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In-house Editor Rikki Graham
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BMC Immunology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional, and developmental aspects of the immune system.
BMC Immunology (ISSN 1471-2172) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :34
In ANCA associated vasculitis, linked to circulating antibodies to neutrophil cytoplasmic antigens, immunostimulation with CpG oligodeoxynucleotides causes B cells to produce large amounts of ANCA, suggesting for the first time a link between infection and ANCA+ vasculitis.
BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :29
A novel function for the anaphylatoxin C5a receptor in mobilizing mast cells during inflammation is indicated by the upregulation of this complement receptor in murine mast cells activated in either an antigen-dependent or -independent manner.
BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :25
Immune responses to mycobacteria enhance colitis in susceptible hosts via leukocyte activation, as demonstrated by mycobacteria-specific antibodies and high levels of CXCR3 ligands in inflammatory bowel disease patients, and colitis developing in mycobacterially challenged mice lacking IL-10.
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Transglutaminase activity in the hematopoietic tissue of a crustacean, Pacifastacus leniusculus, importance in hemocyte homeostasis Xionghui Lin, Kenneth Soderhall, Irene Soderhall BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :58 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Potential effect of prior raccoonpox virus infection in raccoons on vaccinia-based rabies immunization J. JEFFREY Root, Robert G McLean, Dennis Slate, Kathleen A MacCarthy, Jorge E Osorio BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :57 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Hematopoietic progenitor cells and interleukin-stimulated endothelium: expansion and differentiation of myeloid precursors Anja Moldenhauer, Gesche Genter, Andreas Lun, Gurkan Bal, Holger Kiesewetter, Abdulgabar Salama BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :56 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Host immunity in the protective response to vaccination with heat-killed Burkholderia mallei Gregory C Whitlock, Roman A Lukaszewski, Barbara M Judy, Slobodan Paessler, Alfredo G Torres, D Mark Estes BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :55 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Direct contact of platelets and their released products exert different effects on human dendritic cell maturation Hind Hamzeh-Cognasse, Fabrice Cognasse, Sabine Palle, Patricia Chavarin, Thomas Olivier, Olivier Del BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :54 (25 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Upregulation of CD94 on CD8+T Cells in Anterior Chamber-Associated Immune Deviation Hao He, Peizeng Yang, Liqiong Jiang, Junfeng Zhang, Changlin Zhao, Lina Chen, Xiaomin Lin, Hongyan Zhou, Aize Kijlstra BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :53 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Streptococcus pneumoniae stabilizes tumor necrosis factor Trine H Mogensen, Randi S Berg, Lars BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :52 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Elevated CXCL12 expression in the bone marrow of NOD mice is associated with altered T cell and stem cell trafficking and diabetes development Qibin Leng, Yuchun Nie, Yongrui Zou, Jianzhu Chen BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :51 (15 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Primer sets for cloning the human repertoire of T cell Receptor Variable regions Ilenia Boria, Diego Cotella, Irma Dianzani, Claudio Santoro, Daniele Sblattero BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :50 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Functional imaging of interleukin 1 beta expression in inflammatory process using bioluminescence imaging in transgenic mice Limei Li, Zhaoliang Fei, Jianke Ren, Ruilin Sun, Zhihui Liu, Zhejin Sheng, Long Wang, Xia Sun, Jun Yu, Zhugang Wang, Jian Fei BMC Immunology 2008, 9 :49 (19 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Differential gene expression profiles are dependent upon method of peripheral blood collection and RNA isolation Adam L Asare, Svetlana A Kolchinsky, Zhong Gao, Richard Wang, Khadir Raddassi, Katarzyna Bourcier, Vicki Seyfert-Margolis BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :474 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Molecular and phylogenetic analysis of HIV-1 variants circulating in Italy Luigi Buonaguro, Anna Carmen Petrizzo, Maria Tagliamonte, Francesca Vitone, Maria Carla Re, Elisabetta Pilotti, Claudio Casoli, Costanza Sbreglia, Oreste Perrella, Maria Lina Tornesello, Franco M. Buonaguro Infectious Agents and Cancer 2008, 3 :13 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Necrotic neurons enhance microglial neurotoxicity through induction of glutaminase by a MyD88-dependent pathway Teresa F Pais, Catarina Figueiredo, Rui Peixoto, Maria H Braz, Sukalyan Chatterjee Journal of Neuroinflammation 2008, 5 :43 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Lysozyme M deficiency leads to an increased susceptibility to Streptococcus pneumoniae-induced otitis media Jun Shimada, Sung K Moon, Haa-Yung Lee, Tamotsu Takeshita, Huipi Pan, Jeong-Im Woo, Robert Gellibolian, Noboru Yamanaka, David J Lim BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8 :134 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Activation and detection of HTLV-I Tax-specific CTLs by Epitope expressing Single-Chain Trimers of MHC Class I in a rat model Takashi Ohashi, Mika Nagai, Hiroyuki Okada, Ryo Takayanagi, Hisatoshi Shida Retrovirology 2008, 5 :90 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Cell-cycle and suppressor proteins expression in uterine cervix in hiv/hpv co-infection: comparative study by tissue micro-array (tma) Alcina F. Nicol, Andrea R.C. Pires, Simone R. de Souza, Gerard J Nuovo, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Aparecida Tristao, Fabio B Russomano, Luciane Velasque, Jose R Lapa e Silva, Claude Pirmez BMC Cancer 2008, 8 :289 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Determination of the mimic epitope of the M-like protein adhesin in swine Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus Hongjie Fan, Yongshan Wang, Fuyu Tang, Chengping Lu BMC Microbiology 2008, 8 :170 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Detecting the effects of selection at the population level in six bovine immune genes Abigail R Freeman, David J Lynn, Caitriona Murray, Daniel G Bradley BMC Genetics 2008, 9 :62 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The intracellular detection of MIP-1beta enhances the capacity to detect IFN-gamma mediated HIV-1-specific CD8 T-cell responses in a flow cytometric setting providing a sensitive alternative to the ELISPOT Sarah Kutscher, Claudia J Dembek, Simone Allgayer, Silvia Heltai, Birgit Stadlbauer, Priscilla Biswas, Silvia Nozza, Giuseppe Tambussi, Johannes R Bogner, Hans J Stellbrink, Frank D Goebel, Paolo Lusso, Marco Tinelli, Guido Poli, Volker Erfle, Heike Pohla, Mauro Malnati, Antonio Cosma AIDS Research and Therapy 2008, 5 :22 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Protective CD8+ T-cell responses to cytomegalovirus driven by rAAV/GFP/IE1 loading of dendritic cells Yuefei Yu, Petra Pilgrim, Juqiang Yan, Wei Zhou, Marjorie Jenkins, Nicoletta Gagliano, Klaus Bumm, Martin Cannon, Aldo Milzani, Isabella Dalle-Donne, W. MARTIN Kast, Everardo Cobos, Maurizio Chiriva-Internati Journal of Translational Medicine 2008, 6 :56 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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