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Paradoxical roles of the immune system during cancer development docx

Paradoxical roles of the immune system during cancer development docx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 01:20
... consequence of defects in their natural immune defence mechanisms, and /or because they fail to normalize their immune status following infection Some support for this hypothesis comes from experimental ... history of alcohol and tobacco use66,67 On the other hand, the RR for the most common non-viral-associated solid tumours of epithelial origin is decreased in immune- suppressed patients; some of these ... be resolved with these powerful approaches is how therapeutically manipulating one arm of the immune system affects the anticancer or cancer-promoting properties of the other For example, Hamerman,...
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Báo cáo Y học: A new siglec family member, siglec-10, is expressed in cells of the immune system and has signaling properties similar to CD33 docx

Báo cáo Y học: A new siglec family member, siglec-10, is expressed in cells of the immune system and has signaling properties similar to CD33 docx

Ngày tải lên : 24/03/2014, 04:21
... purified (< 820 bp) The insert was then ligated into the pSPORT vector and the resulting full-length siglec-10 clone was designated 995-2 and the sequence was verified against the other siglec-10 clones ... standard Western blotting techniques The blots were then stained with either mouse anti-(SHP-1) Ig or mouse anti-(SHP-2) (Transduction Laboratories, Laboratories, Lexington, KY, USA) followed ... activating factor acetylhydrolase [29] Ober et al [30] recently reported strong linkage of 19q markers with asthma and atopy in a Hutterite population of European origin The purported ligands for the siglec...
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scientific american   -  1993 09  -  special issue  -  life, death, and the immune system

scientific american - 1993 09 - special issue - life, death, and the immune system

Ngày tải lên : 12/05/2014, 14:50
... professorship in one of the worldÕs top three physics departments to work at the SSC Like other colleagues at the laboratory, Bill entered the Þeld to unravel the great mysteries of physics, among them ... like wildÞre through the others Immunology sits at the center of the action The cells of the immune system constitute ideal tools for basic biological research They grow readily in the test tube, ... mature B cells and the antibodies they secrete Another is the consequence of a mutation in the gene for one of the three chains that make up the receptor for the growth factor interleukin-2 This...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Parasite immunomodulation and polymorphisms of the immune system" ppsx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Parasite immunomodulation and polymorphisms of the immune system" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 06/08/2014, 19:20
... with the broader immunosuppression seen in laboratory models By targeting innate immune responses, the parasite is also reducing cytokine-based stimulation of the adaptive immune system Moreover, ... between pathogen species These graduated effects may, in turn, have driven quantitative polymorphisms in the contemporary immune system that control the strength of the immune response, exemplified ... co-evolution of pathogens and the immune system 10 11 12 13 14 Acknowledgements The author’s research is supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council and the European Commission...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Beyond toxicity: aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated functions in the immune system" docx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Beyond toxicity: aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated functions in the immune system" docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/08/2014, 19:21
... of AhR in the immune system, which may also give clues http://jbiol.com/content/8/7/61 towards crosstalk between the immune system, the neuroendocrine system and the nervous system is more likely ... feature of a tightly orchestrated immune response Immune responses function in a tight interactive network of cells and mediators, and the behavior of dioxin in the immune system may not reflect ... just the beginning We still know little about the physiological impact of AhR expression on other cells of the immune system and the consequences of exposure to AhR ligands for these Given the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The use of crossreactive monoclonal antibodies to characterize the immune system of the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "The use of crossreactive monoclonal antibodies to characterize the immune system of the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 15:20
... molecules in the water buffalo are very similar or identical to the patterns of expression in cattle This provides further support for the supposition that the mAbs reported here indeed recognize orthologous ... expressed on one or more types of leukocytes in the water buffalo These mAbs have provided an opportunity to characterize and compare the immune systems of cattle and water buffalo Materials and ... potential vaccines, it is necessary to characterize the immune system of the water buffalo and elucidate the changes in the immune response that account for the development of protective immunity To achieve...
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Báo cáo y học: "Regulating the immune system: the induction of regulatory T cells in the periphery Jane H Buckner1 and Steven F Ziegler2" pot

