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1169 result(s) for 'immunology' within BMC Immunology

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  1. Immunity to food antigens (gliadin, cow's milk proteins) is in the centre of the attention of modern medicine focused on the prevention of diseases, prevention which is based on the use of appropriate restrict...

    Authors: Aleksandra Konic-Ristic, Dejan Dodig, Radmilo Krstic, Svetislav Jelic, Ivan Stankovic, Aleksandra Ninkovic, Jelena Radic, Irina Besu, Branka Bonaci-Nikolic, Njegica Jojic, Milica Djordjevic, Dragan Popovic and Zorica Juranic
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:32
  2. The genus Micrurus, coral snakes (Serpentes, Elapidae), comprises more than 120 species and subspecies distributed from the south United States to the south of South America. Micrurus snake bites can cause death ...

    Authors: Gabriela D Tanaka, Giselle Pidde-Queiroz, Maria de Fátima D Furtado, Carmen van den Berg and Denise V Tambourgi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2012 13:4
  3. The identification of antigens on human DC has been a very difficult and elusive task because of the lack of appropriate reagents. Therefore, we evaluated by flow cytometry a panel of mAb that recognize antige...

    Authors: Rafael Nunez and Luis Filgueira
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2001 2:6
  4. Presepsin (soluble CD14 subtype) is a novel biomarker of sepsis used for early diagnosis. Originally, CD14 is known as the pattern recognition receptor for the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)/LBP complexes, and the d...

    Authors: Yusuke Koizumi, Daisuke Sakanashi, Tetsuo Mohri, Hiroki Watanabe, Arufumi Shiota, Nobuhiro Asai, Hideo Kato, Mao Hagihara, Kenta Murotani, Yuka Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Suematsu and Hiroshige Mikamo
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2020 21:33
  5. Antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) may present with pulmonary involvement ranging from mild to life-threatening disease such as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. There is a pau...

    Authors: Tidi M Hassan, Astrid S Hassan, Ann Igoe, Mark Logan, Cedric Gunaratnam, Noel G McElvaney and Shane J O’Neill
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:20
  6. The activation and effector phenotype of T cells depend on the strength of the interaction of the TcR with its cognate antigen and additional signals provided by cytokines and by co-receptors. Lymphocytes sens...

    Authors: Oscar Ramírez-Pliego, Diana L Escobar-Zárate, Gemma M Rivera-Martínez, Mayte G Cervantes-Badillo, Fernando R Esquivel-Guadarrama, Gabriela Rosas-Salgado, Yvonne Rosenstein and M Angélica Santana
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2007 8:30
  7. Oral fibroblast immunological responses to bacterial stimuli are well known. However, there are few studies about pulp fibroblasts from deciduous teeth (HDPF) responses, which are important for the treatment o...

    Authors: Bella Luna Colombini-Ishikiriama, Thiago Jose Dionisio, Thais Francini Garbieri, Rafaela Alves da Silva, Maria Aparecida Andrade Moreira Machado, Sandra Helena Penha de Oliveira, Vanessa Soares Lara, Andrew Seth Greene and Carlos Ferreira Santos
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2020 21:38
  8. For immune monitoring studies during HIV vaccine clinical trials, whole blood specimens from HIV seropositive (HIV+) patients may be collected at multiple sites and sent to a central location for peripheral blood...

    Authors: Joyce J Ruitenberg, Candice B Mulder, Vernon C Maino, Alan L Landay and Smita A Ghanekar
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2006 7:11
  9. Sand fly saliva contains potent and complex pharmacologic molecules that are able to modulate the host's hemostatic, inflammatory, and immune systems. In this study, we evaluated the effects of salivary gland ...

    Authors: Maria José Menezes, Dirceu J Costa, Jorge Clarêncio, José Carlos Miranda, Aldina Barral, Manoel Barral-Netto, Cláudia Brodskyn and Camila I de Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:12
  10. Plasmacytoid and myeloid dendritic cells play a vital role in the protection against viral infections. In COVID-19, there is an impairment of dendritic cell (DC) function and interferon secretion which has bee...

