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A small jab – a big effect: nonspecific immunomodulation by vaccines

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New research suggests that the nonspecific effects of vaccines are related to cross-reactivity of the adaptive immune system with unrelated pathogens, and to training of the innate immune system through epigenetic reprogramming.
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This article is published in Trends in Immunology.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 406 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acquired immune system & Immune system.

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Adult Vaccination as a Protective Factor for Dementia: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Population-Based Observational Studies

TL;DR: Routine adult vaccinations are associated with a significant reduction in dementia risk and may be an effective strategy for dementia prevention.
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Early response of monocyte-derived macrophages from vaccinated and non-vaccinated goats against in vitro infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of Silirum® vaccination in the early immune response of caprine monocyte-derived macrophages (CaMOs) was investigated, showing that vaccination modifies the immune response and microbiocidal activity of CaMOs against paratuberculosis.
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BCG for the prevention of food allergy — exploring a new use for an old vaccine

TL;DR: Australia now has the highest documented prevalence of childhood food allergy in the world and theories to explain this rise include changes in the timing of food introduction, epigenetic changes related to environmental factors, and alterations in micronutrient status (particularly of vitamin D).
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Immunization enhances the natural antibody repertoire.

TL;DR: It is suggested that immunization may have at least one unforeseen benefit, enhancing networks of natural antibodies that may be important in such processes as wound repair and tumor surveillance, where decreased exposure to the environment may be associated with a weakened natural antibody repertoire.
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Pathogen Recognition and Innate Immunity

TL;DR: New insights into innate immunity are changing the way the way the authors think about pathogenesis and the treatment of infectious diseases, allergy, and autoimmunity.
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Systemic acquired resistance

TL;DR: A model describing the sequence of events leading from initial infection to the induction of defense genes is presented and exciting new data suggest that the mobile signal for SAR might be a lipid molecule.
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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction

TL;DR: This review describes recent approaches to reverse-engineering human learning and cognitive development and, in parallel, engineering more humanlike machine learning systems.
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Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells

TL;DR: A mouse model of cytomegalovirus infection is used to show that, like T cells, NK cells bearing the virus-specific Ly49H receptor proliferate 100-fold in the spleen and 1,000- fold in the liver after infection.
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Bacille Calmette-Guérin induces NOD2-dependent nonspecific protection from reinfection via epigenetic reprogramming of monocytes

TL;DR: It is shown that bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination in healthy volunteers led to a four- to sevenfold increase in the production of IFN-γ, but also to a twofold enhanced release of monocyte-derived cytokines, such as TNF and IL-1β, in response to unrelated bacterial and fungal pathogens.
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The paper discusses the nonspecific effects of vaccines on the immune system, suggesting that vaccines can improve the general resistance to unrelated pathogens. However, the exact mechanisms and reasons for these effects are still not fully understood.