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  1. Immunization with the spike protein (S) of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus (CoV) in mice is known to produce neutralizing antibodies and to prevent the infection caused by SARS-CoV. Polyet...

    Authors: Byoung-Shik Shim, Sung-Moo Park, Ji-Shan Quan, Dhananjay Jere, Hyuk Chu, Man Ki Song, Dong Wook Kim, Yong-Suk Jang, Moon-Sik Yang, Seung Hyun Han, Yong-Ho Park, Chong-Su Cho and Cheol-Heui Yun
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:65
  2. IL-17+ T helper cells and Foxp3+ regulatory T cells are CD4+ T helper cells with reciprocally regulated differentiation and function. Their frequency and function vary in patients with chronic hepatitis B. In thi...

    Authors: Yinghua Niu, Hongli Liu, Donglin Yin, Ruitian Yi, Tianyan Chen, Hong'an Xue, Shulin Zhang, Shumei Lin and Yingren Zhao
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:47
  3. Expression of murine CCL21 by dermal lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC) has been demonstrated to be one of the most important steps in Langerhans cell emigration from skin. Previously, our group and others have...

    Authors: Yanina Eberhard, Susana Ortiz, Alejandro Ruiz Lascano, Raquel Kuznitzky and Horacio Marcelo Serra
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:7
  4. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infections are still a major cause of death among all infectious diseases. Although 99% of individuals infected with Mtb develop a CD4+ Th1 and CD8+ T cell mediated immunity as me...

    Authors: Marion Heuer, Anna-Sophie Behlich, Ji-Sook Lee, Eliana Ribechini, Eun-Kyeong Jo and Manfred B Lutz
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14:48
  5. Probiotics positively affect inflammatory responses, in part, through Janus kinase/signal transduction and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) and inflammatory signaling pathways. To evaluate the precise eff...

    Authors: Shadi Aghamohammad, Amin Sepehr, Seyedeh Tina Miri, Saeideh Najafi, Mahdi Rohani and Mohammad R. Pourshafiea
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:8
  6. The new JAK3 inhibitor, CP690,550, has shown efficacy in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The present study was undertaken to assess the effects of CP690,550 on cytokine production and cellular signaling...

    Authors: Kiyoshi Migita, Taiichiro Miyashita, Yasumori Izumi, Tomohiro Koga, Atsumasa Komori, Yumi Maeda, Yuka Jiuchi, Yoshihiro Aiba, Satoshi Yamasaki, Atsushi Kawakami, Minoru Nakamura and Hiromi Ishibashi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:51
  7. Ion channels are involved in the control of membrane potential (ψ) in a variety of cells. The maintenance of ψ in human T lymphocytes is essential for T-cell activation and was suggested to depend mostly on th...

    Authors: Fernanda Mello de Queiroz, Cristiano G Ponte, Adriana Bonomo, Rosane Vianna-Jorge and Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:63
  8. Tumor-associated dendritic cells (TADCs) can interact with tumor cells to suppress anti-tumor T cell immunity. However, there is no information on whether and how TADCs can modulate programmed death-ligand 1 (...

    Authors: Weigang Xiu and Jingjing Luo
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:3

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Immunology 2021 22:18

  9. Previous investigation has demonstrated that CD4+ T cells play a crucial role in effective immunity against Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) infection. It has been well proved that Lpp20 is one of major protective ...

    Authors: Yan Li, Yin Jiang, Yue Xi, Lili Zhang, Jun Luo, Diandian He, Shuang Zeng and Yunshan Ning
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2012 13:68
  10. CD72 is an inhibitory co-receptor expressed on B cells. We previously demonstrated significant association of the polymorphism of the CD72 gene with susceptibility to human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in i...

