Using a test-negative design, we assessed interim vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the 2017/18 epidemic of co-circulating influenza A(H3N2) and B(Yamagata) viruses. Adjusted VE for influenza A(H3N2), driven by a predominant subgroup of clade 3C.2a viruses with T131K + R142K + R261Q substitutions, was low at 17% (95% confidence interval (CI): -14 to 40). Adjusted VE for influenza B was higher at 5...

Differentiation of T(H)1 and T(H)2 effector cells proceeds through several phases: First, naïve CD4(+) precursor cells are instructed to differentiate as appropriate to optimally fight the infectious threat encountered. This process is governed by the IL12 and IL4 cytokines, as well as by signaling through the Notch receptor. In response to these signals, transcription is initiated of lineage s...

A monoclonal antibody of the 1gM kappa type directed at a determinant on K-562 cells was produced and characterized. This hybridoma antibody. provisionally termed D5. defines a membrane-associated antigen that seems to be restricted. within the hemopoietic system. to the granulocytic cell lineage and possibly also to very immature erythroid and monocytic cells. Within the granulocytic cell line...

T cell development depends on continuous recruitment of progenitors from bone marrow (BM) to the thymus via peripheral blood. However, both phenotype and functional characteristics of physiological T cell precursors remain ill-defined. Here, we characterized a putative CD135(+)CD27(+) T cell progenitor population, which lacked expression of CD127, CD90, and high levels of CD117 and was therefor...

Tumoral or nodular melanosis in the skin is considered a variation of completely regressed melanoma, presenting clinically as a suspicious pigmented papule or nodule. Microscopically, the lesion consists of a nodular accumulation of heavily pigmented melanophages in the dermis, staining positive for immunohistochemical markers of histiocytic lineage (CD68) and negative for those of melanocytic ...

A gradual restriction in lineage potential of multipotent stem/progenitor cells is a hallmark of adult hematopoiesis, but the underlying molecular events governing these processes remain incompletely understood. Here, we identified robust expression of the leukemia-associated transcription factor hepatic leukemia factor (Hlf) in normal multipotent hematopoietic progenitors, which was rapidly do...

GATA-3 is essential for T cell development from the earliest stages. However, highly abundant GATA-3 can drive T-lineage precursors to a non-T fate, depending on Notch signaling and developmental stage. GATA-3 overexpression blocked pro-T cell survival when Notch-Delta signals were present, but enhanced viability in their absence. In double-negative (DN1) and DN2 but not DN3 fetal thymocytes, G...

Current systems for conditional gene deletion within mouse macrophage lineages are limited by ectopic activity or low efficiency. In this study, we generated a Mafb-driven Cre strain to determine whether any dendritic cells (DCs) identified by Zbtb46-GFP expression originate from a Mafb-expressing population. Lineage tracing distinguished macrophages from classical DCs, neutrophils, and B cells...

ASCs play crucial roles in tissue homeostasis and regeneration. Here, I established pigment cells in Schmidtea mediterranea as a novel model to study ASC lineage specification by identification of hmbs and alas as makers for pigment cells, and ans as a marker for their progenitors. Coexpression analysis between hmbs and tryptophan metabolism enzyme, kmo, suggests ommochrome as one of the respon...

Developing thymocytes bifurcate from a bipotent precursor into αβ- or γδ-lineage T cells. Considering this common origin and the fact that the T-cell receptor (TCR) β-, γ-, and δ-chains simultaneously rearrange at the double negative (DN) stage of development, the possibility exists that a given DN cell can express and transmit signals through both the pre-TCR and γδ-TCR. Here, we tested this s...