Immune Regulation News 1.05, November 13, 2009. Click here if you are unable to see images in this e-mail.

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Interstitial Macrophages: Immune Cells that Prevent Asthma
Lung interstitial macrophages (IMs) help prevent airborne LPS from promoting allergy in mice and suggest that they might have a similar function in humans. [University of Liège, Liège]

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SCIENCE NEWS

CEL-SCI Collaborators Present Data Suggesting that LEAPS Technology has Ability to Modify Immune Response
Scientists have shown that L.E.A.P.S™ (Ligand Epitope Antigen Presentation System) technology can convert precursor cells from mouse or humans to become dendritic cells (DC) that can activate T cell immune response without the generation of pro-inflammatory cytokines, making it a potentially safe vaccine. [CEL-SCI Corporation, Vienna, US]

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CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

CD4+FOXP3+ Regulatory T Cells Confer Long-Term Regulation of Factor VIII-Specific Immune Responses in Plasmid-Mediated Gene Therapy-Treated Hemophilia Mice
Antigen-specific Tregs can provide long-lasting protection against immune responses in vivo and limit recall responses induced by a second challenge via infectious tolerance. [Blood]

Lung Interstitial Macrophages Alter Dendritic Cell Functions to Prevent Airway Allergy in Mice
Lung interstitial macrophages (IMs), a cell population with no previously described in vivo function, prevented the induction of a Th2 response in mice challenged with LPS and an experimental harmless airborne antigen. [J Clin Invest]

Superagonistic CD28 Stimulation of Allogeneic T Cells Protects from Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Researchers investigated the effect of immunomodulatory superagonistic anti-CD28 monoclonal antibodies (CD28-SA) on the capacity of allogeneic T cells to mediate both aGVHD and the protective graft-versus-tumor (GVT) response. [Blood]

FoxP3+ Regulatory T Cells Restrain Splenic Extramedullary Myelopoiesis via Suppression of Hemopoietic Cytokine-Producing T Cells
Researchers investigated the mechanism by which FoxP3+ regulatory T cells regulate the extramedullary myelopoiesis. [J Immunol]

Homeostasis of Dendritic Cells in Lymphoid Organs is Controlled by Regulation of their Precursors Via a Feedback Loop
Using a mouse model allowing continuous DC depletion, scientists show that maintenance of DC numbers in spleen is an active process mediated by Flt3-L-dependent regulation of precursor differentiation into DCs, rather than by changes in proliferation of the differentiated DCs. [Blood]

Islet Allograft Rejection Is Independent of Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in Mice
Findings indicate that islet allograft rejection in mice is independent of toll-like receptors 4 (TLR4) and the TLR adaptor molecules MyD88 and Ticam-1, speaking against an essential role for TLR signaling in islet allograft rejection. [Transplantation]

Protein Kinase B/Akt Signals Impair Th17 Differentiation and Support Natural Regulatory T Cell Function and Induced Regulatory T Cell Formation
Data indicate an important role of PKB signals on control of TGF-Beta1-mediated T cell responses and, thereby, on tolerizing and inflammatory immune processes. [J Immunol]

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INDUSTRY NEWS

UF Receives $3 Million Grant to Study Type 1 Diabetes
The $3 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health provides funding for TrialNet studies at the University of Florida (UF) and represents a continuation of resources that have supported type 1 diabetes research at UF for more than 20 years.



POLICY NEWS

FDA: Considerations for Allogeneic Pancreatic Islet Cell Products
Guidance provides recommendations to manufacturers, sponsors, and clinical investigators involved in the clinical studies of allogeneic pancreatic islet cell products for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes mellitus.


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