Immunology
Researchers identify new way to unmask melanoma cells to the immune system
system, which enables these deadly skin cancers to grow and spread.
Jan 16, 2018
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Immunology
Oxysterols guide gut immune cells and are involved in inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report that cholesterol metabolites cause specific immune cells in the large intestine to move, which lies behind the formation of the immune system's important lymphoid tissue ...
Jan 16, 2018
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Immunology
CD4 T cells, xenobiotic transporters, and metabolites in inflammatory bowel diseases
The immune system counters pathogenic microbes and toxins in the environment. The system comprises innate (non-specific) and adaptive (acquired) immunity. When innate immune cells recognize pathogens, the adaptive immune ...
Dec 27, 2017
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Immunology
Researchers find key to making transplant rejection a thing of the past
Houston Methodist researchers have cracked a code in T-cells that could make autoimmune diseases and organ transplant rejection a thing of the past.
Dec 21, 2017
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Immunology
Monocytes have many faces
When the immune system mobilizes its troops, antigen-presenting cells play an important role. They emerge from white blood cells (monocytes) that circulate in the blood. An international research team under the leadership ...
Dec 20, 2017
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Immunology
Modulating immune responses
The protein Roquin plays a key role in the regulation of immune reactions. LMU researchers have now uncovered details of the mechanism by which it controls the function of regulatory T cells in the adaptive arm of the immune ...
Dec 13, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer-causing mutation suppresses immune system around tumours
Mutations in 'Ras' genes, which drive 25% of human cancers by causing tumour cells to grow, multiply and spread, can also protect cancer cells from the immune system, finds a new study from the Francis Crick Institute and ...
Dec 12, 2017
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Immunology
Cancer gene plays key role in cystic fibrosis lung infections
PTEN is best known as a tumor suppressor, a type of protein that protects cells from growing uncontrollably and becoming cancerous. But according to a new study from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), PTEN has a second, ...
Dec 12, 2017
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Immunology
Protective antibodies following malaria infection
No effective vaccine exists to date against the tropical disease malaria. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now studied how the human immune system responds to natural infection by the malaria ...
Nov 28, 2017
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Diabetes
Diabetes: Immune system can regulate insulin
Inflammation processes are responsible for the failure of insulin production in diabetes patients. The patients' own immune systems can contribute to treatment of this disease: researchers at the University of Basel and University ...
Nov 21, 2017
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