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... for different categories of CD4+ T cell count as < 200, < 350 and < 500 cells/mm3 The Easy CD4 assay showed 100% sensitivity for correct estimation of the CD4+ T cell counts < 200 cells/mm3 and ... is reliable for making decisions on starting ART or prophylaxis for opportunistic infections The assay has shown very good agreement with single platform technology like FACSCount or multiTest ... of the study and performed the statistical analysis SM and RP participated in design of the study, monitored the progress and reviewed the draft of the manuscript All authors read and approved...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... the addition of a specific and saturable fixation component in one hand and a linear and non-specific component fixation in the other hand, according to the equation: f(C) = Bmax*C/(Kd+C) + k*C ... a set of inhibitory receptors belonging to the Killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) family and/ or the heterodimer CD94/NKG2A: each receptor having variable specificity for allotypic variants ... T cells (left graphs) and NK cell versus CD4+ T cell proportion at days 5, 7, and 12 of culture (right graph) b) Amplification factor (left) and proportion (right) of NK and CD4+ T cell populations...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... & Sistonen L (2007) Heat shock factor as a coordinator of stress and developmental pathways Adv Exp Med Biol 594, 78–88 Morimoto R (2008) Proteotoxic stress and inducible chaperone networks in ... Acknowledgements This work was supported by Center of Excellence Grants from the Academy of Finland and University of Turku (M Nikinmaa and K A Vuori), the ˚ Academy of Finland and Abo Akademi University ... was performed in a 42 °C (HeLa cells) or 43 °C (MEFs) water bath for the indicated times The recovery samples were heat-shocked for h, and then incubated at 37 °C for h Sample preparation and EMSA...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... Authors' contributions YY performed protein and AAV generation and all PCR experiments and drafted the manuscript PP performed immunofluorescence experiments and drafted the manuscript JY performed ... study and revised and drafted the manuscript KB participated in the design of the study and revised and drafted the manuscript MC participated in study design and coordination and revised and drafted ... study and revised and drafted the manuscript IDD participated in the design of the study and revised and drafted the manuscript WMK participated in study design and coordination and revised and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... responses by bound and free CD4 and CD8 Comparison of responses by bound and free CD4 and CD8 T-cells PBMC samples were treated with magnetic beads specific for CD4 or CD8 cells Bound CD4 and CD8 cells ... 18 or 19 amino acids in length and overlapped adjacent peptides by 11 amino acids Individual peptides were suspended in DMSO (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO) and were used alone or combined to form ... Corp., Carlsbad, CA) and antibiotic/antimycotic (1%, GIBCO Invitrogen Corp.) Following the washing steps, cells were counted and assayed for ELISPOT activity Page 13 of 15 (page number not for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... Germany) and the diameter was expressed as an average for inflamed hind paws per mouse Animals were also scored for clinical signs of arthritis [13] as follows: = normal, = slight swelling and/ or erythema, ... clinically and histologically and to analyse cellular and humoral immune responses to type II collagen during the course of the disease We show that B6 mice develop a chronic form of CIA and that ... then harvested and plates were assessed for 3H thymidine incorporation Each assay was performed on a minimum of three occasions Secreted interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), interleukin (IL)5, and IL-10 were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... the standard curve and to calculate the correlation coefficient (R2) of the standard curve and the standard deviations of the triplicate samples Goslings and tissue preparation GPV-free goslings ... 6-carboxyfluorescein (FAM) dye as a reporter and at the 3' position with tetramethylcarboxyrhodamine (TAMRA) as a quencher and with Minor Groove Binder (MGB™) The sequences of the forward and reverse ... 4, 8, 12, and 24 h; and 2, 3, 6, and days Tissues were surgically removed from the goslings and frozen at -80°C, weighed, and homogenized using an Omni PCR Tissue Homogenizer (Omni) Normal tissue...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... 17 World Health Organization: Global tuberculosis control Surveillance planning, financing In WHO Report Geneva: World Health Organization; 2005:1-247 New framework for tuberculosis control and ... collected data and helped in the data and statistical analysis, OB and FB and RC carried out the immunological assays, DD and GA helped in the recruitment of adults and children respectively and in the ... draft and did the editing and performed data analysis, GI and FP helped in writing the draft of the paper and in the design of the study, EG conceived of the study and participated in its design and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... HSC is bone marrow For more than 40 years, doctors performed bone marrow transplants by anesthetizing the stem cell donor, puncturing a bone—typically ilium or iliac bone of pelvis and drawing ... regions to the aortogonadal-mesonephros in the embryo and then to the liver in the first trimester By the second trimester, BM, spleen and thymus become populated and eventually become the exclusive ... of Symbols BM: Bone marrow BMP: Bone morphogenetic protein CB: Cord blood CFC: Cloning forming cell CFU-E: Colony forming unit erythrocyte colony-forming units CFU-GEMM: Colony forming unit granulocyte,...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 15:44

