The identification of chemokines in blood platelets has strengthened our view of these cells
as participants in immune host defense. Platelet chemokines representing prestored and …

Chemokines are chemotactic cytokines whose main function is to direct cell migration. The
chemokine network is highly complex and its deregulation is linked to several diseases …

Periodontal disease (PD) and atherosclerosis are both polymicrobial and multifactorial and
although observational studies supported the association, the causative relationship …

Many viruses have learned to evade or subvert the host antiviral immune responses by
encoding and expressing immunomodulatory proteins that protect the virus from attack by …

Myxoma virus (MYXV) gained importance throughout the twentieth century because of the
use of the highly virulent Standard Laboratory Strain (SLS) by the Australian government in …

Streptococcus mutans, a dental caries pathogen, also causes endocarditis and is detected
in atheroscelerotic plaque. We investigated the potential for an invasive strain of S. mutans …

Polyomavirus family consists of a highly diverse group of small DNA viruses. The founding
family member (MPyV) was first discovered in the newborn mouse in the late 1950s, which …

Chemokines are chemoattractant cytokines that mediate the migration of immune cells to
sites of infection which play an important role in innate and adaptive immunity. As an …

During the course of evolution, viruses have captured or created a diverse array of open
reading frames, which encode for proteins that serve to evade and sabotage the host innate …

Inappropriate cell recruitment is a hallmark of all autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory
diseases. The prevention of inflammation by interfering with cellular recruitment through the …