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  3. Besides few data concerning the antiseptic properties against a range of microbial agents and the anti-inflammatory potential both in vitro and in vivo, little is known about the influence of Eucalyptus oil (E O)...

    Authors: Annalucia Serafino, Paola Sinibaldi Vallebona, Federica Andreola, Manuela Zonfrillo, Luana Mercuri, Memmo Federici, Guido Rasi, Enrico Garaci and Pasquale Pierimarchi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:17
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  4. Miscellaneous memory cell populations that exist before organ transplantation are crucial barriers to transplantation. In the present study, we used a skin-primed heart transplantation model in mouse to evalua...

    Authors: Maoshu Zhu, Yunhan Ma, Kai Tan, Liyi Zhang, Zhaowei Wang, Yongsheng Li, Yingyu Chen, Junjun Guo, Guoliang Yan and Zhongquan Qi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2020 21:19
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Immunology 2022 23:38

  5. The gram-negative bacterium Bordetella pertussis is an important causative agent of pertussis, an infectious disease of the respiratory tract. After introduction of whole-cell vaccines (wP) in the 1950's, pertuss...

    Authors: Sander Banus, Rachel M Stenger, Eric R Gremmer, Jan AMA Dormans, Frits R Mooi, Tjeerd G Kimman and Rob J Vandebriel
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:21
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  6. Monocytes reportedly contribute to liver regeneration. Three subsets have been identified to date: classical, intermediate, non-classical monocytes. The intermediate population and a subtype expressing TIE2 (T...

    Authors: Dominic Schauer, Patrick Starlinger, Philipp Zajc, Lejla Alidzanovic, Thomas Maier, Elisabeth Buchberger, Lorand Pop, Birgit Gruenberger, Thomas Gruenberger and Christine Brostjan
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:50
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  7. To identify lymphocyte and CD4 + T cell subset characteristics, particularly regulatory T cells (Tregs), in active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

    Authors: Yanyan Wang, Rui Su, Baochen Li, Qiaoling Guo, Fangyuan Hu, Xiaopu Yu, Mingxia Ma, Lizhi Wang, Chong Gao, Xiaofeng Li and Caihong Wang
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:76
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  8. Novel prophylactic drugs and vaccination strategies for protection against influenza virus should induce specific effector T-cell immune responses in pulmonary airways and peripheral lymphoid organs. Designing...

    Authors: Jing Tian, Wenrui Fu, Zifeng Xie, Xiaonan Wang, Miao Miao, Fengping Shan and Xiaodong Yu
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2023 24:38
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  9. Propolis, an ancient herbal medicine, has been reported the beneficial effect both in asthma patients and murine model of asthma, but the mechanism was not clearly understood. In this study, the effect of caff...

    Authors: Li-Chieh Wang, Yu-Li Lin, Yu-Chih Liang, Yao-Hsu Yang, Jyh-Hong Lee, Hsin-Hui Yu, Wen-Mein Wu and Bor-Luen Chiang
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:39
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  10. Targeting of protein antigens to dendritic cells (DC) via the DEC205 receptor enhances presentation of antigen-derived peptides on MHC-I and MHC-II molecules and, in the presence of costimulatory signals, anti...

    Authors: Claudius Grossmann, Matthias Tenbusch, Godwin Nchinda, Vladimir Temchura, Ghulam Nabi, Geoffrey W Stone, Richard S Kornbluth and Klaus Überla
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:43
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  12. Cytokine-stimulated endothelial cells (EC) propagate hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) expansion. However, the effects on the functional capacities of cultured progenitors have not been evaluated. HPC were a...

    Authors: Anja Moldenhauer, Gesche Genter, Andreas Lun, Gürkan Bal, Holger Kiesewetter and Abdulgabar Salama
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:56
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  13. NET (neutrophil extracellular trap) has been shown to directly influence inflammation; in SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus), it is reportedly a plausible cause for the broken self-tolerance that contributes t...

    Authors: Alimohammad Fatemi, Razieh Alipour, Hossein Khanahmad, Fereshteh Alsahebfosul, Alireza Andalib and Abbasali Pourazar
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:12
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  14. Chemokines, a group of small and structurally related proteins, mediate chemotaxis of various cell types via chemokine receptors. In mammals, seven different CXC chemokine receptors denoted as CXCR1 to CXCR7 h...

