Microglial cells from psychologically stressed mice as an accelerator of cerebral cryptococcosis.

abstract：:The mammalian testis is an immunoprivileged organ where male germ cell autoantigens are immunologically ignored. Both systemic immune tolerance to autoantigens and local immunosuppressive milieu contribute to the testicular immune privilege. Testicular immunosuppression has been intensively studied, but information on...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Li N,Liu Z,Zhang Y,Chen Q,Liu P,Cheng CY,Lee WM,Chen Y,Han D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells play a pivotal role in the immune system and are responsible for the synthesis and release of immunoglobulins. Numerous in vitro culture experiments on the yolk sac demonstrated the generation of mature cells of the myeloid and lymphoid lineages under appropriate culture conditions. However, there are no ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Kanayama N,Suganuma N,Terao T

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Neospora caninum is a coccidian parasite causative of clinical infections in a wide range of animal hosts. The maturation and activation of splenic conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) were studied here in BALB/c mice challenged intraperitoneal with N. caninum tachyzoites. The nu...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Teixeira L,Botelho AS,Mesquita SD,Correia A,Cerca F,Costa R,Sampaio P,Castro AG,Vilanova M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is important in the development of inflammatory bowel disease. TNF-alpha-deficient mice show more severe colonic inflammation than wild-type (Wt) mice, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Using immunohistochemistry, enzyme-linked-immunosorbent assay and histopathology, we found t...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Xu Y,Hunt NH,Bao S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-gal epitope (Galalpha1-3Galbeta1-(3)4GlcNAc-R) is abundantly synthesized on glycolipids and glycoproteins of non-primate mammals and New World monkeys by the glycosylation enzyme alpha1,3galactosyltransferase (alpha1,3GT). In humans, apes and Old World monkeys, this epitope is absent because the alpha1,3GT g...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Galili U

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic fusion of tandem repeats of the complement molecule C3d has been shown to considerably enhance immune responses to genetic vaccines. We have investigated the applicability of this approach to augment humoral immune responses toward vaccines delivered by recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors. C3d(3)-...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Logan GJ,Wang L,Zheng M,Coppel RL,Alexander IE

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Lethal giant larvae-1 (Lgl-1) is an evolutionary conserved protein that regulates cell polarity in diverse lineages; however, the role of Lgl-1 in the polarity and function of immune cells remains to be elucidated. To assess the role of Lgl-1 in T cells, we generated chimeric mice with a hematopoietic system deficient...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ramsbottom KM,Sacirbegovic F,Hawkins ED,Kallies A,Belz GT,Van Ham V,Haynes NM,Durrant MJ,Humbert PO,Russell SM,Oliaro J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing forebrain, mounting evidence suggests that neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation is regulated by growth factors. In vitro in the presence of serum, stem cell proliferation is predominantly mediated by fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) whereas neuronal differentiation can be triggered by...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bartlett PF,Brooker GJ,Faux CH,Dutton R,Murphy M,Turnley A,Kilpatrick TJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis, a group of visceral and cutaneous diseases, is caused by parasites belonging to one genus comprising approximately 13 different species. Many methods including serological, biochemical and molecular biological techniques have been used by various workers to characterize these different species and isola...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Arora SK,Kapoor GS,Sehgal S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is a highly potent, proinflammatory cytokine with broad-ranging functions from the regulation of endothelial cell adhesion molecules to facilitate entry of leucocytes into tissues, to direct induction of cellular cytotoxicity. This diversity of function potentially attributable to TNF in t...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Körner H,Sedgwick JD

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active Brugia pahangi microfilariae (Mf) were injected into naive male BALB/c mice intraperitoneally. Microfilaraemia was studied for 28 days; and Mf circulated in blood in optimum numbers from 3 to 14 days. Anti-Mf response was assessed by the rate of disappearance of Mf from blood as well as their absence from visce...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rajasekariah GR,Puri PM,Chandrashekar R,Subrahmanyam D

