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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. Only recently, the scientific community gained insights on the importance of the intestinal resident flora for the host’s health and disease. Gut microbiota in fact plays a crucial role in modulating innate an...

    Authors: Andrea Picchianti Diamanti, M. Manuela Rosado, Bruno Laganà and Raffaele D’Amelio
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:233
  2. Epstein-Barr virus and Cytomegalovirus reactivations frequently occur after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT).

    Authors: Julia Drylewicz, Ingrid M. M. Schellens, Rogier Gaiser, Nening M. Nanlohy, Esther D. Quakkelaar, Henny Otten, Suzanne van Dorp, Ronald Jacobi, Leonie Ran, Sanne Spijkers, Dan Koning, Rob Schuurman, Ellen Meijer, Floortje L. Pietersma, Jurgen Kuball and Debbie van Baarle
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:230
  3. High-risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPVs) types 16 and 18 are the main etiological agents of cervical cancer, with more than 550,000 new cases each year worldwide. HPVs are also associated with other ano-geni...

    Authors: Elena Illiano, Olivia Costantina Demurtas, Silvia Massa, Paola Di Bonito, Valerio Consalvi, Roberta Chiaraluce, Carlo Zanotto, Carlo De Giuli Morghen, Antonia Radaelli, Aldo Venuti and Rosella Franconi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:224
  4. Immunotherapy based on the adoptive transfer of gene modified T cells is an emerging approach for the induction of tumor-specific immune responses. Memory stem T cells, due to their enhanced antitumor and self...

    Authors: C. Alvarez-Fernández, L. Escribà-Garcia, S. Vidal, J. Sierra and J. Briones
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:214
  5. T helper (Th) 17 cells are a subset of T helper cells that express interleukin (IL)-17 and initiate the inflammatory response in autoimmune diseases. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are a subpopulation of T cells t...

    Authors: Min-Jung Park, Seung Hoon Lee, Sung-Hee Lee, Eun-Kyung Kim, Eun Jung Lee, Young-Mee Moon and Mi- La Cho
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:206
  6. Foxp3 is a key regulator of the development and function of regulatory T cells (Tregs), and its expression is thought to be T cell-restricted. We found that B cells in mice can express Foxp3 and B cells expres...

    Authors: Mi Kyung Park, Young Ok Jung, Seon-Yeong Lee, Seung Hoon Lee, Yu Jung Heo, Eun Kyung Kim, Hye Jwa Oh, Young Mee Moon, Hye-Jin Son, Min Jung Park, Sung Hwan Park, Ho Youn Kim, Mi La Cho and Jun Ki Min
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:191

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:221

  7. Spondyloarthritis (SpA) usually manifests as arthritis of the axial and peripheral joints but can also result in extra-articular manifestations such as inflammatory bowel disease. Proinflammatory cytokine inte...

    Authors: Hong-Ki Min, Jae-Kyung Kim, Seon-Yeong Lee, Eun-Kyung Kim, Seung Hoon Lee, Jennifer Lee, Seung-Ki Kwok, Mi-La Cho and Sung-Hwan Park
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:190
  8. TNF weakly inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) is member of the TNF ligand superfamily. Various data support that TWEAK produced by synovial macrophages may contribute to synovitis observed in psoriatic arthritis (P...

    Authors: Sandrine Guis, Philippe Berbis, Delphine Stephan, Daniel Bertin, Florent Amatore, Nathalie Balandraud, Nathalie Lesavre and Sophie Desplat-Jégo
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:185
  9. Exosomes are nano-sized extracellular vesicles participating in cell-to-cell communication both in health and disease. However, the knowledge about the functions and molecular composition of exosomes in the up...

    Authors: Cecilia Lässer, Serena E. O’Neil, Ganesh V. Shelke, Carina Sihlbom, Sara F. Hansson, Yong Song Gho, Bo Lundbäck and Jan Lötvall
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:181
  10. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health concern worldwide. Previous studies have demonstrated that IL-17 plays an important role in initial immune response and is involved in both immune-mediated prote...