    Authors: Yuki Hitomi, Takahiro Adachi, Naoyuki Tsuchiya, Zen-Ichiro Honda, Katsushi Tokunaga and Takeshi Tsubata
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2012 13:72
  11. Cancer immunotherapy has gained increasing popularity as a novel approach to treat cancer. A member of the B7 family, V-domain immunoglobulin suppressor of T-cell activation (VISTA) is a novel immune checkpoin...

    Authors: Ting-ting Li, Jing-wei Jiang, Chen-xin Qie, Chun-xiao Xuan, Xin-lei Hu, Wan-mei Liu, Wen-ting Chen and Jun Liu
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:55
  12. Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an acquired autoimmune blistering disorder in which greater than 80% of active patients produce autoantibodies to the desmosomal protein desmogelin 3 (Dsg3). As the disease progresse...

    Authors: Joo Chuan Tong and Animesh A Sinha
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:30
  13. Despite high rate of vaccination coverage with 2-doses of measles containing vaccine among Iranian children, outbreaks of measles occurred among different age groups and fully vaccinated subjects. Although the...

    Authors: Hana Saffar, Sayed Jaber Mousavi, Hiva Saffar, Mohammad-Reza Parsaei, Gholam-Reza Ghorbani and Mohammad Jafar Saffar
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:2
  14. In celiac disease gluten, the disease-inducing toxic component in wheat, induces the secretion of autoantibodies which are targeted against transglutaminase 2 (TG2). These autoantibodies are produced in the sm...

    Authors: Satumarja M Stenman, Katri Lindfors, Ilma R Korponay-Szabo, Olli Lohi, Päivi Saavalainen, Jukka Partanen, Katri Haimila, Herbert Wieser, Markku Mäki and Katri Kaukinen
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:6
  15. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a severe respiratory illness caused by a novel virus, the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). 3C-like protease (3CLpro) of SARS-CoV plays a role in processing viral polypeptid...

    Authors: Hsien-Hua Liao, Yao-Chen Wang, Miles Chih-Ming Chen, Hsien-Yu Tsai, Johnson Lin, Shui-Tein Chen, Gregory Jiazer Tsay and Sun-Long Cheng
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:16
  16. In sepsis, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is the key factor triggering respiratory burst, tissue injury and disseminated coagulation. Anti-TNF strategies based on monoclonal antibodies or F(ab’)2 fragments have been...

    Authors: Rafael Bojalil, María Teresa Mata-González, Fausto Sánchez-Muñoz, Yepci Yee, Iván Argueta, Lucía Bolaños, Luis Manuel Amezcua-Guerra, Tanya Amanda Camacho-Villegas, Edna Sánchez-Castrejón, Walter Jakob García-Ubbelohde, Alexei Fedorovish Licea-Navarro, Ricardo Márquez-Velasco and Jorge Fernando Paniagua-Solís
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14:17
  17. Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an emerging bacterial infectious disease in tropical and subtropical areas. We recently showed that NADPH oxidase but not nitric oxide (NO) contrib...

    Authors: Katrin Breitbach, Patimaporn Wongprompitak and Ivo Steinmetz
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:20
  18. Intrathymic development and selection of the T lymphocyte repertoire is restricted by the interactions of the T cell antigen receptor and CD4 or CD8 co-receptors with self major histocompatibility complex mole...

    Authors: Hector Martinez-Valdez, Vicente Madrid-Marina and Amos Cohen
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2002 3:1
  19. Allergy has been an increasing problem in several parts of the world. Prenatal exposure to allergen and microbial components may affect the development of allergies in childhood, as indicated by epidemiologica...

    Authors: Linda K Ellertsen, Unni C Nygaard, Ingrid Melkild and Martinus Løvik
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:8
  20. This study investigates the effect of autologous bone marrow transfusion (BMT) on the reconstruction of both bone marrow and the immune system in patients with AIDS-related lymphoma (ARL).

