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Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Greensmith, J., Jackson, A. M., & Spendlove, I. (2016). Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems. In Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion - GECCO '16 Companion (7-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/2908961.2908962

One of the key properties of the human immune system is to detect the presence of pathogens, and as such there are numberous immune algorithm which perform anomaly detection and pattern recognition. An additional facet of the human immune system is t... Read More about Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems.

Stromal fibroblasts support dendritic cells to maintain IL-23/Th17 responses after exposure to ionizing radiation (2016)
Journal Article
Malecka, A., Wang, O., Shah, S., Sutavani, R. V., Spendlove, I., Ramage, J. M., …Jackson, A. M. (2016). Stromal fibroblasts support dendritic cells to maintain IL-23/Th17 responses after exposure to ionizing radiation. Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 100(2), 381-389. https://doi.org/10.1189/jlb.3A1015-474R

Dendritic cell function is modulated by stromal cells, including fibroblasts. Although poorly understood, the signals delivered through this crosstalk substantially alter dendritic cell biology. This is well illustrated with release of TNF-0/IL-113 f... Read More about Stromal fibroblasts support dendritic cells to maintain IL-23/Th17 responses after exposure to ionizing radiation.

Total loss of MHC class I is an independent indicator of good prognosis in breast cancer (2005)
Journal Article
Madjd, Z., Spendlove, I., Pinder, S. E., Ellis, I. O., & Durrant, L. G. (2005). Total loss of MHC class I is an independent indicator of good prognosis in breast cancer. International Journal of Cancer, 117(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.21163

Tumours can be recognised by CTL and NK cells. CTL recognition depends on expression of MHC Class I loaded with peptides from tumour antigens. In contrast, loss of MHC Class I results in NK activation. In our study a large set of samples from patient... Read More about Total loss of MHC class I is an independent indicator of good prognosis in breast cancer.