abstract：:The transcription factor nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) regulates a battery of antioxidant, detoxification, and cell stress genes. It is activated by oxidative stress and a number of exogenous compounds, one of which is tert-butylhydroquinone (tBHQ), a widely used food preservative. Nrf2 modulates ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Turley AE,Zagorski JW,Rockwell CE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if vitamin D status before supplementation influences the cytokine response after supplemental vitamin D. Forty-six reportedly healthy adults (mean(SD); age, 32(7) y; body mass index (BMI), 25.3(4.5) kg/m(2); serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), 34.8(12.2) ng/mL) were randoml...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Barker T,Rogers VE,Levy M,Templeton J,Goldfine H,Schneider ED,Dixon BM,Henriksen VT,Weaver LK

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition caused by damage to the somatosensory nervous system, such as peripheral nerve injury. The immune system, and in particular the adaptive T cell response, plays a key role in mediating such pain. Regulatory T (Treg) cells are a small subpopulation of inhibitory T cells that ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Lees JG,Duffy SS,Perera CJ,Moalem-Taylor G

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell-based vaccines are considered as a new and promising immunotherapeutic approach for cancer treatment. However, the choice of optimal protocol of dendritic cell generation in vitro represents the major challenge. Here, we compared phenotype and functional characteristics of human monocyte-derived dendrit...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Leplina OY,Tyrinova TV,Tikhonova MA,Ostanin AA,Chernykh ER

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunomodulatory functions of prolactin (PRL) are well recognized. Augmented PRL plasma levels were observed in patients with advanced tuberculosis (TB). Recently, we have reported that LPS and Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) induced differential expression of PRL receptor (PRLR) isoforms in THP-1 cells and bovine ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Martínez-Neri PA,López-Rincón G,Mancilla-Jiménez R,del Toro-Arreola S,Muñoz-Valle JF,Fafutis-Morris M,Bueno-Topete MR,Estrada-Chávez C,Pereira-Suárez AL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular trauma affects 20% of Americans in their lifetime and can cause permanent visual system damage. We have used a mouse model of ocular trauma (exposure to an air blast from a paintball gun) to examine pathways that trigger the resulting retinal damage and to develop treatment strategies that might ameliorate the ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Jiang Y,Pagadala J,Miller DD,Steinle JJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated levels of the cytokine IL-13 has been found to be associated with autoimmune diseases, including Sjögren's Syndrome. However, whether IL-13 plays a causative role in disease development is not known and cannot be easily studied in humans. Our previous work has shown that levels of IL-13 are elevated in Id3 kn...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Belle I,Mahlios J,McKenzie A,Zhuang Y

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a molecule with plethora of functions such as regulation of immune response, hormone-like, enzymatic and chaperone-like activity. Further, MIF is a major participant in glucose homeostasis since it is an autocrine stimulator of insulin secretion. MIF absence in male knoc...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Vujicic M,Senerovic L,Nikolic I,Saksida T,Stosic-Grujicic S,Stojanovic I

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dental pulp space can become infected due to a breach in the surrounding hard tissues. This leads to inflammation of the pulp (pulpitis), soft tissue breakdown, and finally to bone loss around the root apex (apical periodontitis). The succession of the molecular events leading to apical periodontitis is currently ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Rechenberg DK,Bostanci N,Zehnder M,Belibasakis GN

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin(IL)-2 and IL-7 are cytokines with important functions related to CD4(+) lymphocyte proliferation, differentiation and survival. Depending on doses, they theoretically activate regulatory (Treg) and/or effector T cells (Teff) and thus may be indicated with different therapeutic objectives. In this study we ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Dupont G,Demaret J,Venet F,Malergue F,Malcus C,Poitevin-Later F,Morel J,Monneret G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, the biological activity of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) has been investigated by using mostly Escherichia coli- or yeast cell-derived recombinant human GM-CSF (erhGM-CSF and yrhGM-CSF, respectively). However, Chinese hamster ovary cell-derived recombinant human GM-CSF (crhGM-CSF),...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Hashimoto A,Tanaka T,Itoh Y,Yamagata A,Kitamura N,Tazawa R,Nakagaki K,Nakata K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among all cytokines involved in the pathogenesis and in the progression of psoriasis, Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF)-alpha and interleukin (IL)-17 play a pivotal role. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to mimic a psoriatic microenvironment and to investigate the early effects of TNF-alpha and IL-17 in...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Donetti E,Cornaghi L,Gualerzi A,Baruffaldi Preis FW,Prignano F

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anti-inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-10 (IL-10) exerts inhibitory effects on vascular inflammation. Chemokines promote vascular inflammation and play a pathogenic role in the development and maintenance of hypertension. However, chemokine CCL5 has down-regulatory effects on angiotensin II (Ang II)-induced hypert...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Kim HY,Kim HS

