Search results for "Genetics of the Immune System"

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miR-155 inhibition sensitizes CD4+ Th cells for TREG mediated suppression.

2009

BackgroundIn humans and mice naturally occurring CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells (nTregs) are a thymus-derived subset of T cells, crucial for the maintenance of peripheral tolerance by controlling not only potentially autoreactive T cells but virtually all cells of the adaptive and innate immune system. Recent work using Dicer-deficient mice irrevocably demonstrated the importance of miRNAs for nTreg cell-mediated tolerance.Principal findingsDNA-Microarray analyses of human as well as murine conventional CD4(+) Th cells and nTregs revealed a strong up-regulation of mature miR-155 (microRNA-155) upon activation in both populations. Studying miR-155 expression in FoxP3-deficient scurfy mice …

CD4-Positive T-LymphocytesScienceImmunology/ImmunomodulationBiologyModels BiologicalT-Lymphocytes RegulatoryImmune tolerancemiR-155MiceDownregulation and upregulationImmune ToleranceAnimalsHumansIL-2 receptorOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisMultidisciplinaryInnate immune systemGenetics and Genomics/Functional GenomicsQInterleukin-2 Receptor alpha SubunitRPeripheral toleranceFOXP3Forkhead Transcription FactorsTransfectionImmunity InnateCell biologyUp-RegulationKineticsMicroRNAsImmunologyImmunology/Immune ResponseMedicineGenetics and Genomics/Genetics of the Immune SystemResearch ArticlePLoS ONE
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Elevated peripheral visfatin levels in narcoleptic patients.

2008

OBJECTIVE: Narcolepsy is a severe sleep disorder that is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexies and a tendency towards obesity. Recent discoveries indicate that the major pathophysiology is a loss of hypocretin (orexin) producing neurons due to immunologically mediated degeneration. Visfatin is a recently described proinflammatory adipokine. It is identical to the immune modulating pre-B-cell colony enhancing factor (PBEF). Our study examines the hypothesis that visfatin levels are altered in narcoleptic patients. METHODS: For the analysis, a total of n = 54 patients (n = 18 males and n = 36 females) with the diagnosis of narcolepsy according to DSM-IV and the Internatio…

AdultMalemedicine.medical_specialtyPolysomnographyNicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferaseAdipokineExcessive daytime sleepinesslcsh:MedicinePolysomnographyBody Mass IndexProinflammatory cytokineDiabetes and Endocrinology/Obesitychemistry.chemical_compoundReference ValuesInternal medicinemedicineHumansHLA-DR2 AntigenAge of OnsetNicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferaselcsh:ScienceAgedNarcolepsySleep disorderMultidisciplinarymedicine.diagnostic_testbusiness.industrylcsh:RMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseOrexinEndocrinologyMental Health/Sleep Disordersnervous systemchemistryImmunologyCytokinesFemalelcsh:Qmedicine.symptomImmunology/Genetics of the Immune SystembusinessResearch ArticleNarcolepsyPLoS ONE
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The systemic lupus erythematosus IRF5 risk haplotype is associated with systemic sclerosis.

2013

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a fibrotic autoimmune disease in which the genetic component plays an important role. One of the strongest SSc association signals outside the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region corresponds to interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 5 (IRF5), a major regulator of the type I IFN pathway. In this study we aimed to evaluate whether three different haplotypic blocks within this locus, which have been shown to alter the protein function influencing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) susceptibility, are involved in SSc susceptibility and clinical phenotypes. For that purpose, we genotyped one representative single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of each block (rs10488631, r…

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