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Celiac disease: pathogenesis of a model immunogenetic disease

Author(s) : Kagnoff, Martin F.
Description : Celiac disease is characterized by small-intestinal mucosal injury and nutrient malabsorption in genetically susceptible individuals in response to the dietary ingestion of wheat gluten and similar proteins in barley and rye. Disease pathogenesis involves interactions among environmental, genetic, a...
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Gastrointestinal Manifestations of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Description : In addition to abnormalities in systemic immune function, patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the pre-AIDS syndromes have significant abnormalities in the distribution of T-cell subsets in the intestinal tract. Such immune deficits predispose such patients to opportunisti...
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FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PEYER'S PATCH LYMPHOID CELLS : I. INDUCTION OF HUMORAL ANTIBODY AND CELL-MEDIATED ALLOGRAFT REACTIONS

Description : Peyer's patches from normal mice contain antigen-sensitive B and T cells, but lack the accessory adherent cell type(s) required both for the induction of humoral immune responses and for the induction of allograft reactions against cell surface alloantigens. Immune responsiveness can be restored to...
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Nod1 Is an Essential Signal Transducer in Intestinal Epithelial Cells Infected with Bacteria That Avoid Recognition by Toll-Like Receptors

Description : The transcription factor NF-κB in human intestinal epithelial cells plays a central role in regulating genes that govern the onset of mucosal inflammatory responses following intestinal microbial infection. Nod1 is a cytosolic pattern recognition receptor in mammalian cells that senses components of...
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FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PEYER'S PATCH LYMPHOID CELLS : II. LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE IS THYMUS DEPENDENT

Description : This study shows that LPS is not mitogenic in cultures containing B cells, or B cells and accessory adherent cells or ME, unless T cells are present. This observation rules out models of induction of antibody synthesis in which it is assumed that the delivery of a mitogenic signal by the interactio...
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Intestinal Epithelial Cell Apoptosis following Cryptosporidium parvum Infection

Description : Cryptosporidium parvum induces moderate levels of apoptosis of cultured human intestinal epithelial cells, which are maximal at 24 h after infection. Apoptosis is further increased in C. parvum-infected cells by inhibition of NF-κB. C. parvum infection also attenuates epithelial apoptosis induced by...
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Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells Respond to Cryptosporidium parvum Infection with Increased Prostaglandin H Synthase 2 Expression and Prostaglandin E2 and F2α Production

Description : Cryptosporidium parvum is an important cause of diarrhea in humans and several animal species. Prostaglandins play a central role in regulating intestinal fluid secretion in animal models of cryptosporidiosis, but their cellular sources and mechanisms of induction are unclear. Here, we show that C. ...
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Cell Differentiation Is a Key Determinant of Cathelicidin LL-37/Human Cationic Antimicrobial Protein 18 Expression by Human Colon Epithelium

Description : Antimicrobial peptides are highly conserved evolutionarily and are thought to play an important role in innate immunity at intestinal mucosal surfaces. To better understand the role of the antimicrobial peptide human cathelicidin LL-37/human cationic antimicrobial protein 18 (hCAP18) in intestinal m...
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Central Importance of Immunoglobulin A in Host Defense against Giardia spp.

Description : The protozoan pathogen Giardia is an important cause of parasitic diarrheal disease worldwide. It colonizes the lumen of the small intestine, suggesting that effective host defenses must act luminally. Immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies are presumed to be important for controlling Giardia infection, ...
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IκB-kinaseβ-dependent NF-κB activation provides radioprotection to the intestinal epithelium

Description : Acute injury to the intestinal mucosa is a major dose-limiting complication of abdominal radiation therapy. We studied the role of the transcription factor NF-κB in protection against radiation-induced apoptosis in the intestinal epithelium in vivo. We use mice in which NF-κB signaling through IκB-k...
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