abstract：:The heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein Galphai2 is involved in regulation of immune responses against microbial and nonmicrobial stimuli. Galphai2-/- mice have a selectively impaired IgM response consistent with a disorder in B cell development yet have augmented T cell effector function associated with...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Padigel UM,Stein L,Redding K,Lee JJ,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Birnbaumer L,Abraham D

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout evolution, mammals have developed an elaborate network of positive and negative regulatory mechanisms, which provide balance between defensive measures against bacterial and viral pathogens and protective measures against unwarranted destruction of the host by the activated immune system. Kinases and phosph...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Salojin K,Oravecz T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophil activation during allergic diseases has a detrimental role in the generation of pathophysiologic responses. Stem cell factor (SCF) has recently shown an inflammatory, gene-activating role on eosinophils and contributes to the generation of pathophysiologic changes in the airways during allergic responses. T...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Dolgachev V,Thomas M,Berlin A,Lukacs NW

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoreactive CD4+ and CD8+ T cells directed against CNS autoantigens may play a role in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS). Identical twins share the same genetic background but not the TCR repertoire that is shaped by the encounter with self or foreign antigens. To gain insights into the interplay between MS ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Somma P,Ristori G,Battistini L,Cannoni S,Borsellino G,Diamantini A,Salvetti M,Sorrentino R,Fiorillo MT

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant NKT (iNKT) cells are considered to be important in some autoimmune diseases including Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). So far, the published data are contradictory in regard to the role of iNKT cells in T1DM. We aimed to study iNKT cell frequency and the function of different iNKT cell subgroups in T1DM. We ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Kis J,Engelmann P,Farkas K,Richman G,Eck S,Lolley J,Jalahej H,Borowiec M,Kent SC,Treszl A,Orban T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although IFN-alpha forms the foundation of therapy for chronic hepatitis C, only a minority of patients has a sustained response to IFN-alpha alone. The antiviral activities of IFN-alpha formed the rationale for its use in viral hepatitis. However, IFN-alpha and the other Type I IFNs are also pleiotropic immune regula...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Byrnes AA,Li DY,Park K,Thompson D,Mocilnikar C,Mohan P,Molleston JP,Narkewicz M,Zhou H,Wolf SF,Schwarz KB,Karp CL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thimerosal is an organic mercury compound that is used as a preservative in vaccines and pharmaceutical products. Recent studies have shown a TH2-skewing effect of mercury, although the underlying mechanisms have not been identified. In this study, we investigated whether thimerosal can exercise a TH2-promoting effect...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Agrawal A,Kaushal P,Agrawal S,Gollapudi S,Gupta S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies demonstrated that i.p. injection of late apoptotic P388 cells caused phagocytosis by macrophages and transient infiltration of neutrophils into the peritoneal cavity. As neutrophils are known to function as effectors as well as regulators in the immune response, we examined the roles of infiltrati...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Shiratsuchi Y,Iyoda T,Tanimoto N,Kegai D,Nagata K,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the systematic use of large-scale cDNA microarrays to study the gene expression profiles of primary human peripheral blood monocytes (MONO) in comparison with in vitro-differentiated, M-CSF-induced MONO-derived macrophages (MAC) and primary human alveolar MAC (AM), obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage from the...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Li J,Pritchard DK,Wang X,Park DR,Bumgarner RE,Schwartz SM,Liles WC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How regulatory T (TR) cells dampen T cell responses remains unclear. Multiple modes of action have been proposed, including cell contact-dependent and/or cytokine-dependent mechanisms. Suppression may involve direct contact between TR cells and responder T cells. Alternatively, TR cells may act on dendritic cells to r...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Bodor J,Fehervari Z,Diamond B,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is one of the recently defined damage-associated molecular pattern molecules, passively released from necrotic cells and secreted by activated macrophage/monocytes. Whether cytolytic cells induce HMGB1 release from tumor cells is not known. We developed a highly sensitive method for d...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Ito N,DeMarco RA,Mailliard RB,Han J,Rabinowich H,Kalinski P,Stolz DB,Zeh HJ 3rd,Lotze MT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines regulate the migration and the maturation of dendritic cells (DC) licensed by microbial constituents. We have recently found that the function of DC, including their ability to activate naïve, allogeneic CD4+ T cells, requires the autocrine/paracrine release of the nuclear protein high mobility group box 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Dumitriu IE,Bianchi ME,Bacci M,Manfredi AA,Rovere-Querini P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid and efficient expansion of CD8(+) memory T cells after the second encounter with a pathogen constitutes a hallmark trait of adaptive immunity. Yet, the contribution of CD4(+) T cells to the expansion of memory CD8(+) T cells remains the subject of controversy. Here, we show that, antigen-specific CD4(+) T ce...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Shi M,Hao S,Chan T,Xiang J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin tolerance is characterized by attenuated macrophage activation to subsequent LPS challenge and can be reversed through nonspecific protein kinase C (PKC) activation, and activation by LPS within naïve cells requires the activation of the cell surface receptors CD14 and TLR4 on lipid rafts. The effect of PKC ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Cuschieri J,Billigren J,Maier RV

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human lysozyme (LZM) gene is highly methylated in LZM-nonexpressor immature myeloid and in nonmyeloid cells and unmethylated only in LZM-expressing cells. Extended methylation analyses of the CpG-poor 5' flanking region and of the exon 4 CpG island (both containing Alu elements) of the LZM gene were now performed....

