Graves' disease (GD) is a very common autoimmune disorder of the thyroid in which stimulatory antibodies bind to the thyrotropin receptor and activate glandular function, resulting in… (More)
miRNAs participate in the regulation of apoptosis. However, it remains largely unknown as to how miRNAs are integrated into the apoptotic program. Mitochondrial fission is involved in the initiation… (More)
Fms-like tyrosine kinase receptor 3-ligand (Flt3-L) and GM-CSF cause expansion of different subsets of dendritic cells and skew the immune response toward predominantly Th1 and Th2 type,… (More)
A subtraction library was constructed from human insulinoma (beta cell tumor) and glucagonoma (alpha cell tumor) cDNA phagemid libraries. Differential screening of 153 clones with end-labeled mRNAs… (More)
Costimulatory ligands CD80 and CD86 have different binding preferences and affinities to their receptors, CD28 and CTLA-4. Earlier, we demonstrated that CD80 binds to CTLA-4 with higher affinity and… (More)
We demonstrate that a mucoid, alginate-producing strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from the lungs of a cystic fibrosis (CF) patient secretes multiple enzymes with nucleoside diphosphate… (More)
Trichloroethene (TCE) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and scleroderma in humans. However, experimental studies have not been… (More)
In our earlier work, we had shown that GM-CSF treatment of CBA/J mice can suppress ongoing thyroiditis by inducing tolerogenic CD8α(-) DCs, which helped expand and/or induce CD4(+)Foxp3(+) Tregs. To… (More)
Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the…
2011
Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) are one of the most common organ-specific autoimmune disorders, of which Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and Graves' disease (GD) are 2 of the most common clinical… (More)
We identified a novel cDNA (IG20) that is homologous to cDNAs encoding a protein differentially expressed in normal and neoplastic cells (DENN-SV) and human MADD (MAPK-activating death… (More)