One study showed that ovarian tumors produce a signaling molecule that serves to attract regulatory T cells, a subclass
of adaptive immune cells responsible for quieting other T cells.
Taking advantage of infected patients, proprietary animal models of infection and new technological advances in the field of static and dynamic imaging, Immunopathology Unit tackles unresolved issues that include the means by which innate and
adaptive immune cells traffic and function within the normal, cirrhotic or cancerous livers.
«Overall, our findings demonstrate that NF - kB might play a pivotal role in enabling cells to evade surveillance by both innate and
adaptive immune cells,» Guttridge says.
Furthermore, an emerging picture has begun to reveal an intricate cross talk between innate and
adaptive immune cells that may participate in the promotion of malignant disease.
Persistent inflammation induced by prolonged or repetitive exposure to specific allergens, typically characterized not only by the presence of large numbers of innate and
adaptive immune cells (in the form of leukocytes) at the affected site but also by substantial changes in the extracellular matrix and alterations in the number, phenotype and function of structural cells in the affected tissues.