Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid found in fish oil, is a multi-target agent and exerts anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities alone or in combination with chemotherapies. Combinatorial anticancer therapies, which induce immunogenic apoptosis, autophagy and STAT3 inhibition have been proposed for long-term therapeutic success. Here, we found that DHA promoted imm...

Normal BALB/c fibroblasts enclosed in two-compartment diffusion chambers with a methylcholanthrene (MCA) disc were left in the peritoneal cavity of BALB/c mice or were incubated in vitro for 4 to 24 weeks while protected from the immunoselective process. This protection was demonstrated by the fact that cells of a BALB/c sarcoma induced by MCA, which were immunogenic when injected s.c., were un...

At present, strict and lifelong gluten-free diet is the only effective treatment for celiac disease. Even small amounts of gluten (50 mg/day) can be immunogenic; therefore all food and food items and drugs that contain gluten and its derivatives must be eliminated completely from the diet. While prescribing gluten-free diet is easy; the key to the success is the dietary counseling by a nutritio...

The accumulated literature suggests that altering the immune capacities of animals or humans seldom has detectable effects on tumor incidence nor, it seems, does the growth of an untransplanted tumor, either spontaneous or induced, immunize the host against the growth of a subsequent implant of that tumor. These observations suggest that even clearly immunogenic transplanted tumors may not have...

Diversity among the pathogenic strains of Theileria equi (T. equi), a major agent of equine piroplasmosis, can affect the appropriate detection of parasite and host immunization. Production of recombinant surface proteins from an infected horse in natural endemic area provides a reliable tool for immunodiagnosis of parasite. Regarding this, the present study was targeted toward the cloning, exp...

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a respiratory inflammatory condition with autoimmune features including IgG autoantibodies. In this study we analyze the complexity of the autoantibody response and reveal the nature of the antigens that are recognized by autoantibodies in COPD patients. METHODS An array of 1827 gridded immunogenic peptide clones was established and s...

Radiation therapy has been extensively employed throughout the last century to treat individuals affected by multiple types of tumors, with a variable degree of success. Current estimates indicate indeed that at least 50% of cancer patients all confounded have been or will be exposed to ionizing irradiation, either as a standalone intervention or combined with chemoand/or immunotherapeutic regi...

Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TRT) is the first bona fide common tumor antigen. While several 9mer peptides of the human TRT have been identified for HLA-A2, little information exists on peptides for the remaining HLA types. Here, we used a multi-step approach to select and characterize a panel of HLA-B7 9mer peptides as candidate immunogens. In sequence, we used algorithm-based predictions...