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Paradoxical roles of the immune system during cancer development docx

Paradoxical roles of the immune system during cancer development docx

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... immune responses can suppress tumour growth leukocytes into damaged tissue (a process that is known as inflammation) Macrophages and mast cells can also activate vascular and fibroblast responses ... responses a subset of lymphocytes differentiate into long-lived memory cells, resulting in larger responses upon subsequent exposure to the same antigen Together, acute activation of these distinct ... disengage either arm of the immune system can result in excessive tissue remodelling, loss of tissue architecture due to tissue destruction, protein and DNA alterations due to oxidative stress,...
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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

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... b-Actin was also probed as a control for mRNA integrity and loading washed and then twofold dilutions of the GST fusion proteins, GST alone, GST– SHP-1SH2SH2 or GST–SHP2SH2SH2 or GST – ZAP-70SH2SH2 ... generated at positions 597, 641, 667, and 691 To construct the GST fusions of the tandem SH2 domains of each SHP-1 and SHP-2, the sequences corresponding to amino acids 2–232 of each SHP-1 and SHP-2 were ... Foster City, CA) PHRED [18,19] was used as the base caller and the PHRAP algorithm [18,19] was used for assembly of separate sequences into contiguous pieces Assemblies were edited using CONSED...
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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

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... ways of concealing themselves from the immune system Similarly, the immune system has evolved clever ways of foiling their challenges The result is that a fatal infection is often the only serious ... frauds, says he is not surprised that Jacobs s oÛce has been drawn into such spectacles Jacobs Òis trying to an honest job,Ó he asserts, but Òthere are professional scam artists on his advisory ... infectious attack Some diseases, such as tuberculosis, slip inside their host cells so quickly that they can hide from antibody molecules In these cases, a second form of immune response comes into...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Parasite immunomodulation and polymorphisms of the immune system" ppsx

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... attributed to parasite stimulation of endogenous host immunosuppressive controls both in humans [8] and animal models [9] The best-understood of these suppressive systems is the regulatory T cell ... diminished cytokine responses following TLR stimulation [2], consistent with the broader immunosuppression seen in laboratory models By targeting innate immune responses, the parasite is also reducing ... been well established, for example, that patients carrying chronic schistosome or filarial infections lose the ability to mount parasitespecific T cell responses This unresponsiveness has been attributed...
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Báo cáo sinh học:

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

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... mice as well as humans, this is 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 ... although expression of AhR in TREG cells is detectable when these cells are assayed on their own [10], by comparison with expression in TH17 cells or hepatocytes, this level of expression seems minimal ... http://jbiol.com/content/8/7/61 towards crosstalk between the immune system, the neuroendocrine system and the nervous system is more likely to come from models that use physiological ligands whose mode...
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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

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... C Davis et al resistance to diseases of economic importance to cattle such as anaplasmosis and babesiosis [25,25,26] To evaluate the immune responses of water buffalo to infectious agents and ... complex subpopulations of γδ T cells, one subpopulation that is similar to γδ T cells described in humans and other species and a second subpopulation that has only been identified in suborders of ... ACT2 is expressed on WC1+ cells Its time of appearance varies, but it is prominently expressed following days of stimulation with Con A It is constitutively expressed on CD8+ cells in the intestine...
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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

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... [41] The identification of this dendritic cell subset, as well as the demonstration that Tr1 cells can regulate immune responses in vivo, thus enhances the possible therapeutic uses of Tr1 cells ... will allow us to understand immunologic settings where either the immune response is inadequate, such as the response to tumors, or it is misdirected, as in the case of autoimmune disease and allergy ... APCs results in the suppression of the proliferative allo-response [25,26] Neutralization of IL-10 and/or TGF-β reverses this suppression [22] Tr1 cells have also been shown to be capable of suppressing...
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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

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... Immunostimulatory sequences are among the strongest of the known Th1-stimulating adjuvants; they suppress IgE responses and eosinophilic recruitment in vivo, and prevent allergic asthma in animal models [29] ... stimulate immune responses against recurrent airway infections, but their therapeutic or preventive effect is far from proven [38] Some allergists administer these preparations empirically as ... allergen for allergen-specific immunotherapy, and from trials with Homeostasis of the immune system is so complex and microbial exposure is so diversified that, at the present state of our knowledge,...
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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

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... architectures have been observed in the functional structure of some key components of the innate immune response, such as the human TLRs system, and of the adaptive immune system, such as the TCR ... under noisy conditions First, the system should be robust against noise and fluctuations and be able to respond to the noisy signal Second, the system, owing to evolutionary adaptation, may have ... degeneracy is a characteristic pertaining to the elements of a system, but it impinges strongly upon the system s dynamics and functionality Indeed, the architectural characteristics of a system and 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

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... conformations Although Irbesartan hydrogen-bonds TYR473 and HIS449, Losartan only contacts these residues, and forms its sole hydrogenbond to ALA278 It would thus seem likely that Losartan is ... study has shown how each ARB acts upon several key receptors of the immune system, and should serve as a solid basis for better understanding the anti-inflammatory properties of this class of pharmaceutical ... Methionine The authors consequently believe that the FDA should reexamine the acceptability of Bos taurus and Caviaporcellus tissues for demonstration of the efficacy of ARBs It was beyond the scope...
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Báo cáo y học: "Tumor microenvironments, the immune system and cancer survival" ppt