    Authors: Lichen Xu, Guangying Cui, Hongyu Jia, Yunan Zhu, Yulong Ding, Jianing Chen, Chong Lu, Ping Ye, Hainv Gao, Lanjuan Li, Weihang Ma, Jianxin Lyu and Hongyan Diao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:179
  11. The risk for developing cardiovascular disease is greater in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) than in the general population. While patients with RA also have dyslipidemia, the impact of dyslipidemia on...

    Authors: Amy M. Archer, Rana Saber, Shawn Rose, Alexander Shaffer, Alexander V. Misharin, FuNien Tsai, G. Kenneth Haines III, Salina Dominguez, Mesut Eren, Douglas E. Vaughan, Carla M. Cuda and Harris Perlman
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:170
  12. Organizing pneumonia is a reaction pattern and an inflammatory response to acute lung injuries, and is characterized by intraluminal plugs of granulation tissue in distal airspaces. In contrast to other fibrot...

    Authors: Nicole Izykowski, Mark Kuehnel, Kais Hussein, Kristin Mitschke, Michael Gunn, Sabina Janciauskiene, Axel Haverich, Gregor Warnecke, Florian Laenger, Ulrich Maus and Danny Jonigk
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:169
  13. Our previous results showed that intrasynovial Rifamycin SV caused the lysis of synoviocites and freed the autoantigens which in turn stimulated the immunoregulatory rather than autoreactive T cell response in...

    Authors: Innocenzo Caruso, Salvatore Santandrea, Mariarita Gismondo, Alessandra Lombardi, Franco Montrone, Enzo Massimo Caruso and Piercarlo Sarzi Puttini
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:162
  14. NLRP3 inflammasome has been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The activation of NLRP3 inflammasome results in the production of IL-1β and the subsequent inflammation. Anti-d...

    Authors: Hui Zhang, Rong Fu, Chaohuan Guo, Yuefang Huang, Hongyue Wang, Shuang Wang, Jijun Zhao and Niansheng Yang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:156
  15. Noroviruses (NoVs) are a major cause of childhood gastroenteritis and foodborne diseases worldwide. Lack of appropriate animal models or cell-based culture systems makes the development and evaluation of NoV-s...

    Authors: Vivek Verma, Wenzhi Tan, Sao Puth, Kyoung-Oh Cho, Shee Eun Lee and Joon Haeng Rhee
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:135
  16. Dendritic cells (DCs) rendered suppressive by treatment with mitomycin C and loaded with the autoantigen myelin basic protein demonstrated earlier their ability to prevent experimental autoimmune encephalomyel...

    Authors: Christian Kleist, Elisabeth Mohr, Sadanand Gaikwad, Laura Dittmar, Stefanie Kuerten, Michael Platten, Walter Mier, Michael Schmitt, Gerhard Opelz and Peter Terness
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:99
  17. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains incurable with standard therapy, and is characterized by excessive expansion of monoclonal abnormal mature B cells and more regulatory immune properties of T cell com...

    Authors: Jiusheng Deng, Andrea Pennati, Jonathon B. Cohen, Yuanqiang Wu, Spencer Ng, Jian Hui Wu, Christopher R. Flowers and Jacques Galipeau
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:106
  18. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) has been established as an effective treatment for patients with hematological malignancies. Disease relapse remains a major cause of transplant f...

    Authors: X.-Y. Qin, Y. Wang, G.-X. Li, Y.-Z. Qin, F.-R. Wang, L.-P. Xu, H. Chen, W. Han, J.-Z. Wang, X.-H. Zhang, Y.-J. Chang, K.-Y. Liu, Z.-F. Jiang and X.-J. Huang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:100
  19. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune-mediated chronic inflammatory disease. Half of patients with SLE suffer from lupus nephritis, which is major cause of death in SLE. TNF-like weak inducer of ...

