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...

Combating HIV on multiple fronts.(Biomedical Research)

Population Briefs;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of circulating immune system cells, dendritic cells are among the first such cells that...Unfortunately; the encounter between dendritic cells and HIV does not end as it should...immunologist Melissa Pope has studied dendritic cells and HIV for more than a decade. Her...

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 ......Medical Research for the discovery of dendritic cells. The award committee called him a...is to try to harness the biology of dendritic cells, which use their tree-like processes...3). [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] FEATURES OF DENDRITIC CELLS Dendritic cells have several innate...

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...

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...

'Super' enzyme that boosts effect of tumour vaccines

The Hindustan Times;  December 4, 2006 ;     330 words ......vaccines by extending the lives of dendritic cells - the immune-system master switches...which attack tumours. "By keeping the dendritic cells alive longer, you extend the window...expansion of T-cells. The longer your dendritic cells are alive and active, the more likely...

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...

HIV sexual spread exploits immune sentinels.(Brief Article)

Science News;  March 11, 2000 ;     609 words ......accomplices in this scenario are dendritic cells, immune cells that reside...is sexually transmitted. Dendritic cells may provide the answer...that HIV initially infects dendritic cells, which would inadvertently...

UNIQUE CELL PREVENTS DIABETES

United Press International;  April 29, 2002 ;     528 words ......system. When researchers injected dendritic cells into mice prone to developing a form...involved in the research. The reason the dendritic cells, whose technical name is B220+DC...attack islet cells in diabetes, the dendritic cells prevented the mice from developing...

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

Science News;  January 13, 1996 ;     472 words ...Patrolling the body's tissues, dendritic cells are watchdogs for the immune system...for example-roam through the body, dendritic cells help alert the rest of the immune...humans, injections of specially treated dendritic cells have eliminated the tumors in one...

New vaccine reverses diabetes in mice

The Hindustan Times;  May 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ......by white blood cells known as dendritic cells, which released the nucleic acid molecules within the dendritic cells. The released molecules reprogrammed...that the microspheres reprogram dendritic cells to block the signaling mechanism...