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... subject of a series of geneexpression profiling studies, including now-classic studies demonstrating the ‘disease within disease’ concept and correlating gene-expression signatures with cells of origin ... 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 gene-expression patterns, ... independent samples Among the gene-expression signatures were two, named immune- response (ir1) and immune- response (ir2), that together could be used to make the best predictive model of patient survival...
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Báo cáo y học: "Gene regulation and signal transduction in the immune system" pptx

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... gene expression In particular, they addressed the induction of primary response genes (direct transcriptional targets) and secondary response genes (indirect transcriptional targets that require ... nucleosomes, Zhao determined that 14 of these 17 modifications co-localize to the same nucleosome To address histone modifications at enhancers, he assayed 41,000 DNase hypersensitive sites (which ... resistant to septic shock, and consistent with this, produced less tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) This suggests a role for IκBβ in potentiating inflammatory gene expression in some contexts Indeed,...
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ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 1

ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 1

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... thickness and ulceration of the primary tumor is assessed The thickness or invasiveness of the tumor is measured in two ways The first method is known as Clark s levels whereby the invasion of the ... nodes and metastases are prognosis factors Stage IV patients have distant metastasis Factors such as serum lactic dehydrogenase levels and visceral sites of metastases are the prognosis factors ... tumors are accessible It is clear that melanoma is a cancer that has close interactions with the immune system Its ability to evade the immune system is dependent on components of the immune system...
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ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 2

ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TUMOR PROGRESSION 2

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... Immune profiling gating strategy Identification of immune subsets in single-cell suspension of RETAAD tumors The figure shows the strategy used to enumerate immune cells in tumors E Appendix 3: Table ... chemokine/cytokine expression Differential expression of chemokines and cytokines in primary tumors and metastases Gene expression was measured by low density qRT-PCR arrays (except for CXCL2 which was done by ... is the fraction of Ki67+ cells in the lung of control animals (1.9%, see Eyles et al 2010 J Clin Invest.), S is the duration of Ki67 expression during the cell cycle (estimated to be 14h based...
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Interaction of burkholderia pseudomallei with cells of the immune system

Interaction of burkholderia pseudomallei with cells of the immune system

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... factors of B pseudomallei have been recognized Firstly, B pseudomallei possess three Type III Secretion Systems (TTSS) gene clusters The TTSS 3, also known as Burkholderia secretion apparatus (bsa), ... treatment The standard diagnosis is the isolation of B pseudomallei from bodily fluids of patients using culturebased methods This requires the use of selective media such as the commonly used Ashdown ... (LPS) that is less capable of activating mouse macrophages compared to E coli LPS as well as B pseudomallei quorum-sensing system- controlled virulence factors and processes (Essex-Lopresti et al.,...
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Basic immunology functions and disorders of the immune system

Basic immunology functions and disorders of the immune system

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... emerges Second, we have focused on immune responses against infectious microbes, and most of our discussions of the immune system are in this context Third, we have emphasized immune responses in ... resistance to 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 ... increased susceptibility to infections; exemplified by AIDS Vaccination boosts immune defenses and protects against infections The immune system recognizes Immune responses are barriers to transplantation...
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Tài liệu Data and Information on Women’s Health in the European Union docx

Tài liệu Data and Information on Women’s Health in the European Union docx

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... The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect the opinion or the position of the European Commission Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on its ... disease of the circulatory system is cerebrovascular disease (stroke) Stroke is defined by the WHO as the interruption of the blood supply to the brain, usually because a blood vessel bursts ... tissue, i.e glands and stroma, outside the uterus The most-affected sites are the pelvic organs and peritoneum The disease varies from a few, small lesions on otherwise normal pelvic organs,...
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Tài liệu To establish an Office on Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes pdf

Tài liệu To establish an Office on Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes pdf

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... ‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, non- 14 governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 15 women s health professionals, and other individuals 16 and groups, as appropriate, on the ... determinations, 17 rules, regulations, permits, agreements, grants, contracts, 18 certificates, licenses, registrations, privileges, and other 19 administrative actions— 20 ‘‘(1) which have been issued, ... should be conducted or supported by the Agency; 24 ‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, non- 25 governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 26 women s health professionals, and other...
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Tài liệu REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL ON THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME AND UNESCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECADE doc

Tài liệu REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL ON THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME AND UNESCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECADE doc

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... Education international environmental NGOs Private local business clans and families individuals private sector businesses business associations regional business associations international associations ... communication and dialogue? Leadership and inputs at all levels are necessary to initiate such processes This section makes several proposals in response to these questions, beginning with a focus on ... international It outlines UNESCO s leadership tasks The IIS also lists key milestones for the DESD It then lays out seven strategies for moving forward with ESD and describes how this wide range...
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To establish an Office on Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes ppt

To establish an Office on Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes ppt

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... bureaus of 11 the Administration; 12 ‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, non- 13 governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 14 women s health professionals, and other individuals 15 ... that should be conducted or supported by the Agency; ‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, non- governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 10 women s health professionals, and other ... appropriations All or24 ders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, agree- •HR 1784 EH ments, grants, contracts, certificates, licenses, registra2 tions, privileges, and other administrative...
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