    Authors: Qiao Q Xu, Ming X Chang, Rong H Sun, Fan S Xiao and P Nie
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:25
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  15. Bv8, prokineticin-1, or endocrine gland-vascular endothelial growth factor, and prokineticin-2 are recently isolated peptide agonists of two G protein-coupled receptors, prokineticin receptor-1 (PROKR 1) and P...

    Authors: Silvia Franchi, Elisa Giannini, Donatella Lattuada, Roberta Lattanzi, Hui Tian, Pietro Melchiorri, Lucia Negri, Alberto E Panerai and Paola Sacerdote
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:60
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  16. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation is beneficial for several chronic diseases; however, its effect on immune regulation is still debated. Given the prevalence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and bec...

    Authors: Shuting Wu, Shanshan Wang, Lili Wang, Hongyan Peng, Shuju Zhang, Qinglan Yang, Minghui Huang, Yana Li, Shuzhen Guan, Wenjuan Jiang, Zhaohui Zhang, Qinghua Bi, Liping Li, Yuan Gao, Peiwen Xiong, Zhaoyang Zhong…
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:17
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  17. Development and function of tissue resident mast cells (MCs) is tightly controlled by various cytokines, most of which belong to the typical T helper (Th) 2-type cytokines such as IL-3 and IL-4. The effects of...

    Authors: Gernot Sellge, Miriam Barkowsky, Sigrid Kramer, Thomas Gebhardt, Leif E Sander, Axel Lorentz and Stephan C Bischoff
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:27
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  18. Marginal zone B cells have been implicated in the production of autoantibodies in murine models of lupus. It has been suggested that they contribute to lupus immunopathogenesis through their enhanced effector ...

    Authors: Zhenhai Zhou, Haitao Niu, Ying-Yi Zheng and Laurence Morel
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:7
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  19. Class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules bind, and present to T cells, short peptides derived from intracellular processing of proteins. The peptide repertoire of a specific molecule is to a la...

    Authors: John Sidney, Bjoern Peters, Nicole Frahm, Christian Brander and Alessandro Sette
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:1
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  20. Viral infection and neoplastic transformation trigger endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Thus, a large proportion of the cells that must be recognized by the immune system are stressed cells. Cells respond to ...

    Authors: Diana P Granados, Pierre-Luc Tanguay, Marie-Pierre Hardy, Étienne Caron, Danielle de Verteuil, Sylvain Meloche and Claude Perreault
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:10
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  21. New combinations based on standard therapeutic modalities and immunotherapy require understanding the immunomodulatory properties of traditional treatments. The objective was to evaluate the impact of brachyth...

    Authors: Isabel Linares, Miguel Ángel Berenguer Frances, Rut Cañas, Dina Najjari, Cristina Gutiérrez, Susanna Marín, Silvia Comas, Ferran Guedea and Monica Pujol
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2023 24:23
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  22. Infections caused by community-associated strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) are associated with a marked and prolonged host inflammatory response. In a sepsis simulation model, we t...

    Authors: Thomas Spentzas, Rebekah KH Shapley, Carlos Acuna Aguirre, Elizabeth Meals, Lauren Lazar, Mark S Rayburn, Brett S Walker and B Keith English
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:11
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  23. Immature B lymphocytes and certain B cell lymphomas undergo apoptotic cell death following activation of the B cell antigen receptor (BCR) signal transduction pathway. Several biochemical changes occur in resp...

    Authors: Robert C Hsueh, Adrienne M Hammill, Jamie A Lee, Jonathan W Uhr and Richard H Scheuermann
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2002 3:16
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  24. Chemokines are involved in many biological activities ranging from leukocyte differentiation to neuronal morphogenesis. Despite numerous reports describing chemokine function, little is known about the molecul...

    Authors: JE Nagel, RJ Smith, L Shaw, D Bertak, VD Dixit, EM Schaffer and DD Taub
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:17
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  25. Mannose-binding lectin (MBL), a pattern recognition innate immune molecule, inhibits influenza A virus infection in vitro. MBL deficiency due to gene polymorphism in humans has been associated with infection susc...

