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Immunological consequences of compromised ocular immune privilege accelerate retinal degeneration in retinitis pigmentosa
BackgroundRetinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a hereditary retinal disease which leads to visual impairment. The onset and progression of RP has...
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Somatic-Immune Cells Crosstalk In-The-Making of Testicular Immune Privilege
Immunological infertility contributes significantly to the etiology of idiopathic male infertility. Shielding the spermatogenic cells from systemic...
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Discussing systemic racism and racial privilege at a large, academic health center using a modified privilege walk
BackgroundThere is a motivation for organizations to understand race and racism from the perspective of minoritized individuals. Academic health...
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Restoration of Immune Privilege in Human Dermal Papillae Controlling Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interactions in Hair Formation
Background:Hair follicles are among a handful of organs that exhibit immune privilege. Dysfunction of the hair follicle immune system underlies the...
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Immune Privileges as a Result of Mutual Regulation of Immune and Stem Systems
AbstractImmune privileges of cancer stem cells is a well-known and widely studied problem, as presence of such cells in tumors is associated with...
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Lipid-related FABP5 activation of tumor-associated monocytes fosters immune privilege via PD-L1 expression on Treg cells in hepatocellular carcinoma
Monocytes/macrophages, a plastic and heterogeneous cell population of the tumor microenvironment (TME), can constitute a major component of most...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Testicular Immune Regulation: A Delicate Balance Between Immune Function and Immune Privilege
The testis is one of several immune privilege sites. These sites are necessary to decrease inflammation and immune responses that could be damaging...
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Role of peripheral immune cells in spinal cord injury
Secondary spinal cord injury is caused by an inflammatory response cascade, and the process is irreversible. The immune system, as a mediator of...
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Testicular Immune Privilege: A Recently Discovered Domain of Collectins
Mammalian testis represents an immune privileged site where antigen specific adaptive immunity is suppressed to protect auto-antigenic developing...
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Confidentiality and Privilege
This chapter seeks to elucidate the intersection of confidentiality and privilege laws and healthcare practices. It demonstrates where the law...
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Colonial Privilege and COVID-19
Privilege exists because of colonial hierarchy that encourages inequity and supremacy over others. Colonial privilege has proved to be self-defeating...
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The Brain and the Immune System
The function and different layers of the immune system for the whole body are described. The notion of the brain as an “immune privileged site” is...
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Harms of Sexism and Male Privilege in the AE Community
Drawing on the work of previous scholars and information presented in previous chapters, Chapter 9 exposes the many harms of sexism and male...
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Immune Profiling of Meningiomas
Though meningiomas are generally regarded as benign tumors, there is increasing awareness of a large group of meningiomas that are biologically...
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Gateway reflexes describe novel neuro-immune communications that establish immune cell gateways at specific vessels
Neuroinflammation is an important biological process induced by complex interactions between immune cells and neuronal cells in the central nervous...
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Immune System Influence on Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukemia Development
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the source for all blood cells, including immune cells, and they interact dynamically with the immune system....
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How does age determine the development of human immune-mediated arthritis?
Does age substantially affect the emergence of human immune-mediated arthritis? Children do not usually develop immune-mediated articular...
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Regulation of Immune Responses
The normal immune response is the outcome of interactions between antigens, immunologic cells, and microenvironments in the body. The challenges...
