The precise manipulation of immune tolerance is the holy grail of immunotherapies for both autoimmunity and cancer immunity. Thymomas are well known to be associated with autoimmune diseases. The exact mechanism by which autoreactivity is induced after thymectomy remains to be elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVisual systems in deep-sea fishes have been previously studied from a photobiological aspect; however, those of deep-sea fish inhabiting the hydrothermal vents are far less understood due to sampling difficulties. In this study, we analyzed the visual pigment of a deep-sea snailfish, Careproctus rhodomelas, discovered and collected only near the hydrothermal vents of oceans around Japan. Proteins were solubilized from the C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe mol-ecule of the title compound, C(10)H(6)N(2)O, is nearly planar [maximum deviation = 0.030 (1) Å]. The CN(2) moiety is almost linear, with a C-N-N angle of 175.
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