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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Divergent Antibody Subclass And Specificity Profiles But Not Protective Hla-B Alleles Are Associated With Variable Antibody Effector Function Among Hiv-1 Controllers, Jennifer I. Lai, Anna F. Licht, Anne-Sophie Dugast, Todd Suscovich, Ickwon Choi, Chris Bailey-Kellogg, Galit Alter, Margaret E. Ackerman
Divergent Antibody Subclass And Specificity Profiles But Not Protective Hla-B Alleles Are Associated With Variable Antibody Effector Function Among Hiv-1 Controllers, Jennifer I. Lai, Anna F. Licht, Anne-Sophie Dugast, Todd Suscovich, Ickwon Choi, Chris Bailey-Kellogg, Galit Alter, Margaret E. Ackerman
Dartmouth Scholarship
Understanding the coordination between humoral and cellular immune responses may be the key to developing protective vaccines, and because genetic studies of long-term HIV-1 nonprogressors have associated specific HLA-B alleles with spontaneous control of viral replication, this subject group presents an opportunity to investigate relationships between arms of the adaptive immune system. Given evidence suggesting that cellular immunity may play a role in viral suppression, we sought to determine whether and how the humoral immune response might vary among controllers. Significantly, Fc-mediated antibody effector functions have likewise been associated with durable viral control. In this study, we compared the effector …
Id4 Deficiency Attenuates Prostate Development And Promotes Pin-Like Lesions By Regulating Androgen Receptor Activity And Expression Of Nkx3.1 And Pten, Pankaj Sharma, Ashley Knowell, Swathi Chinaranagari, Shravan Komaragiri, Peri Nagappan, Divya Patel, Mathew C. Havrda, Jaideep Chaudhary
Id4 Deficiency Attenuates Prostate Development And Promotes Pin-Like Lesions By Regulating Androgen Receptor Activity And Expression Of Nkx3.1 And Pten, Pankaj Sharma, Ashley Knowell, Swathi Chinaranagari, Shravan Komaragiri, Peri Nagappan, Divya Patel, Mathew C. Havrda, Jaideep Chaudhary
Dartmouth Scholarship
Background: Inhibitor of differentiation 4 (Id4), a member of the helix-loop-helix family of transcriptional regulators has emerged as a tumor suppressor in prostate cancer. Id4 is expressed in the normal prostate where its expression is also regulated by androgens. In this study we investigated the effect of loss of Id4 (Id4-/-) on adult prostate morphology. Methods: Histological analysis was performed on prostates from 6-8 weeks old Id4-/-, Id4+/- and Id4+/+ mice. Expression of Id1, Sox9, Myc, androgen receptor, Akt, p-Akt, Pten and Nkx3.1 was investigated by immunohistochemistry. Androgen receptor binding on NKX3.1 promoter was studied by chromatin immuno-precipitation. Id4 was …
Dynamic Dual-Tracer Mri-Guided Fluorescence Tomography To Quantify Receptor Density In Vivo, Scott C. Davis, Kimberley S. Samkoe, Kenneth M. Tichauer, Kristian J. Sexton, Jason R. Gunn, Sophie J. Deharvengt, Tayyaba Hasan, Brian W. Pogue
Dynamic Dual-Tracer Mri-Guided Fluorescence Tomography To Quantify Receptor Density In Vivo, Scott C. Davis, Kimberley S. Samkoe, Kenneth M. Tichauer, Kristian J. Sexton, Jason R. Gunn, Sophie J. Deharvengt, Tayyaba Hasan, Brian W. Pogue
Dartmouth Scholarship
The up-regulation of cell surface receptors has become a central focus in personalized cancer treatment; however, because of the complex nature of contrast agent pharmacokinetics in tumor tissue, methods to quantify receptor binding in vivo remain elusive. Here, we present a dual-tracer optical technique for noninvasive estimation of specific receptor binding in cancer. A multispectral MRI-coupled fluorescence molecular tomography system was used to image the uptake kinetics of two fluorescent tracers injected simultaneously, one tracer targeted to the receptor of interest and the other tracer a nontargeted reference. These dynamic tracer data were then fit to a dual-tracer compartmental model …
The Role Of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase In Lp-Bpm5 Murine Retroviral Disease Progression, Megan A. O'Connor, William R. Green
The Role Of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase In Lp-Bpm5 Murine Retroviral Disease Progression, Megan A. O'Connor, William R. Green
Dartmouth Scholarship
