... death, TR cells lead to the inductionofT regulator (Tr1) cellsand Th3 cells, which feed back to inhibit inflammation, and the TR cells inhibit proliferation of antigen- specificand bystander ... differentiating into TR cells following activation are derived from a separate lineage of CD4+ T cells, and whether their induction is a result of the initial activation early in the inflammatory ... question: Do TR cells represent a lineage ofTcells or a state of activation that may be achieved by any T cell under the appropriate conditions of activation? The inductionof TR cellsin the...
... and mature DCs, resulting in tolerogenic interaction with Tcellsin SIT We found that the combination of DNA vaccination with Fc and OVA had better effects onOVAinduced alterations in the spleen ... pathway of regulation of type immunity in asthma Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions YL performed all analyses and wrote the initial ... priming of antigen- specific CD8 +T cellsin vivo[ 29,30] However, DCs express both activating and inhibitory FcRs, and the balance between activating and inhibitory signaling will determine whether...
... GITR-ligand interactions, abrogating the suppressive effect of Treg cells [37] With this in mind, it could be interesting to investigate whether the accumulated Treg cellsin patients with arthritis ... one hand, transfer of Treg cells 24 hours after intra-articular antigen challenge might be too late to inhibit activation of effector Tcellsand their migration to the joint Indeed, T- cell activation ... of the T- cell compartment is still activated 14 days after intra-articular antigen challenge in the absence of Treg cells Compatible with these findings is that the production of cytokines in...
... amounts of IL-4 and IL-10.35 Further studies are required to elucidate the invivo role of these cellsand their subsets Effects of SIT on Dendritic Cells To understand the mechanisms of action of ... applicability that will have persistent clinical effectiveness that can be built within a short duration of therapy time.1 107 Early and Late Effects of SIT on Mast Cells, Basophils, and Eosinophils SIT ... from the oral mucosa were not able to transfer tolerance, but they acted as antigen- presenting cellsin senso stricto irrespective of the source and route of SIT Induces Specific T- Cell Tolerance...
... might not be a feasible option treatment decreases the infiltrate in joints Furthermore, RA patients relapse shortly after withdrawal of anti-TNF-α [19] and thus, despite the dampening of joint inflammation ... that Treg isolated from patients with active RA before treatment with anti-TNF-α were unable to suppress proinflammatory cytokine secretion from activated Tcellsand monocytes After anti-TNF-α treatment ... indicated that antigen- specific (HC-gp39) CD4+CD25+ Treg might be deficient in patients in comparison with controls [23] A more recent study indicated that in a restricted group of RA patients orally...
... supervised patient recruitment for the study and obtained funding JEG participated in study design, data analysis, and obtained funding All of the authors participated in drafting the manuscript and approved ... using SAS, version (SAS Institute, Cary, NC) and the R system for statistical computing [27] Results Subject characteristics The subjects in this study consisted of a subset of newborns and mothers ... differences in the numbers of CD25+bright cells present in CB and PB, we next sought to establish whether or not these CD25+bright cells expressed distinct patterns of differentiation/activation markers...
... stimulating T cell responses, stability of the phenotype following invivo administration, the ability to migrate to sites ofT cell activation and generation of CTLs Activated and mature DCs results ... cycles of vaccination (the time point associated with the maximal tetramer + CD8+ response, in patients undergoing vaccination with class I peptides only),, invitro cytotoxicity against both peptides ... Introduction Inductionof an effective anti-tumour response requires the active and integrated participation of host dendritic cells (DCs), taking up tumour-associated antigens (TAAgs) and generating...
... determining immunity or immune tolerance; this determination is based on the maturation or activation state and the subset of DCs, and cytokine profiles in the microenvironment at the time ofantigen ... expression and inhibit T- cell proliferation In this regard, it will be interesting to investigate IDO expression in different subsets of DCs from tolerized mice and to characterize their role in the induction ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 10 No Park et al deletion of antigen- specificTcellsIn contrast, repeated feeding of a low dose ofantigen favors the inductionof active immune regulation involving...
... Tcells after culturing in presence both IL-1b and IL-6 (C) The representative dot plots of CD39+Tregs and Th17 cells detected in naïve CD4+ Tcells after culturing in presence of TGF-b1 (D) The ... human Tregs inhibit the generation and differentiation of Th17 cells is unknown It was reported that murine Tregs inhibit Th17 cell responses invivoin a signal transducer and activator of transcription-3-dependent ... cells were Tregs The most important finding in the present study was that CD39+Tregs could be able to inhibit the generation and differentiation of Th17 cellsin a dose-dependent manner The mechanism...
... experiments and participated in the interpretation of the results WVE participated in the design of the study andin its coordination LE participated in the experiments, statistical analysis and interpretation ... about this time Tcells start to infiltrate the joints [17] The present data therefore suggest that early in AA, CD134+ T cells, after activation in the PLN, can migrate to Available online http://arthritis-research.com/content/7/3/R604 ... by treatment with drug-containing anti-CD134 liposomes Next, we investigated whether local targeting to CD134+ Tcellsin the joint-draining PLN would affect the course of actively induced arthritis...
