abstract：:The large family of chemoattractant cytokines (chemokines) embraces multiple, in part unrelated functions that go well beyond chemotaxis. Undoubtedly, the control of immune cell migration (chemotaxis) is the single, unifying response mediated by all chemokines, which involves the sequential engagement of chemokine rec...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wolf M,Moser B

更新日期：2012-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucosal immune system is constantly exposed to antigen, whether it be food antigen, commensal bacteria, or harmful antigen. It is essential that the mucosal immune system can distinguish between harmful and non-harmful antigens, and initiate an active immune response to clear the harmful antigens, while initiating...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Lambert SE,Kinder JM,Then JE,Parliament KN,Bruns HA

更新日期：2012-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The salivary scavenger and agglutinin (SALSA), also known as gp340, salivary agglutinin and deleted in malignant brain tumor 1, is a 340-kDa glycoprotein expressed on mucosal surfaces and secreted into several body fluids. SALSA binds to a broad variety of microbes and endogenous ligands, such as complement factor C1q...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Reichhardt MP,Loimaranta V,Thiel S,Finne J,Meri S,Jarva H

更新日期：2012-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase C-θ (PKCθ), which is essential for T cell function and survival, is also required for efficient anti-tumor immune surveillance. Natural killer (NK) cells, which express PKCθ, play a prominent role in this process, mainly by elimination of tumor cells with reduced or absent major histocompatibility c...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Anel A,Aguiló JI,Catalán E,Garaude J,Rathore MG,Pardo J,Villalba M

更新日期：2012-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Female sex hormones have long been suspected to have an effect on mast cell (MC) behavior. This assumption is based on the expression of hormone receptors in MCs as well as on the fact that many MC-related pathophysiological alterations have a different prevalence in females than in males. Further, serum IgE levels ar...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zierau O,Zenclussen AC,Jensen F

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are uniquely potent antigen presenting cells that acquire microbial products and prime adaptive immune responses against pathogens. Furthermore, DCs also play a key role in induction and maintenance of tolerance. Although numerous studies have assessed the diverse functions of DCs, many unanswere...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zelante T,Fric J,Wong AY,Ricciardi-Castagnoli P

更新日期：2012-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their detrimental role in allergic diseases, mast cells (MCs) are well known to be important cells of the innate immune system. In the last decade, they have been shown to contribute significantly to optimal host defense against numerous pathogens including parasites, bacteria, and viruses. The contribu...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Saluja R,Metz M,Maurer M

更新日期：2012-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy over the frequency of human B1 cells in normal individuals has arisen as different labs have begun to employ non-uniform techniques to study this population. The phenotypic profile and relative paucity of circulating human B1 cells place constraints on methodology to identify and isolate this population. M...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Griffin DO,Rothstein TL

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver fibrosis is the final common pathway of chronic liver diseases irrespective of etiology. However, etiology deeply impacts progression and characteristics of liver fibrogenesis. IL-13 is the dominant pro-fibrotic cytokine in Schistosomiasis associated liver fibrogenesis. In vitro, IL-13 directly induces expressio...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Liu Y,Munker S,Müllenbach R,Weng HL

更新日期：2012-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are chronic inflammatory disorders of the intestine. The prevalence in the United States is greater than 200 cases per 100,000, with the total number of IBD patients between 1 and 1.5 million. CD may affect all parts of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rubin DC,Shaker A,Levin MS

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperation between the innate and adaptive immune responses is critical for enabling protective immunity against various invading microbes. Distinct types of effector T cells have different functions in adaptive immune responses. Th1 cells play important roles in the control of intracellular bacteria by producing IFN...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Koyasu S,Moro K

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are recognition molecules for multiple pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. TLR2 forms heterodimers with TLR1 and TLR6, which is the initial step in a cascade of events leading to significant innate immune responses, development of adaptive immunity to pathogens and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Oliveira-Nascimento L,Massari P,Wetzler LM

更新日期：2012-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is the third most important vector-borne disease worldwide. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe and frequently lethal protozoan disease of increasing incidence and severity due to infected human and dog migration, new geographical distribution of the insect due to global warming, coinfection with imm...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Palatnik-de-Sousa CB

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs), Langerhans cells (LCs), and macrophages are innate immune cells that reside in genital and intestinal mucosal tissues susceptible to HIV-1 infection. These innate cells play distinct roles in initiation of HIV-1 infection and induction of anti-viral immunity. DCs are potent migratory cells that ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mesman AW,Geijtenbeek TB

更新日期：2012-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, heat shock proteins (HSPs) have been implicated in inflammatory responses and autoimmunity. HSPs were originally believed to maintain protein quality control in the cytosol. However, they also exist extracellularly and appear to act as inflammatory factors. Recently, a growing body of eviden...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Morito D,Nagata K

