Issue 6/2009
Special Issue on Cardiovascular Immunology; Editor: Dr. Sudhir Gupta, MD, Ph.D, MACP
Content (14 Articles)
Impairment of Monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells in Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Weiyan Wang, Hui Yan, Weiguo Zhu, Yu Cui, Junzhu Chen, Xingxiang Wang, Shan Li, Jianhua Zhu
Autoimmunity, Infectious Immunity, and Atherosclerosis
Eiji Matsuura, Kazuko Kobayashi, Yukana Matsunami, Lianhua Shen, Nanhu Quan, Marina Makarova, Sergey V. Suchkov, Kiyoshi Ayada, Keiji Oguma, Luis R. Lopez
Immunological Challenges of Cardiac Transplantation: The need for Better Animal Models to Answer Current Clinical Questions
Jennifer R. Wehner, Craig N. Morrell, E. Rene Rodriguez, Robert L. Fairchild, William M. Baldwin III
Activation Profile of Intracellular Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases in Peripheral Lymphocytes of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Chun K. Wong, Purple T. Y. Wong, L. S. Tam, Edmund K. Li, D. P. Chen, Christopher W. K. Lam
IL-2, IFN-γ, and IL-12 Gene Polymorphisms and Susceptibility to Multiple Sclerosis
Mohammad Ali Shokrgozar, Sheila Sarial, Aliakbar Amirzargar, Fazel Shokri, Nima Rezaei, Zohreh Arjang, Jalaledin Radfar, Manijeh Yousefi-behzadi, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Jamshid Lotfi
Specific Immunotherapy to Birch Allergen Does not Enhance Suppression of Th2 Cells by CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells During Pollen Season
Hanna Grindebacke, Pia Larsson, Kajsa Wing, Sabina Rak, Anna Rudin
Postmenopausal Expression Changes of Immune System-Related Genes in Human Bone Tissue
János P. Kósa, Bernadett Balla, János Kiss, János Podani, István Takács, Áron Lazáry, Zsolt Nagy, Krisztián Bácsi, Attila Karsai, Gábor Speer, Péter Lakatos
Clinical and Laboratory Findings in Hyper-IgM Syndrome with Novel CD40L and AICDA Mutations
Asghar Aghamohammadi, Nima Parvaneh, Nima Rezaei, Kasra Moazzami, Sara Kashef, Hassan Abolhassani, Amir Imanzadeh, Javad Mohammadi, Lennart Hammarström
Novel Mutations in TACI (TNFRSF13B) Causing Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Javad Mohammadi, Chonghai Liu, Asghar Aghamohammadi, Astrid Bergbreiter, Likun Du, Jiayi Lu, Nima Rezaei, Ali Akbar Amirzargar, Mostafa Moin, Ulrich Salzer, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Lennart Hammarström
Tissue Transglutaminase Can Be Involved in Airway Inflammation of Toluene Diisocyanate-Induced Occupational Asthma
Gyu-Young Hur, Sung-Ho Kim, Sang Myun Park, Young-Min Ye, Cheol-Woo Kim, An-Soo Jang, Choon-Sik Park, Chein Soo Hong, Hae-Sim Park
Dectin-1 is Inducible and Plays an Essential Role for Mycobacteria-Induced Innate Immune Responses in Airway Epithelial Cells
Hye-Mi Lee, Jae-Min Yuk, Dong-Min Shin, Eun-Kyeong Jo
Transfer of Her-2/neu Specificity into Cytokine-Induced Killer (CIK) Cells with RNA Encoding Chimeric Immune Receptor (CIR)
Sung Hee Yoon, Jin Myung Lee, Sun-Je Woo, Min-Ji Park, Jung-Sun Park, Hye-Sung Kim, Mi-Young Park, Hyun-Jung Sohn, Tai-Gyu Kim
Strong Evidence of a Combination Polymorphism of the Tyrosine Kinase 2 Gene and the Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 Gene as a DNA-Based Biomarker for Susceptibility to Crohn’s Disease in the Japanese Population
Kayoko Sato, Mizuho Shiota, Sayaka Fukuda, Eiko Iwamoto, Haruhisa Machida, Tatsuo Inamine, Shinji Kondo, Katsunori Yanagihara, Hajime Isomoto, Yohei Mizuta, Shigeru Kohno, Kazuhiro Tsukamoto