Future psoriasis drugs may target role of dendritic cells.(Rx)

Internal Medicine News;  March 1, 2006 ;     428 words ......FLA. -- Recent research implicates dendritic cells in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and...promise by halting cytokines produced by dendritic cells, he noted. Psoriasis is widely known...been published since 2003) suggest dendritic cells also play a role by activating the...

Dendritic cells tied to psoriasis.(News)

Skin & Allergy News;  March 1, 2006 ;     460 words ......FLA. -- Recent research implicates dendritic cells in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and...promise by halting cytokines produced by dendritic cells, he noted. Psoriasis is widely known...published since 2003) suggest that dendritic cells also play a role. Researchers believe...

CD40L and IL-4 stimulation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells results...

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......cancer vaccines based on dendritic cells (DC) presenting tumor antigens can be a promising...leukemia - CD40L - Dendritic cells - apoptosis - FAS...cells (DC) presenting tumor antigens can be a promising tool. Dendritic cells play a pivotal ...

DENDRITIC CELLS STIMULATE CANCER-CELL GROWTH

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 17, 2006 ;     539 words ......Rockefeller University some 30 years ago, dendritic cells have been recognized as key players...Rockefeller scientists have shown that dendritic cells also have other, non-immune actions...context of everything else around it." Dendritic cells, in particular, are abundant in ...

Dendritic cells and vaccines.

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......localization and presentation allow dendritic cells to harness the repertoire of...a specific way. In addition, dendritic cells are very sensitive to environmental...dendritic cell development. Finally, dendritic cells have many forms, called subsets...maturation and subsets ...

DENDRITIC CELLS ARE REPLENISHED FROM BLOOD

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 12, 2007 ;     453 words ......issued the following press release: Dendritic cells help direct the body's immune response...ongoing debate exists about where dendritic cells originate and how they multiply, especially...origins of the spleen and lymph node dendritic cells, findings that are especially important...

FLT3 LIGAND STIMULATES GROWTH OF DENDRITIC CELLS

PR Newswire;  November 30, 1995 ;     646 words ......been shown to promote the growth of dendritic cells, a formerly elusive type of cell which...now, research into the utility of dendritic cells has been hampered because these cells...large numbers of functionally mature dendritic cells. Dendritic cells could be quite ...

Comparison of the microanatomical distributions of macrophages and...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......in the upper aerodigestive tract. Dendritic cells and macrophages function to capture...and phenotype of macrophages and dendritic cells in both normal and diseased tonsils...Antigen-presenting cells, including macrophages and dendritic cells, may be found in variable numbers...

Antigen Express Announces Phase I SBIR Grant for Development of MHC Class...

PR Newswire;  April 5, 2001 ;     472 words ......vaccines, and dendritic cell based therapeutics...immunological responses to tumor antigens including concomitant...cells license dendritic cells, professional...response. When dendritic cells themselves are...cell fusions or dendritic cells transfected with ...

Discovery About Protein Sorting in Pigment Cells Sheds Light on Melanoma,...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......melanocytes are well-known tumor antigens in melanoma patients...proteins, as opposed to other tumor antigens, is that there's good...themselves get targeted to dendritic cells. Then exosomes ferry Pmel17...immunotherapy because dendritic cells are good at taking ...

DISCOVERY ABOUT PROTEIN SORTING IN PIGMENT CELLS SHEDS LIGHT ON MELANOMA,...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......melanocytes are well-known tumor antigens in melanoma patients...proteins, as opposed to other tumor antigens, is that there's good...themselves get targeted to dendritic cells. Then exosomes ferry Pmel17...immunotherapy because dendritic cells are good at taking ...

Increased endocytic activity in monocyte-derived dendritic cells in...

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......studies provide evidence that dendritic cells may be of major importance...characterize the role of dendritic cells in psoriasis, this study...assess the differentiation of dendritic cells from monocytes (MoDC), the...

DENDRITIC CELLS MAY BE KEY TO REVERSING DIABETES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 11, 2007 ;     513 words ......studying the immune system's dendritic cells in mice have found a way...shown that they can use dendritic cells in two different capacities...function to diabetic mice. Dendritic cells direct the body's immune...

Immune cells primed for cancer vaccine. (injections of dendritic cells...

Science News;  January 13, 1996 ;     472 words ......s tissues, dendritic cells are watchdogs...through the body, dendritic cells help alert...specially treated dendritic cells have eliminated...cells sport tumor antigens-proteins or...have injected tumor antigens directly into...immune response. ...

BY TARGETING DENDRITIC CELLS, HIV AND MALARIAL VACCINES OUTPERFORM...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ......colleagues show that they can target dendritic cells of living animals and induce specific...immunity-stimulating antigen directly to dendritic cells in living mice. These dendritic cells, which Steinman co-discovered in the...