更新日期：1988-10-01 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：:Follicular dendritic cells (FDC) play a crucial role in the regulation of humoral immunity. They are believed to be responsible for long-term persistence of antibody, due to their role in antibody response induction and their ability to retain antigen in immunogenic form for long periods. In this article, a regulatory...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Almudevar A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By hybridization with a human interleukin-6 (IL-6) cDNA fragment a corresponding ruminant (ovine) cDNA was isolated from a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated alveolar macrophage library. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA and the predicted amino acid sequence of the protein showed significant homology to the human a...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Andrews AE,Barcham GJ,Ashman K,Meeusen EN,Brandon MR,Nash AD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous (i.v.) immunization of mice with recombinant vaccinia viruses stimulated the highest antibody and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses when i.v., intraperitoneal (i.p.), intranasal (i.n.), footpad (f.p.) and tail scarification (t.s.) routes were compared. Intraperitoneal immunization of mice resulted in ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Andrew ME,Coupar BE,Boyle DB

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy has recently demonstrated a great potential for clinical applications; however, additional progress in the methods of tumor-specific antigen delivery to DCs is necessary for the further development of anti-tumor vaccines. To this end, a capsid-optimized adeno-associated virus se...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Pandya J,Ortiz L,Ling C,Rivers AE,Aslanidi G

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD45 (lymphocyte common antigen) is a receptor-linked protein tyrosine phosphatase that is expressed on all leucocytes, and which plays a crucial role in the function of these cells. On T cells the extracellular domain of CD45 is expressed in several different isoforms, and the particular isoform(s) expressed depends ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Altin JG,Sloan EK

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to model the mechanism by which leucocytes may be actively repulsed by a beta-chemokine signal. This model is used to interpret an apparent paradox in chemokine biology, whereby high levels of a T-cell chemoattractant, stromal cell derived factor-1 (SDF-1), are present in bone marrow and thymic tissues despi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zlatopolskiy A,Laurence J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Australian populations of rainbow trout (Onchorhynchus mykiss) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were found to have similar immunological responses to local strains of Vibrio anguillarum as those reported for the more genetically diverse populations of these fish and strains of V. anguillarum found in the Northern...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Munday BL,Carson J,Whittington R,Alexander J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxidase-conjugated anti-surface immunoglobulin (sIg) was used quantitatively to monitor endocytosis of crosslinked sIg on murine B lymphocytes. The role of biochemical second messengers in the initiation of endocytosis was assessed by employing several inhibitors. A novel peroxidase detection system was used and te...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Shuler RL,Owen CS

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Human plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) were considered to be a phenotypically and functionally homogeneous cell population; however, recent analyses indicate potential heterogeneity. This is of major interest, given their importance in the induction of anti-viral responses and their role in creating immunologically...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bryant C,Fromm PD,Kupresanin F,Clark G,Lee K,Clarke C,Silveira PA,Suen H,Brown R,Newman E,Cunningham I,Ho PJ,Gibson J,Bradstock K,Joshua D,Hart DNj

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Even though smallpox has been eradicated, the threat of accidental or intentional release has highlighted the fact there is little consensus about correlates of protective immunity or immunity against re-infection with the causative poxvirus, variola virus (VARV). As the existing vaccine for smallpox has unacceptable ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Panchanathan V,Chaudhri G,Karupiah G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4 T cells play a key role in immunological memory. We have demonstrated that professional memory CD4 T cells reside and rest in the bone marrow (BM). However, the molecular mechanisms of their establishment in the BM and their maintenance remain unclear. We here show that memory CD4 T cells express high levels of CD...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Hanazawa A,Hayashizaki K,Shinoda K,Yagita H,Okumura K,Löhning M,Hara T,Tani-ichi S,Ikuta K,Eckes B,Radbruch A,Tokoyoda K,Nakayama T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00