    Authors: Wei-Chuan Chang, Mitchell R White, Patience Moyo, Sheree McClear, Steffen Thiel, Kevan L Hartshorn and Kazue Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:64
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  26. The CD38 transmembrane glycoprotein is an ADP-ribosyl cyclase that moonlights as a receptor in cells of the immune system. Both functions are independently implicated in numerous areas related to human health....

    Authors: Enza Ferrero, Monia Orciani, Paola Vacca, Erika Ortolan, Sergio Crovella, Fausto Titti, Franca Saccucci and Fabio Malavasi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:21
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  27. Recent attempts to diminish nickel use in most industrial products have led to an increasing utilization of alternative metal compounds for destinations such as the alloys used in orthopaedics, jewellery and d...

    Authors: Valentina Bordignon, Francesca Palamara, Paola Cordiali-Fei, Antonella Vento, Arianna Aiello, Mauro Picardo, Fabrizio Ensoli and Antonio Cristaudo
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:19
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  28. Protective responses in mice immunized with an interferon-gamma producing strain of Cryptococcus neoformans, H99γ, are associated with IL-17A production by neutrophils. Neutrophil depletion in H99γ-immunized mice...

    Authors: Karen L Wozniak, Jay K Kolls and Floyd L Wormley Jr
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2012 13:65
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  29. Coevolution between pathogens and their hosts decreases host morbidity and mortality. Bats host and can tolerate viruses which can be lethal to other vertebrate orders, including humans. Bat adaptations to inf...

    Authors: Markéta Harazim, Juliette Perrot, Hugo Varet, Hervé Bourhy, Julien Lannoy, Jiri Pikula, Veronika Seidlová, Laurent Dacheux and Natália Martínková
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2023 24:7
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  30. The extracellular domains of cytokine receptors are released during inflammation, but little is known about the shedding of Toll-like receptors (TLR) and whether they can be used as diagnostic biomarkers.

    Authors: Jaap ten Oever, Matthijs Kox, Frank L van de Veerdonk, Khutso M Mothapo, Adriana Slavcovici, Tim L Jansen, Lieke Tweehuysen, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Peter M Schneeberger, Peter C Wever, Monique Stoffels, Anna Simon, Jos WM van der Meer, Melissa D Johnson, Bart-Jan Kullberg, Peter Pickkers…
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2014 15:55
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  31. Toll-like receptor (TLR) signalling is crucial for innate immune responses to infection. The involvement of TLRs in otitis media (OM), the most prevalent childhood disease in developed countries, has been impl...

    Authors: Anke Leichtle, Michelle Hernandez, Kwang Pak, Nicholas J Webster, Stephen I Wasserman and Allen F Ryan
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:45
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  32. At present, available pneumococcal vaccines have failed to eradicate infections caused by S. pneumoniae. Search for effective vaccine continues and some serotype independent pneumococcal proteins are considered a...

    Authors: Elisa O Vintiñi and Marcela S Medina
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:46
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  33. Parasite-specific IgE levels correlate with human resistance to reinfection with Schistosoma spp. after chemotherapy. Although the role of eosinophils in schistosomiasis has been the focus of a great deal of impo...

    Authors: Mohamed Z Satti, Pierre Cahen, Per S Skov, Sarah Joseph, Frances M Jones, Colin Fitzsimmons, Karl F Hoffmann, Claus Reimert, H Curtis Kariuki, Francis Kazibwe, Joseph K Mwatha, Gachuhi Kimani, Birgitte J Vennervald, John H Ouma, Narcis B Kabatereine and David W Dunne
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:6
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  34. Administration of mercury at nontoxic doses induces systemic autoimmune disease in Brown Norway (BN) rats. The pathogenesis of lupus-like oral mucosal lesion by mercury-induced autoimmunity is still unclear, e...

    Authors: Kei Seno, Jun Ohno, Nobutaka Ota, Takao Hirofuji and Kunihisa Taniguchi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14:47
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  35. The selection of relevant genes for sample classification is a common task in many gene expression studies. Although a number of tools have been developed to identify optimal gene expression signatures, they o...

    Authors: Giacomo Tuana, Viola Volpato, Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli, Francesca Zolezzi, Fabio Stella and Maria Foti
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:50
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  36. Human Papillomavirus, HPV, is the main etiological factor for cervical cancer. Different studies show that in women infected with HPV there is a positive correlation between lesion grade and number of infiltra...

