Project description:We compared the effects of nociceptive neuropeptides and nociceptors on DCs by means of coculture of Flt3L-induced bone marrow-derived DCs and primary mouse nociceptors.
Project description:This study is being conducted to determine the efficacy, side effects, and toxicity of an investigational vaccine that consists of tumor-pulsed dendritic cells administered with an immune stimulating drug called interleukin-2 (IL-2). Dendritic cells are immune cells that are obtained from a subject’s blood and are important in the body’s immune response to foreign substances. This study will examine the response of a subject’s immune system after receiving several vaccinations containing their own dendritic cells which have been exposed to dead fragments of their cancer cells in the laboratory. This may result in sensitizing a subject’s dendritic cells to their cancer cells so that their dendritic cells will react with other cells of the immune system and attack the cancer. It has been shown in the laboratory that dendritic cells exposed to cancer cell fragments can provide lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) with signals they require in order to become fully activated and acquire the ability to kill cancer cells.
Project description:Hysterosalpingography with Lipiodol is known to enhance fertility. Frequency of mature dendritic cell of pertitoneal cavity is higher in the patients after hysterosalpingography with Lipiodol than control. In order to elucidate the mechanism of fertility enhancing effect of Lipiodl, we used microarray to clarify the effect of Lipiodol on dendritic cells.
Project description:This trial is to compare the efficacy and safety of modified FOLFOX6 [mFOLFOX6, a specific chemotherapy regimen of Oxaliplatin ,5-Fluorouracil and Leucovorin] chemotherapy plus Antigen Pulsed Dendritic Cells (APDC,a kind of autologous tumor lysates pulsed human dendritic cells vaccine) with modified chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Project description:Here we used a newly identified Sec61 blocker, mycolactone, to analyze Sec61 contribution to antigen cross presentation, ERAD and transport of internalized antigens into the cytosol in dendritic cells. Shotgun proteomics were used to asses the broad-ranging effects of Sec61 blockade on dendritic cells and its effect on critical proteins required for antigen presentation and ERAD.
Project description:Consumption of ethanol has detrimental effects on gastric organs such as the intestine. To demonstrate the deleterious effect of alcohol, we sacrificed isobaric feeding or ethanol feeding mice and sorted the dendritic cells from their intestine organ. The dendritic cells were analyzed by a small-scale global proteomics approach. We achieved to obtain the biological signatures in the alcohol abuse mice group using bioinformatics analysis.
Project description:We cultured bone marrow derived dendritic cells from WT and CD11c KO mice. Then, a group of bone marrow dendritic cells were stimulated with LPS overnight. We obtained bone marrow derived dendritic cells with or without LPS stimulation and analyzed proteomics profiles.