Background: Alternatively activated macrophages (AAMacs) are key to promoting Th2 responses and have been associated with a variety of roles during helminth infection.
Background: Allicin is believed to be the main component responsible for the biological activity of garlic, and is known to stimulate the functional activity of antigen presenting cells (APCs).
It remains elusive on the role of CD8+ T cells in persistent viral infection.Here we employed HIV and LCMV infection models and identified that the up-regulation of CD8-T-cell mediated cytotoxicity bu
Type Ⅰ interferon (IFN) production plays key roles in host antiviral innate immune response, but the mechanisms for regulation of antiviral type Ⅰ interferon (IFN) production remain to be fully elucid
Objective: To investigate whether serum human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) could constitute a potential novel and useful biomarker for lupus nephritis (LN) and chronic kidney disease(CKD) in systemic lu