RA is a chronic, debilitating disease in which articular inflammation and joint destruction are
accompanied by systemic manifestations including anaemia, fatigue and osteoporosis. IL-6 …

Background Human tuberculosis, which is caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium
tuberculosis, remains a major public health concern. Increasing drug resistance poses a …

TB remains uncontrolled. In resource‐rich countries, only∼ 60% of diagnoses are confirmed
by culture. The number is lower in resource‐poor environments. Huge scope therefore exists …

Mycobacterium immunogenum has been associated with occupational pulmonary disease
hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP). The aim of this study was to identify immunogenic …

Development of host protective immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is
critically dependent on the inflammatory cytokine TNF. TNF signals through 2 receptors …

We investigated the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in dendritic cell (DC)
differentiation by 10-kDa Mycobacterium tuberculosis secretory Ag (MTSA) and survival of …

Chronic inflammation associated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and reactive oxygen
species (ROS) is the hallmark of tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) directly …

Despite of encountering a robust immune response, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)
successfully survives and persists in the human host. We investigated the early regulation of …

Abstract Bacillus Calmette‑Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy is the standard therapy for non‑
muscle invasive bladder cancer. The aim of the present study was to identify genes that are …

Our recent microarray analysis of infected human alveolar macrophages (AMs) found serine
protease inhibitor 9 (PI-9) to be the most prominently expressed of a cluster of apoptosis …