... these cells inthe synovial tissue of patients with RA, again postulating that the gain in cytotoxic function is of functional importance in maintaining chronic synovitis Regulatory genes ofthe ... activation ofthe c-Jun N-terminal kinase pathway, and it is important in lowering the threshold inresponseto TCR stimulation In essence, the aging T- cell compartment is characterized by the ... accepted control mechanisms include theinductionof apoptosis inthe responding T- cell population, and feedback control by inhibitory receptors and regulatory T cells Remarkably, diversity of the...
... on the one hand, at fixed current time t one needs to determine π t , the current value ofthe process π On the other hand, the model parameters (the generator matrix of X and parameters ofthe ... frailty model in Section Here we concentrate on the determination of π tThe key point is the observation that the set of all probability vectors consistent with the price information at t can ... generates a trajectory of X Given this trajectory, the loss distribution can then be evaluated using one ofthe known methods for computing the distribution ofthe sum of independent (but not identically...
... and mature DCs, resulting in tolerogenic interaction with T cells in SIT We found that the combination of DNA vaccination with Fc and OVA had better effects onOVAinduced alterations inthe spleen ... pathway of regulation of type immunityin asthma Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions YL performed all analyses and wrote the initial ... directly to DCs may a new alternative of therapies for patients with allergic asthma These findings suggest that spleen DCs and Foxp3+Tregs prevents the generation and activation of Th2 effector cells...
... it is not the virus bearing the epitope nor local virus replication that results inthe decreased functionality of CD8+ CTL in lungs, but rather the pulmonary site of residence ofthe cells Therefore, ... present study contains a disrupted thymidine kinase gene due tothe M2 insert [10] This disruption has been shown to result in attenuation compared to its strain WR parent, yet the virus still ... somewhat lower response (15%) of tetramer+CD8+ cells was detected inthe lungs after IN infection with VV-M2 Interestingly, despite the lack of VV-M2 replication inthe lungs after ID inoculation,...
... contributed to interpretation ofthe data Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Acknowledgements The set of EBV ... arguments to investigate a potential EBV reactivation during MTX and/ or TNFα antagonist therapy as a possible first step of lymphoma induction During primary EBV infection, specific cytotoxic CD8+ T ... under treatment (a) Spondylarthropathy patient with infliximab + methotrexate (b) Rheumatoid arthritis patient with adalimumab + methotrexate Both responses to latent peptides and lytic peptides...
... development ofthe adaptive immune responseandthe outcome ofthe infection 6 Background Adaptive Immunity Phase The important role ofthe adaptive immunityin determining the outcome of a HBV infection ... with the absence or mild symptoms of hepatitis, while patients who resolve the infection often experience acute hepatitis 20 This led tothe suggestion that the ability ofthe innate immunity ... 54-56 The influence that virus heterogeneity andthe distinct HLA-profile ofthe infected subjects have on the repertoire and hierarchy ofTcell responses is difficult to predict The existence of...
... addition tothe primary structure ofthe peptide To confirm our hypothesis that the b-turn structures are important for the inhibitory activities ofthe peptides, the structures ofthe cyclic peptides ... interaction This correlates with the higher inhibitory activity ofthe cEL peptide andthe very low inhibitory activity ofthe cYT peptide compared to other peptides The flanking residue ofthe b-turn, ... their toxicity using the MTT assay [17] All the four peptides tested inthe study resulted in 90–100% viability indicating that these peptides were not toxic to cells andthe inhibition data observed...
... subcategorisation details To incorporate CFG details into the extracted semantic forms, we add an extra feature tothe generated f-structures, the value of which is the syntactic category ofthe pred at ... each ofthe CF-PSG constituents The elements ofthe constituent structure are indexed, and referenced inthe :gs field This mapping between constituent structure and functional structure makes the ... constituent structure ofthe subcategorisation frame, which lists the syntactic CF-PSG constituents in sequence The value ofthe :gs feature is the grammatical structure which indicates the functional...
... with state 5, resulting inthe bottom overgeneralized version 73 inthe language by taking different paths from initial state to final state The bottom, overgeneralized, automaton is generated ... remaining 17 strings of that pattern Further adding two length-four strings from the awkward second pattern will yield the remaining 18 strings of that pattern, nine of which are of length five This ... states have a c o m m o n OF k-leader and either -both states are accepting states or -both states arc to a c o m m o n state on the same word After finding the range of values of/ C to work with,...
... indicates an important role ofthe TRB chain in fine-tuning TR affinity of Melan-A-specific T cells of melanoma patients and argues against the hypothesis that high affinity TRs against self-Ags, like ... Frequent contribution ofTcell clonotypes with public TCR features tothe chronic response against a dominant EBV-derived epitope: application to direct detection of their molecular imprint on the ... prognostic information, contributing tothe design of efficient antimelanoma vaccines Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions FS, and AS have...