    Authors: Anuradha Rajamanickam, Nathella Pavan Kumar, Arul Nancy Pandiaraj, Nandhini Selvaraj, Saravanan Munisankar, Rachel Mariam Renji, Vijayalakshmi Venkatramani, Manoj Murhekar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Chethrapilly Purushothaman Girish Kumar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Manickam Ponnaiah, Ramasamy Sabarinathan, Velusamy Saravanakumar and Subash Babu
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:51
  11. As a cellular membrane triggering receptor, CD226 is involved in the NK cell- or CTL-mediated lysis of tumor cells of different origin, including freshly isolated tumor cells and tumor cell lines. Here, we eva...

    Authors: Zhuwei Xu, Tao Zhang, Ran Zhuang, Yun Zhang, Wei Jia, Chaojun Song, Kun Yang, Angang Yang and Boquan Jin
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:34
  12. Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2), one of two Stx liberated by Stx-producing Escherichia coli, is composed of an A subunit monomer and a B subunit pentamer, and is directly linked with hemolytic uremic syndrome in children. T...

    Authors: Kwang-il Jeong, Susan Chapman-Bonofiglio, Pradeep Singh, Jongo Lee, Saul Tzipori and Abhineet S Sheoran
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:16
  13. Remission of multiple sclerosis during periods of high ovarian hormone secretion (such as pregnancy) has led to a great deal of interest in the potential for estrogens to treat autoimmune disease. Previous wor...

    Authors: Melissa A Yates, Yuexin Li, Peter J Chlebeck and Halina Offner
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:20
  14. A major challenge in the application of marrow transplantation as a route to immunological tolerance of a transplanted organ is to achieve hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) engraftment with minimal myelosuppressiv...

    Authors: Luis Graca, Stephen Daley, Paul J Fairchild, Stephen P Cobbold and Herman Waldmann
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2006 7:9
  15. Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) is a rare inherited disorder characterized by defective function of Fas, autoimmune manifestations that predominantly involve blood cells, polyclonal accumulation...

    Authors: Elisa Cerutti, Maria F Campagnoli, Massimo Ferretti, Emanuela Garelli, Nicoletta Crescenzio, Angelo Rosolen, Annalisa Chiocchetti, Michael J Lenardo, Ugo Ramenghi and Umberto Dianzani
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2007 8:28
  16. To understand the role of genetic factors on chromosome 1 in the regulation of spontaneous arthritis in mice deficient in IL-1 receptor antagonist protein (IL_1RA), we previously used speed congenic breeding t...

    Authors: Nan Deng, Yan Jiao, Yanhong Cao, Xiaoyun Liu, Yonghui Ma, Karen A Hasty, David D Brand, John M Stuart and Weikuan Gu
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:57
  17. We have devised a simple and efficient fluorescence-based method to track antigen uptake and processing in human B lymphoblastoid cells (B-LCL). Fluorescein labelled subtilisin was used to optimize antigen upt...

    Authors: Namrata S Patil, David L Wong, Katherine D Collier and Hugh C McDonald
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:12
  18. The use of new adjuvants in vaccine formulations is a subject of current research. Only few parenteral adjuvants have been licensed. We have developed a mucosal and parenteral adjuvant known as AFCo1 (Adjuvant...

    Authors: Caridad Zayas, Domingo González, Reinaldo Acevedo, Judith del Campo, Miriam Lastre, Elizabeth González, Belkis Romeu, Maribel Cuello, Julio Balboa, Osmir Cabrera, Luisa Guilherme and Oliver Pérez
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14(Suppl 1):S4

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  19. Cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells have shown promising results in adoptive immunotherapy. However, serum may play a determining role in the large-scale expansion of these cells for clinical applications. Acc...

    Authors: Zahra Jabbarpour, Seyed Sajjad Aghayan, Kobra Moradzadeh, Sasan Ghaffari and Naser Ahmadbeigi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2023 24:28
  20. Malignant pleural effusion (MPE), which is a complex microenvironment that contains numerous immune and tumour signals, is common in lung cancer. Gene alterations, such as driver gene mutations, are believed t...

    Authors: Lei-lei Lv, Hong-bin Wang, Yao-xin Zhang, Jia-wei Zhai, Yu Shen, Qiu-Xia Qu and Cheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2023 24:53
  21. Inflammation is characterized by dynamic changes in the expression of cytokines, such as M-CSF, and modifications of lipids and proteins that result in the formation of ligands for Class A Scavenger Receptors ...

