Grant Publications

Proposal No.    IBD-0042
Principal Investigator:  Rodney Newberry, M.D.
Applicant Organization:  Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.)
Project Title:  Post-gestational lymphotoxin/lymphotoxin beta receptor interactions essential to the intestinal immune response
Period of Award:  January 1, 2003 – March 31, 2005

Lorenz RG, Chaplin DD, McDonald KG, McDonough JS, Newberry RD.  Isolated lymphoid follicle formation is inducible and dependent upon lymphotoxin-sufficient B lymphocytes, lymphotoxin beta receptor, and TNF receptor I function.  Journal of Immunology 2003;170:5475-82.

Lorenz RG, Newberry RD.  Isolated lymphoid follicles can function as sites for induction of mucosal immune responses.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2004;1029:44-57.

McDonald KG, McDonough JS, Newberry RD.  Adaptive immune responses are dispensable for isolated lymphoid follicle formation:  antigen-naive, lymphotoxin-sufficient B lymphocytes drive the formation of mature isolated lymphoid follicles.  Journal of Immunology 2005;174:5720-8.

Newberry RD, Lorenz RG.  Organizing a mucosal defense.  Immunological Reviews 2005;206:6-21.

McDonald KG, McDonough JS, Wang C, Kucharzik T, Williams IR, Newberry RD.  CC chemokine receptor 6 expression by B lymphocytes is essential for the development of isolated lymphoid follicles 2007;170:1229-40.