eliciting antibody and cell-mediated immune responses. CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are known to have a role in bo...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Johnstone C,Ramos M,García-Barreno B,López D,Melero JA,Del Val M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central pathogenic feature of AIDS is the dramatic loss of CD4+ lymphocytes. Despite more than a decade of intense research, the exact mechanism by which HIV causes this is still not understood. A major model for T cell depletion, proposed originally by Ameison and Capron in a report published in 1991, is that HIV...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Jaworowski A,Crowe SM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role and influence of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in the human mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) reaction was investigated. Polyclonal rabbit sera to recombinant human-TNF-alpha (rhTNF-alpha) consistently inhibited the MLC, and this could be reversed by simultaneous addition of rhTNF-alpha to th...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Matthews SJ,Sullivan JS

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report provides the first extensive characterization of the OT-I TCR transgenic line, which produces MHC class I-restricted, ovalbumin-specific, CD8+ T cells (OT-I cells). These cells are shown to be positively selected in vivo in H-2b C57BL/6 mice and in bm5 mice, which express the Kbm5 mutant molecule. I...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Clarke SR,Barnden M,Kurts C,Carbone FR,Miller JF,Heath WR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule (MAdCAM-1) is a key player in mediating the infiltration of leucocytes into chronically inflamed tissues. Five anti-MAdCAM-1 monoclonal antibodies (mAb), designated 17F5, 201F7, 314G8, 377D10 and 355G8, were generated by fusion of P3 x 63Ag8.653 myeloma cells with spleen cells ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Leung E,Lehnert KB,Kanwar JR,Yang Y,Mon Y,McNeil HP,Krissansen GW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The V region antigenic determinants (idiotopes (Ids)) of antibodies (Abs) have been suggested to be involved in regulating the immune system. Certain diseases such as diabetes mellitus have recently been associated with a disequilibrium between Id(+) and anti-Id Abs. However, it is unknown how Abs carrying complementa...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Jacobsen JT,Lunde E,Sundvold-Gjerstad V,Munthe LA,Bogen B

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A feature common to many blood cell cancers is the uncoupling of normal proliferative and differentiative events, both of which are intimately linked in the cell's developmental programme. In some cancers, further differentiative events have been associated with oncogenic progression and, in other cancers, terminal di...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ho ES,O'Neill HC

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:Adoptive transfer of tumor-specific cytotoxic T cells is a promising advance in cancer therapy. Similarly, checkpoint inhibition has shown striking clinical results in some patients. Here we combine adoptive cell transfer with ablation of the checkpoint protein Src homology 2-domain-containing phosphatase 1 (SHP-1, Pt...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Watson HA,Dolton G,Ohme J,Ladell K,Vigar M,Wehenkel S,Hindley J,Mohammed RN,Miners K,Luckwell RA,Price DA,Matthews RJ,Ager A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are multifunctional cells that participate in numerous biological processes; they actively phagocytose foreign particles and cell debris. Embryonic tissue macrophages are present at early stages of mammalian development; their ontogeny and function is still under investigation. Our study used immunohistoch...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Yamashita A,Kanayama N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kunjin replicon was used to express a polytope that consisted of seven hepatitis C virus cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes and one influenza cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitope for vaccination studies. The self-replicating nature of, and expression from, the ribonucleic acid was confirmed in vitro. Initial vaccinations w...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ward SM,Tindle RW,Khromykh AA,Gowans EJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are abundant small molecules of ≈ 22 nucleotides that reprogram gene expression by targeting mRNA degradation and translation disruption. An emerging concept implicates miRNA coupling with transcription factors in myeloid-based development of dendritic cells, monocytes and granulocytes, as well as f...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El Gazzar M,McCall CE

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:Mycoplasma infection may lead to various pathologies in a broad range of hosts. It has been shown that Mycoplasma may trigger cell death in cell cultures; however, the mechanism remains unknown. In the present paper we show that Mycoplasma infection of different lymphocyte and epithelial tumour cell lines leads to the...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Sokolova IA,Vaughan AT,Khodarev NN

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-9-producing CD4(+) T cells are a novel subset of T helper (Th) cells that develops independently of the Th1, Th2, Th17 and regulatory T-cell lineages. Similar to the murine model, transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and IL-4 directed human naive CD4(+) T cells to produce IL-9. Whereas IL-4 suppresse...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Wong MT,Ye JJ,Alonso MN,Landrigan A,Cheung RK,Engleman E,Utz PJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PVG rats are resistant to actively induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and this appears to be directly related to high and sustained systemic levels of reactive nitrogen intermediates(RNI) following sensitization for EAE when compared to the highly susceptible Lewis rat. An apparent cellular basis ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Staykova MA,Cowden W,Willenborg DO

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haematopoietic-specific RhoGTPase, Rac2, has been indirectly implicated in T-lymphocyte development and function, and as a pivotal regulator of T Helper 1 (T(H)1) responses. In other haematopoietic cells it regulates cytoskeletal rearrangement downstream of extracellular signals. Here we demonstrate that Rac2 defi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Croker BA,Handman E,Hayball JD,Baldwin TM,Voigt V,Cluse LA,Yang FC,Williams DA,Roberts AW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) regulate apoptosis and necroptosis has been fast-forwarded by the use of Smac mimetics (SMs) to deplete or inhibit the IAPs, specifically cIAP1, cIAP2 and XIAP. The loss or inhibition of cIAP1, cIAP2 and XIAP causes the majority of cells to be sensitized to deat...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Vasilikos L,Spilgies LM,Knop J,Wong WW

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), the β-herpesvirus prototype, has evolved a wide spectrum of mechanisms to counteract host immunity. Among them, HCMV uses cellular captured genes encoding molecules capable of interfering with the original host function or of fulfilling new immunomodulatory tasks. Here, we report on UL7, ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Engel P,Pérez-Carmona N,Albà MM,Robertson K,Ghazal P,Angulo A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a chronic infection such as tuberculosis, the pool of tissue dendritic cells (DC) must be renewed by recruitment of both circulating DC progenitors and monocytes (Mo). However, the microenvironment of the inflammatory site affects Mo differentiation. As DC are critical for initiating a Mycobacterium tuberculosi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Balboa L,Romero MM,Yokobori N,Schierloh P,Geffner L,Basile JI,Musella RM,Abbate E,de la Barrera S,Sasiain MC,Alemán M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloned Th1 cells, but not Th2 cells, specific for malaria antigen, produce nitric oxide (NO) when activated with specific antigen or Con A. Furthermore, NO inhibits proliferation of, and production of IL-2 and IFN-gamma by, Th1 but not Th2 cells. Here, it is demonstrated that the inhibition of Th1 cell proliferation b...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Taylor-Robinson AW

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-4 (IL-4) has previously been implicated in a protective response to Staphylococcus aureus corneal infection. Consequently, the specific role of IL-4 during S. aureus corneal infection was investigated using IL-4 gene knockout mice. The eyes of IL-4-/- mice and wild-type mice were challenged topically with ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Cole N,Hume EB,Khan S,Garthwaite L,Schubert T,Reeve V,Willcox MD

更新日期：2007-06-01 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