Peptide-Based Vaccinology: Experimental and Computational Approaches to Target Hypervariable Viruses through the Fine Characterization of Protective Epitopes Recognized by Monoclon... by Matteo Castelli, Francesca Cappelletti, Roberta Antonia Diotti, Giuseppe Sautto, Elena Criscuolo, Matteo Dal Peraro, Nicola Clementi

“…Defining immunogenic domains of viral proteins capable of eliciting a protective immune response is crucial in the development of novel epitope-based prophylactic strategies. …”
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Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone and Its Analogues: Significance for MSCs-Mediated Angiogenesis by Xiangyang Xia, Quanwei Tao, Qunchao Ma, Huiqiang Chen, Jian’an Wang, Hong Yu

“…Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are promising candidates for regenerative medicine because of their multipotency, immune-privilege, and paracrine properties including the potential to promote angiogenesis. …”
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Serum Calprotectin: A Potential Biomarker for Neonatal Sepsis by Lidia Decembrino, Mara De Amici, Margherita Pozzi, Annalisa De Silvestri, Mauro Stronati

“…Calprotectin may be considered a promising early, sensitive, specific marker of sepsis thanks to the importance of calprotectin in defense mechanisms and physiological functions of the immune system.…”
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Experiment and Prediction of Ablation Depth in Excimer Laser Micromachining of Optical Polymer Waveguides by K. F. Tamrin, S. S. Zakariyah, K. M. A. Hossain, N. A. Sheikh

“…Optical transmission using optical fibre is practically immune to the aforementioned factors. Among the manufacturing methods, UV laser ablation using an excimer laser has been repeatedly demonstrated as a suitable technique to fabricate multimode polymer waveguides. …”
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Amelioration of dextran sodium sulphate-induced colitis in mice by treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus reuteri: intraspecific and interspecific patterns by Chunxiu Lin, Yuxing Zheng, Bo Zhang, Guopeng Lin, Kexin Shang, Jianxin Zhao, Gang Wang, Wei Chen

“…The anti-colitis activities of both strains involved various aspects of intestinal immune, physical, chemical, and biological barrier function. …”
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Mannose-Binding Lectin Promoter Polymorphisms and Gene Variants in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients from Cantabria (Northern Spain) by J.-Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals, Lucía Lavín-Alconero, Pablo Sánchez-Velasco, M.-Ángeles Guerrero-Alonso, Fernando Ausín, M.-Carmen Fariñas, Francisco Leyva-Cobián

“…Mannose-binding lectin is a central molecule of the innate immune system. Mannose-binding lectin 2 promoter polymorphisms and structural variants have been associated with susceptibility to tuberculosis. …”
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Antimicrobial Peptides: A Promising Alternative to Conventional Antimicrobials for Combating Polymicrobial Biofilms by Cesar Augusto Roque‐Borda, Laura Maria Duran Gleriani Primo, Kaila Petronila Medina‐Alarcón, Isabella C. Campos, Camila de Fátima Nascimento, Mauro M. S. Saraiva, Angelo Berchieri Junior, Ana Marisa Fusco‐Almeida, Maria José Soares Mendes‐Giannini, João Perdigão, Fernando Rogério Pavan, Fernando Albericio

“…AMPs, which can be produced as part of the innate immune response or synthesized therapeutically, have broad‐spectrum antimicrobial activity, often disrupting microbial cell membranes and causing cell death. …”
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HLA-A02 restricted T-cell cross-reactivity to a microbial antigen by Alar Aints, Marina Šunina, Raivo Uibo

“…From these outcomes, it is possible to conclude that certain bacterial proteins may initiate CD8+ T-cell-mediated immune reaction toward homologous human antigens.…”
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Synergic Interaction of Rifaximin and Mutaflor (Escherichia coli Nissle 1917) in the Treatment of Acetic Acid-Induced Colitis in Rats by Artur Dembiński, Zygmunt Warzecha, Piotr Ceranowicz, Marcin Dembiński, Jakub Cieszkowski, Tomasz Gosiewski, Małgorzata Bulanda, Beata Kuśnierz-Cabala, Krystyna Gałązka, Peter Christopher Konturek

“…Inflammatory bowel disease results from the dysregulation of immune response to environmental and microbial agents in genetically susceptible individuals. …”
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Unveiling the Mechanisms for Decreased Glutathione in Individuals with HIV Infection by Devin Morris, Carlos Guerra, Clare Donohue, Hyoung Oh, Melissa Khurasany, Vishwanath Venketaraman

“…This combined with the decreased expression of GSH synthesis enzymes leads to a depletion of free GSH and may lead in part to the loss of immune function observed in HIV patients.…”
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PD-L1 Blockade Attenuated Sepsis-Induced Liver Injury in a Mouse Cecal Ligation and Puncture Model by Weimin Zhu, Rui Bao, Xiaohua Fan, Tianzhu Tao, Jiali Zhu, Jiafeng Wang, Jinbao Li, Lulong Bo, Xiaoming Deng

