非Tool样受体家族在天然免疫中的作用

抗感染免疫指机体的免疫系统对抗病原体侵入的一种防御能力.机体的抗感染免疫包括非特异性免疫(又称天然免疫)及特异性免疫2个部分.     

免疫调节剂及其应用前景

一、引言免疫调节剂(immunomodulating agents)是泛指能调节、增强、兴奋和恢复机体免疫功能的一大类药物。此类药物或能激活一种或多种免疫活性细胞,增强机体的非特异性和特异性免疫功能,使低下的免疫功能恢复正常;或具有佐剂作用,增强与之合用的抗原的免疫原性,加速诱导免疫应答反应;或能替代体内缺乏的免疫活性成份,具有免疫替代作用;或对机体的免疫功能具有双向调节作用,即使过低的免疫功能提高,又使过高的免疫功能降低等。鉴于此类药物对机体免疫功能的广泛影响,有人把它们归纳为生物反应修饰剂(biological response modifiers)范畴。     

口服短小双歧杆菌活菌制剂对机体免疫功能的增强效应

探讨短小双歧杆菌（Bifidobacteriumbreve）对正常机体免疫功能的影响及对免疫低功机体的免疫功能调整作用。以环磷酰胺制备免疫低功模型,检测活菌制剂应用后,小鼠巨噬细胞吞噬功能,自然杀伤（NK）细胞杀伤活性,特异性抗体产生能力及IL—2诱生活性等指标的变化。结果表明短小双歧杆菌活菌制剂口服后可显著提高小鼠巨噬细胞吞噬功能,NK细胞杀伤活性,特异性抗体产生能力3项指标,IL—2诱生活性与对照组相比有一定提高,但差异无显著性。结果提示短小双歧杆菌对提高正常机体的免疫功能,对免疫低功机体有明显的调整作用。     

非Toll样受体家族在天然免疫中的作用

抗感染免疫指机体的免疫系统对抗病原体侵入的一种防御能力。机体的抗感染免疫包括非特异性免疫(又称天然免疫)及特异性免疫2个部分。哺乳动物的天然免疫系统在保持机体与非致病性微生物共生的同时,还具有清除病原微生物的功能,这一敏感的调控网络保证了机体基本状态的稳定。种系编码的非特异性受体的发现是免疫学发展的重要里程碑之一,其中Toll样受体(TLR)和Nod样受体的表达可见于多个生物门,TLR的发现奠定了“模式识别受体(pattern-recognitionreceptors,PRR)”与“病原相关分子模式(pathogen-associated molecular patterns,PAMP)…     

He－Ne激光对机体免疫功能影响研究进展

本文仅就Ｈｅ－Ｎｅ激光照射对机体特异性与非特异性免疫功能的促进与抑制的研究现状作以综述。     

He—Ne激光对机体免疫功能影响研究进展

本文仅就Ｈｅ－Ｎｅ激光照射对机体特异性与非特异性免疫功能的促进与抑制的研究现状作以综述。     

负免疫应答

负免疫应答是指生物个体的免疫系统对抗原刺激不产生免疫应答或仅产生不易察见的免疫应答,包括免疫耐受、免疫麻痹、免疫缺陷、免疫抑制四种状况。有的学者把免疫麻痹列入免疫耐受,把免疫抑制列入继发性免疫缺陷。(一)免疫耐受是指机体免疫系统接触某一抗原后形成的特异性负免疫应答。机体对这一抗原不能产生     

记忆性T细胞的形成、维持和功能

免疫记忆是指机体在对某一抗原产生特异性识别及应答的同时,记住该抗原,当再次遭遇同一抗原时,能发生快速和强烈的免疫应答。树突状细胞吞噬病原微生物后,通过主要组织相容性复合体分子提呈抗原短肽段,与T细胞相互作用。在T细胞抗原受体信号和共刺激信号的协同作用下,抗原特异性T细胞增殖,收缩,小部分细胞作为记忆细胞长期存活。免疫记忆T细胞在表型特征和功能上都存在多样性。深入研究机体记忆性T细胞的特征,不仅能指导新型疫苗的设计,而且可望帮助治疗疾病。     

20种中药提取物对牙龈卟啉单胞菌抑制作用的体外研究

目的筛选评价20种中药提取物对牙龈卟啉单胞菌抑制作用。方法选择20种有较强抑菌作用及清热解毒作用的中药提取物,采用杯碟法进行体外抑菌试验,比较各中药对牙龈卟啉单胞菌的抑菌环直径和最低抑菌浓度(MIC)。结果水煎剂中黄连、乌梅、五味子、五倍子和黄芩的MIC为0.0488~1.5625mg/mL。油剂中丁香油、香薷油的MIC为0.3906~1.5625mg/mL。结论本实验选择的20种中药提取物中香薷油、黄连、乌梅、五味子、五倍子和黄芩的抑菌敏感度最高。     