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Claus R,Fliegauf M,Stock M,Duque JA,Kolanczyk M,Lübbert M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-proteinase-3 (anti-PR3) or anti-myeloperoxidase (anti-MPO) antibodies are capable of activating human neutrophils primed by TNF-alpha in vitro. We described previously the involvement of FcgammaRIIa and beta(2) integrins in this neutrophil activation. In the literature, the requirement of TNF priming has been att...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Reumaux D,Hordijk PL,Duthilleul P,Roos D

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF is implicated in the suppression of neutrophil apoptosis during sepsis. Multiple signaling pathways are involved in TNF-mediated antiapoptotic signaling; a role for the MAP kinases (MAPK), ERK1/2, and p38 MAPK has been suggested. Antiapoptotic signaling is mediated principally through TNF receptor-1 (TNFR-1), and ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Kilpatrick LE,Sun S,Mackie D,Baik F,Li H,Korchak HM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LPS induces dendritic cell (DC) activation, but the precise in vivo mechanism is unclear since DCs express low levels of TLR4. Here, it is shown that DCs can be activated in response to LPS through a bystander mechanism. This result was obtained using chimeric mice reconstituted with LPS-responsive and nonresponsive b...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Yadav R,Zammit DJ,Lefrancois L,Vella AT

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extravasation of leukocytes is a crucial process in the immunological defense. In response to a local concentration of chemokines, circulating leukocytes adhere to and migrate across the vascular endothelium toward the inflamed tissue. The small guanosinetriphosphatase Rap1 plays an important role in the regulation of...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Lorenowicz MJ,van Gils J,de Boer M,Hordijk PL,Fernandez-Borja M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human rhinovirus (HRV)-induced respiratory infections are associated with elevated levels of IFN-gamma-inducible protein 10 (IP-10), which is an enhancer of T lymphocyte chemotaxis and correlates with symptom severity and T lymphocyte number. Increased IP-10 expression is exhibited by airway epithelial cells following...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Korpi-Steiner NL,Bates ME,Lee WM,Hall DJ,Bertics PJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV infection of mononuclear phagocytes (MP), mostly as tissue macrophages, is a dominant feature in the pathogenesis of HIV disease and its progression to AIDS. Although the general mechanism of infection is not dissimilar to that of CD4+ T lymphocytes occurring via interaction of the viral envelope with CD4 and a ch...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Cassol E,Alfano M,Biswas P,Poli G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal damage in HIV infection results mainly from chronic activation of brain tissue and involves inflammation, oxidative stress, and glutamate-related neurotoxicity. Glutamate toxicity acts via two distinct pathways: an excitotoxic one, in which glutamate receptors are hyperactivated, and an oxidative one, in whic...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Gras G,Porcheray F,Samah B,Leone C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection dramatically suppresses viral load, leading to marked reductions in HIV-1 associated morbidity and mortality. However, infected cell reservoirs and low-level replication persist in the face of suppressive HAART, ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Kennedy PE,Bera TK,Wang QC,Gallo M,Wagner W,Lewis MG,Berger EA,Pastan I

