Richard K. Gershon and K. (Kazunari) Kondo demonstrate a role of T cells, suppressor T cells, in the induction
of immunological tolerance.
Since then he has continued to investigate new strategies to overcome the major hurdles to safe and effective gene transfer, translate then into new therapeutic strategies for genetic disease and cancer, and allowed new insights into hematopoietic stem cell function, induction
of immunological tolerance and tumor angiogenesis.
Not exact matches
In the new study, scientists built upon previous discoveries that a safe, non-reproducing vaccine strain
of T. gondii could cure mice
of several types
of solid tumors, and identified which parasite proteins and which
immunological pathways are required to break immune
tolerance.
An article appearing in the latest edition
of the journal Cell discusses how
immunological self -
tolerance develops.
«If you can prevent antibody formation in the first place, by finding some way
of producing
immunological tolerance that gets around that type
of protocol, that would be a major advantage,» says David Lillicrap, a clinician and researcher who specializes in bleeding disorders at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Allergen will be combined with novel immunomodulators — both adjuvants and specific
immunological targets implicated in allergic responses — to invoke depletion and deviation mechanisms
of tolerance.