Nonpeptide antigens, presentation mechanisms, and immunological memory of human Vγ2Vδ2 T cells: discriminating friend from foe through the recognition of prenyl …

CT Morita, C Jin, G Sarikonda… - Immunological reviews, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Human Vγ2Vδ2 T cells play important roles in mediating immunity against microbial
pathogens and have potent anti‐tumor activity. Vγ2Vδ2 T cells recognize the …

Plasticity of γδ T cells: impact on the anti-tumor response

V Lafont, F Sanchez, E Laprevotte… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The tumor immune microenvironment contributes to tumor initiation, progression, and
response to therapy. Among the immune cell subsets that play a role in the tumor …

Toll-like receptor triggering of a vitamin D-mediated human antimicrobial response

PT Liu, S Stenger, H Li, L Wenzel, BH Tan, SR Krutzik… - Science, 2006 - science.org
In innate immune responses, activation of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) triggers direct
antimicrobial activity against intracellular bacteria, which in murine, but not human …

Cutting edge: vitamin D-mediated human antimicrobial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis is dependent on the induction of cathelicidin

PT Liu, S Stenger, DH Tang, RL Modlin - The journal of immunology, 2007 - journals.aai.org
Host defense against intracellular pathogens depends upon innate and adaptive
antimicrobial effector pathways. TLR2/1-activation of monocytes leads to the vitamin D …

MICA engagement by human Vγ2Vδ2 T cells enhances their antigen-dependent effector function

H Das, V Groh, C Kuijl, M Sugita, CT Morita, T Spies… - Immunity, 2001 - cell.com
Abstract Vγ2Vδ2 T cells comprise 2%–5% of human peripheral blood T cells, recognize
ubiquitous nonpeptide antigens, and expand up to 50-fold during microbial infection. It is not …

Programmed death (PD)-1: PD-ligand 1/PD-ligand 2 pathway inhibits T cell effector functions during human tuberculosis

JO Jurado, IB Alvarez, V Pasquinelli… - The Journal of …, 2008 - journals.aai.org
Protective immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires the generation of cell-
mediated immunity. We investigated the expression and role of programmed death 1 (PD-1) …

Cytokine requirements for the differentiation and expansion of IL-17A–and IL-22–producing human Vγ2Vδ2 T cells

KJ Ness-Schwickerath, C Jin… - The Journal of Immunology, 2010 - journals.aai.org
Human γδ T cells expressing the Vγ2Vδ2 TCR play important roles in immune responses to
microbial pathogens by monitoring prenyl pyrophosphate isoprenoid metabolites. Most adult …

Human γδT-cell subsets and their involvement in tumor immunity

D Wu, P Wu, F Qiu, Q Wei, J Huang - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract γδT cells are a conserved population of innate lymphocytes with diverse structural
and functional heterogeneity that participate in various immune responses during tumor …

Detection of antigen-specific T cell cytokine expression in whole blood by flow cytometry

MA Suni, LJ Picker, VC Maino - Journal of immunological methods, 1998 - Elsevier
We have recently described a highly sensitive flow cytometric technique, based on the ability
to detect single cell expression of cytokines, to simultaneously quantitate and phenotypically …

Flow cytometric measurement of intracellular cytokines

P Pala, T Hussell, PJM Openshaw - Journal of immunological methods, 2000 - Elsevier
The identification of distinct T helper lymphocyte subsets (Th1/2) with polarised cytokine
production has opened up new fields in immunobiology. Of the several alternative methods …