... Aim ofthe study was the application of mathematical markers to describe the global restriction ofthe αβ TCR repertoire inthe different compartments rather than the detection of single expanded ... other tumor entities, which have been interpreted as indication for theinductionof specific clones reactive to autologous tumor [26,42] In fact, this TCR repertoire restriction in tumor patients ... reflected by the CD and n(F) values was significantly higher in carcinoma patients confirming the results of former studies investigating Vβ-repertoire restrictions in blood of patients with other...
... the experiments, collected the data and analyzed the results JNW and JMT participated inthe experimental design and interpretation ofthe results LZ performed some ofthein vitro experiments ... Bioengineering Institute, China) Immunocytochemistry To directly visualize the transduction of PEP-1-SOD1 and PEP-1-CAT fusion protein into H9c2 cells, cells were treated with μM of control SOD1, ... enzymatic activities Our in vitro studies demonstrate that PEP-1-SOD1 and PEP-1-CAT together generate greater inhibitory effects than individual proteins on LDH release and apoptosis rates in cardiomyocyte...
... regulating Tcell activation and thus may participate inthe protective effect of CIN therapy To determine whether CIN therapy affects the activity of lung dendritic cells, CD11c+ mononuclear cells ... allergen-induced lung pathology and that at least a part ofthe protective effect of CIN treatment can be attributed to a reduction in numbers of a specific CD8+ T- cell population Intranasal administration ... data in supporting the idea that CIN treatment decreases the inflammatory responseto an allergen by inhibiting dendritic cell activation of OVA-specific T cells Alteration of Dendritic Cell...
... for cytotoxic T- lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) The traditional view ofthe function of CTLA-4 is that it is upregulated upon stimulation oftheT cells and attenuates theresponse (top) The newly ... On the one hand, CTLA-4–/– Treg cells are able to downregulate the activation of target cells; on the other, blockade of CTLA-4 abrogates the inhibitory function of Treg cells [72] Interestingly, ... model puts together new insights into CTLA-4 functions (bottom) (1) During suboptimal Tcell activation, CTLA-4 sets the threshold for activation (2) Already activated T cells are inhibited in their...
... ameliorating anti-CD4 mAbs W3/25 and OX35 (but not the accelerating mAb, RIB5/2) numerically/significantly increased the DTH tothe arthritogen M tuberculosis Inthe total T- cell population, two ofthe ... separate epitopes ofthe CD4 molecule could result in differential effects on T- cell functions by inducing distinct conformational changes ofthe extracellular andthe intracellular parts ofthe ... reported [20], whereas the affinity ofthe other ameliorating mAb, OX35, was comparable to that ofthe accelerating mAb, RIB5/2 On the other hand, a contribution ofthe strikingly higher kdiss of...
... cytokine therapy might be an interesting new antirheumatic approach that could contribute tothe prevention of joint destruction as an adjunct to anti-TNF and anti-IL-1 therapy Competing interests ... (IL-17) in relation to other key cytokines inthe pathogenesis of arthritis RANKL, receptor activator of NF-κB ligand; TNF, tumor necrosis factor inactivation of IL-17 [40] In line with the situation ... inflammation In arthritis, IL-17 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine thought to contribute tothe joint inflammatory process [38] Studies in IL-17-deficient mice revealed that IL-17 has an important function...
... construction of a particular tree is then put back into that tree to test the validity ofthe classification obtained from the bootstrap sample In this way, a test set classification is obtained ... few months after symptom onset is distinct from that of other early inflammatory arthritides andof established RA The nature ofthe cytokines present inthe synovial fluid of patients with early ... cytokine and chemokine data, analyzed and interpreted the data, and was involved in drafting the manuscript ET acquired the cytokine and chemokine data CYL participated in assessing patients and...
... specificity is determined by the binding ofthe target protein (either with or without the carboxyl terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP) and Hsc70 containing pre-ubiquitin complex) to a particular ... carboxyl terminus of free ubiquitin to Lys48 ofthe previously attached ubiquitin protein [3] In contrast, monoubiquitination of target protein lysine residues results in altered trafficking tothe ... synapse that forms between theTcellandthe antigenpresenting cell during antigen recognition The end result of this strong costimulatory interaction is a maintenance ofthe high level of antigen...
... therefore, an increasing need to model the anti-arthritic effects of methotrexate in combination with other therapies in order to optimise treatment regimens andto identify possible interactions Likewise, ... of inflammatory cell infiltration inthe two strains In contrast, in late arthritis (6 to weeks after onset), inflammatory cell infiltration Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Arthritis ... persistent Tcell responses The maintained presence of inflammatory cell infiltrate andtheresponseofthe disease in B6 mice to antiarthritic drugs such as methotrexate show a good correlation with...