Late Onset Graft Plasmacytoma-Like PTLD Presenting as Acute Hyperglycemia in a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipient by P. Ventura-Aguiar, M. T. Cibeira, A. Martinez, M. Cuatrecasas, M. Aymerich, J. Ferrer, J. Blade, F. Diekmann, M. J. Ricart

“…Allograft infiltration has been described in up to 20% of all patients with posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD), most representing EBV-positive B-cell lymphomas. Plasma cells are often observed in humoral rejection biopsies, but graft infiltration by plasmacytoma-like PTLD is rare. …”
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A Robust Hybrid Approach Based on Estimation of Distribution Algorithm and Support Vector Machine for Hunting Candidate Disease Genes by Li Li, Hongmei Chen, Chang Liu, Fang Wang, Fangfang Zhang, Lihua Bai, Yihan Chen, Luying Peng

“…We have benchmarked the method using the microarray data of both diffuse B cell lymphoma and colon cancer to demonstrate its performance for identifying key features from the profile data of high-dimension gene expression. …”
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Manifestation of plasmablastic lymphoma in the oral cavity: Report of two cases and literature review by Letícia da Silva Soares Gomes, Caroline Alfaia Silva, André Luiz Carvalho Barreiros, Patrick Rocha Osborne, Jeconias Câmara, Tiago Novaes Pinheiro, Christina Shiang, José Augusto Andrade Godoy Bezerra, Naíza Menezes Medeiros Abrahim, Luciana Botinelly Mendonça Fujimoto

“…Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare and aggressive non- Hodgkin 's B-cell lymphoma initially reported in patients with the HIV virus with a predilection for the oral cavity. …”
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Diagnosis of Vitreoretinal Aspergillosis with Transvitreal Retinochoroidal Biopsy by Krishi Peddada, Nida M. Khan, Jascha Rubin, Haykanush Zakaryan, Yaobin Liu, Nikolay Popnikolov, Roshun Sangani, Weiye Li

“…Our case is a 48-year-old male with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that presented with counting fingers vision, redness, and tearing of the left eye. …”
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MLL-AF4 upregulates 5-lipoxygenase expression in t(4;11) leukemia cells via the ALOX5 core promoter by Marius Hyprath, Maximilian Molitor, Ilona Schweighöfer, Rolf Marschalek, Dieter Steinhilber

“…Knockdown of the MLL-AF4 gene in the human B cell line SEM revealed that MLL-AF4 is an inducer of ALOX5 gene expression in leukemic cells with lymphoid properties. …”
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Induction of Humoral and Cellular Immunity by Intradermal Delivery of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein Using Dissolvable Microneedles by Chaiyaporn Kuwentrai, Jinming Yu, Bao-zhong Zhang, Ye-fan Hu, Ying Dou, Hua-rui Gong, Jian-Dong Huang, Chenjie Xu

“…This article reports the intradermal delivery of NP antigen using dissolvable microneedle skin patches that could induce both significant B cell and T cell responses.…”
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Gene Expression Profiling Identifies Downregulation of the Neurotrophin-MAPK Signaling Pathway in Female Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Patients by Lin Luo, Wen-Hua Zhou, Jiang-Jia Cai, Mei Feng, Mi Zhou, Su-Pei Hu, Jin Xu, Lin-Dan Ji

“…A further KEGG pathway analysis indicated that DPN and DM share four pathways, including apoptosis, B cell receptor signaling pathway, endocytosis, and Toll-like receptor signaling pathway. …”
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Awardee Summary of 2023 Taiwan Oncology Society Clinical Research Award Recipient: Persistent Endeavors on Research of Digestive Cancers for Three Decades by Kun-Huei Yeh

“…Second, we have made persistent efforts in translational research and clinical trials on early-stage gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas (MALTomas), gastric diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, colorectal cancers (CRCs), pancreatic cancers, and immuno-oncology. …”
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ErbB- and MUC1-targeted CAR-T cell immunotherapy of oral squamous cell carcinoma by Saffron E. Summers, Saffron E. Summers, Vehid Salih, Andrew D. Foey

“…Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has shown great success in treating B cell malignancies; however, there are many challenges that limit their therapeutic efficacy in solid tumours. …”
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Malignant Lymphoma in the Psoas Major Muscle by Nobuhiro Akuzawa, Takashi Hatori, Aya Takase, Jun Aoki, Shinji Sakurai, Masahiko Kurabayashi

“…Histopathological examination of a biopsy specimen revealed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Although skeletal muscle lymphoma is rare, physicians should be familiar with its MRI characteristics. …”
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Sculpting multi-epitope vaccine against Monkeypox viral strains using immunoinformatics by Zaira Rehman, Ammad Fahim, Maryam Irtash

