Search Results - "Ahmed, Rafi"
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High antigen levels are the cause of T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-05-2009)“…Many persistent viral infections induce dysfunctional T cell responses. Although a negative correlation exists between viral load and T cell responses during…”
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Human antibody responses after dengue virus infection are highly cross-reactive to Zika virus
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-07-2016)“…Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus of significant public health concern. ZIKV shares a high degree of sequence and structural homology…”
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Manipulating the PD-1 pathway to improve immunity
Published in Current opinion in immunology (01-06-2013)“…Highlights • Blocking PD-1 signaling rescues exhausted T cells in chronic infections and cancer. • PD-1 pathway blockade unleashes effector T cell functions on…”
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Comparison of the toxicity profile of PD‐1 versus PD‐L1 inhibitors in non–small cell lung cancer: A systematic analysis of the literature
Published in Cancer (15-01-2018)“…BACKGROUND Monoclonal antibodies against programmed cell death protein 1 (PD‐1) and programmed death ligand 1 (PD‐L1) are effective therapies in patients with…”
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Humoral cross-reactivity between Zika and dengue viruses: implications for protection and pathology
Published in Emerging microbes & infections (2017)“…Zika virus (ZIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus that has recently caused extensive outbreaks in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Given…”
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PD-1 suppresses TCR-CD8 cooperativity during T-cell antigen recognition
Published in Nature communications (12-05-2021)“…Despite the clinical success of blocking its interactions, how PD-1 inhibits T-cell activation is incompletely understood, as exemplified by its potency far…”
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A Direct Comparison of in Vitro and in Vivo Nucleic Acid Delivery Mediated by Hundreds of Nanoparticles Reveals a Weak Correlation
Published in Nano letters (14-03-2018)“…Endothelial cells and macrophages play active roles in disease and as a result are important targets for nucleic acid therapies. While thousands of chemically…”
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Defining antigen-specific plasmablast and memory B cell subsets in human blood after viral infection or vaccination
Published in Nature immunology (01-10-2016)“…Immunologic memory promotes faster and more-efficient responses after re-exposure to pathogens. Ahmed and colleagues characterize a subset of human B cells…”
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Multi-epitope Models Explain How Pre-existing Antibodies Affect the Generation of Broadly Protective Responses to Influenza
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-06-2016)“…The development of next-generation influenza vaccines that elicit strain-transcendent immunity against both seasonal and pandemic viruses is a key public…”
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The function of programmed cell death 1 and its ligands in regulating autoimmunity and infection
Published in Nature Immunology (01-03-2007)“…The programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) surface receptor binds to two ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2. Studies have shown that PD-1-PD-L interactions control the induction…”
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Strength of PD-1 signaling differentially affects T-cell effector functions
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-07-2013)“…High surface expression of programmed death 1 (PD-1) is associated with T-cell exhaustion; however, the relationship between PD-1 expression and T-cell…”
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Influenza vaccine-induced human bone marrow plasma cells decline within a year after vaccination
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (09-10-2020)“…A universal vaccine against influenza would ideally generate protective immune responses that are not only broadly reactive against multiple influenza strains…”
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Metabolic Phenotypes of Response to Vaccination in Humans
Published in Cell (18-05-2017)“…Herpes zoster (shingles) causes significant morbidity in immune compromised hosts and older adults. Whereas a vaccine is available for prevention of shingles,…”
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CXCL13 is a plasma biomarker of germinal center activity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-03-2016)“…Significantly higher levels of plasma CXCL13 [chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 13] were associated with the generation of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs)…”
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Immune history profoundly affects broadly protective B cell responses to influenza
Published in Science translational medicine (02-12-2015)“…Generating a broadly protective influenza vaccine is critical to global health. Understanding how immune memory influences influenza immunity is central to…”
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Cooperation of Tim-3 and PD-1 in CD8 T-cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-08-2010)“…Inhibitory receptors play a crucial role in regulating CD8 T-cell function during chronic viral infection. T-cell Ig- and mucin-domain–containing molecule–3…”
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Anti-HA Glycoforms Drive B Cell Affinity Selection and Determine Influenza Vaccine Efficacy
Published in Cell (02-07-2015)“…Protective vaccines elicit high-affinity, neutralizing antibodies by selection of somatically hypermutated B cell antigen receptors (BCR) on immune complexes…”
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Photobiomodulation in acceleration of orthodontic tooth movement: A systematic review and meta analysis
Published in Complementary therapies in medicine (01-12-2019)“…•Photobiomodulation therapy is widely been used to accelerate the tooth movement and alleviate pain during the course of orthodontic treatment.•Systematic…”
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Enhancing SIV-specific immunity in vivo by PD-1 blockade
Published in Nature (12-03-2009)“…Chronic immunodeficiency virus infections are characterized by dysfunctional cellular and humoral antiviral immune responses. As such, immune modulatory…”
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mTOR regulates T cell exhaustion and PD-1-targeted immunotherapy response during chronic viral infection
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (15-01-2023)“…T cell exhaustion is a state of T cell dysfunction associated with expression of programmed death 1 (PD-1). Exhausted CD8+ T cells are maintained by…”
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