Role of murine NK cells and their receptors in hybrid resistance.

abstract：:Since the establishment of methods to isolate genes encoding cytotoxic T lymphocyte defined tumor antigens, several antigens have been identified and characterized for suitability as target antigens for immunotherapy. The development of innovative strategies to generate T cells targeting these antigens and lessons lea...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Yee C,Riddell SR,Greenberg PD

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing appreciation for the role for B cells in autoimmune disorders in which inflammation is driven by T cells, in addition to the well-established role for B cells in autoimmune disorders characterized by pathogenic auto-antibodies. Current information on tolerance checkpoints in B cells, B cell depletio...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Pillai S,Mattoo H,Cariappa A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological memory is broadly understood as the underlying mechanism by which an organism remembers previous encounters with pathogens, aberrant cells, or self-antigens to produce a more rapid or robust secondary response upon re-encounter. This phenomenon is widely accepted as the hallmark feature of the adaptive i...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Lau CM,Sun JC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of T-cell development in transgenic and gene-deficient mice suggests that the co-receptor function of CD8 is essential for positive selection. Recent data also demonstrate that the requirement for CD4 and CD8 in negative selection of T cells is not absolute and may be regulated by T-cell receptor affinity for...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wallace VA,Penninger J,Mak TW

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteasomes are large multicatalytic proteinase complexes which are responsible for the selective degradation of cellular proteins and the production of peptides for antigen presentation. Proteasomes are localized both in the nucleus and in the cytoplasm, where some are associated with the endoplasmic reticulum membra...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Rivett AJ

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While mutations in human FOXP3 predispose individuals to autoimmune conditions, it is unclear how the mutant protein fails to function as a transcriptional regulator. There is also limited detail of how FOXP3 itself interacts with the transcriptional machinery and which components of the FOXP3 ensembles exert phenotyp...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Li B,Saouaf SJ,Samanta A,Shen Y,Hancock WW,Greene MI

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) afflicts about 2.5 million people globally and poses a major personal and socioeconomic burden. The recognition of MS as an inflammatory disease, characterized by infiltration of immune cells into the central nervous system, has spurred research into the autoimmune etiology of the condition and...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Dendrou CA,Fugger L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the role of PD-1 in inhibiting immunity during chronic infections is well established, its functions during acute infections are much less clear. The PD-1 pathway can dampen CD8 T cell responses during some acute infections and restrain responses by 'helpless' CD8 memory T cells. An emerging role for PD-1 in inn...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Brown KE,Freeman GJ,Wherry EJ,Sharpe AH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal hematopoiesis, differentiation and maturation of cell populations belonging to various lineages are tightly regulated by the interaction of many transcription factors. The relative numbers of different myeloid cells depends on their proliferative/apoptotic rate, while their identity relates to their recruitm...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Sonda N,Chioda M,Zilio S,Simonato F,Bronte V

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of new targeted therapies is rapidly improving the treatment of autoimmune disease. These drugs have been variably designed to deplete specific T and B cell subsets, interrupt receptor-ligand interactions, and inhibit the activity of inflammatory mediators relevant to immune function. Abatacept, a co-sti...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： St Clair EW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is often considered to be an autoimmune disease in which the abnormal immunological response is triggered by an infectious agent(s) but progress towards identifying such extrinsic factors has so far been unrevealing. In contrast, the genetic component of host susceptibility is slowly becoming clea...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wordsworth P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinctions between tumor necrosis factor, TNF-alpha, and lymphotoxin, TNF-beta, have previously been based on the differences between their protein sequences, biological activity, and molecular regulation. In the past year, elucidation of the molecular nature of the two molecules and the interactions with common rec...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Ruddle NH

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are in a 'golden age' of mouse genetics. Genetic engineering and micromanipulation techniques now allow not only the overexpression or misexpression of transgenes randomly inserted into the mouse genome, but also the directed homologous replacement of normal genes with transgenes coding for null or mutant alleles (...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Seldin DC

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of autoimmune diseases using conventional chemical immunosuppressants has short-term effects, imposing the need for chronic treatment with its risks of over-immunosuppression. CD3-specific monoclonal antibodies can restore self-tolerance in a durable fashion after a single short-term treatment, as demons...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Chatenoud L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor vaccinology is as old as immunological thought and as young as our rapidly evolving understanding of antigen processing and presentation. The recent availability of carbohydrate and peptide tumor antigens suitable for vaccine construction, conjugate and recombinant vector technologies capable of augmenting helpe...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Livingston PO

