The notion of people travelling to participate and watch sport dates back to the ancient Olympic
Games and the practice of stimulating tourism through sport has existed for over a century…

… a test line with the spinal profile border, S/ V = 2 I/ L , in which I is the number of intersections
with the border and L the length of the test lines. This relation resulted in an absolute metric …

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease caused in most cases by
autoantibodies against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR). It is now well …

… Basal NO production by aortic ring was evaluated from the contraction elicited after 30 minutes
with N G -nitro-l-arginine (final concentration 100 μmol/L) added to rings precontracted to …

Dendritic cells (DC) are critical actors in the initiation of primary immune responses and
regulation of self-tolerance. The steroid sex hormone 17β-estradiol (E 2) has been shown to …

Remodeling of immunoglobulin genes by activation-induced deaminase (AID) is required
for affinity maturation and class-switch recombination in mature B lymphocytes. In the …

Sequentially along B cell differentiation, the different classes of membrane Ig heavy chains
associate with the Igα/Igβ heterodimer within the B cell receptor (BCR). Whether each Ig class …

The presence of premature termination codons (PTCs) in transcripts is dangerous for the
cell as they encode potentially deleterious truncated proteins that can act with dominant-…

Highlights • Currently, immunotherapy is used for skin diseases treatment such as atopic
dermatitis, psoriasis or skin cancers. • Several biologics targeting PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 …

Neurotensin, a neuropeptide growth factor, and its two specific neurotensin receptors, NTSR1
and NTSR2, were shown to be expressed by human B cell lines. Another NTSR, sortilin, …