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Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity: is the system of immune responses of an organism against its own healthy cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an "autoimmune disease".
SEP 17, 2020 | 4:30 PM
T cells are the adaptive immune system’s first responders to any virus, circulating in the blood to detect and quickly multiply to attack the virus, and also support the development of...
SEP 11, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: September 11, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PT, 11:00pm ET This is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘ Predictive Genomics for Population & Personalized Health ’. Pharmacog...
SEP 10, 2020 | 12:00 AM
The microbiome has emerged as a major contributor to human health and disease. Numerous sources implicate shifts in the gut microbiome as potentially pathologic for a variety of autoimmune d...
SEP 09, 2020 | 12:00 AM
As a response to various inflammatory stimuli, neutrophils and macrophages expel a mixture of their nuclear and granular elements in the form of extracellular traps (ETs). These web-like sub...
JUL 29, 2020 | 11:00 AM
Background: Acute liver injury (ALI) is characterised by hepatocyte death and liver inflammation. Macrophages play a pivotal role in ALI by phagocytosing dead cells and producing pro-regener...
JUL 07, 2020 | 6:00 AM
Brain malignancies can either originate from within the CNS (gliomas) or invade from other locations in the body (metastases). A highly immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) influen...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:15 PM
Here I review the applications of Ion Torrent NGS technology in the field of microbiome research and some recent publications about it. With Ion Torrent 16S rRNA next generation sequencing,...
JUN 03, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibits T and B cell function upon ligand binding. PD-1 blockade revolutionized cancer treatment, and while numerous patients respond, some develop autoimmune-like...
