Keratinocyte stem cells: Friends and foes

Phytoestrogens. Friends or foes?

BioInformatics Pipeline Alternative Splicing Services (BIPASS) offer support to scientists interested in gathering information related to alternative splicing (AS) events. The service BIPAS–SpliceDB provides access to AS information that has been extracted a priori from various public databases and stored in a data warehouse. In contrast, the BIPAS– Align&Splice service allows scientists to sub...

T Regulatory Cells – Friends or Foes?

Lindqvist, C. 2010. T Regulatory Cells – Friends or Foes? Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 576. 63 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7843-8. T regulatory cells (Tregs) have been extensively studied in patients with cancer or autoimmunity. These cells hamper the immune system’s ability to clear tumor cells in cancer ...

Chemoreception: Identifying Friends and Foes

The vomeronasal organ detects chemical cues that trigger sexual, aggressive and defensive behaviors. An in situ hybridization analysis has identified the specificities of nearly a hundred VNO receptors and elucidated the logic by which they encode these cues.

Beta-agonists--friends or foes?

Prostaglandin E2 and T cells: friends or foes?

Our understanding of the key players involved in the differential regulation of T-cell responses during inflammation, infection and auto-immunity is fundamental for designing efficient therapeutic strategies against immune diseases. With respect to this, the inhibitory role of the lipid mediator prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) in T-cell immunity has been documented since the 1970s. Studies that ens...