Increased expression of fas ligand in human tuberculosis and leprosy lesions: a potential novel mechanism of immune evasion in mycobacterial infection.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate interleukin 2 (IL-2) and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production by purified CD4+ and CD8+ cells isolated from peripheral blood (PB) and synovial fluid (SF) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammatory arthritides (non-RA). CD4+ and CD8+ cells were sele...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Hovdenes J,Gaudernack G,Kvien TK,Hovdenes AB,Egeland T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of idiopathic, chronic and relapsing inflammatory conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, caused by an aberrant and exaggerated immunological response in the gut. Supplementation of vitamin D3 in patients with IBD exerts both direct and indirect regulatory roles on the naï...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Alhassan Mohammed H,Mirshafiey A,Vahedi H,Hemmasi G,Moussavi Nasl Khameneh A,Parastouei K,Saboor-Yaraghi AA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell-mediated autoimmune skin diseases develop as a result of the aberrant immune response to the skin cells with T cells playing a central role. These chronic inflammatory skin diseases encompass various types including psoriasis, lichen planus and vitiligo. These diseases show similarities in their immune-pathophy...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Aghamajidi A,Raoufi E,Parsamanesh G,Jalili A,Salehi-Shadkami M,Mehrali M,Mohsenzadegan M

更新日期：2020-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen cells from mice exposed to 500 rad sublethal whole-body irradiation before immunization with 100 x 10(6) allogeneic spleen cells exhibited an enhanced cytolytic T-lymphocyte (CTL) activity. In contrast, this treatment completely abrogated the humoral alloantibody response, as measured by complement-mediated lys...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Engers HD,Louis J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive antibody can both suppress and augment immune responses. Until recently, there was virtual unanimity on the importance of the interaction of the Fc portion of modulating antibody with Fc-receptors (Fc-signalling), especially in experiments involving the suppression by antibody. Experiments reported in the last...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Sinclair NR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic techniques in inbred mouse strains are powerful tools to investigate the specific roles of genes in biological pathways and disease models. However, there is increasing concern over the influence of a variable genetic background in such experiments. To date there have been few investigations of the immunolo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Johansson AC,Vestberg M,Holmdahl R

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RUTI is a vaccine consisting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli grown in stress conditions that is fragmented, detoxified and liposomed. RUTI was designed to shorten the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) with isoniazid from 9 months to just 1 month, by additional treatment with two inoculations of R...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Vilaplana C,Ruiz-Manzano J,Gil O,Cuchillo F,Montané E,Singh M,Spallek R,Ausina V,Cardona PJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement component C5a is a potent inflammatory peptide, which may be involved in the pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). We analysed the induced sputum and plasma of 28 patients with stable COPD, 12 healthy smokers and 7 non-smokers. In 13 of the patients with COPD, we also observed pa...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Marc MM,Kristan SS,Rozman A,Kern I,Flezar M,Kosnik M,Korosec P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial stage of Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG) is often marked by symptoms of infection and it has been postulated that a bacterial infection could be the aetiologic factor of this disease. The objective of our work was to investigate T-cell-mediated immunity in WG by testing proliferative responses on bacterial a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Mayet WJ,Märker-Hermann E,Schlaak J,Meyer Zum Büschenfelde KH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) production as a measure of cellular sensitization was studied by detection of the cytokine in culture supernatant by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and by measuring cellular mRNA using the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method. These assays were compared to the standard...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Halminen M,Klemetti P,Vaarala O,Hurme M,Ilonen J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate autologous antigen recognition, we developed two autoreactive CD4+ T-cell clones, A2 and A10, maintained with non-T cells and IL-2. Autologous non-T-cell stimulation of the T-cell clones resulted in a decrease in cell surface expression of CD4, whereas the expression of CD2, CD3, and WT31 was unchanged....

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Hara M,Kitani A,Harigai M,Suzuki K,Hirose T,Kawakami M,Kawagae M,Nakamura H

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) was evaluated as a tool for diagnostic screening of polymorphisms in the tumour necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 6 (TNFRSF6) also known as CD95, Apo-1 or Fas gene. Exons 1-9 of the TNFRSF6 gene were amplified from genomic DNA of 38 individuals, of wh...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Etokebe GE,Abrahamsen TG,Bogen B,Spurkland A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of the leaves and roots from the tree Artocarpus tonkinensis A Cheval (family Moraceae) are used in traditional Vietnamese medicine in order to treat backache as well as rheumatic joint diseases. We prepared an ethyl acetate (EtOAc) extract from this plant and tested its anti-inflammatory properties in an exp...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Ngoc DD,Catrina AI,Lundberg K,Harris HE,Ha NT,Anh PT,Larsson P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine-immunoglobulin (Ig)-fusion proteins have attracted increasing interest as antitumour agents. Here, we have investigated the antimetastatic and antitumour responses elicited in vivo by mammary adenocarcinoma cells (TS/A) engineered to secrete interleukin (IL)-2-IgG fusion proteins. TS/A cells were transfected ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Budagian V,Nanni P,Lollini PL,Musiani P,Di Carlo E,Bulanova E,Paus R,Bulfone-Paus S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and salivary concentrations of immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) and IgA2 were studied in 105 Icelandic children aged 0-12 years. Serum concentrations of both IgA1 and IgA2 increased slightly (P < 0.001) during childhood. The salivary IgA1/IgA2 ratio tended to decrease during the same period; this trend is less apparent ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Weemaes C,Klasen I,Göertz J,Beldhuis-Valkis M,Olafsson O,Haraldsson A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the assembly of the HLA class I molecules with peptides in the peptide-loading complex, a series of transient interactions are made with ER-resident chaperones. These interactions culminate in the trafficking of the HLA class I molecules to the cell surface and presentation of peptides to CD8(+) T lymphocytes. ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Cabrera CM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new assay for quantitative detection of all helper T cells that can induce normal B lymphocytes to proliferation and Ig secretion. To establish the optimal assay conditions, we have used cloned T helper cells of defined specificities that had previously been shown to activate normal B lymphocytes e...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Pobor G,Bandeira A,Pettersson S,Coutinho A

