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Immunosenescence and human longevityGraham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Biogerontology 4:167-70. 2003....
Hallmarks of human "immunosenescence": adaptation or dysregulation?Graham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen Medical School, Waldhörnlestr, 22, Tubingen, D 72072, Germany
Immun Ageing 9:15. 2012..Here, I discuss some of the available data bearing on this prediction...
Defining the critical hurdles in cancer immunotherapyBernard A Fox
Earle A, Chiles Research Institute, Robert W, Franz Research Center, Providence Cancer Center, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland, OR, USA
J Transl Med 9:214. 2011..Each of these hurdles can significantly delay clinical translation of promising advances in immunotherapy yet if overcome, have the potential to improve outcomes of patients with cancer...
Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: a study from PakistanIftikhar Alam
Tübingen Aging and Tumour Immunology Group, Sektion für Transplantationsimmunologie und Immunohämatologie, University of Tubingen, Zentrum für MedizinischeForschung, Waldhörnlestraße 22, 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Nutr J 10:111. 2011..The elderly population is increasing worldwide, which warrants their nutritional status assessment more important. The present study was undertaken to establish the nutritional status of the least-studied elderly population in Pakistan...
Mechanisms of immunosenescenceCalogero Caruso
Immunosenescence Unit, Department of Pathobiology and Biomedical Methodologies, University of Palermo, Italy
Immun Ageing 6:10. 2009..A better understanding of immunosenescence and mechanisms responsible for proven deleterious changes is needed to maintain a healthy state in later life and to design possible therapeutic interventions...
Strategies for immune therapy: Würzburg, Germany, 29 February-3 March 2004G Pawelec
Center for Medical Research (ZMF, , , 72072, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 53:755-8. 2004
Cytomegalovirus and human immunosenescenceGraham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen Medical School, Tubingen, Germany
Rev Med Virol 19:47-56. 2009..Whether the IRP is informative in younger individuals and the mechanism of the CMV effect is discussed in this review...
Tumour escape: antitumour effectors too much of a good thing?Graham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research ZMF, University of Tubingen, Waldhornlestr 22, 72072, Tubingen, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 53:262-74. 2004....
Is immunosenescence infectious?Graham Pawelec
University of Tubingen Medical School, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, Waldhornlestrasse 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Trends Immunol 25:406-10. 2004
Immunosenescence in MontecatiniGraham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, , , , Germany Author for correspondence (e-mail: fax: +49-7071-294677
Biogerontology 4:121-3. 2003
Senescence of the human immune systemG Pawelec
Centre for Medical Research, ZMF, University of Tubingen Medical School, Tubingen, Germany
J Comp Pathol 142:S39-44. 2010....
Pathways to a robust immune response in the elderlyGraham Pawelec
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 23:1-13. 2003....
Immunosenescence and cancerGraham Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Center for Medical Research, University of Tübingen Clinical School, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 75:165-72. 2010..This review weighs some of the evidence for and against this possibility...
Cancer vaccination progressGraham Pawelec
University of Tuebingen Medical School, Center for Medical Research ZMF, Germany
Trends Mol Med 8:545-6. 2002....
Translating immunity into cancer therapy: new findings from the first conference of the European Society for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy, an ESMO-EIS held in Athens, 15-17 November 2007Graham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, , Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 57:1505-9. 2008
Immunotherapy and immunoselection -- tumour escape as the final hurdleGraham Pawelec
Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen Medical School, ZMF, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
FEBS Lett 567:63-6. 2004..Prevention or reversal of tumour escape from the immune response therefore offers the possibility of reconstituting effective anti-tumour immunity and remains the major challenge for 21st century tumour immunology...
Immunorejuvenation in the elderlyGraham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Rejuvenation Res 9:111-6. 2006....
Immunity and ageing in manGraham Pawelec
University of Tübingen Center for Medical Research, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Exp Gerontol 41:1239-42. 2006..The past year has seen many significant advances in our knowledge of age-associated alterations to immunity in elderly people, only some of which can be briefly reviewed here...