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estrogen is thought to aid maintenance of insulin sensitivity potentially through modulation of a counter-regulatory mechanism that interferes with the contribution of adaptive and innate immune systems to visceral fat deposition. We evaluated the impact of estrogen on long-term high fat diet (HFD) intake in...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Wintrob ZA,Oppong EK,Foster M,Martorana M,Tse YC,Zhong L,Welt JM,Boateng HR,Drumea IM,Irlam J,Levea CM,Faitar SL,Ceacareanu AC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are involved in the pathogenesis of community acquired pneumonia (CAP). The aim of this study is to investigate the association of IL6-174 G/C gene polymorphism with CAP in Egyptian children, to assess its effect on CAP outcome and to determine its effect on the serum IL6 levels in these children. IL6-174 G/...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Zidan HE,Elbehedy RM,Azab SF

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of phagocytic cells against pathogens are initiated by the interaction between membrane receptors and molecular structures which compose the cell wall of these microorganisms. Thus our study aimed to identify the neutrophil receptors involved in the recognition of different strains of Paracoccidioides br...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Balderramas HA,Penitenti M,Rodrigues DR,Bachiega TF,Fernandes RK,Ikoma MR,Dias-Melicio LA,Oliveira SL,Soares ÂM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is a risk factor of respiratory, cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases, however its association with inflammatory markers among highly SHS exposed adolescents has not yet been explored. METHODS:Participants included in this study were a subset of 68 non-smoking adolescents...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Matsunaga Y,Vardavas CI,Plada M,Wärnberg J,Gómez-Martinez S,Tzatzarakis MN,Tsatsakis AM,Díaz EL,Marcos A,Kafatos AG

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil microparticles (NMs) are scarce in the circulation but are highly enriched at sites of inflammation and exert profound effects on immune cells. In the present study, we addressed whether NMs modulate cytokine-producing capacity of natural killer (NK) cells. NMs inhibited the production of IFN-γ and TNF-α bu...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Pliyev BK,Kalintseva MV,Abdulaeva SV,Yarygin KN,Savchenko VG

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we reported that extracellular ubiquitin functions as another agonist of CXC chemokine receptor (CXCR)4. Whereas the cognate CXCR4 ligand, stromal cell-derived factor (SDF)-1α, is also a CXCR7 agonist, ubiquitin does not bind to CXCR7. Because both ligands are present in the extracellular environment, co-act...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Tripathi A,Davis JD,Staren DM,Volkman BF,Majetschak M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies identified the variant IFNG +874A/T (rs2430561) in the first intron of the gene in association with mycobacterial infection, especially tuberculosis and leprosy. The aim of this investigation was to analyze the protective role of the T allele in relation to leprosy using a meta-analysis evaluation. Th...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Silva GA,Naveca FG,Ramasawmy R,Boechat AL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLP) is a rare primary immunodeficiency characterized by increased vulnerability to Epstein-Barr virus infection. XLP type 1 is caused by mutations in SH2D1A, whereas X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) encoded by XIAP/BIRC4 is mutated in XLP type 2. In XIAP deficiency, hemoph...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Wada T,Kanegane H,Ohta K,Katoh F,Imamura T,Nakazawa Y,Miyashita R,Hara J,Hamamoto K,Yang X,Filipovich AH,Marsh RA,Yachie A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Hyperoxia exposure can inhibit alveolar growth in the neonatal lung through induction of p21/p53 pathways and is a risk factor for the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants. We previously found that activation of nuclear factor erythroid 2 p45-related factor (Nrf2) improved survi...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： McGrath-Morrow SA,Lauer T,Collaco JM,Lopez A,Malhotra D,Alekseyev YO,Neptune E,Wise R,Biswal S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGFβ1) and NFκB pathways are important regulators of epidermal homeostasis, inflammatory responses and carcinogenesis. Previous studies have shown extensive crosstalk between these pathways that is cell type and context dependent, but this has not been well-characterized in epide...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Hogan KA,Ravindran A,Podolsky MA,Glick AB

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate and simultaneous estimate of cellular levels of a large cytokine number is very useful to obtain information about an organ dysfunction leading to cancer because through the understanding of the evolution of cytokine patterns we can recognize and predict the disease progression. Cancer cell lines are commo...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Guerriero E,Capone F,Rusolo F,Colonna G,Castello G,Costantini S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the vasculature regulated by cytokines. Macrophages play a crucial role at all stages of this disease, including regulation of foam cell formation, the inflammatory response and stability of atherosclerotic plaques. For example, matrix metalloproteinases produced by macrop...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Ashlin TG,Kwan AP,Ramji DP

