Insights Into Cetacean Immunology: Do Ecological and Biological Factors Make the Difference?

The environment as a driver of immune and endocrine responses in dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

(2017) Patricia A. Fair et al.   PLoS One

Immunotoxic effects of environmental pollutants in marine mammals

(2016) Jean-Pierre W. Desforges et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

HBV suppresses expression of MICA/B on hepatoma cells through up-regulation of transcription factors GATA2 and GATA3 to escape from NK cell surveillance

(2016) Yun Guan et al.   Oncotarget

Could feeding habit and migratory behaviour be the causes of different toxicological hazard to cetaceans of Gulf of California (Mexico)?

(2014) M. C. Fossi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

In vitroexposure of DE-71, a penta-PBDE mixture, on immune endpoints in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and B6C3F1 mice

(2014) Jena R. Wirth et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED TOXICOLOGY

Associations between perfluoroalkyl compounds and immune and clinical chemistry parameters in highly exposed bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

(2013) Patricia A. Fair et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

In vitroPFOS exposure on immune endpoints in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and mice

(2013) Jena R. Wirth et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED TOXICOLOGY

Dolphin Morbillivirus and Toxoplasma gondii coinfection in a Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

(2012) Sandro Mazzariol et al.   BMC Veterinary Research

Soluble MICA and a MICA Variation as Possible Prognostic Biomarkers for HBV-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

(2012) Vinod Kumar et al.   PLoS One

Associations Between Mercury and Hepatic, Renal, Endocrine, and Hematological Parameters in Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Along the Eastern Coast of Florida and South Carolina

(2011) Adam M. Schaefer et al.   ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

The prognostic significance of soluble NKG2D ligands in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

(2010) H Nückel et al.   LEUKEMIA

NKG2D Ligand Expression in Human Colorectal Cancer Reveals Associations with Prognosis and Evidence for Immunoediting

(2009) R. W. McGilvray et al.   CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH

Immunology of whales and dolphins

(2009) Andreas Beineke et al.   VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY

Selection of reliable reference genes for qRT-PCR studies on cetacean fibroblast cultures exposed to OCs, PBDEs, and 17β-estradiol

(2008) Giacomo Spinsanti et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Clinical significance of the NKG2D ligands, MICA/B and ULBP2 in ovarian cancer: high expression of ULBP2 is an indicator of poor prognosis

(2008) Kui Li et al.   CANCER IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOTHERAPY

Estradiol regulates MICA expression in human endometrial cells

(2008) Satarupa Basu et al.   CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Association between soluble MICA levels and disease stage IV oral squamous cell carcinoma in Japanese patients

(2008) Shigehiro Tamaki et al.   HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY

Association of MICA-129 polymorphism with nasopharyngeal cancer risk in a Tunisian population

(2008) Hayet Douik et al.   HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY

Use of immunofluorescence technique in cultured fibroblasts from Mediterranean cetaceans as new “in vitro” tool to investigate effects of environmental contaminants

(2008) Letizia Marsili et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Determination of the immunotoxic potential of heavy metals on the functional activity of bottlenose dolphin leukocytes in vitro

(2007) S. Cámara Pellissó et al.   VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY