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Immunobiology and Immunotherapy

Section edited by Alessandra Cesano

The Immunobiology and Immunotherapy section aims to enrich the communication between basic biological and immunological sciences and the clinical investigation arena.

As immunology has evolved to be a central discipline connected to a wide range of therapeutic areas, the number and diversity of platform technologies has also increased, spanning small molecules, biologics, microbial vectors and cells. Such levels of activity require appropriate means to share new knowledge and to catalyze the development of the field. This section aims to provide such a platform and welcomes submissions across all disciplines, including inflammation, autoimmunity, transplantation, metabolic disorders.

The section was founded with the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) under the title "Tumor immunology and biological cancer therapy" and Pedro Romero was the founding Section Editor.

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  1. Complement Regulatory Proteins (CRPs), especially CD55 primarily negate complement factor 3-mediated injuries and maintain tissue homeostasis during complement cascade activation. Complement activation and reg...

    Authors: Mohammad Afzal Khan, Talal Shamma, Shadab Kazmi, Abdullah Altuhami, Hala Abdalrahman Ahmed, Abdullah Mohammed Assiri and Dieter Clemens Broering
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:147
  2. Cancer Immunotherapy has recently emerged as a promising and effective modality to treat different malignancies. Antigenic profiling of cancer tissues and determination of any pre-existing immune responses to ...

    Authors: Afsheen Raza, Maysaloun Merhi, Varghese Philipose Inchakalody, Roopesh Krishnankutty, Allan Relecom, Shahab Uddin and Said Dermime
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:140
  3. Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is characterized by an alteration in airway epithelial cell functions including barrier function, wound repair mechanisms, mucociliary clearance. The mechanism...

    Authors: Emilie Bequignon, David Mangin, Justine Bécaud, Jennifer Pasquier, Christelle Angely, Mathieu Bottier, Estelle Escudier, Daniel Isabey, Marcel Filoche, Bruno Louis, Jean-François Papon and André Coste
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:136
  4. Transitional B cells (TrB cells) represent a crucial link between immature B cells in the bone marrow and mature peripheral B cells. Although TrB cells represent one of the regulatory B cell subpopulations in ...

    Authors: Yang Zhou, Ying Zhang, Jinming Han, Mengge Yang, Jie Zhu and Tao Jin
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:131
  5. PD-1 blocking agents, such as nivolumab, have demonstrated clear anti-tumor effects and clinical benefits in a subset of patients with advanced malignancies. Nonetheless, more efforts are needed to identify re...

    Authors: Mariaelena Capone, Federica Fratangelo, Diana Giannarelli, Claudia Sorrentino, Roberta Turiello, Serena Zanotta, Domenico Galati, Gabriele Madonna, Marilena Tuffanelli, Luigi Scarpato, Antonio M. Grimaldi, Assunta Esposito, Rosa Azzaro, Antonio Pinto, Ernesta Cavalcanti, Aldo Pinto…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:121
  6. Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is the most frequent subtype of lung cancer. The prognostic signature could be reliable to stratify LUAD patients according to risk, which helps the management of the systematic trea...

    Authors: Dina Guo, Mian Wang, Zhihong Shen and Jiaona Zhu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:123
  7. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) is a highly invasive bacterium that infects the human intestinal mucosa and causes ~ 11.9–20.6 million infections and ~ 130,000–223,000 deaths annually worldwide. Oral...

    Authors: Jayaum S. Booth, Eric Goldberg, Robin S. Barnes, Bruce D. Greenwald and Marcelo B. Sztein
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:102
  8. Macrophages are heterogenous phagocytic cells with an important role in the innate immunity. They are, also, significant contributors in the adaptive immune system. Macrophages are the most abundant immune cel...

    Authors: Mohamed Hamed Abdelaziz, Sayed F. Abdelwahab, Jie Wan, Wei Cai, Wang Huixuan, Cheng Jianjun, Kesavan Dinesh Kumar, Aparna Vasudevan, Ahmed Sadek, Zhaoliang Su, Shengjun Wang and Huaxi Xu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:58
  9. Crohn’s disease (CD) is a multifactorial disease characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation. The increased visceral adiposity near the affected intestinal area, of which mesenteric adipose tissue (MAT) i...

