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ShelfLife@Texas February 2009 Blog Archive
No full textCONTENTS: What's on Your Nightstand, Jim Magnuson? – Poetry on the Plaza: The Rossetti Circle – David Mamet to Discuss "The Spanish Prisoner" in Harry Ransom Lecture – The Mystery of the "Victorian Blood Book" – Professor Evaluates Israel's Struggle Against Terrorism – Law Professor to Discuss "The Preemption War" at BookPeople – An Interview with Australian Author Peter Carey – Is Narcissism Destroying Your Marriage? – The Dark Side of Love – Pornography: A Mirror of American Culture? – Literary Marriages from Hell – A Philosopher's Treatise on Love – Review: “Diplomats in Blue” by William Braisted – Irish Studies Reading List – New Book Highlights Work of Photographer Fritz Henle – Alumna Chronicles Her South-of-the-Border Identity Quest – Burnt Orange Britannia – Amazing Rare Maps in the Benson Collection – Visualizing Russia’s Kaleidoscopic History – Mayor Picks "The Septembers of Shiraz" for Book Club – Symposium Celebrates Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" – What's on Your Nightstand, Juliet Walker? – Tracing New Orleans’ Creole History || BOOKS MENTIONED IN CONTENTS: “On Chesil Beach” by Ian McEwan – “True History of the Kelly Gang” by Peter Carey – “How Fiction Works” by James Wood – “The Savage Detectives” by Roberto Bolano, translated by Natasha Wimmer – “Victorian Blood Book” by Evelyn Waugh – “The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism” by Ami Pedahzur – “The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries” by Tom McGarity – “Conversational Narcissism in Marriage” by Lisa Leit – “The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill” “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating” “The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex” by David Buss – “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity” by Robert Jensen – “About Love: Reinventing Romance For Our Times” by Robert Solomon – “Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922-1933” by William R. Braisted – “Women, Press and Politics During the Irish Revival” by Karen Steele – “The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction” by Ellen Crowell – “Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlands” by Stephanie Elizondo Griest – “Burnt Orange Britannia” by William Roger Louis – “Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture” by Joan Neuberger – “The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer – “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” by Annette Gordon-Reed – “The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom” by John Baker – “The Militant South, 1800-1861” by John Hope Franklin – “Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching” by Paula Giddings – “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” by Gwen Ifill – “Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in New Orleans” by Shirley ThompsonDivision of Campus and Community Engagemen
The vitamin D receptor and T cell function
No full textThe vitamin D receptor (VDR) is a nuclear, ligand-dependent transcription factor that in complex with hormonally active vitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D3, regulates the expression of more than 900 genes involved in a wide array of physiological functions. The impact of 1,25(OH)2D3-VDR signaling on immune function has been the focus of many recent studies as a link between 1,25(OH)2D3 and sus-ceptibility to various infections and to development of a variety of inflammatory diseases has been suggested. It is also becoming increasingly clear that microbes slow down immune reactivity by dysregulating the VDR ultimately to increase their chance of survival. Immune modulatory therapies that enhance VDR expression and activity are therefore considered in the clinic today to a greater extent. As T cells are of great importance for both protective immunity and development of inflammatory diseases a variety of studies have been engaged investigating the impact of VDR ex-pression in T cells and found that VDR expression and activity plays an important role in both T cell development, differentiation and effector function. In this review we will analyze current know-ledge of VDR regulation and function in T cells and discuss its importance for immune activity