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the effects of treatment with topical steroids or dithranol on T and dendritic cells in the skin of patients with chronic plaque psoriasis. Resolution of lesions by both types of topical treatments was accompanied by a marked decrease in epidermal T cells. In steroid treated lesions there was also a reduct...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Baker BS,Swain AF,Griffiths CE,Leonard JN,Fry L,Valdimarsson H

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal infection of young adult C57BL/6 males with 10(5) blood or cloned culture forms of Trypanosoma cruzi (CL strain) induced the appearance in spleen, blood, and lymph nodes of cytotoxic effector cells detectable in a lectin-dependent 51Cr-release assay. The effector cells were conventional cytotoxic T lym...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Minoprio PM,Coutinho A,Joskowicz M,D'Imperio Lima MR,Eisen H

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide is reported to have immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects, which have led to its use in the treatment of a number of immune-mediated disorders, including leprosy, discoid lupus and Behcet's disease, and to prevent immunological rejection phenomena following skin and bone marrow grafts. Experimenta...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Zhu J,Deng GM,Diab A,Zwingenberger K,Bakhiet M,Link H

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we analysed the potential of highly purified polyclonal TcR alpha beta+, TcR gamma delta + and CD3- NK cells, to produce lymphokines in response to mitogenic stimulation. RNA hybridizations were performed to detect with high sensitivity the induction of multiple lymphokine genes. Upon stimulation with le...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Biassoni R,Ferrini S,Prigione I,Pelak VS,Sekaly RP,Long EO

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) caused by FMD virus (FMDV) is a major health and economic problem in the farming industry. Vaccination of livestock against this highly infectious viral disease is crucial, and inactivated FMD vaccine has been effective at controlling infection. However, accumulated data show that the inac...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Kang J,Zuo Y,Guo Q,Wang H,Liu Q,Liu Q,Xia G,Kang Y

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid dendritic cells (MyDCs), prime stimulators of antigen-specific immunity, can serve as one of the major reservoirs for human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Utilizing mature monocyte-derived MyDCs generated with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor, interleukin-4, and tumour necrosis factor-a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Gieseler RK,Marquitan G,Hahn MJ,Perdon LA,Driessen WH,Sullivan SM,Scolaro MJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD45 molecule is a transmembrane tyrosine phosphatase that may be associated with the T-cell receptor (TCR). This has led to the suggestion that CD45 may be important for the regulation of signal transduction in T cells. This idea is supported by the finding that antibodies against CD45 are comitogenic in prolifer...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Wolff H,Janeway C Jr

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-Lymphocyte-activating factor (BAFF/BLyS) is a survival factor for B cells, belonging to the tumor necrosis ligand super family. Serum BAFF levels have been found to be elevated in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Neutralization of BAFF activity was suggested as an additional therapeutic approach in ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Toubi E,Kessel A,Rosner I,Rozenbaum M,Paran D,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the possible relationship between the cells mediating resistance to tumour cells and those mediating rejection of foreign bone marrow transplants (BMT), the effect of tumour-bearing on BMT rejection has been measured by means of the spleen colony assay. Moderate doses (less than 5.0 X 10(6] of bone marrow c...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Miller SC,Nguyen D,Bird IA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of resting T cells to interleukin 2 (IL-2) production and DNA synthesis via Ti-CD3 is dependent on accessory cells (AC). Using positively selected, resting T cells activated with particle-bound anti-CD3, we investigated the ability of various cell lines to function as AC. We found that cell lines able t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Halvorsen R,Leivestad T,Gaudernack G,Thorsby E

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) possesses an antimicrobial effect in several animal models of infection. To evaluate a possible effect of G-CSF on the course of pneumococcal meningitis, rabbits infected intracisternally (i.c.) with Streptococcus pneumoniae type 3 (n = 7) received 50 microgram/kg of rhG-C...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Schmidt H,Stuertz K,Brück W,Chen V,Stringaris AK,Fischer FR,Nau R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice were injected with an affinity-chromatography-purified placental transferrin receptor preparation. Spleen cells were fused with NS-1 myeloma cells. Sixteen hybrids producing monoclonal antibodies specific for the transferrin receptor and two hybrids specific for transferrin were identified by radioimmunoas...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Nikinmaa B,Enns CA,Tonik SE,Sussman HH,Schröder J

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two mycobacterial components were detected by antibodies contained in leprosy patients' sera across the clinical spectrum and rabbit anti-M. leprae hyperimmune sera by western blot analysis of armadillo-derived M. leprae antigen preparations. Sera of borderline tuberculoid patients were found to contain antibod...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Ehrenberg JP,Gebre N

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00