    Authors: Dejan Nikolic, Lindsay Calderon, Liqin Du and Steven R Post
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:37
  22. Anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease is a well-known antibody-induced autoimmune disease. A few patients have glomerular C1q deposition, but it is usually absent on renal histopathology. The role of...

    Authors: Shui-yi Hu, Xiao-yu Jia, Xiao-wei Yang, Feng Yu, Zhao Cui and Ming-hui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14:42
  23. CD8+ regulatory T cells (Treg) have been considered to be involved in a model of ocular-induced tolerance, known as anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID). The phenotype and characteristics of CD8+T...

    Authors: Hao He, Peizeng Yang, Liqiong Jiang, Junfeng Zhang, Changlin Zhao, Lina Chen, Xiaomin Lin, Hongyan Zhou and Aize Kijlstra
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:53
  24. The human interleukin-17 (IL-17) family comprises IL-17A to IL-17 F; their receptors are IL-17RA to IL-17RE. Evidence revealed that these cytokines can have a tumor-supportive or anti-tumor impact on human mal...

    Authors: Ali Moadab, Mohammad Rafie Valizadeh, Alireza Nazari and Hossein Khorramdelazad
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2024 25:20
  25. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a tumor-associated glycoprotein that functions in regulation of both ontogenic and oncogenic growth. Recent study showed that AFP can induce apoptosis or impair monocyte-derived dend...

    Authors: Agus Setiyono, Akterono D Budiyati, Sigit Purwantomo, Madonna R Anggelia, Ismail Fanany, Gunawan A Wibowo, Indra Bachtiar, Andi Utama and Susan Tai
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:4
  26. Effects of low-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) on the exocrine glandular glands of Sjögren’s syndrome are unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of low-dose IL-2 on salivary gland structure an...

    Authors: Junsong Wen, Fenglin Zhu, Xi Yu, Hualing Xie and Chengyin Li
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:49
  27. Congenic strains of mice are assumed to differ only at a single gene or region of the genome. These mice have great importance in evaluating the function of genes. However, their utility depends on the mainten...

    Authors: Erin E McClelland, Kristy Damjanovich, Kyle Gardner, Zack J Groesbeck, Maggie S Ma, Megan Nibley, Kelly S Richardson, Maureen Wilkinson, Linda C Morrison, Paul Bernhardt and Wayne K Potts
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:14
  28. Tuberculosis infection is a major complication of silicosis, but there is no study on whether silicosis can affect the sensitivity of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) assays. This study will analyze the r...

    Authors: Xin Yu, Li-Na Huang, Jun-Chi Xu, Yi-Yan Song, Hui Chen, Cui-Lin Shi, Pei-Jun Tang, Tao Tao and Ye-Han Zhu
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:62
  29. TREM-1 (triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells), a receptor expressed on neutrophils and monocytes, is upregulated in sepsis and seems to tune the inflammatory response. We explored the expression of T...

    Authors: Androniki Marioli, Marina Koupetori, Maria Raftogiannis, Maria Patrani, Nikolaos Antonakos, Maria Pavlaki, Georgios Adamis, Georgia Dougekou, Georgia Damoraki and Iraklis Tsangaris
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:585
  30. We performed initial cell, cytokine and complement depletion studies to investigate the possible role of these effectors in response to vaccination with heat-killed Burkholderia mallei in a susceptible BALB/c mou...

    Authors: Gregory C Whitlock, Roman A Lukaszewski, Barbara M Judy, Slobodan Paessler, Alfredo G Torres and D Mark Estes
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:55
  31. Patients with antibody deficiencies depend on the presence of a variety of antibody specificities in intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) to ensure continued protection against pathogens. Few studies have examine...

    Authors: Fernanda Aimée Nobre, Isabela Garrido da Silva Gonzalez, Raquel Maria Simão, Maria Isabel de Moraes Pinto and Beatriz Tavares Costa-Carvalho
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:26
  32. Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, lacking specific diagnosis and disease activity evaluation indicators. This study will analyze the activity and clinic...

