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The largest immune tissue in the body
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Funding Available for Enhancing Cellular Immunity in Female Reproductive Tract - Targeted News Service (subscription)

Funding Available for Enhancing Cellular Immunity in Female Reproductive TractTargeted News Service (subscription)This program is not intended to support evaluation of mucosal vaccines or therapies, or research primarily focused on pathogens." The...
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February 19, 2012 12:24 PM
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The EDGE: Mucosal Immunology - Table of Contents alert Volume 5 ...

The EDGE: Mucosal Immunology - Table of Contents alert Volume 5 ... | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
Mucosal Immunology - Call for papers. Mucosal Immunology is now accepting submissions of papers discussing all aspects of immunity and inflammation involving mucosal tissues. Consult the guide to authors and submit ...
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February 16, 2012 11:49 AM
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Avaxia Biologics, Inc. Closes $4.1 Million Series A Financing to Advance Oral ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Avaxia Biologics, Inc.Closes $4.1 Million Series A Financing to Advance Oral ...MarketWatch (press release)14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Avaxia Biologics, Inc., a privately-held biotech company developing oral antibody drugs that act locally...
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February 8, 2012 10:35 AM
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The Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease

The Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
The normal enteric bacterial flora influences a variety of intestinal functions and plays a key role in nutrition, in maintaining the integrity of the epithelial barrier, in the development of mucosal immunity and in host metabolism ...
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February 7, 2012 9:34 AM
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Serum IL-18 Is Closely Associated with Renal Tubulointerstitial Injury and Predicts Renal Prognosis in IgA Nephropathy

Serum IL-18 Is Closely Associated with Renal Tubulointerstitial Injury and Predicts Renal Prognosis in IgA Nephropathy | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
Background. IgA nephropathy (IgAN) was thought to be benign but recently found it slowly progresses and leads to ESRD eventually.
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February 3, 2012 11:13 AM
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IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals Granted US$1 Million (NIS 3.8M) by the Office of the ... - MarketWatch (press release)

IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals Granted US$1 Million (NIS 3.8M) by the Office of the ...MarketWatch (press release)"We are gratified that the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist has selected Immune Pharmaceuticals to receive this award, which provides non-dilutive...
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February 1, 2012 10:28 AM
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Significance of Interleukin-27 Expression in the Intestinal Mucosa of ...

Increasing evidence has demonstrated that dysregulation of the mucosal immune response toward commensal bacterial flora together with genetic and environmental factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of human IBD.
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January 30, 2012 3:44 AM
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Developing a New Weapon Against HIV | BU Today | Boston University

Developing a New Weapon Against HIV | BU Today | Boston University | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
Developing a New Weapon Against HIV: Since then she has specialized in genital tract immunology, examining how t...
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January 28, 2012 2:39 PM
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Oral HPV Infection Strikes Men More Than Women: Study - U.S. News & World Report

Oral HPV Infection Strikes Men More Than Women: Study - U.S. News & World Report | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
USA TODAYOral HPV Infection Strikes Men More Than Women: StudyU.S.
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January 27, 2012 3:39 PM
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2012 Digestive Physiology of Pigs Symposium—Call for Abstracts ...

This year's themes include Nutrient Digestion and Absorption, Manipulation of Digestion, Mucosal Immunity and Pathogenesis, and Methodologies and Their Application, to name a few. We have invited a number of ...
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January 26, 2012 5:13 AM
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World-leading Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Investigators Join enGene's ... - MarketWatch (press release)

World-leading Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Investigators Join enGene's ...MarketWatch (press release)Dr. D'Haens' main research interests are in the fields of IBD, mucosal immunology, gastrointestinal endoscopy and immunosuppression.
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January 25, 2012 10:57 AM
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Discovery and Characterization of Secretory IgD in Rainbow Trout ...

Discovery and Characterization of Secretory IgD in Rainbow Trout ... | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
However, catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is the only species of fish in which a secretory form of IgD has been characterized, and it occurs through the use of a dedicated δ-secretory exon, which is absent from all other species examined.
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January 23, 2012 3:11 PM
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Effect of Dendritic Cells from Intestinal Lamina Propria on Activation ...