溶藻弧菌脂多糖对石斑鱼免疫功能的影响

脂多糖(Lipopolysaccharide,LPS)是G菌细胞壁中的主要成分之一,是细菌内毒素的主要物质,不仅可引起机体良好的体液免疫应答,而且也可提高机体的非特异性免疫功能。Bog-wald发现LPS能导致实验鱼产生特异性抗体,而且还增强鱼体的免疫吞噬能力;Mac Arthur等报道LPS可提高鲽(pleuronectes platessa)体内巨噬细胞的游走能力;Solem认为LPS可促进大西洋鲑(Atlantic salmon)巨噬细胞的分裂且提高其吞噬活性和鱼体抗感染的能力。本文用溶藻弧菌LPS免疫石斑鱼后,分析了石斑鱼血清抗体效价的变化、LPS对石斑鱼血清溶菌酶、酚氧化酶(PO)和超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)的活性以及抗菌活力等非特异性免疫指标的影响,以及LPS对石斑鱼免疫保护效果,将为充分利用LPS免疫学特性提供理论依据。       

Immunology of Dermatophytosis

The immune response to infection by dermatophytes ranges from a non-specific host mechanism to a humoral and cell-mediated immune response. The currently accepted view is that a cell-mediated immune response is responsible for the control of dermatophytosis. Indeed, some individuals develop a chronic or recurrent infection mediated by the suppression of a cell-mediated immune response. The immune response to Trichophyton is unusual in that this fungus can elicit both immediate hypersensitivity (IH) and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) in different individuals when they are submitted to a skin test reaction. Understanding the nature and function of the immune response to dermatophytes is an exciting challenge that might lead to novel approaches in the treatment and immunological prophylaxis of dermatophytosis.     

Augmented designs to assess immune response in vaccine trials

This article introduces methods for use in vaccine clinical trials to help determine whether the immune response to a vaccine is actually causing a reduction in the infection rate. This is not easy because immune response to the (say HIV) vaccine is only observed in the HIV vaccine arm. If we knew what the HIV-specific immune response in placebo recipients would have been, had they been vaccinated, this immune response could be treated essentially like a baseline covariate and an interaction with treatment could be evaluated. Relatedly, the rate of infection by this baseline covariate could be compared between the two groups and a causative role of immune response would be supported if infection risk decreased with increasing HIV immune response only in the vaccine group. We introduce two methods for inferring this HIV-specific immune response. The first involves vaccinating everyone before baseline with an irrelevant vaccine, for example, rabies. Randomization ensures that the relationship between the immune responses to the rabies and HIV vaccines observed in the vaccine group is the same as what would have been seen in the placebo group. We infer a placebo volunteer's response to the HIV vaccine using their rabies response and a prediction model from the vaccine group. The second method entails vaccinating all uninfected placebo patients at the closeout of the trial with the HIV vaccine and recording immune response. We pretend this immune response at closeout is what they would have had at baseline. We can then infer what the distribution of immune response among placebo infecteds would have been. Such designs may help elucidate the role of immune response in preventing infections. More pointedly, they could be helpful in the decision to improve or abandon an HIV vaccine with mediocre performance in a phase III trial.     

肝脏固有免疫系统对肠源性感染的免疫应答与免疫耐受机制

肝特殊的解剖结构及生理特征使其成为暴露肠源性抗原的主要器官。由于肝具有独特的固有免疫系统,在正常情况下,肝分布多种致耐受的抗原提呈细胞,对持续性表达或递呈于肝的肠源性抗原物质,诱发针对该抗原的系统性免疫耐受,避免肝受到不必要的免疫损伤。当炎症发生及肝脏固有免疫系统活化时,则通过免疫效应细胞及免疫效应因子对肠源性病原体发挥强烈地免疫应答以控制感染。该过程形成机制的研究对肝功能的理解及肝性疾病的预防与治疗至关重要。本文就肝固有免疫系统对肠源性感染的免疫应答与免疫耐受形成机制作一综述。     

Naturally occurring genetic variation in the age-specific immune response of Drosophila melanogaster

Immunosenescence, the age‐related decline in immune response, is a well‐known consequence of aging. To date, most studies of age‐related changes in immune response focused on the cellular and physiological bases of this decline; we have virtually no understanding of the genetic basis of age‐related changes in the immune system or if indeed such control exists. We used 25 chromosome substitution lines of Drosophila melanogaster derived from a natural population to address three questions: (i) How is the function of the innate immune system influenced by age? (ii) Is there a genetic basis for phenotypic variation in immune response at different ages? (iii) Is there a genetic basis for differences in the way that age influences the immune function? Virgin females from each line were assayed for immune response using clearance of infection with Escherichia coli at 1 and 4 weeks of age. We found significant genetic variation among lines in immune response at each age. Unexpectedly, when averaged across all lines, the immune response actually improved with age. However, there was significant variation in the effect of age on immune response with 11 lines showing improvement, nine lines showing no change and five exhibiting a decline with age. There was no genetic correlation of immune response across ages suggesting that different loci contribute to variation in immune response at each age. The genetic component of the variation in immune response increased with age, a pattern predicted by the mutation accumulation model of senescence. However, this increase in variation resulted in part from the improvement of the immune response in some lines with age. Thus the observed changes in genetic variation in immune function with age are not entirely explained by the mutation accumulation model.     