    Authors: Yixuan Liu, Suhong Xie, Lei Li, Yanhui Si, Weiwei Zhang, Xin Liu, Lin Guo, Baochi Liu and Renquan Lu
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:10
  21. Siglec-7, a sialic acid binding inhibitory receptor expressed by NK cells is masked in vivo by a so far unknown ligand. It shows a strong binding prevalence for α-2,8-linked disialic acids in vitro.

    Authors: Jeannette M Moebius, Darius Widera, Juergen Schmitz, Christian Kaltschmidt and Christoph Piechaczek
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2007 8:13
  22. Nur77 is an orphan nuclear receptor expressed in human atheroma. In vascular cells in vitro, Nur77 expression is induced by pro-inflammatory factors, such as oxidized LDL (oxLDL).

    Authors: Liu-hua Hu, Ying Yu, Shu-xuan Jin, Peng Nie, Zhao-hua Cai, Ming-li Cui, Shi-qun Sun, Hua Xiao, Qin Shao, Ling-hong Shen and Ben He
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:54
  23. Recent evidence shows that allograft survival rates show a positive correlation with the number of circulating T regulatory cells (Tregs). This study investigated both the number and the cytokine profiles exhi...

    Authors: Yuchuan Huang, Juan Shan, Chuntao Zhang, Jie Zhang, Li Feng, Shengfu Li and Youping Li
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:40
  24. In the immune system, the serum levels of immunoglobulin (Ig) increase gradually during ageing. Through B cell development, the Ig heavy chain expression is modulated by a regulatory region at the 3’ of the co...

    Authors: Eliseo Serone, Cristina Daleno, Nicola Principi, Laura Porretti, Valentina Iacoacci, Cesare Gargioli, Andrea Magrini, Renato Massoud, Pietro D’Addabbo, Marco Cattalini, Vincenzo Giambra, Alessandro Plebani, Susanna Esposito and Domenico Frezza
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:45
  25. Renal injury of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease is defined by the linear deposition of IgG along GBM and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. To date, the distribution of anti-GBM IgG subcla...

    Authors: Zhen Qu, Zhao Cui, Gang Liu and Ming-hui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14:19
  26. T cell development occurs within the highly specialized thymus. Cytotoxic CD8 T cells are critical in adaptive immunity by targeting virally infected or tumor cells. In this study, we addressed whether functio...

    Authors: Génève Awong, Elaine Herer, Ross N La Motte-Mohs and Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:22
  27. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an RNA virus which has been known to cause acute and chronic necro-inflammatory disease of the liver. It is the leading cause of end-stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma....

    Authors: Solomon Taye and Mekuria Lakew
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14:23
  28. Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a pathogen that causes chickenpox and shingles in humans. Different types of the varicella vaccines derived from the Oka and MAV/06 strains are commercially available worldwide....

    Authors: Duckhyang Shin, Younchul Shin, Eunmi Kim, Hyojung Nam, Haiyan Nan and Jaewoo Lee
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:27
  29. Wegener's Granulomatosis and Microscopic Polyangiitis are life-threatening systemic necrotizing vasculitides of unknown aetiology. The appearance of circulating antibodies to neutrophil cytoplasmic antigens (A...

    Authors: Plinio R Hurtado, Lisa Jeffs, Jodie Nitschke, Mittal Patel, Ghafar Sarvestani, John Cassidy, Pravin Hissaria, David Gillis and Chen Au Peh
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:34
  30. Tuberculosis causes 3 million deaths annually. The most common site of tuberculosis is pulmonary however; extra-pulmonary forms of the disease also remain prevalent. Restriction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis depe...

    Authors: Zahra Hasan, Irfan Zaidi, Bushra Jamil, M Aslam Khan, Akbar Kanji and Rabia Hussain
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2005 6:14
  31. Asthma is a complicated network of inflammatory reactions. It is classified into mild, moderate, and severe persistent asthma. The success of asthma therapy relies much on understanding the underlying mechanis...