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 17 (IL-17) as one of the pro-inflammatory cytokines is a very important player in the immune response to many pathogens and seems to play a role also in certain chronic and autoimmune diseases. Many studies showing the importance of this cytokine were conducted on murine models and human patients. In recen...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Mensikova M,Stepanova H,Faldyna M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interleukin 17 (IL-17) is induced during the early stages of tuberculosis infection, playing an important role in the defense against mycobacterial infection. To date, only one study performed in Chinese Han population has found an association between IL-17F sequence variants and susceptibility to tuberculos...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Ocejo-Vinyals JG,de Mateo EP,Hoz MÁ,Arroyo JL,Agüero R,Ausín F,Fariñas MC

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castration-refractory prostate cancer (CRPC) is treated with taxane-based chemotherapy, but eventually becomes drug resistant. It is thus essential to identify novel therapeutic targets for taxane resistance in CRPC patients. We investigated the role of the chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 1 (CCR1) and its ligand, chemo...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Kato T,Fujita Y,Nakane K,Mizutani K,Terazawa R,Ehara H,Kanimoto Y,Kojima T,Nozawa Y,Deguchi T,Ito M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying and blocking chemokine inflammatory mediators in pediatric opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is critical to the treatment of this autoimmune, paraneoplastic, neurological disorder. In a prospective, case-control, clinico-scientific study of children with OMS compared to non-inflammatory neurological cont...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Pranzatelli MR,Tate ED,McGee NR,Ransohoff RM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Sarcoidosis is an idiopathic granulomatous disorder with heterogeneous clinical manifestations and variable prognosis. Monitoring disease activity is important to identify patients requiring treatment. Several cytokines have previously been shown to be elevated in the serum of patients with sarcoidosis and ma...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Geyer AI,Kraus T,Roberts M,Wisnivesky J,Eber CD,Hiensch R,Moran TM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) plasma levels was measured in plasma samples obtained 1h (time 1) and 2-3 days (time 2) after delivery in a group of healthy women (n=17) who underwent cesarean delivery, and showed a significantly increase from time 1 (39.3 pg/ml median; 41.2 ± 15.9 mean ± SD) to time 2 (...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Zauli G,Monasta L,Vecchi Brumatti L,Agnoletto C,Volpi P,Secchiero P

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic producibilities of T helper type 1 (Th1) and T helper type 2 (Th2) cytokines are associated with the prognosis of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs). Interleukin (IL)-10 is considered to be a Th2 cytokine that can exhibit an anti-inflammatory role. Furthermore, IL-10 may be associated with the development...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Inoue N,Watanabe M,Wada M,Morita M,Hidaka Y,Iwatani Y

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the quarter of a century since TNF was isolated, much knowledge has been gained of the identity of other ligands besides TNF in the TNF cytokine family, and of the proximal signaling molecules that these ligands activate. The numerous laboratories contributing to this advance have approached TNF research from v...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Wallach D

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily that has been recognized for its specific pro-apoptotic effect on cancer cells and has been therefore proposed as a treatment in cancer. Studies on animal models have shown that TRAIL could also have a benefici...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Audo R,Combe B,Hahne M,Morel J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Image duplication has been observed within Figure 1g-h. The corresponding author has been a...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Galloway C,Chattopadhyay M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Tumor necrosis factor (TNFα) is a proinflammatory cytokine and has been a target for intervention in human sepsis. However, inhibition of TNF-α with a high dose of a TNF-receptor fusion protein in patients with septic shock worsened patient survival. This study was designed to investigate whether blocking TNF-α...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Tsay TB,Yang MC,Chen PH,Lai KH,Huang HT,Hsu CM,Chen LW

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-12p70 is a proinflammatory cytokine secreted by dendritic cells, monocytes and macrophages. It plays a crucial role in cell-mediated immunity by inducing proliferation of T cell and natural killer cells, and enhancing their cytotoxic activity. In adaptive immune response, it acts on naive T cells to differentiate i...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Chen IF,Khan J,Noma N,Hadlaq E,Teich S,Benoliel R,Eliav E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large amounts of anti-inflammatory mediators, such as interleukin (IL)-10, are produced and found early in the course of sepsis. We explore the role of IL-10 on neutrophil (PMN) activation/function using an in vitro model. Isolated human PMN were pre-incubated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and/or IL-10 for 18h. Subseq...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Martire-Greco D,Rodriguez-Rodrigues N,Landoni VI,Rearte B,Isturiz MA,Fernández GC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-21 (IL-21) is overproduced in human intestines affected by inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and in the gut of mice with DSS-induced colitis. IL-21-deficient mice are largely protected against DSS-induced colitis, indicating that IL-21 plays a key role in the development of IBD. We previously identified a n...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Araki A,Nara H,Rahman M,Onoda T,Li J,Juliana FM,Jin L,Murata K,Takeda Y,Asao H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension is one of the most prominent risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD). Treatment of hypertension is therefore important for reducing cardiovascular events and the progression of atherosclerosis. Several treatment strategies are common in clinical practice for example the use of ACE-blocker...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Klinghammer L,Urschel K,Cicha I,Lewczuk P,Raaz-Schrauder D,Achenbach S,Garlichs CD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00