Development of a nasal vaccine for chronic hepatitis B infection that uses the ability of hepatitis B core antigen to stimulate a strong Th1 response against hepatitis B surface antigen.

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are the founding members of the innate lymphoid cell family and contribute to the rapid production of inflammatory mediators upon pathogen detection. The evolution of receptors for self major histocompatibility complex-I and stress-induced ligands also bestows upon NK cells an important effec...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Huntington ND

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein composition of Strongyloides ratti infective larvae and adult worms extracted sequentially in water, sodium deoxycholate and sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and their excretory/secretory products were analysed by both one- and two-dimensional SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. While many bands common to...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Northern C,Grove DI

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, is a member of the poxvirus family and one of the most virulent human pathogens known. Although smallpox was eradicated almost 30 years ago, it is not understood why the mortality rates associated with the disease were high, why some patients recovered, and what constitu...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Stanford MM,McFadden G,Karupiah G,Chaudhri G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NZB/W F1 (F1) mice develop severe disease that is similar to human systemic lupus erythematosus. By contrast, each parent strain, NZB or NZW, has limited autoimmunity, suggesting traits of both strains contribute to pathogenesis. Although many of the contributing genes have been identified, the contributing cellul...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zhan Y,Kong I,Chopin M,Macri C,Zhang JG,Xie J,Nutt SL,O'Keeffe M,Hawkins ED,Morand EF,Lew AM

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major limitations for cancer immunotherapy is related to the frequent existence of an intra-tumoral immunosuppressive environment, to which STAT3 (Signal transducer and activator of transcription-3) activation in tumor and dendritic cells (DCs) are believed to contribute. In this study, we tested the hypoth...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Molavi O,Ma Z,Hamdy S,Lai R,Lavasanifar A,Samuel J

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Endothelial cell (EC)-neutrophil (PMN) interactions are crucial in the resolution of bacterial infections. Prokaryotic RNA (pRNA) has been reported as a pathogen-associated molecular pattern that is released from bacteria upon death and is able to activate PMN. In this work, we studied the effects of pRNA on EC and in...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Castillo LA,Birnberg Weiss F,Rodriguez-Rodrigues N,Pittaluga JR,Martire-Greco D,Milillo MA,Grinstein SF,Camelli MR,Mena Aybar AJ,Landoni VI,Fernández GC

更新日期：2019-10-01 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 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：: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：: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：:Viral infections can disturb the functions of adipose tissues and thus result in metabolic diseases. Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly(I:C)), a synthetic analog of viral double-stranded RNA, induces innate antiviral responses by mimicking viral infection through the activation of pattern recognition receptors (PRR...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yu L,Liu G,Yang C,Song X,Wang H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate activation of p34cdc2 kinase has been shown to occur during apoptosis induced by cytotoxic T-cell derived perforin and fragmentin. We analysed the effect of two inhibitors of p34cdc2 kinase on alloreactive Tc-cell-mediated lysis and DNA fragmentation of P815 and L1210 target cells. Olomoucine, a specific...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Waring P,Müllbacher A

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a common and complex inflammatory disease of the airways that remains incurable. Current forms of therapy are long term and may exhibit associated side-effect problems. Major participants in the development of an asthma phenotype include the triggering stimuli such as the allergens themselves, cells such as ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ramshaw HS,Woodcock JM,Bagley CJ,McClure BJ,Hercus TR,Lopez AF

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-converting enzyme (TACE) is a membrane-bound metalloprotease and disintegrin. It is produced by a number of host cells and is known to shed and release cell-bound cytokines, particularly members of the TNF family. No investigations into the regulation of this enzyme by autoanti...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Lisi S,Sisto M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NK cells from three donors with a NK (CD3- CD56+ CD16+) lymphocytosis of unknown aetiology showed differential expression of CD45R0, an isoform of CD45 not expressed by NK cells from normal donors unless stimulated to proliferate in vitro. For donor FC, 60% of NK cells expressed CD45R0 over a 16 month period during wh...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Warren HS,Kinnear BF,Skipsey LJ,Pembrey RG

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon their activation, CD4 T cells can differentiate into distinct T helper cell subsets with specialised functions. Different T helper cell subsets produce specific cytokines that mediate beneficial and sometimes detrimental effects, depending on the infection or disease setting. CD4 T-cell priming relies on signals ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Coquet JM,Rausch L,Borst J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural suppressor (NS) cell line (Clone 59) was established from the bone marrow of adult C3H/Hej mice in the presence of WEHI-3 conditioned media. Clone 59 cells suppressed the generation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes from normal mouse spleen. This suppression was seen at a responder-to-suppressor cell ratio of 1000:1 ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Yanagië H,Sugiyama H,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper describes a comparative analysis of light chains associated with primary and secondary IgM, as well as with secondary IgG antibodies to fluorescein, undertaken in order to explore the relationship between light chain somatic hypermutation and the isotype switch. The data reveal a disparity in the fre...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： van der Keyl H,Gellad ZF,Owen JA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secreted hexameric form of the dengue virus (DENV) non-structural protein 1 (NS1) has recently been shown to elicit inflammatory cytokine release and disrupt endothelial cell monolayer integrity. This suggests that circulating NS1 contributes to the vascular leak that plays a major role in the pathology of dengue ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Modhiran N,Watterson D,Blumenthal A,Baxter AG,Young PR,Stacey KJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Substance abuse is a growing world-wide problem. The big four drugs of abuse that might lend themselves to immunotherapy are nicotine, cocaine, morphine/heroin and methamphetamine. Tobacco abuse has a well-known enormous impact on major chronic cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, while the last three, aside from th...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Kinsey BM,Jackson DC,Orson FM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human regulatory T cells (Tregs) expressing the transcription factor FoxP3 play indispensable roles for the maintenance of immunological self-tolerance and immune homeostasis. In this review, we discuss immunological characteristics of human FoxP3(+) Tregs and to what extent they are similar to or different from the m...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Miyara M,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:A murine monoclonal antibody has been used to characterise a 45,000 Da antigen that is associated with the surface membrane of merozoites of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The antigen is a glycoprotein and incorporates myristic acid. ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ramasamy R

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins and inhibins are members of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily that have been considered crucial regulators of cell processes, such as differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis, in different cell types. Initial studies about the function of activin A in the immune system focused on the regulation...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Aleman-Muench GR,Soldevila G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell activation RhoGTPase-activating protein (TAGAP) is a GTPase-activating protein specific for RhoA that is exclusively expressed in activated T cells. Genome-wide association studies and metagenome SNPs analyses have indicated that TAGAP is associated with the pathogenesis of multiple autoimmune diseases, includi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Tamehiro N,Nishida K,Yanobu-Takanashi R,Goto M,Okamura T,Suzuki H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00