Immunosenescence comes of age. Symposium on Aging Research in Immunology: The Impact of GenomicsGraham Pawelec
Centre for Medical Research, , , , Germany
EMBO Rep 8:220-3. 2007
ESTDAB: a collection of immunologically characterised melanoma cell lines and searchable databankGraham Pawelec
University of Tübingen Center for Medical Research, ZMF, Waldhornlestr 22, 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 55:623-7. 2006..This European Searchable Tumour Cell Line and Data Bank (ESTDAB) was established as a Research Infrastructure of the European Commission. For access to the databank and further details, please go to http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/estdab/ ...
When T cells get oldGraham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, University of Tuebingen, D 72072 Tuebingen, Germany
Sci Aging Knowledge Environ 2005:pe39. 2005..Presentations from a recent workshop, which are summarized here, examined these questions and provided some insights from the perspective of improving vaccination strategies among the elderly...
Immunosenescence, suppression and tumour progressionG Pawelec
Center for Medical Research and Department of Immunology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 55:981-6. 2006..by antigen which is not or cannot be eliminated? What are the similarities and differences between chronic antigenic stimulation by tumour antigen versus CMV antigen? What can we learn in one system which may illuminate the other?..
T-cell dysregulation caused by chronic antigenic stress: the role of CMV in immunosenescence?Graham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen, Germany
Aging Clin Exp Res 18:171-3. 2006....
Immunity and ageing in man: Annual Review 2006/2007Graham Pawelec
University of Tübingen Center for Medical Research, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072, Tubingen, Germany
Exp Gerontol 43:34-8. 2008..Here, we summarise some of the developments in this area and in other important areas of immunosenescence research over the past year...
Human immunosenescence: is it infectious?Graham Pawelec
University of Tubingen Medical School, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, Germany
Immunol Rev 205:257-68. 2005..In this sense, then, we suggest that immunosenescence is contagious...
Are cancer and ageing different sides of the same coin? Conference on Cancer and AgeingGraham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen Medical School, Waldörnlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
EMBO Rep 9:234-8. 2008
Immunosenescence: what is it and what can be done about it? Session 20 of the BSI Annual Congress, Harrogate, December, 2003Graham Pawelec
Centre for Medical Research, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
Rejuvenation Res 7:61-4. 2004
Engineering anticancer T cells for extended functional longevityGraham Pawelec
Center for Medical Research, ZMF, University of Tubingen Medical School, Waldhornlestrasse 22, D 72072 Tuebingen, Germany
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1019:178-85. 2004....
Human immunosenescence: does it have an infectious component?G Pawelec
University of Tubingen Medical School, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, Germany
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1067:56-65. 2006..In this respect, immunosenescence is infectious...
Role of CMV in immune senescenceGraham Pawelec
Section for Transplantation Immunology, 2nd Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Tübingen Center for Medical Research, Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Virus Res 157:175-9. 2011..Here we review the impact of CMV on "immune senescence" in humans...
Altered T cell signalling in ageingG Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Zentrum für Medizinsche Forschung, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072, Tubingen, Germany
Mech Ageing Dev 122:1613-37. 2001....
Escape from host-antitumor immunityG Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology, Medizinische Universitatsklinik, Germany
Crit Rev Oncog 8:111-41. 1997..The purpose of this review is to consider the current status of knowledge concerning these different tumor escape strategies...
Hypothesis: loss of telomerase inducibility and subsequent replicative senescence in cultured human T cells is a result of altered costimulationG Pawelec
Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Tübingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group TATI, University of Tubingen, ZMF, Room UG 25, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Mech Ageing Dev 121:181-5. 2000..The balance of these positive and negative signals at each encounter with antigen will determine T cell fate by regulating activation and telomerase induction...
New methods to approach immunotherapy of cancer--and strategies of tumours to avoid elimination. Conference report, on behalf of EUCAPS. European Cancer Research ConsortiumG Pawelec
University of Tubingen, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 49:276-80. 2000..This conference was the second of a series, the first of which was summarised previously in this journal [Pawelec G et al. (1999) Cancer Immunol Immunother 48: 214]...
Human T-cell clones in long-term culture as a model of immunosenescenceG Pawelec
Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
Immunol Rev 160:31-42. 1997..They may also provide a model system for studying ways of modulating the ageing process to delay or prevent immunosenescence in the elderly and the chronically infected or possibly to accelerate immunosenescence in organ transplantation...
