Publications by authors named "A Gasull"

Protective antibodies against HIV-1 require unusually high levels of somatic mutations introduced in germinal centers (GCs). To achieve this, a sequential vaccination approach was proposed. Using HIV-1 antibody knockin mice with fate-mapping genes, we examined if antigen affinity affects the outcome of B cell recall responses.

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  • The human central nervous system (CNS) has a diverse immune compartment that includes various cell populations, notably microglia (brain macrophages) and CNS-associated macrophages (CAMs), which are less common and not well studied.
  • Researchers used advanced techniques like single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics to analyze over 356,000 transcriptomes from 102 individuals, revealing insights into the presence and variability of CAM subclasses in different conditions.
  • The study also examined myeloid cell types in glioblastoma samples, finding that the immune responses to hypoxia differ significantly between cancer-affected areas and healthy brain regions, emphasizing the complexity of the brain's immune system.
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  • The liver is constantly exposed to bacterial products from the gut but usually maintains a tolerant state; understanding how this tolerance can shift to immunity or pathology is crucial for improving liver disease treatments.
  • A specific type of T cell, called CD14CD8 T cells, is found in high numbers in the liver, particularly in liver transplants and conditions like cirrhosis, and they show unique activation and immunomodulatory capabilities.
  • These CD14CD8 T cells can be influenced by bacterial components and local tissue signals, enhancing their ability to interact with the environment and potentially improve anti-tumor and antiviral responses.
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Glioblastomas are the most common primary brain tumors. Despite extensive clinical and molecular insights into these tumors, the prognosis remains dismal. While targeted immunotherapies have shown remarkable success across different non-brain tumor entities, they failed to show efficacy in glioblastomas.

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We study traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogeneous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of elevation and depression, including a family of solitary waves with compact support, where the amplitude may increase or decrease with respect to the wave speed. Our approach is based on techniques from dynamical systems and relies on a reformulation of the evolution equation as an autonomous Hamiltonian system which facilitates an explicit expression for bounded orbits in the phase plane to establish existence of the corresponding periodic and solitary traveling wave solutions.

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