Follicular Helper CD4 T Cells (TFH)

S Crotty - Annual review of immunology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
T cell help to B cells is a fundamental aspect of adaptive immunity and the generation of
immunological memory. Follicular helper CD4 T (TFH) cells are the specialized providers of …

From vaccines to memory and back

F Sallusto, A Lanzavecchia, K Araki, R Ahmed - Immunity, 2010 - cell.com
Vaccines work by eliciting an immune response and consequent immunological memory
that mediates protection from infection or disease. Recently, new methods have been …

Determining cell type abundance and expression from bulk tissues with digital cytometry

AM Newman, CB Steen, CL Liu, AJ Gentles… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing has emerged as a powerful technique for characterizing
cellular heterogeneity, but it is currently impractical on large sample cohorts and cannot be …

PD-1 blockade partially recovers dysfunctional virus–specific B cells in chronic hepatitis B infection

L Salimzadeh, N Le Bert, CA Dutertre, US Gill… - The Journal of clinical …, 2018 - jci.org
Chronic HBV (CHB) infection suppresses virus-specific T cells, but its impact on humoral
immunity has been poorly analyzed. Here, we developed a dual-staining method that …

Transcriptional profiling of mouse B cell terminal differentiation defines a signature for antibody-secreting plasma cells

W Shi, Y Liao, SN Willis, N Taubenheim, M Inouye… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
When B cells encounter an antigen, they alter their physiological state and anatomical
localization and initiate a differentiation process that ultimately produces antibody-secreting …

Epstein–Barr virus reprograms human B lymphocytes immediately in the prelatent phase of infection

P Mrozek-Gorska, A Buschle, D Pich… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is a human tumor virus and a model of herpesviral latency. The
virus efficiently infects resting human B lymphocytes and induces their continuous …

Interleukin 6 signaling promotes anti-aquaporin 4 autoantibody production from plasmablasts in neuromyelitis optica

N Chihara, T Aranami, W Sato, Y Miyazaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - pnas.org
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory disease affecting the optic nerve and spinal
cord, in which autoantibodies against aquaporin 4 (AQP4) water channel protein probably …

Rapid discovery of monoclonal antibodies by microfluidics-enabled FACS of single pathogen-specific antibody-secreting cells

K Fischer, A Lulla, TY So, P Pereyra-Gerber… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies are increasingly used to prevent and treat viral infections and are
pivotal in pandemic response efforts. Antibody-secreting cells (ASCs; plasma cells and …

Human peripheral blood B‐cell compartments: a crossroad in B‐cell traffic

M Perez‐Andres, B Paiva, WG Nieto… - Cytometry Part B …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A relatively high number of different subsets of B‐cells are generated through the
differentiation of early B‐cell precursors into mature B‐lymphocytes in the bone marrow (BM) …

Inhibiting the osteocyte-specific protein sclerostin increases bone mass and fracture resistance in multiple myeloma

MM McDonald, MR Reagan, SE Youlten… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell cancer that develops in the skeleton causing
profound bone destruction and fractures. The bone disease is mediated by increased …