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Influenza vaccination induces NK-cell-mediated type-II IFN response that regulates humoral immunity in an IL-6-dependent manner

Farsakoglu, Yagmur ; Palomino-Segura, Miguel ; Latino, Irene ; Zanaga, Silvia ; Chatziandreou, Nikolaos ; Pizzagalli, Diego Ulisse ; Rinaldi, Andrea ; Bolis, Marco ; Sallusto, Federica ; Stein, Jens V. ; Gonzalez, Santiago F.

In: Cell reports, 2019, vol. 26, no. 9, p. 2307-2315.e5

The role of natural killer (NK) cells in the immune response against vaccines is not fully understood. Here, we examine the function of infiltrated NK cells in the initiation of the inflammatory response triggered by inactivated influenza virus vaccine in the draining lymph node (LN). We observed that, following vaccination, NK cells are recruited to the interfollicular and medullary areas of...

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Imaging cell interaction in tracheal mucosa during influenza virus infection using two-photon intravital microscopy

Palomino-Segura, Miguel ; Virgilio, Tommaso ; Morone, Diego ; Pizzagalli, Diego U. ; Gonzalez, Santiago F.

In: Journal of visualized experiments, 2018, vol. 138, p. e58355

The analysis of cell-cell or cell-pathogen interaction in vivo is an important tool to understand the dynamics of the immune response to infection. Two-photon intravital microscopy (2P-IVM) allows the observation of cell interactions in deep tissue in living animals, while minimizing the photobleaching generated during image acquisition. To date, different models for 2P-IVM of lymphoid and...