“…Our previous studies indicated that programmed death-1 (PD-1) and its ligand programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) are crucial modulators of host immune responses during sepsis. Our current study was designed to investigate the role of PD-L1 in sepsis-induced liver injury by a mouse cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) model. …”
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Unraveling the Anti-Cancer Mechanisms of Antibiotics: Current Insights, Controversies, and Future Perspectives by Nikolaos Nektarios Karamanolis, Dimitris Kounatidis, Natalia G. Vallianou, Krystalia Dimitriou, Eleni Tsaroucha, Georgios Tsioulos, Ioanna A. Anastasiou, Evangelos Mavrothalassitis, Irene Karampela, Maria Dalamaga

“…Additional effects involve the disruption of angiogenesis and modulation of pivotal processes such as inflammation, immune response, mitochondrial dynamics, ferroptosis, and autophagy. …”
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A Critical Need for Advanced Practice Nurse Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa and Lessons Learned From the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Discursive Review by Jacqueline Itambo, Brenda Owusu, Danielle McCamey, Diana‐Lyn Baptiste

“…Discussion The COVID‐19 pandemic served as a barrier to healthcare access and disrupted routine immunizations and care, reduced facility‐based healthcare services, increased disease burden and mortality, strain and is expected to worsen the healthcare workforce shortage in Sub‐Saharan Africa. …”
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Mast Cell Interaction with Neutrophils in Human Gastric Carcinomas: Ultrastructural Observations by Antonio Ieni, Valeria Barresi, Giovanni Branca, Rosario Alberto Caruso, Giovanni Tuccari

“…The role of mast cells in cell-cell immune interactions has received increasing attention, although their functional interaction with neutrophils still remains to be clarified in tumors. …”
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Highly Sensitive Lateral Flow Immunodetection of the Insecticide Imidacloprid in Fruits and Berries Reached by Indirect Antibody–Label Coupling by Lyubov V. Barshevskaya, Elena A. Zvereva, Anatoly V. Zherdev, Boris B. Dzantiev

“…The given approach provides the possibility of selecting independent concentrations of GNPs and anti-imidacloprid antibodies to obtain the influence of minimal imidacloprid concentrations in the samples on the formation of detected, labeled immune complexes. A comparative study of imidacloprid LFIAs with common and indirect antibody–label coupling was implemented. …”
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CBP22, a Novel Bacteriocin Isolated from Clostridium butyricum ZJU-F1, Protects against LPS-Induced Intestinal Injury through Maintaining the Tight Junction Complex by Tenghao Wang, Jie Fu, Xiao Xiao, Zeqing Lu, Fengqin Wang, Mingliang Jin, Yizhen Wang, Xin Zong

“…The effects and potential mechanisms of bacteriocin CBP22 on the innate immune response were investigated with a lipopolysaccharide- (LPS-) induced mouse model. …”
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Effects of Zearalenone on IL-2, IL-6, and IFN-γ mRNA Levels in the Splenic Lymphocytes of Chickens by Y. C. Wang, J. L. Deng, S. W. Xu, X. Peng, Z. C. Zuo, H. M. Cui, Y. Wang, Z. H. Ren

“…These compounds elicit a wide spectrum of toxic effects, including the capacity to alter normal immune function. In this study, the in vitro effects of the treatment of ConA-stimulated splenic lymphocytes with ZEN (0–25 μg/mL) were examined. …”
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Vision-Based Damage Detection Method Using Multi-Scale Local Information Entropy and Data Fusion by Yiming Zhang, Zili Xu, Guang Li, Cun Xin

“…The MS-LIE integrates the multi-scale analysis component and the entropy analysis component, addressing both the issue of detection sensitivity and noise immunity, thereby showcasing enhanced performance. …”
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Therapeutic targeting of obesity-induced neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration by Jialiu Zeng, Jialiu Zeng, Lenny Yi Tong Cheong, Chih Hung Lo, Chih Hung Lo

“…Excessive fat storage in obesity promotes the progressive infiltration of immune cells into adipose tissue, resulting in the release of pro-inflammatory factors such as cytokines and adipokines. …”
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WILD SOUR CHERRY SPECIES OF THE CAUCASUS, CENTRAL ASIA AND THE FAR EAST AND THEIR USE IN BREEDING by A. A. Yushev, Yu. S. Orlova

“…Wild sour cherries from the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Far East introduced in the 1970–80s had a range of such important traits as immunity to fungal diseases, winter hardiness, drought resistance, restrained growth, vegetative reproduction ability, and were later used by Russian breeders for the development of new varieties and clonal rootstocks for growing cherries in various ecological and geographical areas of the country. …”
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