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I IFNs display multiple biological effects. They have a strong antiviral action, not only directly but also indirectly through activation of the immune system. They may also have actions that are deleterious for the host. The cells that produce type I IFN are mostly plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC), but this de...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Hosmalin A,Lebon P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary targets of HIV are CD4(+) T cells and macrophages. HIV infection is associated with an increase in apoptosis of infected and uninfected CD4(+) T cells, and these infected cells undergo apoptosis and produce HIV virions with phosphatidylserine (PS) on their surface. During phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, m...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Gekonge BN,Schiralli G,Schlegel RA,Henderson AJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the neoplastic progression, macrophages as well as dendritic and NK cells are attracted into the tumor site and initiate the immune response against transformed cells. They activate and present tumor antigens to T cells, which are then activated to kill tumor cells. However, tumor cells are often capable of esc...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Lamagna C,Aurrand-Lions M,Imhof BA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is essential in many physiological and pathological processes and can be stimulated by many different factors. To better understand and to manipulate this process more effectively, it would be beneficial to identify molecules common to the signaling pathways stimulated by different classes of angiogenic f...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Yao M,Zhou RH,Petreaca M,Zheng L,Shyy J,Martins-Green M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cathelicidin LL-37 is a cationic host defense peptide (antimicrobial peptide) expressed primarily by neutrophils and epithelial cells. This peptide, up-regulated under conditions of inflammation, has immunomodulatory and antimicrobial functions. We demonstrate that LL-37 is a potent inhibitor of human neutro...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Barlow PG,Li Y,Wilkinson TS,Bowdish DM,Lau YE,Cosseau C,Haslett C,Simpson AJ,Hancock RE,Davidson DJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms controlling the balance between proliferation and self-renewal versus growth suppression and differentiation during normal and leukemic myelopoiesis are not understood. We have used the bi-potent FDB1 myeloid cell line model, which is responsive to myelopoietic cytokines and activated mutants of the granulo...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Brown AL,Wilkinson CR,Waterman SR,Kok CH,Salerno DG,Diakiw SM,Reynolds B,Scott HS,Tsykin A,Glonek GF,Goodall GJ,Solomon PJ,Gonda TJ,D'Andrea RJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are part of a broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders known as pervasive developmental disorders, which occur in childhood. They are characterized by impairments in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and the presence of restricted and repetitive stereotyped be...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Ashwood P,Wills S,Van de Water J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive expression of cell-associated, but not secreted, interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha) by oncogene-transformed fibrosarcoma cells induced regressing tumors in mice, a phenomenon that was abrogated by the IL-1 inhibitor, the IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra). On the contrary, non-IL-1alpha-expressing tumor cells ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Dvorkin T,Song X,Argov S,White RM,Zoller M,Segal S,Dinarello CA,Voronov E,Apte RN

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells play an important role in peripheral tolerance. Upon T cell receptor (TCR)-mediated activation, the cells fail to proliferate but are induced to have a suppressor function. The intracellular signaling events that lead to their responses have not been elucidated. In this study, we have exam...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Tsang JY,Camara NO,Eren E,Schneider H,Rudd C,Lombardi G,Lechler R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU) is a T helper type 1 cell-mediated autoimmune disease, which serves as a model of human chronic uveitis. In this model, cells of a monocyte/macrophage lineage and retinal antigen (Ag)-specific T cells infiltrate into the retina and cause inflammatory lesion, where proinflamm...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Kitamei H,Iwabuchi K,Namba K,Yoshida K,Yanagawa Y,Kitaichi N,Kitamura M,Ohno S,Onoé K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-associated eosinophilia has been observed in numerous human cancers and several tumor models in animals; however, the details surrounding this eosinophilia remain largely undefined and anecdotal. We used a B16-F10 melanoma cell injection model to demonstrate that eosinophil infiltration of tumors occurred from t...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Cormier SA,Taranova AG,Bedient C,Nguyen T,Protheroe C,Pero R,Dimina D,Ochkur SI,O'Neill K,Colbert D,Lombari TR,Constant S,McGarry MP,Lee JJ,Lee NA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases-2 and -9 (MMP-2/9) are critically involved in degradation of extracellular matrix, and their inhibition is discussed as a promising strategy against hepatic ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. Here, we analyzed the role of MMP-2 and -9 for leukocyte migration and tissue injury in sham-operated...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Khandoga A,Kessler JS,Hanschen M,Khandoga AG,Burggraf D,Reichel C,Hamann GF,Enders G,Krombach F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of an association between the brain and immunity has been documented. Data show that the nervous and immune systems communicate with one another to maintain immune homeostasis. Activated immune cells secrete cytokines that influence central nervous system activity, which in turn, activates output through...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Kin NW,Sanders VM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of coupling C3bi to immunoglobulin G (IgG) immune complexes (IC) on their ability to produce protein tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and the Akt/protein kinase B (PKB) routes was assessed in human monocytes. Cross-linking Fc receptors for IgG activated ...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Trinidad AG,de la Puerta ML,Fernández N,Bayón Y,Crespo MS,Alonso A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of ethanol (EtOH) on multiple dendritic cell (DC) subsets, in the steady state or following their mobilization in vivo, has not been characterized. Herein, generation of mouse bone marrow-derived DC (BMDC) in response to fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand was inhibited by physiologically relevant concentr...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Lau AH,Abe M,Thomson AW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is an essential cytokine, which contributes to proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte precursor cells in the bone marrow. Despite recent progress in understanding G-CSF signaling events, the mechanisms that underlie the distinct spectrum of biological functions a...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Khanna-Gupta A,Sun H,Zibello T,Lozovatsky L,Ghosh PK,Link DC,McLemore ML,Berliner N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) influences susceptibility and immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice and humans, but connections among the severity of tuberculosis (TB), dynamic changes in T cell responses to mycobacteria, and MHC genetic polymorphisms are poorly charact...

journal_title：Journal of leukocyte biology

authors： Pichugin AV,Petrovskaya SN,Apt AS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00