Longevity in vitro of human CD4+ T helper cell clones derived from young donors and elderly donors, or from progenitor cells: age-associated differences in cell surface molecule expression and cytokine secretionG Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Zentrum für Medizinische Forschung, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Biogerontology 1:247-54. 2000..Conversely, the frequency of clones secreting IL-6 and the amount secreted per clone was higher in the young...
Escape mechanisms in tumor immunity: a year 2000 updateG Pawelec
Section for Transplantation Immunology, University of Tubingen, Germany
Crit Rev Oncog 11:97-133. 2000..Therefore, it focuses mostly on publications that have appeared since then, illustrating the impressive accumulation of new data since that time and the importance currently attributed to studies of tumor escape from the immune response...
Decreased proliferative capacity and increased susceptibility to activation-induced cell death in late-passage human CD4+ TCR2+ cultured T cell clonesG Pawelec
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
Exp Gerontol 31:655-68. 1996..This may contribute to an improved understanding of the mechanisms underlying depressed T cell function in old age...
Human CD4+ T cell clone longevity in tissue culture: lack of influence of donor age or cell originGraham Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, University of Tubingen, Waldhornlestrasse 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Exp Gerontol 37:265-9. 2002..These results imply that the longevity of T cells in culture is more likely to be dictated by cloning conditions than any intrinsic differences between the cells studied...
T cells and aging, January 2002 updateGraham Pawelec
University of Tubingen, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Front Biosci 7:d1056-183. 2002....
Interleukin 10 protects activated human T lymphocytes against growth factor withdrawal-induced cell death but only anti-fas antibody can prevent activation-induced cell deathG Pawelec
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tübingen MedicalSchool, Federal Republic of Germany
Cytokine 8:877-81. 1996....
Is human immunosenescence clinically relevant? Looking for 'immunological risk phenotypes'Graham Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Center for Medical Research, Waldhornlestrasse 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Trends Immunol 23:330-2. 2002
The T cell in the ageing individualG Pawelec
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
Mech Ageing Dev 93:35-45. 1997....
The self peptide annexin II (208-223) presented by dendritic cells sensitizes autologous CD4+ T lymphocytes to recognize melanoma cellsS Heinzel
, Second Department of Internal Medicine, , Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 49:671-8. 2001..This peptide may therefore be useful in immunotherapy for recruiting CD4+ type 1 helper cells active locally in the tumour environment...
T cell immunosenescence in vitro and in vivoG Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Medizinische Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik, Germany
Exp Gerontol 34:419-29. 1999..The use of culture models to screen for ways of manipulating immunosenescence in vitro may provide a basis for intervention to ameliorate immunosenescence in vivo...
In vitro senescence models for human T lymphocytesG Pawelec
Tübingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology TATI Group, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Medizinische Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik, Otfried Muller Str 10, D 72076, Tubingen, Germany
Vaccine 18:1666-74. 2000..It will be argued that parallels between this in vitro model and T cell senescence in vivo suggest the use of such models to screen for interventions ameliorating immunosenescence in vivo...
Prediction of an HLA-DR-binding peptide derived from Wilms' tumour 1 protein and demonstration of in vitro immunogenicity of WT1(124-138)-pulsed dendritic cells generated according to an optimised protocolAshley John Knights
, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, , , , Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 51:271-81. 2002..These results suggest that the WT1 protein may yield epitopes immunogenic to CD4 as well as CD8 T cells, and therefore constitute a novel potential target for specific immunotherapy...
Recognition of chronic myelogenous leukaemia cells by autologous T lymphocytes primed in vitro against the patient's dendritic cellsL Muller
Tübingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group TATI, Section for Transplantation Immunology, University of Tubingen, Otfried Muller Str 10, D 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Br J Haematol 112:740-8. 2001..This approach allows sensitization of patients' T cells by their own particular tumour without the need to identify the exact leukaemia antigens involved, and may find application in immunotherapy of CML...
T cells and aging (update february 1999)G Pawelec
University of Tubingen, Tubingen, FRG
Front Biosci 4:D216-69. 1999..This review aims to consider the current state of knowledge on the scientific basis for and potential clinical relevance of those factors in immunosenescence...
