BACKGROUND Traditional Asian and African medicine use immature okra fruits (Abelmoschus esculentus) as mucilaginous food to combat gastritis. Its effectiveness is due to polysaccharides that inhibit the adhesion of Helicobacter pylori to stomach tissue. The present study investigates the antiadhesive effect in mechanistic detail. METHODOLOGY A standardized aqueous fresh extract (Okra FE) from...

MARIETTA L. BABA*, JULIA GLUESING, HILARY RATNER AND KIMBERLY H. WAGNER College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. Institute for Information Technology and Culture, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. The Graduate School, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Area, Anderson Graduate S...

In this issue of Blood, Baba and colleagues characterize a residual pool ofCD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) surviving a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen that undergo robust homeostatic expansion to limit the full potential of adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT) for the treatment of cancer.