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Antimicrobial Peptides
The skin is traditionally viewed as a physical barrier to environmental insults. Its role in immunity goes beyond its role as simply a barrier, as it plays a dynamic role in regulating immune responses and con...
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Role of Reactive Metabolites in Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity
Drugs are generally converted to biologically inactive forms and eliminated from the body, principally by hepatic metabolism. However, certain drugs undergo biotransformation to metabolites that can interfere ...
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The Keap1-Nrf2 Cellular Defense Pathway: Mechanisms of Regulation and Role in Protection Against Drug-Induced Toxicity
Adverse drug reactions pose a significant public health problem. In some cases, the process of drug metabolism can contribute to the onset of toxicity through the bioactivation of a parent molecule to a chemic...
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Genetic Markers for Differentiating Aspirin-Hypersensitivity
The ingestion of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) can induce allergic reactions such as ASA-intolerant asthma (AIA), ASA-induced acute or chronic urticaria/angioedema (AIAU or AICU), anaphylaxis, and, in rare cases,...
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Lymphocyte Activation and the Family of NF-κB Transcription Factor Complexes
NF-κB is a transcription factor complex known for some time to play a pivotal role in the regulated expression of a large number of genes which are activated during an immune response. Antigen in the context o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Antigen Society #33 Report (Public Epitopes)
The purpose of this study was to identify operationally monospecific antibodies detecting alloepitopes shared by more than one HLA class I gene product (public epitope). In this Workshop, public epitopes are d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Antigen Society #28 Report (DQw3)
DQw3 (formerly MB3) is a DQ locus specificity that is found in strong linkage disequilibrium with DR4 and DR5. It is also found on some haplotypes, including DRw6, DRw8, DR2S (DB9), DR9, and the Bw57-DR7 haplo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Antigen Society #32 Report (DP)
HLA-DP is defined conventionally using primed lymphocyte ty** (PLT) cells. These PLT cells are of limited availability. Six DP alleles are recognized by the WHO Nomenclature Committee, and account only for a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Antigen Society #35 Report DQw4 [DQ “WA”])
DQw4(DQ“WA”) is defined by a monoclonal antibody HU-46 (10W3101), which was established by immunizing C3H mice with EBV-WA line (A24-Bw54-Cw 1-DR4 DRw53-Dw15-DQ blank homozygous).
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of Class II RFLP Patterns and T-Cell Clone Reactions
From the data distributed at the Princeton Workshop, we have been able to distinguish many alleles of the alpha and beta chains of the DR, DQ, and DP loci. In addition, alleles of the pseudogenes of the DO, DN...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Serologic Exercises of the Tenth Workshop
The serologic exercises of the Tenth International Histocompatibility Workshop were conducted with the following goals:
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To produce a c...
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Heterosexual transmission of HIV
Since 1983 countries in the WHO European Region have taken part in the surveillance of AIDS in Europe by reporting their data to the WHO Collaborating Centre on AIDS. The cases of AIDS recorded fulfil the CDC ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
B Cell Precursors in Bone Marrow: In Vivo Proliferation, Localization, Stimulation by Activated Macrophages and Implications for Oncogenesis
Precursor cells in mammalian bone marrow continuously give rise to virgin B lymphocytes by undergoing a series of genetic, mitotic and selection events (Osmond 1985, 1986, Osmond & Park 1987). During the diffe...
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Monoclonal Antibodies to Benzodiazepines
Our interest in the brain benzodiazepine receptor (BZDR) is derived from both the social and neurobiological importance of the benzodiazepines (BZDs). The benzodiazepines (like diazepam or Valium) are the most...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Antigen Report: HLA-DR3
HLA-DR3, as originally described by the Leiden group in 1973, was clearly defined by high-quality sera at both the Seventh and Eighth International Workshops (WS).
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Antigen Report: HLA-Bw54, HLA-Bw55, and HLA-Bw56
Heterogeneity of the antigen Bw22 has been reported at the previous Workshops and was confirmed in different populations by many investigators.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Antigen Report: HLA-DQw1
The supertypic specificity DR1 + 2 + w6 (later called DQwl = DC1 = MB1 = MT1 = LB12), was discovered at the Seventh Workshop [1]. This specificity was shown to reside on a subset of class II molecules called t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Human B Cell-Associated Antigens: Expression on Normal and Malignant B Lymphocytes
Human B lymphocyte ontogeny and differentiation has been traditionally studied by the sequential expression of a series of B cell markers including heavy chain isotypes of immunoglobulin [1, 2], HLA-D-related ...