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Immune tolerance encompasses the range of physiological mechanisms by which the body reduces or eliminates an immune response to particular agents. It is used to describe the phenomenon underlying discrimination of self from non-self, suppressing allergic responses, allowing chronic infection instead of rejection and elimination, and preventing ...
As of 2024, she is an emeritus professor at Scripps Research, and serves on the advisory boards of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology and the San Diego Biomedical Research Institute. [3] [4] Her research has focused on immune tolerance and autoimmunity, particularly type 1 diabetes, as well as the immune response to tumors.
From 2003 to 2006, Nadeau was a pediatric resident and a fellow in Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology. She also did a postdoctoral fellowship in human immune tolerance mechanisms in asthma and allergy. [16] She received a certificate in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2022.
Infectious tolerance is a term referring to a phenomenon where a tolerance-inducing state is transferred from one cell population to another. It can be induced in many ways; although it is often artificially induced, it is a natural in vivo process. [ 1 ]
APS-1 is due to problems with immune tolerance. [11] APS-1 causes considerable reactions with both interferon omega and interferon alpha. [4] [12] There may also be a reaction against interleukin 22. [4] This leads to damage to endocrine organs. [4]
Matzinger is chief of the T-Cell Tolerance and Memory Section at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). [6] The lab has been referred to as the "Ghost Lab" for Matzinger's choice to conduct the first nine months of her research alone with a focus on chaos theory.
Immune tolerance is maintained by central and peripheral tolerance. During central tolerance, T-cells are selected in the thymus and allowed to enter the periphery based on the ability of the T-cell to recognize self-peptides (via its TCR) being presented in the context of self-MHC. If the TCR binds the peptide-MHC complex with high affinity ...
The MIIB conducts basic and clinical investigations on the molecular mechanisms underlying immune and inflammatory responses in rheumatic and autoimmune diseases. A major focus of the Branch is the study of receptor-mediated signal transduction and how these events link to the regulation of genes involved in inflammatory responses.