Age-associated accumulation of CMV-specific CD8+ T cells expressing the inhibitory killer cell lectin-like receptor G1 (KLRG1)Qin Ouyang
Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, University of Tubingen, Germany
Exp Gerontol 38:911-20. 2003..The presence of clonal expansions of such virus-specific cells may shrink the available repertoire for other antigens and contribute to the increased incidence of infectious disease in the elderly...
Cytokine modulation of TH1/TH2 phenotype differentiation in directly alloresponsive CD4+ human T cellsG Pawelec
Section for Transplantation Immunology, Medizinische Universitatsklinik, Tubingen, Germany
Transplantation 62:1095-101. 1996..These findings may have implications for manipulating the direct pathway of alloantigen recognition in human organ transplantation...
T cells and agingG Pawelec
University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany
Front Biosci 3:d59-99. 1998..This review aims to consider the current state of knowledge on the scientific basis for and potential clinical relevance of those factors in immunosenescence...
Prerequisites for the immunotherapy of cancerG Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 48:214-7. 1999....
Finite lifespans of T cell clones derived from CD34+ human haematopoietic stem cells in vitroG Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Department of Hematology, Oncology, Immunology and Rheumatology, Tübingen University Medical School, Germany
Exp Gerontol 34:69-77. 1999..We show here that T cell clones derived under these circumstances also manifest variable finite life expectancies, for which the only uncontrolled (nonstochastic) effects of aging must already have occurred at the stem cell level...
Generation of chronic myelogenous leukemia-specific T cells in cytokine-modified autologous mixed lymphocyte/tumor cell culturesL Muller
Section for Transplantation Immunology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
J Immunother 24:482-92. 2001....
IFN-alpha regulates IL 10 production by CML cells in vitroG Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tübingen University Medical School, Tubingen, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 48:430-4. 1999....
Dysfunctional CMV-specific CD8(+) T cells accumulate in the elderlyQin Ouyang
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Exp Gerontol 39:607-13. 2004..This might account for the increased incidence of many infectious diseases in the elderly...
Escape mechanisms in tumor immunity: an updateLudmila Muller
Tübingen Aging and Tumour Immunology Group TATI, Section for Transplantation Immunology, Med izinische Universitätsklinik, D 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Environ Pathol Toxicol Oncol 21:277-330. 2002..The purpose of this review is to consider the current status of knowledge concerning these different tumor-escape strategies, in the form of an update of previous publications in this journal...
Impact of aging on innate immunityG Pawelec
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
J Leukoc Biol 64:703-12. 1998....
Simultaneous infiltration of polyfunctional effector and suppressor T cells into renal cell carcinomasSebastian Attig
Department of Immunology, Institute for Cell Biology, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen, Germany
Cancer Res 69:8412-9. 2009..Additionally, several populations of CD4(+) and CD8(+) regulatory T cells were identified that may synergize to locally dampen antitumor T-cell responses...
High frequencies of functionally impaired cytokeratin 18-specific CD8+ T cells in healthy HLA-A2+ donorsSteffen Walter
Department of Immunology, Institute for Cell Biology, Eberhard Karls University, , Germany
Eur J Immunol 35:2876-85. 2005..Thus, cytokeratin 18-specific cells constitute a frequently encountered, new CD8+ T lymphocyte subpopulation without classical effector status and with so far unknown function...
T-CIA: investigating T cells in agingSven Koch
Center for Medical Research, University of Tuebingen, D-72072 Tuebingen, Germany
Sci Aging Knowledge Environ 2005:pe21. 2005....
Senescence: the cost of being young and healthy?Graham Pawelec
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, ZMF, University of Tubingen, Germany
Eur Cytokine Netw 13:387-8. 2002
Extrathymic T cell differentiation in vitro from human CD34+ stem cellsG Pawelec
Department of Hematology, Oncology, Immunology and Rheumatology, Tübingen University Medical School, Germany
J Leukoc Biol 64:733-9. 1998..This culture system therefore supports human T lymphopoiesis in the absence of any thymic influence and may prove useful for the evaluation of extrathymic T cell differentiation in vitro...