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-presentation of endocytosed antigen as peptide/class I major histocompatibility complex complexes plays a central role in the elicitation of CD8(+) T cell clones that mediate anti-viral and anti-tumor immune responses. While it has been clear that there are specific subsets of professional antigen presenting cel...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Compeer EB,Flinsenberg TW,van der Grein SG,Boes M

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune regulator (Aire)-directed ectopic expression of tissue-specific antigens (TSAs) by mature medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) has been viewed as an essential mechanism in the induction of central tolerance. Recent data suggest that the survival of mTECs extends beyond the Aire+ cell population to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wang X,Laan M,Bichele R,Kisand K,Scott HS,Peterson P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are specialized antigen presenting cells that are exquisitely adapted to sense pathogens and induce the development of adaptive immune responses. They form a complex network of phenotypically and functionally distinct subsets. Within this network, individual DC subsets display highly specific rol...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Chopin M,Allan RS,Belz GT

更新日期：2012-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the chemokine receptor XCR1 has been found to be exclusively expressed on a subset of dendritic cell (DC) known to be involved in antigen cross-presentation. This review aims to summarize the known biology of the XCR1 receptor and its chemokine ligand XCL1, both in the mouse and the human. Further, any invol...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kroczek RA,Henn V

更新日期：2012-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes that migrate into tissues during inflammatory episodes and differentiate to macrophages were previously classified as classically (M1) or alternatively (M2) activated macrophages, based on their exposure to different fate-determining mediators. These macrophage subsets display distinct molecular markers and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ariel A,Serhan CN

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which antigen binding to the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) generates intracellular signaling, a process termed TCR triggering, is incompletely understood. A large body of experimental evidence has implicated multiple biophysical/biochemical effects and multiple molecules in the process of TCR triggeri...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Dushek O

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:CD27 expression has been used to distinguish between memory and naive B cells in humans. However, low levels of mutated and isotype-switched CD27-IgD- cells are seen in healthy adults, and these are increased in some autoimmune diseases and in the elderly. Thus CD27 is not a universal marker of memory B cells in human...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wu YC,Kipling D,Dunn-Walters DK

更新日期：2011-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of cell-associated antigen represents an important strategy for vaccination. While many experimental models have been developed in order to define the critical parameters for efficient cross-priming, few have utilized quantitative methods that permit the study of the endogenous repertoire. Comparing different...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Bouvier I,Jusforgues-Saklani H,Lim A,Lemaître F,Lemercier B,Auriau C,Nicola MA,Leroy S,Law HK,Bandeira A,Moon JJ,Bousso P,Albert ML

更新日期：2011-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectodermal dysplasias (ED) are uncommon genetic disorders resulting in abnormalities in ectodermally derived structures. Many ED-associated genes have been described, of which ectodysplasin-A (EDA) is one of the more common. The NF-κB essential modulator (NEMO encoded by the IKBKG gene) is unique in that mutations res...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Keller MD,Petersen M,Ong P,Church J,Risma K,Burham J,Jain A,Stiehm ER,Hanson EP,Uzel G,Deardorff MA,Orange JS

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cells provide the structural foundation of secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs), and regulate leukocyte access and cell migration within the different compartments of spleen and lymph nodes (LNs). Furthermore, several stromal cell subsets have been implied in shaping of T cell responses through direct presentation...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Onder L,Scandella E,Chai Q,Firner S,Mayer CT,Sparwasser T,Thiel V,Rülicke T,Ludewig B

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant Adenovirus (Ad) based vectors have been utilized extensively as a gene transfer platform in multiple pre-clinical and clinical applications. These applications are numerous, and inclusive of both gene therapy and vaccine based approaches to human or animal diseases. The widespread utilization of these vect...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Aldhamen YA,Seregin SS,Amalfitano A

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the "two-step model," the intrathymic generation of CD4⁺ regulatory T (T(reg)) cells segregates into a first, T cell receptor (TCR)-driven phase and a second, cytokine-dependent phase. The initial TCR stimulus gives rise to a CD25⁺Foxp3⁻ developmental intermediate. These precursors subsequently require cy...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Hinterberger M,Wirnsberger G,Klein L

更新日期：2011-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A major limitation to the translation of tolerogenic therapies to clinical transplantation is a lack of biomarkers that can be used as surrogate measures for predicting the successful induction of immune tolerance which would allow for the safe withdrawal of immunosuppression. We have used three different mouse models...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Cobbold SP,Adams E,Waldmann H

更新日期：2011-04-06 00:00:00