Stability and Hopf bifurcation for a five-dimensional virus infection model with Beddington–DeAngelis incidence and three delays

In this paper, the dynamical behaviours for a five-dimensional virus infection model with three delays which describes the interactions of antibody, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) immune responses and Beddington–DeAngelis incidence are investigated. The reproduction numbers for virus infection, antibody immune response, CTL immune response, CTL immune competition and antibody immune competition, respectively, are calculated. By using the Lyapunov functionals and linearization method, the threshold conditions on the local and global stability of the equilibria for infection-free, immune-free, antibody response, CTL response and interior, respectively, are established. The existence of Hopf bifurcation with immune delay as a bifurcation parameter is investigated by using the bifurcation theory. Numerical simulations are presented to justify the analytical results.     

From network-to-antibody robustness in a bio-inspired immune system

Behavioural robustness at antibody and immune network level is discussed. The robustness of the immune response that drives an autonomous mobile robot is examined with two computational experiments in the autonomous mobile robots trajectory generation context in unknown environments. The immune response is met based on the immune network metaphor for different low-level behaviours coordination. These behaviours are activated when a robot sense the appropriate conditions in the environment in relation to the network current state. Results are obtained over a case study in computer simulation as well as in laboratory experiments with a Khepera II microrobot. In this work, we develop a set of tests where such an immune response is externally perturbed at network or low-level behavioural modules to analyse the robust capacity of the system to unexpected perturbations. Emergence of robust behaviour and high-level immune response relates to the coupling between behavioural modules that are selectively engaged with the environment based on immune response. Experimental evidence leads discussions on a dynamical systems perspective of behavioural robustness in artificial immune systems that goes beyond the isolated immune network response.     

Linking Transcriptional Changes over Time in Stimulated Dendritic Cells to Identify Gene Networks Activated during the Innate Immune Response

The innate immune response is primarily mediated by the Toll-like receptors functioning through the MyD88-dependent and TRIF-dependent pathways. Despite being widely studied, it is not yet completely understood and systems-level analyses have been lacking. In this study, we identified a high-probability network of genes activated during the innate immune response using a novel approach to analyze time-course gene expression profiles of activated immune cells in combination with a large gene regulatory and protein-protein interaction network. We classified the immune response into three consecutive time-dependent stages and identified the most probable paths between genes showing a significant change in expression at each stage. The resultant network contained several novel and known regulators of the innate immune response, many of which did not show any observable change in expression at the sampled time points. The response network shows the dominance of genes from specific functional classes during different stages of the immune response. It also suggests a role for the protein phosphatase 2a catalytic subunit α in the regulation of the immunoproteasome during the late phase of the response. In order to clarify the differences between the MyD88-dependent and TRIF-dependent pathways in the innate immune response, time-course gene expression profiles from MyD88-knockout and TRIF-knockout dendritic cells were analyzed. Their response networks suggest the dominance of the MyD88-dependent pathway in the innate immune response, and an association of the circadian regulators and immunoproteasomal degradation with the TRIF-dependent pathway. The response network presented here provides the most probable associations between genes expressed in the early and the late phases of the innate immune response, while taking into account the intermediate regulators. We propose that the method described here can also be used in the identification of time-dependent gene sub-networks in other biological systems.     

Energetic trade-offs between immunity and reproduction in male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix)

We investigated a postulated trade-off between reproduction and immune function by comparing the energetic costs of an immune response with phytohemagglutinin challenge (or injection) in castrated (low testosterone [T]) and intact (high T) Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix). Intact birds had higher resting metabolic rate (RMR) and significantly lower immune response than castrates. RMR of intact birds did not change in response to an immune challenge, suggesting that maintenance of reproductive tissues and associated high T is both immunosuppressive and energetically costly. Despite having a greater immune response than intact quail, castrates had a lower pre-challenge RMR than intact birds and paradoxically tended to decrease RMR during an immune challenge. This paradox may be because of pro-inflammatory cytokines that are released during immune responses. Cytokines promote energy conservation through malaise and soporific behaviors, possibly explaining the co-occurrence of a relatively strong immune response and a decrease in nocturnal RMR in castrates. The lower immune response in intact birds may not elicit as great a response of pro-inflammatory cytokines owing to an already elevated RMR from reproductive state, thus reducing any effect on RMR. The suppressed immune response and elevated RMR in intact birds may be because of T; however, we cannot separate the effects of T per se from the metabolic requirements of reproductive tissues.     

A unified discrete model of immune response

In this paper we propose a unified model of immune response in terms of discrete automata describing the concentrations of the cells constituting the immune network. The model of normal immune response proposed by Kaufman, Urbain and Thomas and that of auto-immune response proposed by Weisbuch, Atlan and Cohen are special cases of this unified model. Moreover, this model also describes the immune response in patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that is known to cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).