The state of the art in the pathogenesis of ATL and new potential targets associated with HTLV-1 and ATL.

abstract：:The C-type lectins DC-SIGN, DC-SIGNR and LSECtin are encoded by the lectin gene cluster on chromosome 19p13.3 and perform cell-adhesion and pathogen recognition functions on dendritic cells, liver cells and lymph node sinusoidal endothelial cells. DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR share similar overall gene and protein molecule st...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Zhang F,Ren S,Zuo Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The concept of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) as molecules able to redirect T lymphocytes toward tumor cells is currently being exploited in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Despite promising preliminary results, some clinical trials evidenced limitations for this technology that must be overcome for more extensi...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Chicaybam L,Sodré AL,Bonamino M

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Activation, proliferation, or programmed cell death of T lymphocytes are dependent on controlled reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) production and ATP synthesis in mitochondria. The mitochondrial transmembrane potential (Delta Psi(m)) also plays a decisive role in cell survival by controlling activity of redox-sensit...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Perl A,Gergely P Jr,Banki K

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:IVIgG preparations are now widely applied for immune modulatory treatment in various forms of autoimmune and immune complex diseases. Several controlled studies clearly demonstrated the clinical efficacy of this type of treatment; the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms, however, have yet to be elucidated. Among ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Mannhalter JW,Eibl MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge on the physiological role of CD4(+) T lymphocytes has improved in the last decade: available data convincingly demonstrate that, besides the 'helper' activity, CD4(+) T cells may be also endowed with lytic properties. The cytotoxic function of these effector cells has a relevant role in the control of pa...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Martorelli D,Muraro E,Merlo A,Turrini R,Rosato A,Dolcetti R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Human leukocyte antigen G (HLA-G) is a non-classical HLA class I molecule involved in inducing tolerance at the feto-maternal interface and in escape of immune response by tumor cells. The aim of the study is to review the published literature on the expression of HLA-G in malignant melanomas and its clinicop...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Marletta S,Girolami I,Munari E,Pantanowitz L,Bernasconi R,Torresani E,Brunelli M,Eccher A

更新日期：2021-01-11 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：:Fibrosis is a consequence of chronic inflammation and the persistent accumulation of extracellular matrix, for which the cycle of tissue injury and repair becomes a predominant feature. Both the innate and adaptive immune systems play key roles in the progress of fibrosis. The recently identified subsets of innate lym...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Tang J,Tian Z,van Velkinburgh JC,Song J,Wu Y,Ni B

更新日期：2016-09-02 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

abstract：:The tolerogenic phenotype of human dendritic cells is characterized by high cell surface expression of the inhibitory receptor ILT3. ILT3 signals both intracellularly inhibiting tyrosine phosphorylation, NF-kappaB and MAPK p38 activity, transcription of certain co-stimulatory molecules, secretion of cytokines and chem...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Vlad G,Chang CC,Colovai AI,Vasilescu ER,Cortesini R,Suciu-Foca N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noncoding RNA comprises of microRNAs (miRNAs) and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) that are abundantly present in mammalian transcriptome. These noncoding RNAs have been implicated in multiple biological processes through the regulation of gene expression. Each of these noncoding RNAs were found to have multiple genes ta...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Roy S,Awasthi A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the B cell antigen receptor (BCR) transmits survival and activation signals, BCR ligation can induce apoptosis in both immature and mature B cells. BCR-mediated apoptosis is suggested to play a role in self-tolerance by deleting self-reactive B cells. Generation of an apoptotic signal through BCR appears to d...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Tsubata T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While simultaneously maintaining homeostasis and reducing further harm to the host, the immune system is equipped to eliminate both tumors and pathogenic microorganisms. Bifurcated into cell-mediated and humoral immunity, the adaptive immune system requires a series of complex and coordinated signals to drive the prol...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Fracchia KM,Walsh CM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human membrane and soluble Fc epsilon receptors (Fc epsilon RI, Fc epsilon RII/CD23) and Fc gamma receptors (Fc gamma RI/CD64, Fc gamma RII/CD32, Fc gamma RIII/CD16) have been implicated in a number of diseases. Their functional roles such as capture and clearance of immune complexes, antibody-dependent cell cytotoxic...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Rouard H,Tamasdan S,Moncuit J,Moutel S,Michon J,Fridman WH,Teillaud JL

更新日期：1997-01-01 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 development of a strong cellular immune response is critical for the control of the intracellular pathogen Toxoplasma gondii. This occurs by activation of a complex, integrated immune response, which utilizes cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems. In the last two decades there have been major advances in...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Lieberman LA,Hunter CA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are immunogenic, with the specificity of the immune response provided by the peptides that they chaperone. Binding of cell surface receptors by HSPs is central to the elicitation of the innate and adaptive immune responses obtained after vaccination and also plays a physiologic role in cross...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Binder RJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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：:Peripheral blood lymphocytes from nonatopic subjects and atopic patients were analyzed for cells expressing Fc receptors for IgE (Fc epsilon R). Nonatopic humans and atopic patients in remission had approximately 1 percent of Fc epsilon R+ peripheral blood lymphocytes. Usually greater than 99 percent of these cells we...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Spiegelberg HL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) from human peripheral blood are susceptible to productive and probably to latent infection with HIV-I. Infection of DC also occurs in vivo since in HIV-seropositive individuals Langerhans' cells of the skin and DC from peripheral blood, (in preparation) are infected. In peripheral blood 3-25% of D...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Knight SC,Macatonia SE,Patterson S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages (Mϕs) are professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that can efficiently phagocytose Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB). It is quite interesting to mention here that DCs and Mϕs use distinct strategies to combat and eliminate Mtb. Simil...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Khan N,Vidyarthi A,Pahari S,Agrewala JN

更新日期：2016-09-02 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：:T-helper (TH) 17 activation is crucial for protective immune responses against bacteria and fungi at mucosal surfaces, but it can also be implicated in the pathogenesis of several autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Although rapid progress was made elucidating induc...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Verdier J,Ruemmele FM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technology is described which combines the power of T lymphocytes in eliminating unwanted cells and causing beneficial inflammatory reactions with the great advantages of monoclonal antibodies. We show that heteroconjugate antibodies and hybrid antibodies, in which one of the component binding sites is anti-T-cell r...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Staerz UD,Bevan MJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune disorders afflicting the liver comprise the bona fide autoimmune diseases, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and autoimmune hepatitis as well as drug-induced autoimmune-like diseases, such as halothane hepatitis. Whereas drug-induced forms of acute or chronic hepatitis often have a ...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Christen U,Hintermann E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) establishes a latent infection within sensory neurons and periodically reactivates in response to stress. HSV's ability to inhabit neurons for the life of the host involves a number of virally encoded functions that tightly regulate the latency-reactivation cycle, preventing uncontrolled spr...

journal_title：International reviews of immunology

authors： Bloom DC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00