Search Results - "Falk, Ben"
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Extracellular vesicles in fatty liver promote a metastatic tumor microenvironment
Published in Cell metabolism (11-07-2023)“…Liver metastasis is a major cause of death in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). Fatty liver promotes liver metastasis, but the underlying mechanism…”
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TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-02-2023)“…Abstract Convergent disk migration has long been suspected to be responsible for forming planetary systems with a chain of mean-motion resonances (MMRs)…”
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Crosstalk Between T Lymphocytes and Lung Fibroblasts: Generation of a Hyaluronan‐Enriched Extracellular Matrix Adhesive for Monocytes
Published in Journal of cellular biochemistry (01-08-2017)“…ABSTRACT In immunity and inflammation, T cells are often associated with stromal mesenchymal cells such as fibroblasts. Hyaluronan and proteins that associate…”
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Inhibition of hyaluronan synthesis restores immune tolerance during autoimmune insulitis
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-10-2015)“…We recently reported that abundant deposits of the extracellular matrix polysaccharide hyaluronan (HA) are characteristic of autoimmune insulitis in patients…”
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Bat wing sensors support flight control
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-07-2011)“…Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and they perform impressive aerial maneuvers like tight turns, hovering, and perching upside down. The bat…”
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Optimal Localization by Pointing Off Axis
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-02-2010)“…Is centering a stimulus in the field of view an optimal strategy to localize and track it? We demonstrated, through experimental and computational studies,…”
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Regulatory T cells use heparanase to access IL-2 bound to extracellular matrix in inflamed tissue
Published in Nature communications (20-02-2024)“…Although FOXP3 + regulatory T cells (Treg) depend on IL-2 produced by other cells for their survival and function, the levels of IL-2 in inflamed tissue are…”
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Evidence for Molecular Mimicry between Human T Cell Epitopes in Rotavirus and Pancreatic Islet Autoantigens
Published in The Journal of immunology (1950) (15-02-2010)“…In type 1 diabetes, insulin-producing beta cells in the islets of the pancreas are destroyed by autoreactive T cells. Rotavirus (RV) has been implicated in the…”
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ECM components guide IL-10 producing regulatory T-cell (TR1) induction from effector memory T-cell precursors
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-05-2011)“…We describe a role for ECM as a biosensor for inflammatory microenvironments that plays a critical role in peripheral immune tolerance. We show that hyaluronan…”
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Recurrence of Type 1 Diabetes After Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation, Despite Immunosuppression, Is Associated With Autoantibodies and Pathogenic Autoreactive CD4 T-Cells
Published in Diabetes (New York, N.Y.) (01-04-2010)“…To investigate if recurrent autoimmunity explained hyperglycemia and C-peptide loss in three immunosuppressed simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant…”
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Three Warm Jupiters around Solar-analog Stars Detected with TESS
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract We report the discovery and characterization of three giant exoplanets orbiting solar-analog stars, detected by the TESS space mission and confirmed…”
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Intact extracellular matrix and the maintenance of immune tolerance: high molecular weight hyaluronan promotes persistence of induced CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells
Published in Journal of leukocyte biology (01-09-2009)“…The authors describe the immunoregulatory contributions of intact versus fragmented hyaluronan, a prominent component of the extracellular matrix. The…”
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TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VI. Newly Discovered Hot Jupiters Provide Evidence for Efficient Obliquity Damping after the Main Sequence
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-08-2024)“…Abstract The degree of alignment between a star’s spin axis and the orbital plane of its planets (the stellar obliquity) is related to interesting and poorly…”
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The TESS–Keck Survey. XIX. A Warm Transiting Sub-Saturn-mass Planet and a Nontransiting Saturn-mass Planet Orbiting a Solar Analog
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-04-2024)“…Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) continues to increase dramatically the number of known transiting exoplanets, and is optimal for…”
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CD44 costimulation promotes FoxP3+ regulatory T cell persistence and function via production of IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta
Published in The Journal of immunology (1950) (15-08-2009)“…Work by our group and others has demonstrated a role for the extracellular matrix receptor CD44 and its ligand hyaluronan in CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cell…”
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Modified High-Molecular-Weight Hyaluronan Promotes Allergen-Specific Immune Tolerance
Published in American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology (01-01-2017)“…The extracellular matrix in asthmatic lungs contains abundant low-molecular-weight hyaluronan, and this is known to promote antigen presentation and allergic…”
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Cover Image, Volume 118, Number 8, August 2017
Published in Journal of cellular biochemistry (01-08-2017)“…Cover: The cover image, by Léa Gaucherand et al., is based on the Article Crosstalk Between T Lymphocytes and Lung Fibroblasts: Generation of a…”
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Antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis is associated with HLA-DR molecules that bind a Borrelia burgdorferi peptide
Published in The Journal of experimental medicine (17-04-2006)“…An association has previously been shown between antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis, the human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR4 molecule, and T…”
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The toll-like receptor signaling molecule Myd88 contributes to pancreatic beta-cell homeostasis in response to injury
Published in PloS one (01-04-2009)“…Commensal flora and pathogenic microbes influence the incidence of diabetes in animal models yet little is known about the mechanistic basis of these…”
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Active control of acoustic field-of-view in a biosonar system
Published in PLoS biology (01-09-2011)“…Active-sensing systems abound in nature, but little is known about systematic strategies that are used by these systems to scan the environment. Here, we…”
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