T-cell activating factor
Sézary T-Cell Activating Factor Is aChlamydia pneumoniae-Associated Protein
... We previously identified a protein that was stimulatory for malignant Se´zary T cells, termed Se´zary T-cell activating factor (SAF). However, the identity of this protein has not been ...
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No evidence for an association between the 871 T/C promoter polymorphism in the B cell activating factor gene and primary Sjögren's syndrome
... -871 T polymorphism of the BAFF pro- moter gene is associated with production of BAFF protein, analysis of BAFF expression must be performed using trans- fectant expressing -871 T in the promoter ...-871 ...
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Dissecting Bacterial Cell Wall Entry and Signaling in Eukaryotic Cells: an Actin Dependent Pathway Parallels Platelet Activating Factor Receptor Mediated Endocytosis
... bacterial cell wall (CW) is composed of a network of peptidoglycan decorated by teichoic acids and li- poteichoic ...necrosis factor alpha (TNF- ␣ ), interleukin 1 (IL-1), and IL-6 ...
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Serum BAFF and APRIL levels in patients with IgG4 related disease and their clinical significance
... B cell-activating factor of the tumor necrosis factor family; BCMA: B cell maturation antigen; BLys: B-lymphocyte stimulator; CA II: carbonic anhydrase II; ELISA: enzyme-linked ...
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Raised intrathecal levels of APRIL and BAFF in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: relationship to neuropsychiatric symptoms
... necrosis factor (TNF) family ligands BAFF (B-cell activating factor of TNF family) and APRIL (a proliferation- inducing ligand) are implicated in several immunological phe- nomena such as ...
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Clinical associations of serum interleukin 17 in systemic lupus erythematosus
... B cell activating factor of the tumour necrosis factor family; BAFF-R: BAFF-receptor; BAFF-Tg: BAFF transgenic; CD: Crohn ’ s disease; CNS: central nervous system; CRP: C-reactive protein; ...
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Peripheral regulatory cells immunophenotyping in Primary Sjögren's Syndrome: a cross sectional study
... B cell activating factor; BCR: B cell receptor; CpG: cytosine-phopsphate-guanosine; DC: dendritic cell; DCregs: indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-expressing dendritic cells; ESSDAI: European ...
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Molecular biology of the type I human T cell leukemia virus (HTLV I) and adult T cell leukemia
... Abbreviations used in this paper: ATF, activating transcription factor; ATLL, adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma; CREB, cyclic ANMP response element binding protein; HTLV-I, type I human T-c[r] ...
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Contribution of blood platelets to vascular pathology in Alzheimer's disease
... platelet factor 4 (PF4), regulated upon activation normal T-cell expressed and presumably secreted (RANTES), and macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1 α , interleukins (IL-1 β , IL-7, and IL-8), ...
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Activation of factor VII activating protease in human inflammation: a sensor for cell death
... R-plasma was incubated with anti-FSAP-4 antibody coupled to CNBr-activated sepharose (10 mg mAb to 500 mg of sepharose) for two hours at room tempera- ture (RT) with gentle shaking [10]. The sepharose was washed three ...
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<p>Multispecialty approach for improving outcomes in juvenile dermatomyositis</p>
... and T-cell expansion in the in fl amed ...immune cell activation and ...necrosis factor (TNF) receptor 2 with disease activity has been con fi rmed in ...vascular cell adhesion molecule, ...
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Tumor necrosis factor superfamily member APRIL contributes to fibrotic scar formation after spinal cord injury
... B cell survival and proliferation ...activated T cells [10] ex- press APRIL, and APRIL can interact with transmem- brane activator and CAML interactor (TACI), B cell maturation antigen (BCMA), and ...
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Rationale of anti CD19 immunotherapy: an option to target autoreactive plasma cells in autoimmunity
... various cell types able to produce these factors have been identifi ed in close proximity to PCs in the BM or spleen ...ese cell types include stromal cells [42,43], eosinophils [44] or myeloid precursor ...
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The role of death-associated protein 3 in apoptosis, anoikis and human cancer
... characterised the activation of caspase 8 to be a late event in anoikis, which was not likely to be the initiator of the cascade [86]. However, more recent studies in lymphocytes, oesophageal squamous cell and ...
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Decorin suppresses tumor cell growth by activating the epidermal growth factor receptor
... tumor cell lines when ex- pressed ...inhibits cell cycle ...ultimate cell cycle ...in cell lines of various histogenetic ...the cell cycle through activation of a common pathway which ...
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Cullin-RING ligases in regulation of autophagy
... degraded by the proteasome [132]. However, accumulated p62 caused by autophagy deficiency binds to polyubiqui- tinated Twist1 and inhibits its proteasomal destruction, in consequence, promoting tumor cell growth ...
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Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in systemic sclerosis induces long lasting changes in B cell homeostasis toward an anti inflammatory B cell cytokine pattern
... B cell cultures of SSc patients. B cell cultures (two samples before aHSCT and four samples after aHSCT) from SSc patients who were not treated with CpG (no CpG; white boxes) or were treated with CpG (10 μ ...
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Contribution of Activating Transcription Factor 3 to development of acinar-to-ductal cell metaplasia
... signalling pathway (Siveke et al., 2008; Murtaugh & Keefe, 2015). The Notch pathway is normally activated during embryonic development and regulates exocrine cell fate. However, it is expressed at low levels ...
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Dysfunction of various organelles provokes multiple cell death after quantum dot exposure
... ATF4, activating transcription factor 4; ATF6, activating transcription factor 6; Bak, Bcl-2 antagonist/killer 1; Bax, Bcl-2-associated X protein; Bcl-2, B-cell lymphoma-2; Bcl-xl, ...
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Immune cell subset differentiation and tissue inflammation
... Dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3-grabbing non- integrin; DIO: Diet-induced obesity; DL-1: Delta-like 1; Dnmt1: DNA methyltransferase 1; EAE: Encephalomyelitis; Eos: Eosinophil; Fc γ R: Fc ...
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