In August 23 Nature, Yoshinori Fukui and colleagues from Kyushu University, Japan, show that DOCK2, a haematopoietic cell-specific protein, mediates cytoskeletal reorganization via Rac activation and ...

Treatment with TNF-α (2.5, 5 or 10 ng/ml) or lipopolysaccharide (0.5, 1 or 5 μg/ml) treatment was carried out for 12 h to activate the HUVECs, then 5 × 10 5 fluorescently labeled THP1 monocytes were ...

PBMCs include lymphocytes, monocytes, and their derivative cells ... examining the immune response to specific antigens, and determining immune activation after vaccination. 8 For example, ...

Used clinically since the 1920s, corticosteroids interrupt multiple steps in immune activation because ... of peripheral blood leukocytes. Lymphocyte, monocyte, and basophil counts decrease ...

In mice, MSC inhibit activation and proliferation of endothelial cells in remote inflamed lymph nodes (LNs), affect elongation and arborization of high endothelial venules (HEVs) and inhibit T ...