Regulation of the germinal center reaction by Foxp3+ follicular regulatory T cells

I Wollenberg, A Agua-Doce, A Hernández… - The Journal of …, 2011 - journals.aai.org
Abstract Follicular helper T (T FH) cells participate in humoral responses providing selection
signals to germinal center B cells. Recently, expression of CXCR5, PD-1, and the …

Germinal centre shutdown

T Arulraj, SC Binder, PA Robert… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Germinal Centres (GCs) are transient structures in secondary lymphoid organs, where
affinity maturation of B cells takes place following an infection. While GCs are responsible for …

Germinal centres seen through the mathematical eye: B-cell models on the catwalk

M Meyer-Hermann, MT Figge, KM Toellner - Trends in immunology, 2009 - cell.com
Germinal centres are receiving renewed attention following recent intravital multi-photon
imaging studies. These data have shed new light on longstanding questions about the …

Windows of opportunity for Ebola virus infection treatment and vaccination

VK Nguyen, EA Hernandez-Vargas - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Ebola virus (EBOV) infection causes a high death toll, killing a high proportion of EBOV-
infected patients within 7 days. Comprehensive data on EBOV infection are fragmented …

Broad volume distributions indicate nonsynchronized growth and suggest sudden collapses of germinal center B cell populations

N Wittenbrink, TS Weber, A Klein… - The journal of …, 2010 - journals.aai.org
Immunization with a T cell-dependent Ag leads to the formation of several hundred germinal
centers (GCs) within secondary lymphoid organs, a key process in the maturation of the …

Cellular choreography in the germinal center: new visions from in vivo imaging

AE Hauser, SM Kerfoot, AM Haberman - Seminars in immunopathology, 2010 - Springer
Germinal centers (GC) are large aggregates of proliferating B lymphocytes within follicles of
lymphoid tissue that form during adaptive immune responses. GCs are the source of long …

A sensitivity analysis comparison of three models for the dynamics of germinal centers

J Faro, B Von Haeften, R Gardner, E Faro - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Germinal centers (GCs) are transient anatomical microenvironments where antibody affinity
maturation and memory B cells generation takes place. In the past, models of Germinal …

A role for DRAK2 in the germinal center reaction and the antibody response

A Al-Qahtani, Z Xu, H Zan, CM Walsh, P Casali - Autoimmunity, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
DAP-related apoptotic kinase-2 (DRAK2), a death-associated protein kinase family member,
is highly expressed in B and T lymphocytes in the human and the mouse. To determine …

Tracking T and B cells from two-photon microscopy imaging using constrained SMC clusters

D Olivieri, J Faro, I Gómez-Conde… - Journal of integrative …, 2011 - degruyter.com
This paper describes a novel software algorithm, called constrained Sequential Monte Carlo
(SMC) clusters, for tracking a large collection of individual cells from intra-vital two-photon …

Multi-type galton–watson processes with affinity-dependent selection applied to antibody affinity maturation

I Balelli, V Milišić, G Wainrib - Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2019 - Springer
We analyze the interactions between division, mutation and selection in a simplified
evolutionary model, assuming that the population observed can be classified into fitness …