    Authors: Zhiye Xu, Linyu Geng, LiLi Guo, Hongyan Song, Jie Pan, Han Shen and Sen Wang
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:4
  33. Neutrophil migration to an inflamed site constitutes the first line of the innate immune response against invading microorganisms. Given the crucial role of endogenous lectins in neutrophil mobilization and ac...

    Authors: Selene Elifio-Esposito, Luciane Tomazeli, Carolina Schwartz, Ana Paula Gimenez, Gabriel M Fugii, Luiz Claudio Fernandes, Luciana FM Zishler, Patrícia M Stuelp-Campelo and Andréa N Moreno
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:10
  34. Extracellular nucleotides (ATP, ADP, UTP and UDP) exert a wide range of biological effects in blood cells mediated by multiple ionotropic P2X receptors and G protein-coupled P2Y receptors. Although pharmacolog...

    Authors: Lingwei Wang, Sten Eirik W Jacobsen, Anders Bengtsson and David Erlinge
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:16
  35. Bifidobacteria and lactobacilli are among the early and important colonizers of the gastrointestinal tract and are generally considered to be part of a normal, healthy microbiota. It is believed that specific ...

    Authors: David O'Mahony, Sharon Murphy, Thomas Boileau, JeanSoon Park, Frances O'Brien, David Groeger, Patrycja Konieczna, Mario Ziegler, Paul Scully, Fergus Shanahan, Barry Kiely and Liam O'Mahony
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:63
  36. The P2X 7 receptor plays an important role in cytokine release during the inflammatory response in vivo. Polymorphisms within the P2X 7 ...

    Authors: Anke Wesselius, Martijn JL Bours, Ilja CW Arts, Esther HE Theunisz, Piet Geusens and Pieter C Dagnelie
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2012 13:64
  37. Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is one of the important traits that characterize bronchial asthma. Goishi tea is a post-heating fermented tea that has been reported to have higher free radical scavenging acti...

    Authors: Ryoji Hirota, Nlandu R Ngatu, Mitsuhiko Miyamura, Hiroyuki Nakamura and Narufumi Suganuma
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:45
  38. The USDA, Wildlife Services cooperative oral rabies vaccination (ORV) program uses a live vaccinia virus-vectored (genus Orthopoxvirus) vaccine, Raboral V-RG® (V-RG), to vaccinate specific wildlife species agains...

    Authors: J Jeffrey Root, Robert G McLean, Dennis Slate, Kathleen A MacCarthy and Jorge E Osorio
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:57
  39. Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) leading to acute kidney failure, is a condition linked to the production of primarily Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) by some E. coli serotypes. We have previously shown that Stx2 A subunit-s...

    Authors: Abhineet Sheoran, Kwang-il Jeong, Jean Mukherjee, Anthony Wiffin, Pradeep Singh and Saul Tzipori
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2012 13:27
  40. Immunosuppression by gliomas contributes to tumor progression and treatment resistance. It is not known when immunosuppression occurs during tumor development but it likely involves cross-talk among tumor cell...

    Authors: Benjamin C Kennedy, Lisa M Maier, Randy D'Amico, Christopher E Mandigo, Elizabeth J Fontana, Allen Waziri, Marcela C Assanah, Peter Canoll, Richard CE Anderson, David E Anderson and Jeffrey N Bruce
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:11
  41. Hemodialysis (HD) patients have an increased risk of acquiring infections due to many health care contacts and may, in addition, have a suboptimal response to vaccination and a high mortality from Covid-19 inf...

    Authors: Jan Melin, Maria K. Svensson, Bo Albinsson, Ola Winqvist and Karlis Pauksens
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:70
  42. The immune response to trauma has traditionally been modeled to consist of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) followed by the compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome (CARS). We investi...

    Authors: Kevin R Kasten, Holly S Goetzman, Maria R Reid, Alison M Rasper, Samuel G Adediran, Chad T Robinson, Cindy M Cave, Joseph S Solomkin, Alex B Lentsch, Jay A Johannigman and Charles C Caldwell
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:4
  43. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common liver disease worldwide. Recent studies have shown that the Angptl2 pathway mediated hepatic inflammatory response plays an important role in...

    Authors: Zengsheng Lu, Beihui He, Zhiyun Chen, Maoxiang Yan and Liyan Wu
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2020 21:28

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