Immune mechanisms of responses to environmental mycobacteria

... 3.3.1 Cell subsets involved in cytotoxicity .49 3.3.2 Mediators of cytotoxicity .53 3.3.3 Specificity of cytotoxic responses 53 3.3.4 Effect of Env sensitisation on live BCG infection ... The broad aims of the project were: 1) In CHE‐sensitised mice, to analyse the role of different cell types, cytokine factors and mediators of cytotoxicity on the host’s responses to BCG,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... induction of regulatory T cells by M chelonae sensitisation 60 5.5 Role of IFN-γ in cytotoxic responses 62 5.6 Effects of Env sensitisation on BCG-induced immunity 63 5.7 Conclusion ... that the efficacy of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette- Guérin (BCG), as a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in human populations, is influenced by prior sensitisation to environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 13:53

... exposure Male Reproductive Health Disorders and the Potential Role of Environmental Chemical Exposures Overview of prevalence and trends in male reproductive health disorders The reproductive disorders ... 2008, 2009) and by binding to and blocking the AR (Wilson et al 2008), and these will also induce some of the TDS disorders Male R...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... farming, maintenance and running errands In turn they too assisted in the chaining of other patients with mental illness For some informants the church and the shrine provided important social and ... with mental illness, their families and healing practitioners within rural communities in Ghana, to gain an understanding of how practices such as the chai...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... Table 3: Relation between different levels of exposure to ETS and respiratory symptoms/diagnosis among adult non-smokers in Aleppo-Syria (n = 1118) ETS score* Self-reported respiratory symptoms/diagnoses ... health and disability, chronic disease, respiratory health, household members' health, environmental health, smoking, and ETS exposure For the assessment o...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... architecture of tolerance to acrolein in Drosophila melanogaster Genet Sed Evol (in press) Dickinson W.J (1970) The genetics of aldehyde oxidase in Drosophila melanogaster Genetics 66, 487-496 Draminsky ... Changes in the behaviour of individual members of a Drosophila population maintained by random mating Heredity 33, 89-93 Barros A.R (1987) Algunos aspectos de la r...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... in the OVA model of asthma may not be entirely applicable to asthma induced by these allergens Therefore, there is a need for an asthma model based on real aeroallergens There is a lack of tools ... allergic inflammatory response and understanding the nature of these allergens is key to understanding the development of asthma 1.4 Aims of the study Wor...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:56

... with limited infection of animals SPF lambs, advantages availability animals experimental particular haemolytica have would ready in animals P of animal animals sheep, of in haemolytica P with proved ... number and costly A model seasonal laboratory low and cost infection of available the small are is and throughout in of relative Unfortunately, year has haemolytica P...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 05:52

... components of Gram-positive bacterial cell walls [31] The peptidoglycan moiety is responsible for the pathogenicity of PG-PS, because enzymatic digestion of the peptidoglycan moiety eliminates the proinflammatory ... previously described in this model [22] (i.e the infiltration of inflammatory cells into the synovium, synovial hyperplasia, and fibrinous deposits; Fig...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... on inflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and TNF-α) In order to determine whether adjuvants exert any effects on induction of inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-6 and/ or TNF-α, the levels of these cytokines ... Figure Efficacy of adjuvants in sustaining antibody response induced Efficacy of adjuvants in sustaining antibody response induced BALB/c mice in groups of or...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... history of atopy, and 19 mothers had maternal atopy Of these 19, mothers had a doctor's diagnosis of asthma, of them had also asthma and hay fever; mothers had only hay fever, had only eczema, and ... maternal atopy on markers of T cell subpopulations To determine the importance of maternal atopy on parameters of subsets of T cells in addition to IL...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... this TAHIV cohort after 20 years of infection [7] Early studies on this cohort of TAHIV patients led to the identification of the Sydney Blood Bank Cohort (SBBC) of long-term survivors [8], and ... NSW, Australia, a cohort of 13 (10%) remained asymptomatic after 10 years of infection We now report that only remain non-progressors after 23 to 26 years of HIV- 1 Pag...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... the clinical course of hepatitis C infection HCV- specific CD4+ T cells are involved in eradication of the virus in acute infection but their responses are weak and insufficient in chronic hepatitis ... Adoptive transfer of splenocytes to study cell-mediated immune responses in hepatitis C infection using HCV transgenic mice Comparative Hep...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... responding strategies in English and Vietnamese, this research aims at: - describing and analyzing different types of responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversation - investigating ... best to give some types of verbal responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversations The followings are various patterns of res...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54