Dendritic cells (DC) are the most important antigen presenting cells in intestinal mucosal immune system, however, its role in the initiation of PI-IBS is still uncertain.Aims To investigate the effect of DC from intestinal lamina propria on CD4~+...
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February 20, 2012 5:09 AM
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Interleukin 23 Production by Intestinal CD103(+)CD11b(+) Dendritic ...

Interleukin 23 Production by Intestinal CD103(+)CD11b(+) Dendritic Cells in Response to Bacterial Flagellin Enhances Mucosal Innate Immune Defense. Immunity. 2012 Feb 1;. Authors: Kinnebrew MA, Buffie CG, Diehl GE, ...
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February 16, 2012 11:50 AM
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The role of the gut mucosal immunity in the development of t... : Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Purpose of review: To provide an overview on the role of gut mucosal immunity in the development of (“@CO_AllergyCI:The role of the gut mucosal immunity in the development of tolerance versus development of allergy...)...
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February 9, 2012 3:20 PM
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International Experts Publish Consensus Language on Gluten-Related Disorders - HealthCanal.com

International Experts Publish Consensus Language on Gluten-Related DisordersHealthCanal.comRecent research published in March 2011 by Dr.
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February 7, 2012 2:26 PM
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Zonulin and its regulation of intestinal barrier... [Physiol Rev. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI

PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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February 6, 2012 2:18 PM
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Correlation between Intestinal Mucosa S-IgA and Serum Il-6, TNF-α ...

ObjectiveIn order to study theoretical basis for the shock treatment, we observed the changes in different stages of serum inflammatory cytokine IL-6, TNF-αand intestinal mucosa S-IgA of severe traumatic shock in rats.
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February 1, 2012 1:53 PM
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Lacrimal Secretory Epithelial Functional Design Features That Expose Autoantigens Dendritic Cells

Lacrimal Secretory Epithelial Functional Design Features That Expose Autoantigens Dendritic Cells | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
Dimeric IgA dIgA is produced by plasma cells that reside in the subepithelial tissue space of the lacrimal glands.
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January 31, 2012 7:29 AM
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Intestinal transplantation and the European implication:... [Gut. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI

PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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January 29, 2012 2:51 PM
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Quantitation of SPLUNC1 in saliva with an xMAP particle-based antibody capture and detection immunoassay

Archives of Oral Biology, Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 197-204, February 2012, Authors:Karl G. Kohlgraf; Abbey R. Ackermann; Kindra K. Burnell; Rupasree N. Srikantha; Sophie A. Joly; Jennifer A. Bartlett; Lokesh Gakhar; Georgia K.
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January 27, 2012 3:40 PM
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Video: Application of a Mouse Ligated Peyer's Patch Intestinal Loop ...

Video: Application of a Mouse Ligated Peyer's Patch Intestinal Loop ... | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
The mucosal surface of the gastrointestinal tract is continuously exposed to them and occasionally to pathogens. The gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) play a key role for induction of the mucosal immune response to ...
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Watch video: aEliciting mucosal and systemic immunity with a novel mucosal adjuvant - Vaccine Nation - Strategy and innovation in vaccines

Watch video: aEliciting mucosal and systemic immunity with a novel mucosal adjuvant - Vaccine Nation - Strategy and innovation in vaccines | Mucosal Immunity | Scoop.it
Adjuvants – do they work? Yes! Let’s have a look at Dr Jakub K. Simon’s, presentation delivered at the ...
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January 25, 2012 10:58 AM
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Expression of TLR4 and IL-12 in the Hypertrophic Adenoids and ...

Methods:The specimens from 30 cases of puerile hypertrophic adenoids who underwent adenoidectomy, including 15 cases with and without secretory otitis media respectively, were collected. Meanwhile, the samples of tympanic cavity ...
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Studies on the Relationship between Tonsillitis and Class Switch ...

IgAN is therefore an immune complex disease that is caused by a poor mucosal immune response to chronic environmental antigen exposure, and tonsillar mononuclear cells play a important role in the pathogenesis of IgAN.
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