abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprotrophic filamentous fungus and also the most prevalent airborne fungal pathogen of humans. Depending on the host's immune status, the variety of diseases caused by A. fumigatus ranges from allergies in immunocompetent hosts to life-threatening invasive infections in patients with impair...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Heinekamp T,Schmidt H,Lapp K,Pähtz V,Shopova I,Köster-Eiserfunke N,Krüger T,Kniemeyer O,Brakhage AA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman outlined in his 1959 lecture, "There's plenty of room at the bottom", the enormous possibility of producing and visualising things at smaller scales. The advent of advanced scanning and transmission electron microscopy and high-resolution microscopy has begu...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Bain J,Gow NA,Erwig LP

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have identified novel lymphocyte subsets named innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) lacking antigen-specific receptors. ILCs are present in a wide variety of epithelial compartments and occupy an intermediate position between acquired immune cells and myeloid cells. ILCs are now classified into three groups: gr...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Moro K,Koyasu S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory disorder of the gut. Although the precise cause of IBD remains unknown, the most accepted hypothesis of IBD pathogenesis to date is that an aberrant immune response against the gut microbiota is triggered by environmental factors in a genetically...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Matsuoka K,Kanai T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commensal microbiota shapes the intestinal immune system by regulating T helper (TH) cell lineage differentiation. For example, Bacteroides fragilis colonization not only optimizes the systemic TH1/TH2 balance, but also can induce regulatory T (Treg) cell differentiation in the gut. In addition, segmented filamentous ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Furusawa Y,Obata Y,Hase K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry technologies have allowed us to collect more data on microbiome and metabolome to assess the influence of the gut microbiota on human health at a whole-systems level. Major advances in metagenomics and metabolomics technologies have shown that the gut microbiota ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Aw W,Fukuda S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpesvirus human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects the majority of the world's population, leading to severe diseases in millions of newborns and immunocompromised adults annually. During infection, HCMV extensively manipulates cellular gene expression to maintain conditions favorable for efficient viral propagation...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Cohen Y,Stern-Ginossar N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This issue of Seminars in Immunopathology is devoted to the most recent developments in our understanding of the mechanisms leading to tissue injury in autoimmune diseases. These include rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, type I diabetes, autoimmune liver diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, autoimm...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Eilat D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic change nephrotic syndrome (INS), the most frequent glomerular disease in children and young adults, is characterized by heavy proteinuria and a relapsing remitting course. Although the mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of proteinuria remain unclear, clinical and experimental observations suggest tha...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Sahali D,Sendeyo K,Mangier M,Audard V,Zhang SY,Lang P,Ollero M,Pawlak A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a non-inflammatory organ-specific autoimmune disease which affects the kidney glomerulus, resulting in the formation of immune deposits on the outer aspect of the glomerular basement membrane, complement-mediated proteinuria, and severe renal failure in 30% of patients. In the last 10 ye...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Debiec H,Ronco P

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common diagnosis amongst primary glomerular diseases in most countries where renal biopsies are regularly performed. Only a fraction of these patients is at high risk of losing glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in particular those with high grade proteinuria, uncontrolled hypertension...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Floege J,Moura IC,Daha MR

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystein-rich protein 61 (CYR61/CCN1) is a component of the extracellular matrix, which is produced and secreted by several cell types including endothelial cells, fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells. CCN1 has been implicated in leukocyte migration and the inflammatory process, but it is also involved in cardiovascular...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Emre Y,Imhof BA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent rise in obesity-related diseases, such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and its strong association with microbiota, has elicited interest in the underlying mechanisms of these pathologies. Experimental models have highlighted several mechanisms connecting microbiota to the development of liver dysfunctio...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Imajo K,Yoneda M,Ogawa Y,Wada K,Nakajima A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor historically studied for its role in environmental chemical-mediated toxicity and carcinogenicity. In the last 5 years, however, it has become clear that the AhR, presumably activated by endogenous ligand(s), plays an important role in immu...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Sherr DH,Monti S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages in lymphoid organs exhibit a wide variety of phenotypes and functions. These cells excel in the removal of apoptotic cells that arise during the generation of immune cells and are thereby essential for the prevention of auto-immune responses. In addition to this macrophages in the secondary lymphoid organs...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： den Haan JM,Martinez-Pomares L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by synaptic dysfunction and accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide, which are responsible for the progressive loss of memory. The mechanisms involved in neuron dysfunction in AD remain poorly understood. Recent evidence implicates th...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Cornejo VH,Hetz C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Close association between chronic inflammation and cancer has been recently highlighted. Indeed, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been strongly linked with an increased risk of development of colorectal cancer (CRC). Inflammatory cell-produced inflammatory mediators, such as proinflammatory cytokines and inducible...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Tanaka T,Ishikawa H

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute inflammation, a physiologic response to protect cells from microbial infection and other noxious stimuli, is automatically terminated by endogenous anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving mediators to restore homeostatic conditions. However, if timely resolution of inflammation is failed, inflammation persists and c...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Lee HN,Na HK,Surh YJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection is an important factor for gastric carcinogenesis in human. In carcinogen-treated Mongolian gerbils, H. pylori infection enhances stomach carcinogenesis, while infection alone induced severe hyperplasia called heterotopic proliferative glands. A high-salt diet or early acquisition of the ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Tsukamoto T,Toyoda T,Mizoshita T,Tatematsu M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer in men and seventh in women, accounting for 7 % of all cancers, and the third cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Nearly 90 to 95 % of all HCC occur in the context of known and often preventable risk factors, such as chronic viral hepatitis, alcohol a...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Aghemo A,Colombo M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy is an increasingly prevalent disease of immune dysregulation directed to a small subset of proteins. Shared structural and functional features of allergens, such as glycosylation, lipid-binding and protease activity may provide insight into the mechanisms involved in the induction of primary Th2 immune re...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Ruiter B,Shreffler WG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of food allergy in developed countries is rising at a rate that cannot be attributed to genetic variation alone. In this review, we discuss the environmental factors that may contribute to the increasing prevalence of potentially fatal anaphylactic responses to food. Decreased exposure to enteric infecti...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Feehley T,Stefka AT,Cao S,Nagler CR