Báo cáo y học: "Regulating the immune system: the induction of regulatory T cells in the periphery Jane H Buckner1 and Steven F Ziegler2" pot

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 01:24
... cells, or whether they return to their previous role as nonregulatory resting T cells remains unknown The balancing act required by the immune system to attack foreign invaders, to retain memory for ... factor beta (TGF-β) These cells can also be distinguished based on where they originate, in the thymus or in the periphery One prevailing model is that a class of regulatory T cells that originate ... of Th3 or Tr1 cells [74], extends this paradigm The fate of the TR cells induced at the site is not known — whether these cells exist only transiently then die, whether they persist in the body...
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Báo cáo y học: " Mimicking microbial ‘education’ of the immune system: a strategy to revert the epidemic trend of atopy and allergic asthma?" ppt

Báo cáo y học: " Mimicking microbial ‘education’ of the immune system: a strategy to revert the epidemic trend of atopy and allergic asthma?" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 18:20
... Stanford [11] proposed that mycobacteria might therefore have influenced the evolution of the immune system because they have been ubiquitous throughout mammalian phylogeny Consequently, the concrete ... support for the hygiene hypothesis came from epidemiological studies of Italian military cadets [19,20], which showed that exposure to food-borne and orofaecal infections, but not to air-borne ... substances are being examined for their proven or alleged atopy-preventing effect, and these are discussed below Immunostimulatory sequences Short immunostimulatory DNA sequences with CpG motifs...
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Báo cáo y học: " Network, degeneracy and bow tie. Integrating paradigms and architectures to grasp the complexity of the immune system" pps

Báo cáo y học: " Network, degeneracy and bow tie. Integrating paradigms and architectures to grasp the complexity of the immune system" pps

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 16:20
... a protocol or other elements in the core, the whole system can collapse under the breakdown of its key regulatory mechanisms, or can be forced to ‘execute’ processes harmful for the system itself ... challenge in network theory and systems biology [3] While the application of the network paradigm revealed the existence of structural complexity, many other layers of complexity in the system became ... In the core, critical decisions about the sorting and the fate of the system outputs are taken Finally, again through protocols, a variety of elaborated output fans out, and the complexity of the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Common angiotensin receptor blockers may directly modulate the immune system via VDR, PPAR and CCR2b" ppt

Báo cáo y học: "Common angiotensin receptor blockers may directly modulate the immune system via VDR, PPAR and CCR2b" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 23:20
... as antagonists for receptors other than AT2R1? Immune system receptors, for example? "in two recently reported clinical trials in which the investigators were allowed to increase the dose of Losartan ... Valsartan (and the other ARBs) had a profound affinity for the hormone receptor VDR, for PPARgamma and for CCR2b Clearly, if our modelling data sustains validation in the laboratory, clinical ... 1,25-D to drop We therefore decided to target the VDR nuclear receptor [19] for further study Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptors (PPARs) Benson, et.al reported [20] that the ARB 'Telmisartan'...
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Báo cáo y học: "Tumor microenvironments, the immune system and cancer survival" ppt

Báo cáo y học: "Tumor microenvironments, the immune system and cancer survival" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 14:21
... that new strategies will emerge for monitoring and controlling the development of new tumors and for more effective targeting of the tumors that have already formed The combined use of new technologies, ... new opportunity to probe the biology of cancer immunology more comprehensively but also emphasize the general importance of tumor-infiltrating immune cells in disease progression For the diseases ... cells their component cells, and their microenvironment Among the important advances that have derived from these technologies is the molecular classification of tumors on the basis of only their...
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Báo cáo y học: "Gene regulation and signal transduction in the immune system" pptx

