Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder with poorly defined aetiology characterised by synovial inflammation with variable disease severity and drug responsiveness. To investigate the peripheral blood immune cell landscape of RA, we performed comprehensive clinical and molecu...
Background: Our earlier research showed that Bactrian camels have a unique lymph aggregation structure that is similar to ileal Peyer's patches (PPs) and plays a role in the mucosal immunology of the digestive tract. However, Bactrian camels exhibit PPs not only in the ileum but also in all segme...
The qualities of antibody (Ab) responses provided by B lymphocytes and their plasma cell (PC) descendants are crucial facets of responses to vaccines and microbes. Metabolic processes and products regulate aspects of B cell proliferation and differentiation into germinal center (GC) and PC states...