Medical research

Overactive immune response blocks itself

As part of the innate immune system natural killer cells (NK cells) play an important role in immune responses. For a long time they have been known as the first line of defense in the fight against infectious diseases. Therefore, ...

Immunology

Nature's own nanoparticles harnessed to target disease

Using a novel form of immune-genetic therapy, researchers from Yale School of Medicine and the Jagiellonian University College of Medicine in Poland have successfully inhibited a strong immune allergic inflammatory response ...

Immunology

Food allergy treatment loses efficacy with time

(HealthDay)—Many children who are initially successfully treated for allergy to cow's milk by oral immunotherapy lose tolerance several years later, according to a letter to the editor published online June 27 in the Journal ...

Immunology

Nanotechnology against pollen allergy

Scientists at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now been able to identify the grass pollen molecule, against which the allergic response of hay fever in children is initiated. In addition, it was shown that ...

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Journal of Immunology

The Journal of Immunology (The JI) is an academic journal that publishes basic and clinical studies in all aspects of immunology. It is owned and published by The American Association of Immunologists. Having an impact factor of 6.387, it ranks 12th among all publications on immunology and is cited more than any other immunology journal, in 2006 it published 1,845 manuscripts in over 16,000 pages.

As of September 2006, The JI has a circulation of 7,225. Editions are printed and posted online twice each month, the print editions are published on the first and the fifteenth of each month.

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