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Contributions of Bim and Nur77 to multiple mechanisms of T cell tolerance following high affinity antigen encounter
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Prevention of autoimmune disease requires the elimination or inactivation of T cells that are highly reactive to self-peptides. During T cell development in the thymus, self-reactive thymocytes undergo negative selection upon receiving a high affinity T cell receptor (TCR) signal following...
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Fall 2012
Establishing mixed hematopoietic chimerism is a promising approach to develop donor-specific tolerance to transplanted organs. Establishing tolerance may eliminate the need for long-term immunosuppressive therapy, prevent chronic rejection and in the case of Type 1 Diabetes (T1DM), reverse...
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Developing clinically translatable chimerism induction protocols in a stringent murine model
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Allogeneic hematopoietic chimerism induction via bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is thus far the most robust method for inducing donor antigen specific tolerance to allogeneic grafts. However, limited by the toxicity of the reagents used in conditioning the recipients, the demand of a high dose...
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Fall 2019
T cells are a vital part of the adaptive immune system that function to eliminate foreign threats while remaining tolerant to healthy-self. During T cell development in the thymus, T cells are generated with various T cell receptor (TCR) specificities, such that they can respond to a near endless...
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Mechanisms underlying lymphopenia-driven autoimmunity in the setting of co-inhibitory molecule deficiency
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T lymphocytes (T cells) are powerful directors and effectors of immunity. The system of pseudo-random rearrangements of the T cell receptor (TCR) loci that underlie their ability to recognize a vast universe of molecular patterns is at once useful and dangerous, because many T cells develop TCR...
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Fall 2011
The main function of co-inhibitory molecules is to regulate T cell immune responses by providing negative signals to those cells. Homeostatic activation of T cells occurs in both natural and artificially induced states of lymphopenia. Although lymphopenia leads to homeostatic proliferation of T...
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T Cell Generation in a Lymphopenic Environment Generates Disease when the Thoracic Thymus is Eliminated; Augmentation by IL-7/Anti-IL-7 Complexes
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Cervical thymus functionally mimics the thoracic thymus in supporting T cell development and exists in a subset of mice and humans. Importantly, it remains unknown whether the cervical thymus generates an overall repertoire of T cells that are self-tolerant similar to the thoracic thymus. Mice...
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Targeted Application of Dietary Fibers for Selective Modulation of the Gut Microbiota and Improved Human Health
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Obesity and associated comorbidities have reached epidemic proportions worldwide. Observational studies provide consistent evidence that plant-based diets rich in dietary fibers (DFs) reduce chronic disease risk. Mechanistic studies have established processes by which DFs improve health, with one...
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Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Methodological Reorientation to Studying Right-wing Nationalism and the Far-right Movement in Canada
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Right-wing nationalist movements have gained traction in Westernized countries such as France, Greece, Hungary, Austria, the United States, and Germany, where political figures or groups have mobilized nationalist ideas and right-wing populist sentiment to gain governmental power and/or influence...
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Tolerance to neonatal porcine islet xenografts induced by a combination of monoclonal antibodies
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Islet transplantation is a more physiological way to treat type 1 diabetes. However, shortage of donor tissue and chronic administration of immune suppressive drugs has limited the widespread application of this therapy for all patients with type 1 diabetes, particularly children suffering from...