ORGAN-Specific Peptide Canine Safety Study

Tissue Specific Expression of Human Calcitonin Gene in Potato Tubers by an Organ Specific Promoter

To increase the production level of heterologous proteins in plants, strategies such as choice of strongerpromoters, optimization of codon usage and specific localization of foreign proteins are of major concern.Calcitonin (CT), a 32 amino acid polypeptide is a powerful and specific inhibitor of bone resorption and isused to treat several human diseases. Calcitonin activity is...

Introduction: Organ Specific Immunopathology

Organ-Specific Autoimmune Disease

It is well appreciated that organ-specific autoimmune diseases run in families, but that within a family one member may have type 1 diabetes, another autoimmune thyroid disease, and another multiple sclerosis (1). What causes clustering of different autoimmune diseases along genetic lines, and what logic causes the immune system to take aim at different organ targets? In this issue, Salomon et ...

Organ-specific autoimmunity in mice whose T cell repertoire is shaped by a single antigenic peptide.

Organ-specific autoimmune diseases have been postulated to be the result of T cell response against organ-specific self-peptides bound to MHC molecules. Contrary to this paradigm, we report here that transgenic mice lacking MHC class I expression and expressing an MHC class II I-A(b) molecule that presents only a single peptide (E alpha 52-68) spontaneously develops peripheral nervous system-sp...

organ-specific stem cell pools

Stem cells can self-renew and maintain the ability to differentiate into mature lineages. Whereas the ‘‘stemness’’ of embryonic stem cells is not discussed, the primitiveness of a stem cell type within adult organisms is not well determined. Data presently available are either inconclusive or controversial regarding two main topics: maintenance or senescente of the adult stem cell pool; and plu...