Hallmark features of immunosenescence are absent in familial longevityEvelyna Derhovanessian
Department of Internal Medicine II, Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
J Immunol 185:4618-24. 2010....
The heat shock proteins in cellular aging: is zinc the missing link?Anis Larbi
Center for Medical Research, Tüebingen Aging and Tumor Immunology group, University of Tuebingen, Waldhornlestrasse 22, 72072, Tuebingen, Germany
Biogerontology 7:399-408. 2006..In this short review we will briefly outline the role of heat-shock proteins and zinc deficiency in aging in order to finally discuss our own results in the context of a link between HSPs, aging and zinc...
High response rate after intratumoral treatment with interleukin-2: results from a phase 2 study in 51 patients with metastasized melanomaBenjamin Weide
Department of Dermatology, Center of Dermato Oncology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Cancer 116:4139-46. 2010..The objectives of the current study were to confirm those results in a larger cohort and to identify patient or regimen characteristics associated with response...
Induction of HIF-1alpha and the glycolytic pathway alters apoptotic and differentiation profiles of activated human T cellsAnis Larbi
Center for Medical Research ZMF, Tübingen Aging and Tumor Immunology Group Sektion für Transplantationsimmunologie und Immunhämatologie, Waldhornlestrasse 22, 72072 Tubingen, Germany
J Leukoc Biol 87:265-73. 2010....
Reduced oxygen tension results in reduced human T cell proliferation and increased intracellular oxidative damage and susceptibility to apoptosis upon activationAnis Larbi
Center for Medical Research, Tübingen Aging and Tumor Immunology Group, University of Tubingen, 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Free Radic Biol Med 48:26-34. 2010..Altogether, this study highlights the importance of controlling oxygen levels in culture when investigating oxygen-dependent phenomena such as oxidative stress...
Oxidative stress modulation and T cell activationAnis Larbi
Center for Medical Research, Tuebingen Ageing and Tumor Immunology group, University of Tuebingen, Waldhornlestrasse 22, 72072 Tuebingen, Germany
Exp Gerontol 42:852-8. 2007..Here, we discuss the relevance of oxidative stress modulation to prevent T cell dysfunction. We draw attention to some technical, but critical, aspects of T cell culture under hyperoxic conditions...
Immune receptor signaling, aging and autoimmunityAnis Larbi
Center for Medical Research ZMF, Tübingen Aging and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, University of Tubingen, Waldhornlestrasse 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Adv Exp Med Biol 640:312-24. 2008..g., rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and cancer. In this chapter, we will summarize our knowledge about multichain immune recognition receptor signaling, mainly the TCR, in aging and autoimmune diseases...
Cytomegalovirus infection: a driving force in human T cell immunosenescenceSven Koch
Department of Immunology, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 15, D 72076, Tubingen, Germany
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1114:23-35. 2007..These findings support the hypothesis that persistent herpesviruses, especially CMV, act as chronic antigenic stressors and play a major causative role in immunosenescence and associated mortality...
Direct injection of protamine-protected mRNA: results of a phase 1/2 vaccination trial in metastatic melanoma patientsBenjamin Weide
Department of Dermatology, Division of Dermatooncology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
J Immunother 32:498-507. 2009....
Aging of the immune system as a prognostic factor for human longevityAnis Larbi
University of Tubingen, Center for Medical Research, Tubingen, Germany
Physiology (Bethesda) 23:64-74. 2008..The mechanisms and consequences of age-associated immune alterations, designated immunosenescence, are briefly reviewed here...
A satellite symposium of the 1st European Congress of Immunology Paris, France, September 2006, Aging Research in Immunology: the genomic facet in ParisAnis Larbi
Center for Medical Research, Tuebingen Aging and Tumor Immunology group Waldhornlestrasse 22, 72072, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Exp Gerontol 42:379-84. 2007
Basic biology and clinical impact of immunosenescenceWolfgang M Wagner
, , , 72072, , Germany
Biogerontology 5:63-6. 2004
Pretreatment frequency of circulating IL-17+ CD4+ T-cells, but not Tregs, correlates with clinical response to whole-cell vaccination in prostate cancer patientsEvelyna Derhovanessian
Department of Internal Medicine II, Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Int J Cancer 125:1372-9. 2009....