    Authors: Francesca Aparecida Ramos da Silva, Lívia Bitencourt Pascoal, Isabella Dotti, Maria de Lourdes Setsuko Ayrizono, Daniel Aguilar, Bruno Lima Rodrigues, Montserrat Arroyes, Elena Ferrer-Picon, Marciane Milanski, Lício Augusto Velloso, João José Fagundes, Azucena Salas and Raquel Franco Leal
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:44
  10. Recently, involvement of IL-19, IL-20 and IL-24 has been reported in inflammatory diseases associated with tissue remodeling. However, their impact on the pathomechanism of coeliac disease (CD) is still comple...

    Authors: Réka Rokonay, Apor Veres-Székely, Beáta Szebeni, Domonkos Pap, Rita Lippai, Nóra J. Béres, Gábor Veres, Attila J. Szabó and Ádám Vannay
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:36
  11. We have previously shown that HCC patients and healthy subjects are equally responsive to a RNAdjuvant®, a novel TLR-7/8/RIG-I agonist based on noncoding RNA developed by CureVac, by an ex vivo evaluation. Howeve...

    Authors: Angela Mauriello, Carmen Manolio, Beatrice Cavalluzzo, Antonio Avallone, Marco Borrelli, Alessandro Morabito, Emanuele Iovine, Angela Chambery, Rosita Russo, Maria Lina Tornesello, Franco M. Buonaguro, Maria Tagliamonte and Luigi Buonaguro
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2020 18:34
  12. The inefficacy of standard therapeutic strategies for ovarian cancer is reflected by the enduring poor prognosis of this malignancy. Due to the potential for exquisite specificity, sensitivity and long-term me...

    Authors: Leonardo Mirandola, Maurizio Chiriva-Internati, Robert Bresalier, Lucia Piccotti, Fabio Grizzi and Francesco M. Marincola
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:424
  13. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a multifactorial chronic disease. Understanding only one aspect of IBD pathogenesis does not reflect the complex nature of IBD nor will it improve its clinical management. T...

    Authors: Manoj Kumar, Mathieu Garand and Souhaila Al Khodor
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:419
  14. Immunosuppression caused by tumorigenesis may promote tumor progress and invasion. Here, we investigated whether the characteristics of circulating T lymphocyte subtypes in patients with extensive small cell l...

    Authors: Ning An, Haoyi Wang, Wenxiao Jia, Wang Jing, Chao Liu, Hui Zhu and Jinming Yu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:402
  15. RH1 is one of the most clinically important blood group antigens in the field of transfusion and in the prevention of fetal incompatibility. The molecular analysis and characterization of serologic weak D phen...

    Authors: Xu Zhang, Guiji Li, Zhuren Zhou, Chaopeng Shao, Xuying Huang, Lichun Li, Xiaofeng Li, Ying Liu, Hua Fan and Jianping Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:393
  16. Fatigue was reported as the most common any-grade adverse event (18.3%), and the most common grade 3 or higher immune-related adverse event (irAE) (0.89%) in patients receiving PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors...

    Authors: Alessio Cortellini, Maria G. Vitale, Federica De Galitiis, Francesca R. Di Pietro, Rossana Berardi, Mariangela Torniai, Michele De Tursi, Antonino Grassadonia, Pietro Di Marino, Daniele Santini, Tea Zeppola, Cecilia Anesi, Alain Gelibter, Mario Alberto Occhipinti, Andrea Botticelli, Paolo Marchetti…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:376
  17. Autologous tolerogenic dendritic cells (tolDC) are a promising therapeutic strategy for inflammatory arthritis (IA) as they can regulate autoantigen-specific T cell responses. Here, we investigated two outstan...

    Authors: Rachel Spiering, Manon A. A. Jansen, Matthew J. Wood, Anshorulloh A. Fath, Oliver Eltherington, Amy E. Anderson, Arthur G. Pratt, Willem van Eden, John D. Isaacs, Femke Broere and Catharien M. U. Hilkens
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:375
  18. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-COV) is the main cause of lung and kidney infections in developing countries such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea. This infectious single-stranded, positive (...