Báo cáo y học: "Gene regulation and signal transduction in the immune system" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 20:22
... underscored at the 2008 meeting We look forward to the next meeting in 2010, and anticipate follow-up to the work reported here as well as new stories on signaling and transcription in the immune system ... myeloid leukemia (AML) Importantly, enforced expression of the Notch signaling antagonist Numb corrected the imbalance in AML, providing a basis for potential future therapies Steve Reiner (University ... Following the first division, factors asymmetrically segregate into the daughter cells, such that the proximal daughter gives rise to effector cells and the distal daughter develops into memory cells...
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ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 1

ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 1

Ngày tải lên : 10/09/2015, 15:50
... making the microenvironment unique Therefore, the study of the cross-talk between cancer cells and the immune system must be analyzed in the context of the organ in which the tumor exists and the ... Immunoediting theory However, the immunosurveillance theory only explains one half of the story The immunoediting theory proposed by Schreiber [18,19] is the updated version of previous theories that ... control these tumors Immunogenic tumor cells are then eliminated from the system while non-immunogenic tumor cells are selected for and remain in equilibrium with the immune system in a state of dormancy...
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ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 2

ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 2

Ngày tải lên : 10/09/2015, 15:50
... cells at the end of the experiment, N is the number of melanoma cells at the onset of the experiment, k is the fraction of proliferating cells, t is the duration of the experiment (6 or 19 weeks), ... is the fraction of proliferating cells in the tumor of control mice and k d is the fraction of proliferating cells in the tumor of PMN-MDSC-depleted mice For tumors with ellipsoid shape, the ... with ellipsoid shape, the longer diameter is proportional to the cubic root of the cell number Therefore the ratio between the diameters of tumors from control and depleted mice is given by: (3)...
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Interaction of burkholderia pseudomallei with cells of the immune system

Interaction of burkholderia pseudomallei with cells of the immune system

Ngày tải lên : 08/11/2015, 16:31
... factor that can pass through the transwell membrane to contact the cells To ensure that bacteria in the transwell had not passed through the membrane to contact the cells in the bottom well, the ... control the adaptive immune responses Therefore, the entry and persistence of the pathogen within these cells could potentially affect their functions by inhibiting cellular signaling pathways or ... Health, Singapore Communicable Diseases Surveillance in Singapore 2003, Singapore, 2004) Moreover, B pseudomallei is classified as a category B bioterrorism agent by the Centers for Disease Control...
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Basic immunology functions and disorders of the immune system

Basic immunology functions and disorders of the immune system

Ngày tải lên : 04/08/2016, 15:18
... infections is called the immune system, and the coordinated reaction of these cells and molecules to infectious microbes is the immune response Immunology is the study of the immune system and its ... effector or memory cells, or the mechanisms that keep memory cells alive in the absence of antigen or innate immunity ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS The common portals of entry for microbes— the skin, ... set the stage for more detailed discussions of immune responses in the remainder of the book A glossary of the important terms used in the book is provided in Appendix I Introduction to the Immune...
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Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters: Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation potx

Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters: Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation potx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 00:22
... With support from the World Bank and the ProVention Consortium, the Collaborating Center published the Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities These Guidelines ... care network The Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities • Characteristics of the health care network; 21 In the end, the selection of the site for the new ... reports The Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities The structural system must meet the performance objectives defined for the facility as a whole and the...
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The origin and evolution of the solar system   woolfson

The origin and evolution of the solar system woolfson

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 13:35
... theories 5.1 The method of surveying theories 5.2 The Proto-planet Theory 5.3 The Capture Theory 5.4 The Solar Nebula Theory 5.5 The Modern Laplacian Theory 5.6 Analysing the modern theories 143 ... describes the four major theories that have been under development during the last two or three decades: the Proto-planet Theory, the Capture Theory, the Modern Laplacian Theory and the Solar Nebula theory, ... main theories 12.1 The basis of making comparisons 12.2 The Proto-planet Theory reviewed 12.3 The Modern Laplacian Theory reviewed 12.4 The Solar Nebula Theory reviewed 12.5 The Capture Theory...
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