... Lamarckian genetic algorithm First, a randomized rigid docking (blind docking) was performed and the conformers with lowest energy or in significant clusters were chosen to perform further docking ... restraints for the side chain protons were calculated by considering pseudoatoms [23] performed for 20 ps to explore several possible conformations that the peptide can acquire The trajectory from ... fulfilled: (a) the conformation of backbone had an interproton error of less ˚ than 0.2 A compared to upper and lower boundaries of distances from ROE/NOE data and (b) the conformation had / angles...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 13:20

... Sayoko Takizawa and Chika Yamamoto for the excellent technical assistance This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific ... essential for T-cell immortalization [22] For instance, Tax1 activates the expression of genes encoding cytokines, cytokine receptors, chemokines, cell cycle regulators and anti-apoptotic factors [22-31] ... the vector plasmid (pβAIP) or with expression plasmids encoding Tax1 or Tax mutants, and then pulsed at 200 V and 975 F The cells were seeded in 96 well plates 24 h after electroporation and cultured...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... for the EMSA assay, and then irradiated at 302 nm for 10 using a transilluminator (Bio-Rad Laboratories) The samples were denatured by adding Laemmli sample buffer and boiled before electrophoresis ... equally or more intense than those recognized by the GT oligomer, were also detected (data not shown) To test for nuclear enrichment, nuclear and cytoplasmic extracts were blotted and assayed for ... the more basic isoform of eEF1A binds to the GT oligomer, whereas only a weak interaction was found for the eEF1A migrating like the normal constitutive molecule Accordingly, eEF1A from normal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... ligand immobilized to a plastic surface with five sugar receptors, among them growth-regulatory galectins [24]; (b) tested as ligand for surface receptors of different types of tumor cells; and ... their ligand properties for purified lectins, for tumor cells in vitro, and in tissue sections, and their biodistribution in tumor-bearing mice Bioconjugate Chem 8, 845–855 ´ 13 Unverzagt C, Andre ... determine the incorporation yield, additional analytical procedures were performed MS gave evidence for a spectrum of neoglycoproteins with one to four attached N-glycan chains, and the colorimetric...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... does provide more confidence of the safety or hazard for the more aggressive strategies The G250 test by Strategy showed it was unsafe as a target, from which one may forego all more advanced ... T cells to infer that none will be therapeutically successful by Strategy 1, and safety in this format becomes of mainly academic interest If we instead start with a more advanced Strategy, what ... all Strategies, this one alone allows no exit strategy if we guess wrong (See Appendix for examples.) No one could foresee the hepatotoxicity of G250 designer T cells [2] or the cardiotoxicity...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... beads or soluble anti-CD3 were treated for hours with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA, 35 nM) and the calcium ionophore A23187 (0.5 μM) or with medium alone in the presence of brefeldin (Golgiplug, ... have a proliferative history and effector function intermediate between naïve and effector memory cells The explanation for these differences in phenotypic evolution of bead and soluble anti-CD3 ... the interrelationship between the type and timing of the second stimulus and expansion of restimulated CD4 (A and B) and CD8 (C and D) T cells To normalize for the impact of persistent growth attributable...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... expression lose more Foxp3 expression and become effector T cells, where cells with high CD25 expression are more resistant to such a conversion [54] These findings have important implications for the ... thought to contribute to many autoimmune disorders Strong evidence shows that IL-2 is one of the important stimulatory signals for the development, function and fitness of Treg cells The non-obese ... 1A4, Qc, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the article thymic and peripheral CD4+ T cells in humans and mice, and arise during normal thymic lymphocyte development...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... bacille Calmette-Guerin; SD: standard deviation (17%) orderlies and laboratory workers About 71% of the cohort had BCG vaccine scars, and only 5% had received TST prior to the baseline study At ... participation; and Padmakar Dhone, Santosh Chavhan, Prashant Raut, and Sandeep Taksande, for their contributions to this project We are grateful to Philip Hill (Medical Research Council, The Gambia), and ... Immunotec, Oxford, UK), and the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold® (Cellestis Ltd, Carnegie, Australia) assay The QuantiFERON®-TB Gold (QFT-G) assay is available in two formats, a 24-well culture plate format (approved...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... collaborators Ulf Korthaeuer, Max Woisetschlager, Christoph Heusser, Jutta Heim and N Rao Movva from Novartis for their support during this work We thank Jim Lorens, Anup Nagin, Sacha Holland, ... Wu, Monette Aujay, and Mel Fox for their excellent technical advice and assistance, Jianing Huang and Garry Nolan for critical reading of the manuscript, and Louis Tamayo, Carine Richards, and ... directionally cloned and the second (+ATG) non-directionally cloned and provided with three exogenous ATGs in three frames The resulting cDNAs were cloned into the pTRA-exs vector [48] for doxycycline(Dox-)...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:20

... suspension were all stained for CD11c and CD11b and individually for CD40, CD80, CD86, and I-Ad Appropriate isotype controls and positive fluorescence markers for each fluor were also prepared Cells ... mice were euthanized and the lungs were removed and fixed in buffered formalin Whole lungs were embedded in paraffin, sectioned, and examined for GFP by fluorescent microscopy, and an approximate ... treated with vector or CIN PCR primers specific for the indicated Toll-like receptors (TLRs) were used along with b-actin as control, and amplification was performed for 25, 30, and 35 cycles Statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20