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is an immunomodulatory intracellular enzyme involved in tryptophan degradation. IDO is induced during cancer and microbial infections by cytokines, ligation of co-stimulatory molecules and/or activation of pattern recognition receptors, ultimately leading to modulation of the immune response. LP-BM5 murine retroviral infection induces murine AIDS (MAIDS), which is characterized by profound and broad immunosuppression of T- and B-cell responses. Our lab has previously described multiple mechanisms regulating the development of immunodeficiency of LP-BM5-induced disease, including Programmed Death 1 (PD-1), IL-10, and T-regulatory (Treg) cells. Immunosuppressive roles of IDO have been demonstrated in other retroviral models, suggesting a possible …
Estradiol Reduces Susceptibility Of Cd4+ T Cells And Macrophages To Hiv-Infection, Marta Rodriguez-Garcia, Nabanita Biswas, Mickey V. Patel, Fiona D. Barr, Sarah G. Christ, Chrsitina Ochsenbauer, John V. Fahey, Charles R. Wira
Estradiol Reduces Susceptibility Of Cd4+ T Cells And Macrophages To Hiv-Infection, Marta Rodriguez-Garcia, Nabanita Biswas, Mickey V. Patel, Fiona D. Barr, Sarah G. Christ, Chrsitina Ochsenbauer, John V. Fahey, Charles R. Wira
Dartmouth Scholarship
The magnitude of the HIV epidemic in women requires urgent efforts to find effective preventive methods. Even though sex hormones have been described to influence HIV infection in epidemiological studies and regulate different immune responses that may affect HIV infection, the direct role that female sex hormones play in altering the susceptibility of target cells to HIV-infection is largely unknown. Here we evaluated the direct effect of 17-b-estradiol (E2) and ethinyl estradiol (EE) in HIV-infection of CD4+ T-cells and macrophages. Purified CD4+ T-cells and monocyte-derived macrophages were generated in vitro from peripheral blood and infected with …
Correction: Differential Adaptation Of Candida Albicans In Vivo Modulates Immune Recognition By Dectin-1, Mohlopheni J. Marakalala, Simon Vautier, Joanna Potrykus, Louise A. Walker, Kelly M. Shepardson, Alex Hopke, Hector M. Mora-Montes, Ann Kerrigan, Mihai G. Netea, Graeme I. Murray, Donna M. Maccallum, Robert Wheeler, Carol A. Munro, Neil A. R Gow, Robert A. Cramer, Alistair J. P Brown, Gordon D. Brown
Correction: Differential Adaptation Of Candida Albicans In Vivo Modulates Immune Recognition By Dectin-1, Mohlopheni J. Marakalala, Simon Vautier, Joanna Potrykus, Louise A. Walker, Kelly M. Shepardson, Alex Hopke, Hector M. Mora-Montes, Ann Kerrigan, Mihai G. Netea, Graeme I. Murray, Donna M. Maccallum, Robert Wheeler, Carol A. Munro, Neil A. R Gow, Robert A. Cramer, Alistair J. P Brown, Gordon D. Brown
Dartmouth Scholarship
The b -glucan receptor Dectin-1 is a member of the C-type lectin family and functions as an innate pattern recognition receptor in antifungal immunity. In both mouse and man, Dectin-1 has been found to play an essential role in controlling infections with Candida albicans , a normally commensal fungus in man which can cause superficial mucocutaneous infections as well as life-threatening invasive diseases. Here, using in vivo models of infection, we show that the requirement for Dectin-1 in the control of systemic Candida albicans infections is fungal strain-specific; a phenotype that only becomes apparent during infection and cannot be recapitulated …
Enhanced Phagocytic Activity Of Hiv-Specific Antibodies Correlates With Natural Production Of Immunoglobulins With Skewed Affinity For Fcγr2a And Fcγr2b, Margaret E. Ackerman, Anne-Sophie Dugast, Elizabeth G. Mcandrew, Stephen Tsoukas
Enhanced Phagocytic Activity Of Hiv-Specific Antibodies Correlates With Natural Production Of Immunoglobulins With Skewed Affinity For Fcγr2a And Fcγr2b, Margaret E. Ackerman, Anne-Sophie Dugast, Elizabeth G. Mcandrew, Stephen Tsoukas
Dartmouth Scholarship
While development of an HIV vaccine that can induce neutralizing antibodies remains a priority, decades of research have proven that this is a daunting task. However, accumulating evidence suggests that antibodies with the capacity to harness innate immunity may provide some protection. While significant research has focused on the cytolytic properties of antibodies in acquisition and control, less is known about the role of additional effector functions. In this study, we investigated antibody-dependent phagocytosis of HIV immune complexes, and we observed significant differences in the ability of antibodies from infected subjects to mediate this critical effector function. We observed both …