    Authors: Hong-Ki Min, Sung-Min Kim, Jin-Sil Park, Jae-Kyeong Byun, Jennifer Lee, Seung-Ki Kwok, Young-Woo Park, Mi-La Cho and Sung-Hwan Park
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:98
  20. Natural Killer (NK) cell effector functions are dependent on phosphorylation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) pathway to produce an effective immune response for the clearance of target cells in...

    Authors: Teilah Kathryn Huth, Donald Staines and Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:97
  21. An efficient strategy for programing dendritic cells (DCs) for cancer immunotherapy is the optimization of their maturation so that they can efficiently stimulate cancer-specific T cell responses. Interleukin ...

    Authors: Valérie Chabot, Laurence Martin, Daniel Meley, Luc Sensebé, Christophe Baron, Yvon Lebranchu, Frédéric Dehaut and Florence Velge-Roussel
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:93
  22. Double-negative (DN) T cells could delay the onset and the progression of autoimmune diabetes, yet they were less efficient on reversing autoimmune diabetes. The aim of this study was to investigate whether th...

    Authors: Tianhui Liu, Min Cong, Guangyong Sun, Ping Wang, Yue Tian, Wen Shi, Xinmin Li, Hong You and Dong Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:57
  23. Exacerbations of asthma caused by respiratory viral infections are serious conditions in need of novel treatment. To this end animal models of asthma exacerbations are warranted. We have shown that dsRNA chall...

    Authors: Irma Mahmutovic Persson, Hamid Akbarshahi, Mandy Menzel, Angelica Brandelius and Lena Uller
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:52
  24. Potent antitumor responses can be induced through cytokine immunotherapy. Interleukin (IL)-2 and granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) are among the most effective cytokines to induce tumo...

    Authors: Qian Wen, Wenjing Xiong, Jianchun He, Shimeng Zhang, Xialin Du, Sudong Liu, Juanjuan Wang, Mingqian Zhou and Li Ma
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:41
  25. In vivo depletion of host T cells with antithymocyte globulin (ATG) is a common strategy for preventing graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The total dose of...

    Authors: Jiangying Liu, Lan-Ping Xu, Zhilei Bian, Ying-Jun Chang, Yu Wang, Xiao-Hui Zhang and Xiao-Jun Huang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:391
  26. Impaired Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) function has been associated with the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis (AD). However, there are only few studies reporting on the TLR2-induced immunological responses of ...

    Authors: Yangyang Yu, Yarui Zhang, Jie Zhang, Xia Dou, Hong Yang, Yong Shao, Kepeng Wang, Bo Yu, Wei Zhang and Hang Yung Alaster Lau
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:384
  27. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), a life-threatening anemia with rapid onset, is caused by autoantibody directed to self red blood cells (RBCs). Currently, mechanisms underlying AIHA pathogenesis are largel...

    Authors: Xiangmao Bu, Tenglong Zhang, Chunhong Wang, Tao Ren and Zhenke Wen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:381
  28. Ipilimumab is an approved immunotherapy that has shown an overall survival benefit in patients with cutaneous metastatic melanoma in two phase III trials. As results of registrational trials might not answer a...

    Authors: Lisa Zimmer, Thomas K. Eigentler, Felix Kiecker, Jan Simon, Jochen Utikal, Peter Mohr, Carola Berking, Eckhart Kämpgen, Edgar Dippel, Rudolf Stadler, Axel Hauschild, Michael Fluck, Patrick Terheyden, Rainer Rompel, Carmen Loquai, Zeinab Assi…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:351
  29. Autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease are treated with TNF-alpha-blocking antibodies such as infliximab and adalimumab. A common side effect of therapeutic antibodies is...

    Authors: Arne Homann, Niels Röckendorf, Arno Kromminga, Andreas Frey and Uta Jappe
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:339
  30. Trastuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody (mAb) currently used for the treatment of breast cancer (BC) patients with HER-2 overexpressing tumor subtype. Previous data reported the involvement of FcγRIIIA/...