    Authors: Aline Bolpetti, João S Silva, Luisa L Villa and Ana Paula Lepique
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:27
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  37. The Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, has distinct immunological features and is uniquely susceptible to intracellular pathogens. Studies in hamsters are limited by the relative unavailability of tools to con...

    Authors: Claudia M Espitia, Weiguo Zhao, Omar Saldarriaga, Yaneth Osorio, Lisa M Harrison, Michael Cappello, Bruno L Travi and Peter C Melby
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2010 11:31
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  39. ABP501 is a biosimilar to Reference Adalimumab (HUMIRA®) produced by AMGEN. Adalimumab (ADA) has a marketing authorization for Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory or autoimmune diseases....

    Authors: Fabien Francois, Loubna Naimi, Xavier Roblin, Anne-Emmanuelle Berger and Stephane Paul
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:81
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  40. Consumption of edible mushrooms has been suggested to improve health. A number of isolated mushroom constituents have been shown to modulate immunity. Five commonly consumed edible mushrooms were tested to det...

    Authors: Sanhong Yu, Veronika Weaver, Keith Martin and Margherita T Cantorna
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:12
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  41. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is characterized by the presence of dysfunctional exhausted CD8+ T cells that hamper viral control. We investigated the phenotypic heterogeneity of exhausted CD8+ T cells...

    Authors: Daixi Jiang, Can Chen, Danying Yan, Xiaobao Zhang, Xiaoxiao Liu, Dong Yan, Dawei Cui and Shigui Yang
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:18
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  42. Allergic sensitisation has been ascribed to a dysregulated relationship between allergen-specific Th1, Th2 and regulatory T cells. We hypothesised that the relationship between these T cell subsets could be be...

    Authors: Karen A Smith, Nicola J Gray, Elizabeth Cheek, Femi Saleh, Jo Lavender, Anthony J Frew, Florian Kern and Michael D Tarzi
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2013 14:14
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  43. Immunoglobulin rearrangement involves random and imprecise processes that act to both create and constrain diversity. Two such processes are the loss of nucleotides through the action of unknown exonuclease(s)...

    Authors: Katherine JL Jackson, Bruno Gaeta, William Sewell and Andrew M Collins
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:19
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  44. Human infections with Sin Nombre virus (SNV) and related New World hantaviruses often lead to hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), a sometimes fatal illness. Lungs of patients who die from HCPS exhibit ...

    Authors: Bennett J Davenport, Derall G Willis, Joseph Prescott, Regina M Farrell, Teresa A Coons and Tony Schountz
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2004 5:23
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  45. The role of Mycobacteria in the etiology of Crohn's disease (CD) has been a contentious subject for many years. Recently, our laboratory showed that spontaneous colitis in IL-10-/- mice is driven in part by antig...

    Authors: Udai P Singh, Rajesh Singh, Shailesh Singh, Russell K Karls, Frederick D Quinn, Dennis D Taub and James W Lillard Jr
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2008 9:25
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  46. Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease characterized by an overproduction of autoantibodies resulting from dysregulation in multiple immune cell types. D-mannose is a C− 2 epimer of glucose that ex...

    Authors: Haiting Wang, Xiangyu Teng, Georges Abboud, Wei Li, Shuang Ye and Laurence Morel
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2021 22:1
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  47. Cellular immune responses are phenotypically and functionally perturbed during HIV-1 infection, with the majority of function restored upon antiretroviral therapy (ART). Despite ART, residual inflammation rema...

    Authors: Justin Pollara, Santosh Khanal, R. Whitney Edwards, Bhavna Hora, Guido Ferrari, Barton F. Haynes and Todd Bradley
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2022 23:48
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  48. Tumor-associated accrual of myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSC) in the blood, lymphoid organs and tumor tissues may lead to perturbation of the arginine metabolism and impairment of the endogenous antitumo...

    Authors: Giusy Capuano, Nicolò Rigamonti, Matteo Grioni, Massimo Freschi and Matteo Bellone
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2009 10:1
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  50. Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular bacterium and the etiologic agent of Q fever; both coxiella outer membrane protein 1 (Com1) and heat shock protein B (HspB) are its major immunodominant antigens. It...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Xiaolu Xiong, Deping Wu, Xile Wang and Bohai Wen
    Citation: BMC Immunology 2011 12:52
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