Immunity - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Balancing immunity and immunosuppression: vaccinating patients receiving treatment with efalizumab.

30 Oct 2008 Although effective in the treatment of immunodysregulatory diseases such as psoriasis, targeted immunosuppressive agents may confer risks of both enhanced susceptibility to infection and decreased responsiveness to vaccination. In a recent study, ... Read more...

Impact of innate and adaptive immunity on rejection and tolerance.

13 Oct 2008 Until recently, research on transplantation rejection and tolerance has been directed toward deciphering the mechanisms of the adaptive immune system. However, the emergence that the innate immune system, the body's first-line defense against ... Read more...

DNA vaccines: ready for prime time?

29 Sep 2008 Since the discovery, over a decade and a half ago, that genetically engineered DNA can be delivered in vaccine form and elicit an immune response, there has been much progress in understanding the basic biology of this platform. A large amount of ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Immunity'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Balancing immunity and immunosuppression: vaccinating patients receiving treatment with efalizumab. 30 Oct 2008
• Section on Allergy and Immunology. Best articles relevant to pediatric allergy and immunology. 30 Oct 2008
• A synopsis of the synopses. Best articles relevant to pediatric allergy and immunology. 30 Oct 2008
• Best articles relevant to pediatric allergy and immunology. 30 Oct 2008
• Impact of innate and adaptive immunity on rejection and tolerance. 13 Oct 2008
• DNA vaccines: ready for prime time? 29 Sep 2008
• A review of the immunotoxicity of the pesticide 3,4-dichloropropionanalide. 29 Sep 2008
• Complement production and regulation by dendritic cells: molecular switches between tolerance and immunity. 29 Sep 2008
• Enhanced integrated stress response promotes myelinating oligodendrocyte survival in response to interferon-gamma. 23 Sep 2008
• Interleukin-17A mediates acquired immunity to pneumococcal colonization. 17 Sep 2008
• RNA interference screen for human genes associated with West Nile virus infection. 9 Sep 2008
• Anti-HIV adaptive immunity: determinants for viral persistence. 30 Aug 2008
• The CD200-CD200R axis in local control of lung inflammation. 30 Aug 2008
• Targeting CpG oligonucleotides to the lymph node by nanoparticles elicits efficient antitumoral immunity. 30 Aug 2008
• Enhanced resistance of restraint-stressed mice to sepsis. 30 Aug 2008
• TLR adaptor MyD88 is essential for pathogen control during oral toxoplasma gondii infection but not adaptive immunity induced by a vaccine strain of the parasite. 30 Aug 2008
• Delayed maturation of an IL-12-producing dendritic cell subset explains the early Th2 bias in neonatal immunity. 30 Aug 2008
• Cannabinoids as therapeutic agents for ablating neuroinflammatory disease. 30 Aug 2008
• Characterizing and optimizing immune responses to leukaemia antigens after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. 30 Aug 2008
• Semaphorin 6D regulates the late phase of CD4+ T cell primary immune responses. 24 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Immunity'

Definition: Nonsusceptibility to the invasive or pathogenic effects of foreign microorganisms or to the toxic effect of antigenic substances.

Descriptor UI: D007109

Alternative terms: Immunity;

Related Mesh Headings: Immunologic Techniques; Tumor Escape;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: G12.450;

Online Note: pre-explosion = IMMUNITY (PX)

History Note: RADIATION IMMUNOLOGY was heading 1964-66

Technical Notes: IM GEN only for "immunity" or "immune process"; NIM with specific disease /immunol (IM); "immune response": index under ANTIBODY FORMATION (usually discusses B-lymphocytes) or IMMUNITY, CELLULAR (usually discusses T-lymphocytes); TN 242