    Authors: Silvia Boero, Anna Morabito, Barbara Banelli, Barbara Cardinali, Beatrice Dozin, Gianluigi Lunardi, Patrizia Piccioli, Sonia Lastraioli, Roberta Carosio, Sandra Salvi, Alessia Levaggi, Francesca Poggio, Alessia D’Alonzo, Massimo Romani, Lucia Del Mastro, Alessandro Poggi…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:324

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:24

  31. Characterization of PD-L1 expression within clinically/radiologically negative but microscopically tumor positive sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) is important to our understanding of the relevance of this immune ch...

    Authors: Ahmad A. Tarhini, Haris Zahoor, Jennifer H. Yearley, Christopher Gibson, Zahra Rahman, Rachel Dubner, Uma N. M. Rao, Cindy Sander and John M. Kirkwood
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:319
  32. Hepatitis B (HB) is an infectious disease with unfavorable consequence for patients and involved in chronic inflammation of liver. The present study aimed to investigate whether High-mobility group protein B (...

    Authors: JooYeon Jhun, SeungHoon Lee, HeeYeon Kim, Yang-Mi Her, Jae Kyeong Byun, Eun-Kyung Kim, Soon Kyu Lee, Mi-La Cho and Jong Young Choi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:310
  33. Several attempts to improve immune function in young children have been made and encouraging results have been collected with pidotimod (PDT), a synthetic dipeptide molecule that seems to have immunomodulatory...

    Authors: Susanna Esposito, Micaela Garziano, Veronica Rainone, Daria Trabattoni, Mara Biasin, Laura Senatore, Paola Marchisio, Marta Rossi, Nicola Principi and Mario Clerici
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:288
  34. Bronchial smooth muscle cells (BSMCs) from severe asthmatics have been shown to overexpress the Th2-driving and asthma-associated cytokine IL-33. However, little is known regarding factors involved in BSMC pro...

    Authors: Jenny Calvén, Hamid Akbarshahi, Mandy Menzel, Cemil Korcan Ayata, Marco Idzko, Leif Bjermer and Lena Uller
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:281
  35. Tapasin is a crucial component of the major histocompatibility (MHC) class I antigen presentation pathway. Defects in this pathway can lead to tumor immune evasion. The aim of this study was to test whether ta...

    Authors: Lena Sokol, Viktor H. Koelzer, Tilman T. Rau, Eva Karamitopoulou, Inti Zlobec and Alessandro Lugli
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:279
  36. The transcription factor forkhead box P3 (Foxp3) is a master regulatory gene necessary for the development and function of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells (Tregs). Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have recently emerged ...

    Authors: Haizhi Qi, Guangshun Chen, Yaxun Huang, Zhongzhou Si and Jiequn Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:274
  37. The complement mediators are the major effectors of the immune balance, which operates at the interface between the innate and adaptive immunity, and is vital for many immunoregulatory functions. Activation of...

    Authors: Mohammad Afzal Khan, Abdullah Mohammed Assiri and Dieter Clemens Broering
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:272
  38. Foxp3+ T cells regulate inflammation and tumorigenesis. However, little is known about the role of different subsets of Foxp3+ T cells in malignant or tuberculous hydrothorax.

    Authors: Ying Tang, Li-Ping Peng, Gui-Xiang Qin, Jing-Ting Sun, Li-Jun Xu and Yan-Fang Jiang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:268
  39. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is considered as a neuroimmunological disease but the etiology and pathophysiology is poorly understood. Patients suffer from sustained exhaustion, cognitive impairment and an in...

    Authors: Madlen Löbel, Agnes Anna Mooslechner, Sandra Bauer, Sabrina Günther, Anne Letsch, Leif G Hanitsch, Patricia Grabowski, Christian Meisel, Hans-Dieter Volk and Carmen Scheibenbogen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:264
  40. The beneficial outcome associated with the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has been reported in retrospective studies. To date, no prospective study has been conduct...