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and biochemical analyses have identified multiple DNA-binding and non-DNA-binding proteins that functionally regulate MHC class II genes. These include RFX, X2BP, NF-Y, CIITA, OCT-2 and Bob1. One of the essential non-DNA-binding proteins, CIITA, appears to function as a limiting molecular switch that is respon...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Boss JM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classification of T helper (T(H)) cells in subsets has progressively expanded and more effector subsets, besides T(H)1 and T(H)2, have been documented. These include follicular helper T cells (T(FH)), and the more recent T(H)17, 'T(H)9', and 'T(H)22'. In addition, T(H) are no longer thought of as terminally commit...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Veldhoen M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines have been developed and deployed against several important bacterial pathogens of humans, including Neisseria meningitidis, Bordetella pertussis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These vaccines are generally considered a successful public health measure and are effective at controlling...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Barnett TC,Lim JY,Soderholm AT,Rivera-Hernandez T,West NP,Walker MJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T (Treg) cells suppress effector T (Teff) cells and prevent immune-mediated rejection of cancer. Much less appreciated are mechanisms by which Teff cells antagonize Treg cells. Herein, we consider how complex reciprocal interactions between Teff and Treg cells shape their population dynamics within tumors. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Roychoudhuri R,Eil RL,Restifo NP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The germinal centre (GC) is a specialized cellular structure that forms in response to antigenic stimulation. It generates long-term humoral immunity through the production of memory B cells and long-lived antibody-secreting plasma cells. Conventional GCs form within secondary lymphoid organs, where networks of specia...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Silva-Cayetano A,Linterman MA

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer Ig-like receptors (KIRs) are surface inhibitory receptors specific for allelic forms of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules, which are expressed by natural killer (NK) cells and a subset of T lymphocytes. Upon engagement with HLA class I molecules, KIRs block NK cell activation and function. Cells l...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Moretta L,Moretta A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines have been presumed to play an important role during T-cell development, but until recently formal proof has been missing. Most cytokine-knockout mice show apparently normal intrathymic T-cell development. The exception to this is IL-7, as both IL-7 and IL-7R alpha knockout mice show abnormally low thymic cel...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Zlotnik A,Moore TA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of airway remodeling correlates with severity of asthma. Persistent airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is associated with airway remodeling, but not with inflammation. The increase in ASM mass is recognized as one of the most important factors related to AHR and to the severity of asthma. The infiltration of ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Okayama Y,Ra C,Saito H

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy is now known to encompass a number of distinct clinical entities that follow the ingestion of specific food or food additives. Research continues to shed light on immediate reactions to foods and food protein-induced enterocolitis of newborns and infants. Adverse reactions to food additives remain an area...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Metcalfe DD

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors of diverse origin have recently been shown to express CD95 ligand and to induce apoptosis in CD95-expressing targets in vitro; however, in vivo, enhanced tumor growth and rejection have both been observed as a consequence of either immunosuppressive or proinflammatory functions of CD95 ligand. The final in vivo...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Walker PR,Saas P,Dietrich PY

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of antiviral immunity in vertebrates and invertebrates relies on members of the RIG-I-like receptor and Dicer families, respectively. Although these proteins have different size and domain composition, members of both families share a conserved DECH-box helicase domain. This helicase, also known as a duplex ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Paro S,Imler JL,Meignin C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While certain bacteria and respiratory viruses promote local inflammation and disease onset, a more diverse colonization of the different species in the (gut) microbiome may be linked to more regulatory responses and protection against asthma and allergies. These processes are also influenced in part by food intake, b...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Smits HH,van der Vlugt LE,von Mutius E,Hiemstra PS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes zoster is common in older and immune suppressed persons due to diminished VZV-specific cellular immunity. A recombinant herpes zoster vaccine (RZV) consisting of a single VZV glycoprotein and an adjuvant system stimulates robust and persistent VZV-specific antibody and CD4+ T cell responses in these high-risk p...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Heineman TC,Cunningham A,Levin M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dicer is a multifunctional protein that is essential across species for the generation of microRNAs, a function that is highly conserved across the plant and animal kingdoms. Intriguingly, Dicer exhibits antiviral functions in lower organisms including Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans. Antiviral acti...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： MacKay CR,Wang JP,Kurt-Jones EA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer results from a tumor cell intrinsic dysregulation of oncogenes, tumor suppressor and stability genes as well as from the avoidance of immunosurveillance. A complex network of cellular interactions allows one to mount cognate anti-tumor immune responses. Recently, discoveries have been made regarding the links b...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Ghiringhelli F,Apetoh L,Housseau F,Kroemer G,Zitvogel L

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00