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Epithelial NEMO links innate immunity to chronic intestinal inflammation

2007

Deregulation of intestinal immune responses seems to have a principal function in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease(1-4). The gut epithelium is critically involved in the maintenance of intestinal immune homeostasis-acting as a physical barrier separating luminal bacteria and immune cells, and also expressing antimicrobial peptides(3,5,6). However, the molecular mechanisms that control this function of gut epithelial cells are poorly understood. Here we show that the transcription factor NF kappa B, a master regulator of pro-inflammatory responses(7,8), functions in gut epithelial cells to control epithelial integrity and the interaction between the mucosal immune system and gu…

Tolerance towards resident intestinal flora in mice is abrogated in experimental colitis and restored by treatment with interleukin-10 or antibodies …

1996

There is now increasing evidence that hyperresponsiveness towards intestinal flora is a crucial event in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In support of this hypothesis, we recently described in humans that tolerance exists towards indigenous intestinal flora but is broken in active IBD lesions. In the present study, we have attempted to transfer this model into mice from different genetic backgrounds (BALB/c, SJL/J, C3H/HeJ). We found that mononuclear cells from spleen, small bowel and large bowel of mice do not proliferate, i.e. are tolerant when exposed to bacterial sonicates derived from autologous intestine (BsA) but do proliferate, i.e. are immune when exposed to b…

Zu einem Satz von Isaacs �ber das Casus-Irreducibilis Ph�nomen

2000

Let \(\Omega \) be a field (of characteristic 0). A prime p is called “bose” (naughty) if \(\Omega \) contains all p-th roots of unity. In this paper the theorem is proved: Let K be an admissible subfield of \(\Omega \) (i.e. for each prime p K contains all p-th roots of unity lying in \(\Omega \)), a an algebraic element of \(\Omega /K\) which is contained in a repeated radical extension of K lying in \(\Omega \). Furthermore let the normal hull L of a over K be contained in \(\Omega \). Then all prime divisors of \(\mid L : K \mid \) are naughty (and L is a repeated radical extension of K with naughty prime exponents). This result generalises a theorem of Isaacs [1] who treats the case \(…

Mucosal immunology and probiotics.

2013

The cross-talk between the mucosa-associated immune system and microbiota is critical in mucosal tissue homeostasis as well as in protection against infectious and inflammatory diseases occurring at mucosal sites. This recent evidence has paved the way to therapeutic approaches aimed at modulating the mucosa-associated immune system using probiotics. Different strains of probiotics possess the ability to finely regulate dendritic cell (DC) activation, polarizing the subsequent T cell activity toward Th1 (e.g. Lactobacillus (Lb) acidophilus), Th2 (Lb.reuteri and Bifidobacterium bifidum) or, as more recently demonstrated, Th17 responses induced by specific strains such as Lb.rhamnosus GG and …

How Electoral Institutions Change the Influence of World Trade Integration on Trade Policies

2014

World integration levels influence opportunity costs of maintaining restrictive national trade policies. In an integrated world, restrictive trade policies are more costly than in a context of low overall levels of world market integration. We argue that policy makers can be expected to react to these varying incentives to liberalize the trade regimes of their countries, yet do so not in a uniform fashion across countries. Rather, the responsiveness to changes in levels of world trade integration is conditional upon the electoral system the country in question employs. This is due to the fact that opportunity cost considerations increase in importance with a) the degree to which policy make…

L’Asilo, Napoli: Dall’ordine poliziesco della politica culturale al regime estetico della comunità che viene

2020

This paper presents and analyses the cultural and social centre "Asilo" in Naples as an urban commons and as an example of critical citizenship.

Strategies of Eliciting Young People’s Affective and Quick Participation in a Youth Magazine’s Instagram Community

2022

Traditional media have merged with social media and pursue to produce engaging content and form relationships with online audiences. At the same time, social media has allowed young people a venue to practice their basic needs of interaction, identity, and self-expression, and provides communities of shared issues and social/political aspirations. By analysing the Instagram post caption data of the largest Finnish (girls’) youth magazine, this case study investigated what posting strategies used by the magazine elicited youth participation, and how do the strategies and participation align with young people’s media and online communication preferences. The study found the magazine to use va…

Apuntes para el estudio social de la fiesta en España

2007

El artículo ofrece una perspectiva para el estado de la cuestión del estudio de la fiesta en España, desde la sociología y la antropología. Se constata cómo tras algunos trabajos pioneros, la fiesta se convierte en objeto legítimo de estudio durante la década de los ochenta y los noventa. Las transformaciones experimentadas por el ritual festivo en condiciones de modernidad se plasman en una diversificación de metodologías y en un viraje epistemológico. Los desplazamientos en el objeto celebrado y la complejidad creciente del sujeto celebrante obligan a repensar conceptos clave, como ritual, tradición o comunidad. Por fin, se plantean algunos de los temas de estudio emergentes, y se señalan…

Reflections on community action and planning

2014

[RIU project: perceived changes by health agents and professionals after a health intervention in an urban area of socioeconomic disadvantage].

2013

Resumen Objetivo Describir los cambios percibidos por la población y los profesionales en relación con la salud y el uso de servicios tras la intervención RIU con agentes comunitarios en un barrio vulnerable. Diseño Estudio descriptivo cualitativo con entrevistas individuales y grupales y observación participante de octubre de 2008 a julio de 2009. Emplazamiento Barrio Raval (Algemesí-Valencia). Participantes Selección por muestreo opinático de 7 mujeres agentes de salud, todas las que finalizaron la intervención, y 10 profesionales implicados en la misma. Método Con las mujeres se mantuvo una entrevista grupal a los 6 meses, y una entrevista grupal y 7 individuales a los 9 meses de interve…