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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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Trained Immunity-Based Vaccines: A Ready-to-Act Strategy to Tackle Viral Outbreaks

TL;DR: This chapter aims to illustrate how trained immunity-based vaccines could tackle the above-mentioned situations derived from viral outbreaks, reviewing the potential of available TIbVs in such urgent situations with a special mention to COVID-19.
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A comprehensive framework for considering additional unintended consequences in economic evaluation

TL;DR: This work builds on previous checklists to provide analysts with a comprehensive framework to justify the inclusion or exclusion of effects, supporting the use of current guidelines, to ensure any unintended effects are considered.
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Innate Immunity and Neuroinflammation in Neuropsychiatric Conditions Including Autism Spectrum Disorders: Role of Innate Immune Memory

TL;DR: A role of innate immune memory (trained immunity vs. tolerance) in neuroinflammation in association with neuropsychiatric conditions including autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is summarized.
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The role of neutrophils in trained immunity

TL;DR: The principle of trained immunity represents innate immune memory due to sustained, mainly epigenetic, changes triggered by endogenous or exogenous stimuli in bone marrow (BM) progenitors and their innate immune cell progeny, thereby triggering elevated responsiveness against secondary stimuli as discussed by the authors .
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Can earlier BCG vaccination reduce early infant mortality? Study protocol for a cluster randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau.

TL;DR: Using Cox-proportional hazards models, this trial will test whether BCG and OPV provided at a single home visit can reduce early infant mortality up to 60 days in Bandim Health Project's urban and rural health and demographic surveillance systems.
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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.