... intact in cultures without antigen- presenting cells The functional activity of both patient and healthy control Tregs, however, was decreased in the presence of the patient’s antigen- presenting ... Overproduction of type I interferons in SLE matures dendritic cells (DCs) into immunogenic antigen- presenting cells that strongly contribute to the T- cell and B-cell hyperactivity characteristic of this ... not be able to overcome the strength of T- cell stimulation or the inhibitory effects of proinflammatory cytokines produced by other cells It is known that strong Toll-like receptor stimulation...
... surveillance and JE pathogenesis Since there is no evidence for JEV infection of DCs in vivo, we investigated the alteration of phenotype and function of the JEV P3-infected DCs both invitroandinvivo ... IFN-a and TNF-a was independent on viral replication DCs infected with P3 attenuated allostimulatory activities to Tcells To test whether P3 infection will impair the ability of DCs to activate ... attempted to address the possible pathogenesis of JEV wild strain infection by testing the interaction of JEV and DCs invivoandinvitro Carrasco et al., [2004] discovered that CSFV could infect...
... Abstract In this study, we showed that activated human CD8 T- cells could induce DCs to produce IL-12p70 invitroand this interaction also resulted in the production of a cytokine milieu that ... each individual lymphocyte B cellsandTcells are the major types of lymphocytes Tcells provide important cell mediated immunity by participating in the cytolysis of infected cells through the ... unprecedented ability to activate naive Tcells (Steinman and Cohn, 1974) These cells are now known as the primary instigators of the adaptive immunity as they are vital for detecting, alerting and...
... CD4+CD25+ Treg are potent inhibitors of innate/adaptive immunity [61–63], inductionof a population of Treg and documentation of their invivo potential was an important next step In pursuit of this ... aberrant immunity In mediating its suppressive effects, TGF-β signals through the type I and type II TGF-β serine–threonine kinase receptors, T RI andT RII Interaction of the TGF-β ligand with these ... transfer ofinvitro TGF-β-converted Treg together with ovalbumin -specific TCR transgenic Tcells resulted in a profound inhibition of antigen- specific expansion of naive CD4+ transgenic Tcellsin vivo...
... used to quantify the cytotoxicity of gastric cancer cells induced by treatments The cells were plated in six-well plates (Costar, USA) at low densities After overnight culture, the cells were treated ... CTGGGCTGTTCTCGCTTCG CTCTCCTCTTCCTTCTCTTCTTCC 140 NM_001025370.1 EGFR 53 Forward Reverse AGG ACA GCA TAG ACG ACA C AGG ATT CTG CAC AGA GCC A 90 NM_005228.3 secondary antibody corresponding to the ... Dunnett’s test Those p values that were less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant Analysis of the data and plotting of the figures were performed with the aid of software (Origin...
... interpreted the data and helped drafting the manuscript MN and AH did the irradiations and performed statistical analysis PT and HS participated in the study design and interpretation of the data HC ... cannot be attributed to an increase in radiosensitivity of PC cells by goserelin invitro It is to be explained by the synergistic effects of AD and irradiation Although studies on the combinatory ... withdrawal did We investigated the influence of incubation with goserelin on the radiosensitivity of PC cellsinvitro This is of particular interest, as about 85% of PC express LHRH-receptors...
... between the invivoandinvitro situation are difficult to make However, the CSC concentrations used in this study are comparable to the concentrations used in other invitro studies In our study ... on the cellular effects of smoke is based on studies using such smoke extracts instead of smoke Notwithstanding the inherent limitations of this model, it can be argued that epithelial cellsin ... content To investigate the effect of CSC on intracellular GSH in the epithelial cells used, the intracellular GSH content of NCIH292 cells was assessed at different times after exposure to CSC The...
... receptors In comparison with intracellular cytokine staining, the major advantage of tetramer technology is the identification of antigen- specificTcells independently of their cytokine secretion profile, ... cells independently of their cytokine-secreting profile Tetramers are also capable of detecting resting antigenspecific T cells, which probably constitute most non-IFN-γsecreting CD8+ Tcellsof the ... MNCs andof the tetramer-sorted T cell line after weeks of culture In comparison with HLA-B27 tetramer staining, only 68.3% of these antigen- specificTcells were detected by intracellular cytokine...
... successfully to identify antigen- specific CD4+ Tcells The intensity of staining correlates with the affinity of TCR for the particular MHC/peptide Although the frequency of antigen- specific CD4+ Tcells ... detection ofin 1000 Studies have suggested that Tcells with these specificities may be present at low frequency in the blood of rheumatoid arthritis patients, and it had been thought that the ... These studies and others [20] suggest that peptide/MHC class II multimers are capable of detecting the great majority of the Tcells that can respond to peptide invitro new construct in each individual...
... factors in the supernatant inhibit the maturation of fusion cellsand have a negative impact in the stimulation ofTcells To determine the inductionof WT1-specitic CD8+ T cells, a pentameric ... vaccine is still not clear in this experimental setting A recent study has demonstrated that vaccination with DCs/tumor fusion cells producing TGF-β resulted in the inductionof Treg invivoand ... which Treg arise invivoand exert their immunoregulatory effects remain to be defined and are the subject of intensive investigation In the present study, we first show that coculture ofT cells...