Abbreviation: HIV-1: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1; CHI: Chronic HIV-1 Infection; PDCs: Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells; IFN-α: Interferon-α; TLR: Toll-like Receptor; TLR7: Toll-like Receptor 7; TLR9: Toll-like receptor 9; IRF7: Interferon Regulatory Factor 7; NF-κB: Nuclear factor κB; NCs: Normal Controls; MSM: Men Who Have Sex With Man; PBMC: Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells; ICS: Intrac...

Opioids have been widely applied in clinics as one of the most potent pain relievers for centuries, but their abuse has deleterious physiological effects beyond addiction. However, the underlying mechanism by which microglia in response to opioids remains largely unknown. Here we show that morphine induces the expression of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), a key mediator of innate immunity and infl...

Toll and Toll-like receptors represent families of receptors involved in mediating innate immunity response in insects and mammals. Although Drosophila proteome contains multiple Toll paralogs, Toll-1 is, so far, the only receptor to which an immune role has been attributed. In contrast, every single mammalian TLR is a key membrane receptor upstream of the vertebrate immune signaling cascades. ...