November 2018

A summary of the effect of barrier gene deficiency on SPINK7 expression and a model of SPINK7 pathway in EoE. (Taken from supplementary fig 10.)

What’s behind Eosinophilic Esophagitis?

30th November 2018 Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a rare, chronic, food-driven inflammatory disease of the esophagus. Clinical presentation varies through different ages and may include feeding...

ChelekaNovember 30, 2018

Malaria: 5 Stages for Vaccines to target (Draper SJ et al., 2018)

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IDA Highlights: Malaria

28th November 2018 Antibodies induced by natural infection confer protective immunity in individuals from Malaria endemic regions. Efforts to induce potent vaccine...

ChelekaNovember 28, 2018

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IDA Highlight: TB is a complex disease

22nd November 2018 90% of people exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) clear infection or contain the infection (termed as latency), however there is a percentage that progress to active disease.

ChelekaNovember 22, 2018

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IDA Highlights: Immune responses at mucosal sites

20th November 2018 The mucosal sites are usually the first entry points of HIV, hence this site is one of the key target areas for anti-HIV immune interventions. To emphasize…

ChelekaNovember 20, 2018

We are at the IDA this Week

The Infectious Diseases in Africa Symposium is taking place from the 12-16th November 2018. Immunopaedia is assiting with providing immunology content and training. We are also taking interesting interviews of…

ChelekaNovember 16, 2018

Figure 1d: Representative H&E stained sections of lung from 48 h post Nb infection. Cross-sections of larvae are indicated with an arrow. Filbey et al., 2018

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Intestinal helminth co-infection promotes control against lung migrating parasites

9th November 2018 Filbey et al., aimed to determine how chronic Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Hp) gastrointestinal infection can influence systemic and localised immunity against other helminth infections.

ChelekaNovember 9, 2018

Dendritic Cell. Source Wikipedia: Judith Behnsen, Priyanka Narang, Mike Hasenberg, Frank Gunzer, Ursula Bilitewski, Nina Klippel, Manfred Rohde, Matthias Brock, Axel A. Brakhage, Matthias Gunzer - Source: PLoS Pathogens - http://pathogens.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.ppat.0030013

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Characterisation of porcine conventional DC subsets

6th November 2018 DEC205 plays a very important role in antigen presentation and cross-presentation by cDCs. This has led to the study of antigen-targeting of DEC205 for vaccination.

ChelekaNovember 6, 2018

Time course of GFP+ cells accu- mulating in Ncr1iCre 3 RosamT/mG dams during pregnancy. (A) The uteri of pregnant Ncr1iCre 3 RosamT/mG reporter mice were prepared for his- tology at the indicated gd.

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Where do uterine NK cells during pregnancy come from?

3rd November 2018 Sojka et al., used a novel NK cell reporter mouse model to determine which cell population cNK or trNK cells is responsible for proliferation of uNK cells…

ChelekaNovember 3, 2018

What’s behind Eosinophilic Esophagitis?

IDA Highlights: Malaria

IDA Highlight: TB is a complex disease

IDA Highlights: Immune responses at mucosal sites

We are at the IDA this Week

Intestinal helminth co-infection promotes control against lung migrating parasites

Characterisation of porcine conventional DC subsets

Where do uterine NK cells during pregnancy come from?

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