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG) molecules can have two completely opposing activities. They can be very potent pro-inflammatory mediators on the one hand, directing the effector functions of the innate immune system towards infected cells, tumor cells or healthy tissues in the case of autoimmune diseases. On the other hand, a ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Böhm S,Schwab I,Lux A,Nimmerjahn F

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-fucosylglycans on Notch extracellular domain epidermal growth factor (EGF) repeats are critical in modulating Notch signaling by altering the sensitivity of Notch receptors to activation by Notch ligands. Mice lacking Notch O-fucosylglycans display granulo-monocytic myeloproliferation, hematopoietic stem cell dysfun...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Zhou L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) glycoprotein family, also referred to as human leukocyte antigens, present endogenous and exogenous antigens to T lymphocytes for recognition and response. These molecules play a central role in enabling the immune system to distinguish self from non-self, which is the basis ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Ryan SO,Cobb BA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus both within and outside healthcare settings has accelerated the use of once reserved last line antibiotics such as vancomycin. With increased use of antibiotics, there has been a rapid rise in the rate of resistance development to the anti-MRSA drugs. As ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Park B,Liu GY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is the most important member of the coagulase-negative staphylococci and one of the most abundant colonizers of human skin. While for a long time regarded as innocuous, it has been identified as the most frequent cause of device-related infections occurring in the hospital setting and is the...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Otto M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contact system is a plasma protease cascade that is initiated by coagulation factor XII activation on cardiovascular cells. The system starts procoagulant and proinflammatory reactions, via the intrinsic pathway of coagulation or the kallikrein-kinin system, respectively. The biochemistry of the contact system in ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Renné T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) expressed reduced levels of major histocompatibility (MHC) class I genes, no MHC class II or costimulatory molecules suggested early on that pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) could be "immune-privileged" and were unable to induce immune reactions. However, soon it became ap...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Kadereit S,Trounson A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant transformation of cells is often associated with changes in classical and non-classical HLA class I antigen, HLA class II antigen as well as NK cell activating ligand (NKCAL) expression. These changes are believed to play a role in the clinical course of the disease since these molecules are critical to the ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Campoli M,Ferrone S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implanted devices are mainly used to improve impaired function or to replace missing anatomic structures. They are made of synthetic material or devitalized biological structures. In contrast to vital transplants, they are not rejected by the body. However, the host reacts against these foreign bodies, a process which...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Zimmerli W,Sendi P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation is the only therapeutic option for patients with end-stage pulmonary disorders. Despite the improvements in surgical techniques and immunosuppressive therapy, allograft function and long-term survival are limited by the development of chronic lung transplant rejection. In this review, we focus on ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Nakajima T,Palchevsky V,Perkins DL,Belperio JA,Finn PW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Originally identified as a response to starvation in yeast, autophagy is now understood to fulfill a variety of roles in higher eukaryotes, from the maintenance of cellular homeostasis to the cellular response to stress, starvation, and infection. Although genetics and biochemical studies in yeast have identified many...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Zirin J,Perrimon N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy, a catabolic process involved in the sequestration and lysosomal degradation of cytoplasmic contents, is crucial for cellular homeostasis. The current literature supports that autophagy plays diverse roles in the development, maintenance, and progression of tumors. While genetic evidence indicates autophagy ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Roy S,Debnath J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As predicted by the red queen hypothesis, microbial pathogens are probably the major reason for the evolution of the immune system (Paterson et al., Nature 464:275-278, 2010). In general, at the population level, i.e., for most of us, most of the time, the immune response to infection is highly effective. However, the...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Garside P,Brewer J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively large number of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are known to regulate signaling through the T cell receptor (TCR). Recent human genetics studies have shown that several of these PTPs are encoded by major autoimmunity genes. Here, we will focus on the lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase (LYP), a critical ne...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Stanford SM,Mustelin TM,Bottini N

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system (CNS) is tightly sealed from the changeable milieu of blood by the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier (BCSFB). While the BBB is considered to be localized at the level of the endothelial cells within CNS microvessels, the BCSFB is established by choroid...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Engelhardt B,Sorokin L

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is a multicellular wound healing process, where myofibroblasts that express extracellular matrix components extensively cross-talk with other cells resident in the liver or recruited from the bloodstream. Macrophages and infiltrating monocytes participate in the development of fibrosis via several mechanisms,...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Marra F,Aleffi S,Galastri S,Provenzano A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an immune-mediated chronic cholestatic liver disease with a slowly progressive course. Without treatment, most patients eventually develop fibrosis and cirrhosis of the liver and may need liver transplantation in the late stage of disease. PBC primarily affects women (female preponde...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Hohenester S,Oude-Elferink RP,Beuers U

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why and how HIV makes people sick is highly debated. Recent evidence implicates heightened immune activation due to breakdown of the gastrointestinal barrier as a determining factor of lentiviral pathogenesis. HIV-mediated loss of Th17 cells from the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) impairs mucosal integrity and ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Hofer U,Speck RF

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00