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Immune priming modulates Galleria mellonella and Pseudomonas entomophila interaction. Antimicrobial properties of Kazal peptide Pr13a [PDF]
Galleria mellonella larvae repeatedly infected with Pseudomonas entomophila bacteria re-induced their immune response. Its parameters, i.e. the defence activities of cell-free hemolymph, the presence and activity of antimicrobial peptides, and the ...
Michał Sułek +6 more
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The epidemiological consequences of immune priming [PDF]
Exposure to low doses of pathogens that do not result in the host becoming infectious may ‘prime’ the immune response and increase protection to subsequent challenge. There is increasing evidence that such immune priming is a widespread and important feature of invertebrate host–pathogen interactions.
Hannah J, Tidbury +2 more
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Immune priming in Armadillidium vulgare against Salmonella enterica: direct or indirect costs on life history traits? [PDF]
Invertebrate immune priming is defined as an enhanced protection against secondary pathogenic infections when individuals have been previously exposed to the same or a different pathogen.
Cybèle Prigot-Maurice +4 more
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Mosquitoes have evolved an effective innate immune system. The mosquito gut accommodates various microbes, which play a crucial role in shaping the mosquito immune system during evolution.
Aditi Kulkarni +7 more
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Maternal Immune Activation and Schizophrenia–Evidence for an Immune Priming Disorder [PDF]
Schizophrenia is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder affecting around 19. 8 million people worldwide. The etiology of the disorder is due to many interacting genetic and environmental factors, with no one element causing the full spectrum of disease symptoms.
Choudhury, Z, Lennox, B
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Microglial Priming as Trained Immunity in the Brain [PDF]
In this review we discuss the possibility that the phenomenon of microglial priming can be explained by the mechanisms that underlie trained immunity. The latter involves the enhancement of inflammatory responses by epigenetic mechanisms that are mobilized after first exposure to an inflammatory stimulus.
Haley, Michael +3 more
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Royal Decree: Gene Expression in Trans-Generationally Immune Primed Bumblebee Workers Mimics a Primary Immune Response. [PDF]
Invertebrates lack the cellular and physiological machinery of the adaptive immune system, but show specificity in their immune response and immune priming. Functionally, immune priming is comparable to immune memory in vertebrates. Individuals that have
Seth M Barribeau +2 more
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Effect of Immune Priming on Borna Disease [PDF]
ABSTRACT Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic virus with a broad host and geographic range. Lewis rats were immunized against BDV with a recombinant vaccinia virus expressing the BDV nucleoprotein and were later infected with BDV to evaluate protection against Borna disease (BD).
A J, Lewis +4 more
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“Immune priming” plays a vital part in the immune system of invertebrates, protecting against recurrent infections by pathogens, and can provide some ideas for the prevention and treatment of invertebrate diseases.
Xin Zhang +8 more
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Immune priming against bacteria in spiders and scorpions? [PDF]
Empirical evidence of immune priming in arthropods keeps growing, both at the within- and trans-generational level. The evidence comes mostly from work on insects and it remains unclear for some other arthropods whether exposure to a non-lethal dose of a
Dumas Gálvez +3 more
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