Dr. Ryan Tasseff from the Shmulevich Lab at ISB and his colleagues at Procter & Gamble, which funded this research, modeled the dynamics between mesenchymal and
follicular cells as coupled out - of - phase oscillators that were able to reproduce the synchronization observed in the data.
Not exact matches
«We've shown that a specific type of these
cells, known
as follicular helper T (Tfh)
cells are not only necessary, but are a limiting factor that differentiates between an average and a potent antibody response to HIV,» says Crotty, a scientific collaborator with the Center for HIV / AIDS Vaccine Immunology & Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI - ID), a major research consortium led by The Scripps Research Institute.
All of the lymphomas involved the B -
cell lineage and were further classified in most cases
as centroblastic - centrocytic or centroblastic
follicular B -
cell lymphomas (Fig. 2C) ⇓.
Early Rise of Blood T
Follicular Helper
Cell Subsets and Baseline Immunity
as Predictors of Persisting Late Functional Antibody Responses to Vaccination in Humans Spensieri F., Siena E., Borgogni E., Zedda L., Cantisani R., Chiappini N., Schiavetti F., Rosa D., Castellino F., Montomoli E., Bodinham C.L., Lewis D.J., Medini D., Bertholet S., Del Giudice G. Plos ONE, 2016 11 (6): e0157066.
The authors of these post-mortem studies state that these occult papillary carcinomas (OPCs), which arise from normal
follicular cells, should be «regarded
as a normal finding which should not be treated when incidentally found» (6, p. 531).
In the other half of primary hypothyroid cases, a specific cause of thyroid gland damage can not be found; these cases are known
as idiopathic
follicular atrophy in which the hormone - producing
cells (follicles) of the thyroid gland waste away (or atrophy) for an unknown (i.e. idiopathic) reason.