    Authors: Muhammad Tahir ul Qamar, Saman Saleem, Usman Ali Ashfaq, Amna Bari, Farooq Anwar and Safar Alqahtani
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:362
  19. Exosomes are 50–150 nm endocytic vesicles secreted by almost all type of cells that carry bioactive molecules from host. These small vesicles are considered to be novel cross-talk circuits established by tumor...

    Authors: Chuling Li, Chuwei Li, Chunchun Zhi, Wenjun Liang, Xuan Wang, Xi Chen, Tangfeng Lv, Qin Shen, Yong Song, Dang Lin and Hongbing Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:355
  20. At present, immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab, are widely used in the therapy of advanced non-resectable melanoma, as they induce more durable responses than other available treatments. Howev...

    Authors: Neta Tsur, Yuri Kogan, Evgenia Avizov-Khodak, Désirée Vaeth, Nils Vogler, Jochen Utikal, Michal Lotem and Zvia Agur
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:338
  21. Medulloblastoma (MB), the most common pediatric brain cancer, presents with a poor prognosis in a subset of patients with high risk disease, or at recurrence, where current therapies are ineffective. Cord bloo...

    Authors: Allison B. Powell, Sridevi Yadavilli, Devin Saunders, Stacey Van Pelt, Elizabeth Chorvinsky, Rachel A. Burga, Shuroug Albihani, Patrick J. Hanley, Zhenhua Xu, Yanxin Pei, Eric S. Yvon, Eugene I. Hwang, Catherine M. Bollard, Javad Nazarian and Conrad Russell Y. Cruz
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:321
  22. Despite major advances in rheumatoid arthritis outcome, not all patients achieve remission, and there is still an unmet need for new therapeutic approaches. This study aimed at evaluating in a pre-clinical mur...

    Authors: Céline Coppard, Francis Bonnefoy, Dalil Hannani, Françoise Gabert, Olivier Manches, Joel Plumas, Sylvain Perruche and Laurence Chaperot
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:312
  23. Calcium oxalate (CaOx), the major constituent of most kidney stones, induces inflammatory infiltration and injures renal tubular cells. However, the role of γδT cells in CaOx-mediated kidney injury remains unc...

    Authors: Chao Zhu, Qing Liang, Yaqun Liu, Deliang Kong, Jie Zhang, Hu Wang, Kejia Wang and Zhiyong Guo
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:278
  24. ACAM2000, a thymidine kinase (TK)-positive strain of vaccinia virus, is the current smallpox vaccine in the US. Preclinical testing demonstrated potent oncolytic activity of ACAM2000 against several tumor type...

    Authors: Boris R. Minev, Elliot Lander, John F. Feller, Mark Berman, Bernadette M. Greenwood, Ivelina Minev, Antonio F. Santidrian, Duong Nguyen, Dobrin Draganov, Mehmet O. Killinc, Anna Vyalkova, Santosh Kesari, Edward McClay, Gabriel Carabulea, Francesco M. Marincola, Lisa H. Butterfield…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:271
  25. Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disorder and represents the leading cause of food impaction. The pathogenesis of EoE is the result of an interplay between genetic, envi...

    Authors: Elena Cavalli, Andrea Brusaferro, Elena Sofia Pieri, Rita Cozzali, Edoardo Farinelli, Gian Luigi de’ Angelis and Susanna Esposito
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:262
  26. The pleiotropic cytokine, transforming growth factor (TGF)-β, and CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a critical role in actively suppressing antitumor immune responses. Evidence shows that TGF-β prod...

    Authors: Magdalena J. Polanczyk, Edwin Walker, Daniel Haley, Bella S. Guerrouahen and Emmanuel T. Akporiaye
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:219
  27. Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) are intracellular sensors of pathogens and molecules from damaged cells to regulate the inflammatory response in the innate immune system. ...

    Authors: Luo-Yi Wang, Xiao-Jing Sun, Min Chen and Ming-Hui Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:197
  28. Current syphilis tests cannot distinguish between active and past syphilis among patients with serofast rapid plasma reagin (RPR) titers. We investigated whether cytokine profiles might provide insight in the ...