Development of an MHC-class I peptide selection assay combining nanoparticle technology and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation mass spectrometryThomas Flad
Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
J Immunol Methods 283:205-13. 2003..The advantage of the system is that the bound peptides can be unambiguously identified without any prior modification (e.g. radioactive or fluorescence labelling), even from complex peptide mixtures...
Large numbers of dysfunctional CD8+ T lymphocytes bearing receptors for a single dominant CMV epitope in the very oldQin Ouyang
Tuebingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
J Clin Immunol 23:247-57. 2003....
Cytokines and antitumor immunityLudmila Muller
Tubingen Ageing and Tumor Immunology Group, Centre for Medical Research, Section for Transplantation Immunology, University of Tubingen Medical School, Waldhornlestr 22, D 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Technol Cancer Res Treat 2:183-94. 2003..Clearly, encouraging the former but preventing the latter will be the key to the effective clinical application of cancer immunotherapy...
An age-related increase in the number of CD8+ T cells carrying receptors for an immunodominant Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) epitope is counteracted by a decreased frequency of their antigen-specific responsivenessQin Ouyang
Tuebingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, Waldhoernlestr 22, 72072, Tuebingen, Germany
Mech Ageing Dev 124:477-85. 2003..This may help to explain the increased incidence and case-fatality caused by viruses and intracellular pathogens in the elderly...
Synthetic peptides derived from the Wilms' tumor 1 protein sensitize human T lymphocytes to recognize chronic myelogenous leukemia cellsLudmila Muller
Tubingen Ageing and Tumor Immunology Group, Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
Hematol J 4:57-66. 2003..These results suggest that WT1 peptides can be selected that are immunogenic for class II-restricted T-cell responses to native tumor cells, and indicate that they may find application in active immunotherapy of CML...
T Cell Immunity and AgingSven Dominik Koch
Center for Medical Research, University of Tuebingen, D 72072 Tuebingen, Germany
Sci Aging Knowledge Environ 2005:pe37. 2005..This Perspective discusses some of the outcomes of a recent conference that considered progress toward resolving these questions in humans...
The abl/bcr gene product as a novel leukemia-specific antigen: peptides spanning the fusion region of abl/bcr can be recognized by both CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytesWolfgang M Wagner
Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tübingen University Medical School, Tubingen, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 52:89-96. 2003..Because abl/bcr is expressed in the majority of CML patients, it may represent a highly leukemia-specific antigen with potential use in immunotherapy...
Compromised interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) production in the elderly to both acute and latent viral antigen stimulation: contribution to the immune risk phenotype?Qin Ouyang
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, University of Tubingen, Germany
Eur Cytokine Netw 13:392-4. 2002..Further longitudinal studies are needed to demonstrate whether cytokines such as IFN-g are also part of the IRP. Improving the definition of the IRP will help to understand and thus prevent or reverse age-associated immune dysfunction...
Chronic phase CML patients possess T cells capable of recognising autologous tumour cellsLudmila Muller
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tubingen Medical School, Germany
Leuk Lymphoma 43:943-51. 2002..These results could be exploited for adoptive immunotherapy, and possibly, after identification of the antigens recognised, also for active immunotherapy, i.e. including therapeutic vaccination...
A novel MHC-associated proteinase 3 peptide isolated from primary chronic myeloid leukaemia cells further supports the significance of this antigen for the immunotherapy of myeloid leukaemiasA J Knights
Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, University Hospital Tubingen, ZMF, Waldhornlestrasse 22, Tubingen, Germany
Leukemia 20:1067-72. 2006..Taken in conjunction with clinical observations of functional Proteinase 3 specific CTL in patients', these data further support the application of this antigen as an immunotherapeutical target for myelogenous leukaemias...
Myelopoiesis in vitro is suppressed by hepatitis A virusF W Busch
Medizinische Universitatsklinik, Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany
Ann Hematol 64:A132-6. 1992..These findings argue for a direct suppression of (pre-) CFU-GM by HAV in a model system (LTBMC) lacking an immune defense which would limit viral replication...
