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The antibody response to Plasmodium falciparum : cues for vaccine design and the discovery of receptor-based antibodies

Tan, Joshua ; Piccoli, Luca ; Lanzavecchia, Antonio

In: Annual Review of Immunology

P. falciparum remains a serious public health problem and a continuous challenge for the immune system due to the complexity and diversity of the pathogen. Recent advances from several laboratories in the characterization of the antibody response to the parasite have led to the identification of critical targets for protection and revealed a new mechanism of diversification based on the...

Université de Fribourg

CD47 promotes age-associated deterioration in angiogenesis, blood flow and glucose homeostasis

Ghimire, Kedar ; Li, Yao ; Chiba, Takuto ; Julovi, Sohel M. ; Li, Jennifer ; Ross, Mark A. ; Straub, Adam C. ; O’Connell, Philip J. ; Rüegg, Curzio ; Pagano, Patrick J. ; Isenberg, Jeffrey S. ; Rogers, Natasha M.

In: Cells, 2020, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 1695

The aged population is currently at its highest level in human history and is expected to increase further in the coming years. In humans, aging is accompanied by impaired angiogenesis, diminished blood flow and altered metabolism, among others. A cellular mechanism that impinges upon these manifestations of aging can be a suitable target for therapeutic intervention. Here we identify cell...

Université de Fribourg

Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar

Burney, David A. ; Andriamialison, Haingoson ; Andrianaivoarivelo, Radosoa A. ; Bourne, Steven ; Crowley, Brooke E. ; Boer, Erik J. de ; Godfrey, Laurie R. ; Goodman, Steven M. ; Griffiths, Christine ; Griffiths, Owen ; Hume, Julian P. ; Joyce, Walter G. ; Jungers, William L. ; Marciniak, Stephanie ; Middleton, Gregory J. ; Muldoon, Kathleen M. ; Noromalala, Eliette ; Pérez, Ventura R. ; Perry, George H. ; Randalana, Roger ; Wright, Henry T.

In: Quaternary Research, 2020, vol. 93, no. 1, p. 187–203

A new fossil site in a previously unexplored part of western Madagascar (the Beanka Protected Area) has yielded remains of many recently extinct vertebrates, including giant lemurs (Babakotia radofilai, Palaeopropithecus kelyus, Pachylemur sp., and Archaeolemur edwardsi), carnivores (Cryptoprocta spelea), the aardvark-like Plesiorycteropus sp., and giant ground cuckoos (Coua). Many of these...

Université de Fribourg

The diversity of population responses to environmental change

Colchero, Fernando ; Jones, Owen R. ; Conde, Dalia A. ; Hodgson, David ; Zajitschek, Felix ; Schmidt, Benedikt R. ; Malo, Aurelio F. ; Alberts, Susan C. ; Becker, Peter H. ; Bouwhuis, Sandra ; Bronikowski, Anne M. ; Vleeschouwer, Kristel M. ; Delahay, Richard J. ; Dummermuth, Stefan ; Fernández‐Duque, Eduardo ; Frisenvænge, John ; Hesselsøe, Martin ; Larson, Sam ; Lemaître, Jean‐François ; McDonald, Jennifer ; Miller, David A.W. ; O'Donnell, Colin ; Packer, Craig ; Raboy, Becky E. ; Reading, Chris J. ; Wapstra, Erik ; Weimerskirch, Henri ; While, Geoffrey M. ; Baudisch, Annette ; Flatt, Thomas ; Coulson, Tim ; Gaillard, Jean‐Michel

In: Ecology Letters, 2019, p. -

The current extinction and climate change crises pressure us to predict population dynamics with ever‐greater accuracy. Although predictions rest on the well‐advanced theory of age‐structured populations, two key issues remain poorly explored. Specifically, how the age‐dependency in demographic rates and the year‐to‐year interactions between survival and fecundity affect...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Human IFN-γ immunity to mycobacteria is governed by both IL-12 and IL-23

Markle, Janet G. ; Martínez-Barricarte, Rubén ; Ma, Cindy S. ; Deenick, Elissa K. ; Ramírez-Alejo, Noé ; Mele, Federico ; Latorre, Daniela ; Mahdaviani, Seyed Alireza ; Aytekin, Caner ; Mansouri, Davood ; Bryant, Vanessa L. ; Jabot-Hanin, Fabienne ; Deswarte, Caroline ; Nieto-Patlán, Alejandro ; Surace, Laura ; Kerner, Gaspard ; Itan, Yuval ; Jovic, Sandra ; Avery, Danielle T. ; Wong, Natalie ; Rao, Geetha ; Patin, Etienne ; Okada, Satoshi ; Bigio, Benedetta ; Boisson, Bertrand ; Rapaport, Franck ; Seeleuthner, Yoann ; Schmidt, Monika ; Ikinciogullari, Aydan ; Dogu, Figen ; Tanir, Gonul ; Tabarsi, Payam ; Bloursaz, Mohammed Reza ; Joseph, Julia K. ; Heer, Avneet ; Kong, Xiao-Fei ; Migaud, Mélanie ; Lazarov, Tomi ; Geissmann, Frédéric ; Fleckenstein, Bernhard ; Lindestam Arlehamn, Cecilia ; Sette, Alessandro ; Puel, Anne ; Emile, Jean-François ; Vosse, Esther van de ; Quintana-Murci, Lluis ; Di Santo, James P. ; Abel, Laurent ; Boisson-Dupuis, Stéphanie ; Bustamante, Jacinta ; Tangye, Stuart G. ; Sallusto, Federica ; Casanova, Jean-Laurent

In: Science Immunology, 2018, vol. 3, no. 30, p. eaau6759

Hundreds of patients with autosomal recessive, complete IL-12p40 or IL-12Rß1 deficiency have been diagnosed over the last 20 years. They typically suffer from invasive mycobacteriosis and, occasionally, from mucocutaneous candidiasis. Susceptibility to these infections is thought to be due to impairments of IL- 12–dependent IFN-? immunity and IL-23–dependent IL-17A/IL-17F immunity,...