    Authors: N. Kojima, J. C. Siebert, H. Maecker, Y. Rosenberg-Hasson, S. R. Leon, S. K. Vargas, K. A. Konda, C. F. Caceres and J. D. Klausner
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:196
  29. Gastric cancer (GC) remains a refractory cancer worldwide. Currently, exploring the differences of the immune status in GC patients with different subgroups might provide promising immunotherapeutic approaches...

    Authors: Xu Liu, Danhua Xu, Chen Huang, Yixian Guo, Shuchang Wang, Chunchao Zhu, Jia Xu, Zizhen Zhang, Yanying Shen, Wenyi Zhao and Gang Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:192
  30. Patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) are protected against invasive bacterial infections due to IgG replacement therapy, but are still at higher risk for mucosal infections of the gut and respirator...

    Authors: Jeroen D. Langereis, Joannes F. M. Jacobs, Marien I. de Jonge and Marcel van Deuren
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:174
  31. Helios is important for functional and phenotype stability of regulatory T cells (Tregs). However, the role of Helios in autoimmune diseases and its regulation remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate ...

    Authors: Yi Li, Shumei Yang, Zhibin Li, Huanyu Meng, Wanling Jin, Huan Yang and Weifan Yin
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:168
  32. The tumor-associated microenvironment plays important roles in tumor progression and drug resistance. However, systematic investigations of macrophage–tumor cell interactions to identify novel macrophage-relat...

    Authors: Xiaoqiang Sun, Xiaoping Liu, Mengxue Xia, Yongzhao Shao and Xiaohua Douglas Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:159
  33. The onset of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been shown to be associated with several immunological conditions such as infections or atopy. The aim of this study was to clarify the risk of chronic fatigue s...

    Authors: Shin-Yi Tsai, Hsuan-Ju Chen, Chi Chen, Chon-Fu Lio, Chien-Feng Kuo, Kam-Hang Leong, Yu-Ting Tina Wang, Tse-Yen Yang, Ching-Hui You and Wei-Sheng Wang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:154
  34. Targeting new molecular pathways leading to Osteoporosis (OP) and Osteoarthritis (OA) is a hot topic for drug discovery. Clusterin (CLU) is a glycoprotein involved in inflammation, proliferation, cell death, n...

    Authors: S. Pucci, C. Greggi, C. Polidoro, M. C. Piro, M. Celi, M. Feola, E. Gasbarra, R. Iundusi, F. Mastrangeli, G. Novelli, A. Orlandi and U. Tarantino
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:118
  35. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic and systemic inflammatory disease characterized by upregulation of inflammatory cell death and osteoclastogenesis. Necrostatin (NST)-1s is a chemical inhibitor of recepto...

    Authors: Jooyeon Jhun, Seung Hoon Lee, Se-Young Kim, Jaeyoon Ryu, Ji Ye Kwon, Hyun Sik Na, KyoungAh Jung, Su-Jin Moon, Mi-La Cho and Jun-Ki Min
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:84
  36. The morbidity of nephrolithiasis is 2–3 times higher in males than in females, suggesting that androgen plays a key role in nephrolithiasis. The death of renal tubular epithelial cells (TECs) is an important p...

    Authors: Yonghan Peng, Ziyu Fang, Min Liu, Zeyu Wang, Ling Li, Shaoxiong Ming, Chaoyue Lu, Hao Dong, Wenhui Zhang, Qi Wang, Rong Shen, Fei Xie, Weitao Zhang, Cheng Yang, Xiaofeng Gao and Yinghao Sun
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:62

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  37. In 1975, Milstein and Köhler revolutionized the medical world with the development of the hybridoma technique to produce monoclonal antibodies. Since then, monoclonal antibodies have entered almost every branc...

    Authors: Lien Van Hoecke and Kenny Roose
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:54
  38. Immunology research, particularly next generation sequencing (NGS) of the immune T-cell receptor β (TCRβ) repertoire, has advanced progression in several fields, including treatment of various cancers and auto...

    Authors: Shang-Gin Wu, Wenjing Pan, Hongna Liu, Miranda L. Byrne-Steele, Brittany Brown, Mollye Depinet, Xiaohong Hou, Jian Han and Song Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:47
  39. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is characterized by an inflammatory process in which T cell plays a key role. However, the profile of immune microenvironment in AMI is still uncertain. High-throughput sequen...

