Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01713-8
Marcela F Lopes, Celio G Freire-de-Lima, George A DosReis
{"title":"The macrophage haunted by cell ghosts: a pathogen grows","authors":"Marcela F Lopes, Celio G Freire-de-Lima, George A DosReis","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01713-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01713-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Apoptosis is induced in the course of immune responses to infectious agents. The last step of apoptosis is recognition and ingestion of the dying cells by phagocytes. Here, Marcela F. Lopes and colleagues discuss recent studies and argue that phagocytosis of apoptotic cells plays a previously unrecognized role in regulating the nature of immune responses against pathogens.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Pages 489-494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01713-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21897588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01632-7
Antonio Alcami, Stacey Efstathiou
{"title":"Soluble chemokine binding proteins are also encoded by herpesviruses","authors":"Antonio Alcami, Stacey Efstathiou","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01632-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01632-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Pages 526-527"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01632-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21897594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01737-0
Marie H Kosco-Vilbois
{"title":"Follicular dendritic cells: a license to tangle with scrapie","authors":"Marie H Kosco-Vilbois","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01737-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01737-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Page 468"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01737-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21923138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01712-6
Jyothi Rengarajan, Susanne J Szabo, Laurie H Glimcher
{"title":"Transcriptional regulation of Th1/Th2 polarization","authors":"Jyothi Rengarajan, Susanne J Szabo, Laurie H Glimcher","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01712-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01712-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The two polarized T helper (Th) subsets Th1 and Th2 are identified by their signature cytokines, interferon γ (IFN-γ) and interleukin 4 (IL-4) respectively. Understanding the transcriptional regulation of cytokine expression is therefore critical for elucidating the process of Th cell differentiation. Ubiquitous and tissue-specific transcription factors, as well as chromatin remodeling of genomic loci have been implicated in IL-4 and IFN-γ regulation. We propose a model of Th1/Th2 polarization based on the balance between Th1- and Th2-specific transcription factors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Pages 479-483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01712-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21897586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01719-9
Arthur M Krieg , Hermann Wagner
{"title":"Causing a commotion in the blood: immunotherapy progresses from bacteria to bacterial DNA","authors":"Arthur M Krieg , Hermann Wagner","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01719-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01719-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The vertebrate immune system recognizes bacterial DNA as foreign based on its content of unmethylated CpG motifs. The detection of CpG motifs by the innate immune system induces immune responses that are strongly Th1-biased. These responses can be mimicked using synthetic oligonucleotides, which have shown significant effects as vaccine adjuvants and as immunotherapeutics for treatment of cancer and allergic conditions in model systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Pages 521-526"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01719-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21897593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01738-2
Shane T Grey
{"title":"Controlling the controllers of death","authors":"Shane T Grey","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01738-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01738-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Page 469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01738-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21923141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01714-X
Amiela Globerson , Rita B Effros
{"title":"Ageing of lymphocytes and lymphocytes in the aged","authors":"Amiela Globerson , Rita B Effros","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01714-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01714-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Immunosenescence is a complex process involving multiple reorganizational and developmentally regulated changes, rather than simple unidirectional decline in all functions. Here, these compensatory modulations are reviewed with reference to the importance of integrating information on cellular alterations identified <em>in vitro</em> with data on global physiological changes in the aged environment with which these cells interact <em>in vivo</em>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Pages 515-521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01714-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21897592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01721-7
Elaine Bell (Editor)
{"title":"New Trends at Immunology Today….","authors":"Elaine Bell (Editor)","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01721-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01721-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>‘<em>It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.</em>’</p><p>Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882)</p></div>","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Page 467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01721-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21923136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Immunology todayPub Date : 2000-10-01Epub Date: 2000-10-04DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01722-9
Fran Balkwill , Brian Foxwell , Fionula Brennan
{"title":"TNF is here to stay!","authors":"Fran Balkwill , Brian Foxwell , Fionula Brennan","doi":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01722-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01722-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A recent conference<span>*</span> on tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and related molecules highlighted the many recent advances, from intracellular signalling to clinical applications, in our knowledge of this fascinating molecule.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":73346,"journal":{"name":"Immunology today","volume":"21 10","pages":"Pages 470-471"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01722-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21897583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}