    Authors: Yohannes T Ghebremariam, John P Cooke, William Gerhart, Carol Griego, Jeremy B Brower, Melanie Doyle-Eisele, Benjamin C Moeller, Qingtao Zhou, Lawrence Ho, Joao de Andrade, Ganesh Raghu, Leif Peterson, Andreana Rivera and Glenn D Rosen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:249
  41. Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) that block programmed death (PD)-1 signaling pathway hold great potential as a novel cancer immunotherapy. Recent evidence suggests that combining with conventional, targeted or oth...

    Authors: Zhiqiang Guo, Haolin Wang, Fandong Meng, Jie Li and Shulan Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:247
  42. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an incurable disease with fatal infections or relapse being the main causes of death in most cases. In particular, the severe infections occurring in these patients before or du...

    Authors: Gerardo Musuraca, Serena De Matteis, Roberta Napolitano, Cristina Papayannidis, Viviana Guadagnuolo, Francesco Fabbri, Delia Cangini, Michela Ceccolini, Maria Benedetta Giannini, Alessandro Lucchesi, Sonia Ronconi, Paolo Mariotti, Paolo Savini, Monica Tani, Pier Paolo Fattori, Massimo Guidoboni…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:229
  43. An important portion of asthmatics do not respond to current therapies. Thus, the need for new therapeutic drugs is urgent. We have demonstrated a critical role for PARP in experimental asthma. Olaparib, a PAR...

    Authors: Mohamed A Ghonim, Kusma Pyakurel, Salome V Ibba, Amir A Al-Khami, Jeffrey Wang, Paulo Rodriguez, Hamada F Rady, Ali H El-Bahrawy, Matthew R Lammi, Moselhy S Mansy, Kamel Al-Ghareeb, Alistair Ramsay, Augusto Ochoa, Amarjit S Naura and A Hamid Boulares
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:225
  44. Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) show extensive variation in genetic content and allelic polymorphi sms among different populations.

    Authors: Qiongxiu Zhou, Jue Wang, Zhi He, Xiaojuan Li, Song Mao, Shu Huang, Guohui Bian and Feng Ma
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:221
  45. There are a number of studies regarding to the susceptibility of A20 SNPs in rheumatoid arthritis (RA); however, a few of these studies have shown an association between polymorphisms in the A20 gene and RA risk ...

    Authors: Lihua Zhu, Liang Wang, Xu Wang, Lingling Zhou, Ziwei Liao, Ling Xu, Huixia Wu, Jie Ren, Zhaoxia Li, Lijian Yang, Shaohua Chen, Bo Li, Xiuli Wu, Yi Zhou and Yangqiu Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:215
  46. Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) is a rare but serious adverse drug effect linked to long-term and/or high-dose exposure to nitrogen-bisphosphonates (N-BP), the standard of care for the treatment of bone fragili...

    Authors: Shirin Kalyan, Jun Wang, Elgar Susanne Quabius, Jörn Huck, Jörg Wiltfang, John F Baines and Dieter Kabelitz
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:212
  47. Locally advanced HER2-overexpressing breast cancer (BC) patients achieve a high rate of pathological complete responses (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC). The apparently unaltered immune proficiency of...

    Authors: E Muraro, E Comaro, R Talamini, E Turchet, G Miolo, S Scalone, L Militello, D Lombardi, S Spazzapan, T Perin, S Massarut, D Crivellari, Riccardo Dolcetti and D Martorelli
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:204
  48. Resistin is a pro-inflammatory adipokine that increases after brain injury (trauma, bleeding) and may initiate an inflammatory response. Resistin was found increased in deceased, brain dead organ donors (DBD) ...

    Authors: Rille Pullerits, Simona Oltean, Anne Flodén and Mihai Oltean
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2015 13:201

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