“…All the epitopes have 97.5% worldwide population coverage. Overlapping B-cell, CTL and HTL epitopes were used to design three vaccine construct using suitable linkers and three different adjuvants. …”
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The Critical Role of Bach2 in Shaping the Balance between CD4+ T Cell Subsets in Immune-Mediated Diseases by Lingyi Yang, Shuli Chen, Qiuyu Zhao, Ying Sun, Hong Nie

“…It is required for class switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) of immunoglobulin genes in activated B cells, and its function in B cell differentiation has been well-described. …”
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Genetic Analysis Reveals A Missense Mutation In Reactivation Gene-2 Causing Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease In A Pakistani Family by Shahida Awais, Lubna Siddique, Nida Shafi, Sobia Humerah, Summyah Niazi, Wafa Omer

“…Conclusion: In human reactivation gene 1 and 2 encode proteins with endonuclease activity which are involved in V(D)J rearrangement to generate variety of different types of T- and B- cell receptors. Genetic analysis revealed a missense mutation in RAG2 genes in female SCID patient.      …”
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Molecular Profiling of Acute and Chronic Rejections of Renal Allografts by Hřibová Petra, Honsová Eva, Brabcová Irena, Hrubá Petra, Viklický Ondřej

“…Using the TaqMan Low Density Array, the intrarenal expressions of 376 genes relating to immune response (B-cell activation, T-cell activation, chemokines, growth factors, immune regulators, and apoptosis) were analyzed in the four rejection categories: chronic AMR, chronic TCMR, acute AMR, and acute TCMR. …”
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Fatal Multiorgan Failure Associated with Disseminated Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Infection: A Case Report by Michael Glas, Sigrun Smola, Thorsten Pfuhl, Juliane Pokorny, Rainer M. Bohle, Arno Bücker, Jörn Kamradt, Thomas Volk

“…Autopsy revealed a predominantly retroperitoneal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma as the suspected origin of immunosuppression underlying herpes simplex dissemination.…”
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In-silico formulation of a next-generation polyvalent vaccine against multiple strains of monkeypox virus and other related poxviruses. by Abu Tayab Moin, Nurul Amin Rani, Rajesh B Patil, Tanjin Barketullah Robin, Md Asad Ullah, Zahidur Rahim, Md Foyzur Rahman, Talha Zubair, Mohabbat Hossain, A K M Moniruzzaman Mollah, Nurul Absar, Mahboob Hossain, Mohammed Abul Manchur, Nazneen Naher Islam

“…Two vaccines were constructed using selected T cell epitopes and B cell epitopes with PADRE and human beta-defensins adjuvants conjugated in the vaccine sequence. …”
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Epstein-Barr virus reactivation induces divergent abortive, reprogrammed, and host shutoff states by lytic progression. by Elliott D SoRelle, Lauren E Haynes, Katherine A Willard, Beth Chang, James Ch'ng, Heather Christofk, Micah A Luftig

“…Following latency establishment in B cells, EBV reactivates and is shed in saliva to enable infection of new hosts. …”
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RIF1 integrates DNA repair and transcriptional requirements during the establishment of humoral immune responses by Eleni Kabrani, Ali Rahjouei, Maria Berruezo-Llacuna, Svenja Ebeling, Tannishtha Saha, Robert Altwasser, Veronica Delgado-Benito, Rushad Pavri, Michela Di Virgilio

“…Abstract The establishment of protective immune responses relies on the ability of terminally differentiated B cells to secrete a broad variety of antigen-specific antibodies with different effector functions. …”
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Dioscin from Polygonatum sibiricum induces apoptosis and autophagy in Ishikawa human endometrial cancer cell and in vivo by Xiaoli Li, Runhui Ma, Zhijing Ni, Wei Wang, Kiran Thakur, Jianguo Zhang, Zhaojun Wei

“…The high-throughput sequencing data indicated that dioscin not only promoted apoptosis, including decrease of poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) and B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) and increase of c-PARP and Bcl-2-associcated agonist of cell death (Bad), but also induced autophagy, including increase of autophagic lysosomes and LC3Ⅱ/LC3Ⅰ ratio. …”
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Comparative Study of Ectopic Lymphoid Aggregates in Sheep and Murine Models of Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis by Udari Eshani Perera, Louise Organ, Simon G. Royce, Chrishan S. Samuel, Habtamu B. Derseh, Sasika N. V. Dewage, Emmanuel Koumoundouros, Andrew Stent, Kenneth J. Snibson

“…We observed tertiary lymphoid aggregates, in the fibrotic lung parenchyma of sheep, but not in mouse lung tissues exposed to bleomycin. B-cell and T-cell infiltration significantly increased in sheep lung tissues compared to mouse lung tissues due to bleomycin injury. …”
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