    Authors: Dan Li, Longgang Hu, Qing Liang, Cuijuan Zhang, Yunzhen Shi, Bin Wang and Kejia Wang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:40
  40. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic autoimmune disease characterized by the presence of pathogenic autoantibodies associated with polyclonal B cell hyperreactivity. Previous study reported that ...

    Authors: Meiyu Zhang, Chengcheng Yao, Jun Cai, Shuai Liu, Xia-nan Liu, Yingying Chen, Shujun Wang, Ping Ji, Meng Pan, Zizhen Kang and Ying Wang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:37
  41. Tissue expansion is a procedure that promotes skin regeneration by mechanical stretch. During the stress and relaxation cycle, the skin undergoes a repeated microtrauma which triggers an immune response leadin...

    Authors: Jianke Ding, Lei Lei, Shiqiang Liu, Yu Zhang, Zhou Yu, Yingjun Su and Xianjie Ma
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:36
  42. Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is chronic inflammatory arthritis, and interleukin (IL)-17 is crucial in SpA pathogenesis. Type 17 helper T (Th17) cells are one of major IL-17-secreting cells. Signal transducer and ac...

    Authors: Hong-Ki Min, JeongWon Choi, Seon-Yeong Lee, Hyeon-Beom Seo, KyungAh Jung, Hyun Sik Na, Jun-Geol Ryu, Seung-Ki Kwok, Mi-La Cho and Sung-Hwan Park
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2019 17:18
  43. we have recently shown that Tel-eVax, a genetic vaccine targeting dog telomerase (dTERT) and based on Adenovirus (Ad)/DNA Electro-Gene-Transfer (DNA–EGT) technology can induce strong immune response and increa...

    Authors: Joseph A. Impellizeri, Alessandra Gavazza, Eliana Greissworth, Anna Crispo, Maurizio Montella, Gennaro Ciliberto, George Lubas and Luigi Aurisicchio
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:349
  44. The overlapping symptoms and pathophysiological similarities between burn injury and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are noteworthy. Thus, this study explores the possible association between burn injury and th...

    Authors: Shin-Yi Tsai, Cheng-Li Lin, Shou-Chuan Shih, Cheng-Wei Hsu, Kam-Hang Leong, Chien-Feng Kuo, Chon-Fu Lio, Yu-Tien Chen, Yan-Jiun Hung and Leiyu Shi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:342
  45. Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a common and often refractory brain disease that is closely correlated with inflammation. Alpha-methyl-l-tryptophan (AMT) is recognized as a surrogate marker for epilepsy, characte...

    Authors: Yanli Wang, Yanling Wang, Ran Sun, Xingrao Wu, Xu Chu, Shuhu Zhou, Xibin Hu, Lingyun Gao and Qingxia Kong
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:337
  46. With the exception of genotoxic oncology drugs, first-in-human, Phase 1 clinical studies of investigational drugs have traditionally been conducted in healthy volunteers (HVs). The primary goal of these studie...

    Authors: Joyson J. Karakunnel, Nam Bui, Latha Palaniappan, Keith T. Schmidt, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Briggs Morrison, William D. Figg and Shivaani Kummar
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:336
  47. Epicutaneous immunotherapy (EPIT) is a new way of allergen administration that has a high rate of adherence and safety. The aim of this manuscript is to review clinical trials on EPIT for respiratory and food ...

    Authors: Susanna Esposito, Chiara Isidori, Alessandra Pacitto, Cristina Salvatori, Laura Sensi, Franco Frati, Giuseppe Di Cara and Francesco Marcucci
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:329
  48. The clinical trials conducted at Chingleput India suggest that BCG fails to protect against tuberculosis (TB) in TB-endemic population. Recent studies advocate that non-tuberculous mycobacteria and latent Mycobac...

    Authors: Pradeep K. Rai, Sathi Babu Chodisetti, Sudeep K. Maurya, Sajid Nadeem, Weiguang Zeng, Ashok K. Janmeja, David C. Jackson and Javed N. Agrewala
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:279

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