Human beta-defensin 3 binds to hemagglutinin B (rHagB), a non-fimbrial adhesin from Porphyromonas gingivalis, and attenuates a pro-inflammatory cytokine response.

abstract：:Cancer immunosurveillance representing, till recently, the explanatory framework relating cancer and the immune system, does not convincingly explain tumor escape. At the beginning of the decade, a new theory emerged, namely the immunoediting theory, and it comprehensively defines the role of the immune system in carc...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Germenis AE,Karanikas V

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The broadest definition of dendritic cells (DCs) is white blood cells that can take up antigen, process it and then present antigen-derived peptides to activate cognate naive T cells. Although this definition is by no means perfect, it is nevertheless now textbook. The source of frustration more recently has focused o...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Naik SH

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ex vivo mammary explant systems are an excellent model to study interactions between epithelium and stromal cell types because they contain physiologically relevant heterotypic interactions in the background of genetically diverse patients. The intact human mammary tissue, termed patient-derived explant (PDE), can be ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gregory KJ,Morin SM,Kubosiak A,Ser-Dolansky J,Schalet BJ,Jerry DJ,Schneider SS

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:CD8 T cells exhibit dynamic alterations in proliferation and apoptosis during various phases of the CD8 T-cell response, but the mechanisms that regulate cellular proliferation from the standpoint of CD8 T-cell memory are not well defined. The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27(Kip1) functions as a negative regulat...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Jatzek A,Marie Tejera M,Plisch EH,Fero ML,Suresh M

更新日期：2013-02-01 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 utility of T-cell receptor (TCR) transgenic mice in medical research has been considerable, with applications ranging from basic biology all the way to translational and clinical investigations. Crossing of TCR transgenic mice with either recombination-activating gene (RAG)-1 or RAG-2 knockouts is frequently used ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： McGuire HM,Watkins TS,Field M,Taylor S,Yasuyama N,Farmer A,Miles JJ,Fazekas de St Groth B

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a tunicate immunomodulatory protein, tunIL1, to interact with mammalian cells was investigated. TunIL1 is known to regulate inflammatory defence reactions in tunicates and to stimulate the proliferation of mammalian thymocytes. In the current study, tunIL1 was shown to enchance L929 fibroblast prolifera...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Raftos D

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Productive immune responses to T-cell-dependent antigens ultimately generate two long-lived compartments: memory B cells and bone marrow-resident plasma cells, which both arise from within germinal centres. The ability of a B-cell clone to populate these effector compartments requires its descendents to outcompete tho...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Tarlinton DM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parturition is associated with myometrial and cervical inflammation. The causes and consequences of this inflammatory response are not clear. Mast cells (MCs) are important inducers of allergic and non-allergic inflammation, and their secreted products can induce myometrial contractions. Thus, mast cell activation has...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Menzies FM,Higgins CA,Shepherd MC,Nibbs RJ,Nelson SM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A derivative of ammonia caramel colour (AC) is known to induce a selective lymphopenia in rats. Accordingly, the haematological effects were studied in mice of oral administration in drinking water of 2-acetyl-4(5)-tetrahydroxybutylimidazole (THI), the component of AC responsible for lymphopenia. Initially five groups...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Iscaro A,Mackay IR,O'Brien C

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ikaros, Aiolos and Helios encode zinc finger transcription factors that are important regulators of lymphoid development and differentiation. These proteins are involved in the control of gene expression and when associated with nuclear complexes, participate in nucleosome remodeling. Because differential splicing pro...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rebollo A,Schmitt C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe stress decreases the resistance of hosts exposed to microbial infections. As compared with two groups of control mice (normal mice, food-and-water-deprived mice [FWD mice]), restraint-stressed mice (RST mice) were shown to be greatly susceptible to intracerebral growth of Cryptococcus neoformans. The susceptibi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Shimoda M,Jones VC,Kobayashi M,Suzuki F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The review articles in this special feature reflect the current status of knowledge in the field of exercise immunology, with a focus on how exercise affects the human immune system and the health implications for resistance to infections and neoplastic diseases. In an Olympic year, the emphasis of exercise immunology...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gleeson M

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:Gαq, the α-subunit of Gq protein, is ubiquitously expressed in mammalian cells. It initially attracted attention for its physiological significance in cardiovascular system. In recent years, studies have also indicated the important roles of Gαq in regulating immunity, supplying us a new insight into the mechanism of ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Liu Y,Wang D,Li F,Shi G

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) can contribute to the progression of chronic inflammatory diseases with possible involvement of macrophages. In this study, we investigated the role of both GM-CSF and uPA in Porphyromonas gingivalis-induced experi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Lam RS,O'Brien-Simpson NM,Hamilton JA,Lenzo JC,Holden JA,Brammar GC,Orth RK,Tan Y,Walsh KA,Fleetwood AJ,Reynolds EC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the microenvironment conditions, macrophages display phenotypic and functional heterogeneity. This study characterized the programmed cell death-ligand 2 (PD-L2)-expressing macrophage-like cells drained from surgical wound zones, and investigated their influence on helper T (Th) cell responses. Although a...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Tavukcuoglu E,Horzum U,Yilmaz KB,Esendagli G

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiated malaria sporozoites induce better protection than viable untreated sporozoites. We observed early differences between irradiated and viable untreated sporozoites in priming responses in vivo to a protective CD8 T-cell epitope, pb9, of the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium berghei. Sporozoites were proc...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Plebanski M,Hannan CM,Behboudi S,Flanagan KL,Apostolopoulos V,Sinden RE,Hill AV

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:The HECT-type E3 ligase Itch is increasingly being shown to have a vital role in immune regulation. Itch deficiency leads to deleterious inflammatory disorders both in mice and humans. By adding ubiquitin to the key signaling intermediates, Itch functions as a critical regulator of lymphocyte-cell activation, differen...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Venuprasad K,Zeng M,Baughan SL,Massoumi R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus achieves its ubiquitous and uniform epidemiological distribution by a dual strategy of latency to guarantee lifelong persistence and intermittent replication to guarantee transmission. These two functions appear to dictate residence in different cell types: latency in B lymphocytes and replication i...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Schmidt CW,Misko IS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infections are a major problem in human medicine for which better understanding of native immune defenses may reveal new pathways for therapeutic intervention. Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THP), the most abundant urinary protein, interacts with bacteria including uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) as w...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Patras KA,Coady A,Olson J,Ali SR,RamachandraRao SP,Kumar S,Varki A,Nizet V

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：: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 discovery of functional long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) coupled with the ever-increasing accessibility of genomic and transcriptomic technology has led to an explosion of functional and mechanistic investigation and discovery into what was once dismissed as junk DNA. Over the past decade, a significant number of lnc...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yu AD,Wang Z,Morris KV

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) in anti-HIV immunity is mostly represented by the production of type I IFN in response to HIV infection in vitro and in vivo. This production is decreased in HIV-1 infected patients at the time of primary infection and during chronic disease in association with progressio...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Müller-Trutwin M,Hosmalin A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately quantitate and experimentally examine epigenetic modifications across the human genome has exploded in the past decade. This has given rise to a wealth of new information concerning the contributions of epigenetic regulatory networks to the pathogenesis of human disease. In particular, immuno...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： MacDonald IA,Hathaway NA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the potential for extensive diversity of gamma delta TCR, especially for delta-chains, expression of the gamma delta TCR repertoire in various mouse epithelial tissues is highly restricted. This implies that the recognition of antigen by gamma delta T cells may also be limited. To date, however, few studies ha...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Olive C

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00