    Authors: AS Abdulamir, RR Hafidh, F Abubakar and KA Abbas
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:73
  32. Cytokine flow cytometry (CFC) provides a multiparameter alternative to ELISPOT assays for rapid quantitation of antigen-specific T cells. To increase the throughput of CFC assays, we have optimized methods for...

    Authors: Maria A Suni, Holli S Dunn, Patricia L Orr, Rian de Laat, Elizabeth Sinclair, Smita A Ghanekar, Barry M Bredt, John F Dunne, Vernon C Maino and Holden T Maecker
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2003 4:9
  33. Heat shock proteins (Hsp) are ubiquitously synthesised in virtually all species and it is hypothesised that they might have beneficial health effects. Recent studies have identified circulating Hsp as an impor...

    Authors: Rose Njemini, Ivan Bautmans, Oscar O Onyema, Katrien Van Puyvelde, Christian Demanet and Tony Mets
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:24
  34. In asthma and other allergic disorders, the activation of mast cells by IgE and antigen induces the cells to release histamine and other mediators of inflammation, as well as to produce certain cytokines and c...

    Authors: Koichi Sayama, Maximilian Diehn, Kentaro Matsuda, Carolina Lunderius, Mindy Tsai, See-Ying Tam, David Botstein, Patrick O Brown and Stephen J Galli
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2002 3:5
  35. Peroxynitrite is increasingly proposed as a contributor to defence system in marine bivalve. It can be formed by combinaison of superoxide and nitric oxide, and can react with tyrosine residues of proteins giv...

    Authors: Jean Torreilles and Bernard Romestand
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2001 2:1
  36. The effects of intravenous immunoglobulin G replacement on perceived health and infection susceptibility of patients suffering from immunoglobulin G (IgG) deficiencies should be evaluated in a prospective anal...

    Authors: Rudolf Weide, Roland Schnell, Christof Schardt, Michael Koenigsmann, Burkhard Otremba, Mark-Oliver Zahn, Jan Wierecky, Ute Braun, Manfred Hensel, Martine Klausmann, Doris Fleckenstein, Peter Ehscheidt and Stefan Feiten
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2020 21:39
  37. Estrogens and androgens have extensive effects on the immune system, for example they suppress both T and B lymphopoiesis in thymus and bone marrow. Submandibular glands are sexually dimorphic in rodents, resu...

    Authors: Ulrika Islander, Bengt Hasséus, Malin C Erlandsson, Caroline Jochems, Sofia Movérare Skrtic, Marie Lindberg, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Claes Ohlsson and Hans Carlsten
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2005 6:16
  38. Transgenic TCR mice are often used experimentally as a source of T cells of a defined specificity. One of the most widely used transgenic TCR models is the OT-1 transgenic mouse in which the CD8+ T cells expre...

    Authors: Kate O Wright, Debbie A Murray, Nicholas I Crispe and Robert H Pierce
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2005 6:20
  39. Standardization of cell-based immunologic monitoring is becoming increasingly important as methods for measuring cellular immunity become more complex. We assessed the ability of two commonly used cell-based a...

    Authors: Vivian Goodell, Corazon dela Rosa, Meredith Slota, Beth MacLeod and Mary L Disis
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2007 8:21
  40. Interleukin-10 (IL-10) has an important anti-inflammatory and immunoregulatory function, and its expression is negatively correlated with the development and severity of allergic rhinitis (AR). However, the in...

    Authors: Shui-Bin Wang, Yu-Qin Deng, Jie Ren, Bo-Kui Xiao, Zheng Liu and Ze-Zhang Tao
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:9
  41. SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus first recognized in late December 2019 that causes coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19). Due to the highly contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2, it has developed into a global pandemi...

    Authors: Xuzhen Qin, Jun Shen, Erhei Dai, Haolong Li, Guodong Tang, Lixia Zhang, Xin Hou, Minya Lu, Xian Wu, Simeng Duan, Jingjia Zhang, Man-Fung Tsoi, Ping Jiang and Yongzhe Li
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:14

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