CIMT meets strategies for immune therapy. Report and abstracts of the 4th International Meeting of the Association for Immunotherapy of Cancer, Mainz, Germany, 4-5 May 2006C Gouttefangeas
Department of Immunology, Institute for Cell Biology, , Auf der Morgenstelle 15, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Cancer Immunol Immunother 56:397-427. 2007
Biomarkers of human immunosenescence: impact of Cytomegalovirus infectionEvelyna Derhovanessian
Center for Medical Research, ZMF, University of Tubingen Medical School, Tubingen, Germany
Curr Opin Immunol 21:440-5. 2009....
Dramatic shifts in circulating CD4 but not CD8 T cell subsets in mild Alzheimer's diseaseAnis Larbi
Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
J Alzheimers Dis 17:91-103. 2009....
Human cytomegalovirus infection and T cell immunosenescence: a mini reviewSven Koch
Center for Medical Research (ZMF, , , , Germany
Mech Ageing Dev 127:538-43. 2006..Taken together, these findings suggest the hypothesis that persistence of CMV as a chronic antigenic stressor is a major contributor to immunosenescence and associated mortality...
The concept of telomeric non-reciprocal recombination (TENOR) applied to human fibroblasts grown in serial cultures: concordance with genealogical dataStefan Hasenmaile
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Center for Medical Research, University of Tubingen Medical School, Tubingen, Germany
Rejuvenation Res 8:154-71. 2005..Here we discuss genealogical data collected over the last decades as well as more recent findings on the telomere-driven replicative senescence process, and we summarize both to give an integrated picture...
A lack of telomeric non-reciprocal recombination (TENOR) may account for the premature proliferation blockade of Werner's syndrome fibroblastsStefan Hasenmaile
Tubingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group, Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology, Zentrum für Medizinische Forschung, University of Tubingen, 72072 Tubingen, Germany
Biogerontology 4:253-73. 2003..If it is stipulated that WF are defective for TENOR because of their defective WRNp, a simple model emerges as to how they become prematurely senescent...
Ageing, autoimmunity and arthritis: Perturbations of TCR signal transduction pathways with ageing - a biochemical paradigm for the ageing immune systemTamas Fulop
Research Center on Ageing, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Arthritis Res Ther 5:290-302. 2003..The putative contribution of altered T-cell signalling with ageing in the development of autoimmune diseases will be also discussed...
Microsatellite instability in in vitro ageing of T lymphocyte clonesSimona Neri
Laboratorio di Immunologia e Genetica, Istituto di Ricerca Codivilla Putti, IOR, Via di Barbiano 1/10, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Exp Gerontol 39:499-505. 2004..We observed increasing instability accumulating with increasing passages in culture, particularly in CD34+cell-derived clones, but no clear donor age relationship...
Progress in vaccination against cancer (PIVAC) 2001, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UKRobert C Rees
Department of Life Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Faculty of Science, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK
Cancer Immunol Immunother 51:58-61. 2002
Age related microsatellite instability in T cells from healthy individualsSvetlana Krichevsky
Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, POB 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
Exp Gerontol 39:507-15. 2004..Elucidation of this previously unexplored facet of lymphocyte dynamics in relation to aging may help identify novel mechanisms of immunosenescence and pathways that could serve as targets for interventions to restore immune function...
Effects of a reduced oxygen tension culture system on human T cell clones as a function of in vitro ageOrla Duggan
Cancer and Ageing Research Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 1SA, UK
Exp Gerontol 39:525-30. 2004..However, these results may suggest that the reduced oxygen tension culture system has interfered with some aspect of T cell biology not yet examined within the remit of this study...
The genetics of human longevityMiriam Capri
CIG Centro Interdipartimentale L Galvani, University of Bologna, Italy
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1067:252-63. 2006..Thus, the genetics of human longevity appears to be quite peculiar in a context where antagonistic pleiotropy can play a major role and genes can have a different biological role at different ages...
Immunological biomarkers of ageing in man: changes in both innate and adaptive immunity are associated with health and longevityOlga DelaRosa
Immunology Unit, Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, , , s/n. 14071, Cordoba, Spain
Biogerontology 7:471-81. 2006....
