MHC class II antigen expression is not induced on murine epidermal keratinocytes by interferon-gamma alone or in combination with tumour necrosis factor-alpha.

abstract：:It has recently been shown that factors in addition to interleukin-2 (IL-2) are required for the proliferation or differentiation of at least some murine T-cell lines. We have previously shown that conditioned medium from human mononuclear cells stimulated with phorbol ester and staphylococcal enterotoxin A is superio...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Mills BJ,Shively JE,Mitsky PS,Hawke DH,Forman SJ,Wright CL,Todd CW

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a high-throughput screening system to detect interactions between leucocyte surface proteins, taking into account that these interactions are usually of very low affinity. The method involves producing the extracellular regions of leucocyte proteins with tags so that they can be bound to nanoparticles to p...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Jiang L,Barclay AN

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight human IgA1 myeloma proteins were analysed by SDS-PAGE. These experiments showed that purified IgA1 proteins comprise both fully S-S bonded and partly S-S bonded molecules. Pepsin digestion of the IgA1 proteins yielded three four-chain and two two-chain fragments. The four-chain fragments are likely to be derived...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Biewenga J,Faber A,Pronk JC,Haaijman JJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified CD8(+)  CD122(+) regulatory T cells (CD8(+)  CD122(+) Treg cells) and reported their importance in maintaining immune homeostasis. The absence of CD8(+)  CD122(+) Treg cells has been shown to lead to severe systemic autoimmunity in several mouse models, including inflammatory bowel diseases and experimen...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Okuno Y,Murakoshi A,Negita M,Akane K,Kojima S,Suzuki H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) are the initiators of immune responses and are present in most tissues in vivo. To generate myeloid DC from monocytes (MoDC) in vitro the necessary cytokines are granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-4 (IL-4). Using degenerated primers delineated from other spec...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Mauel S,Steinbach F,Ludwig H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A and its active metabolite retinoic acid are essential for the development and function of many tissues including the immune system. The induction of mucosal homing receptors on T and B cells by mucosal dendritic cells (DC) depends on the presence of vitamin A. Recent studies indicate that also the differenti...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Beijer MR,Kraal G,den Haan JM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that tumour cell lysis by gamma-radiation induces a tumoral antigen release eliciting an immune response. It is not clear how a specific immune response in cervical cancer patients is developed after radiotherapy. This study is an attempt to investigate the role of the human papillomavirus type 1...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Delgado FG,Martínez E,Céspedes MA,Bravo MM,Navas MC,Cómbita Rojas AL

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the characterization of a novel HLA Class I molecule, which we have isolated from chorionic cytotrophoblast cell membranes, and from a trophoblast-derived choriocarcinoma cell line, BeWo; classical HLA Class I antigens are not expressed on these cells. This antigen is an electrophoretically non-polymorphic...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Ellis SA,Sargent IL,Redman CW,McMichael AJ

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transfer to create tumour epitope-specific cytolytic T cells for adoptive immunotherapy of cancer remains an area of active inquiry. When the Mart-127-35 -specific DMF5 T-cell receptor (TCR) is transferred into peripheral human CD4(+) T cells, the reprogrammed cells exhibit a T helper type 1 (Th1) phenotype with ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Jha SS,Chakraborty NG,Singh P,Mukherji B,Dorsky DI

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor gamma chain, which also serves as a component of the receptor complexes for IL-4, 7, 9 and 15, results in severe immune deficiency. We hypothesized that the immunological immaturity of healthy neonates might be associated with low levels of expression of this receptor mole...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Zola H,Fusco M,Weedon H,Macardle PJ,Ridings J,Roberton DM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With an increase in the importance of umbilical cord blood (CB) as an alternative source of haematopoietic progenitors for allogenic transplantation, donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) with donor CB-derived activated CD4(+) T cells in the unrelated CB transplantation setting is expected to be of increased usefulness as a...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Miyagawa Y,Kiyokawa N,Ochiai N,Imadome K,Horiuchi Y,Onda K,Yajima M,Nakamura H,Katagiri YU,Okita H,Morio T,Shimizu N,Fujimoto J,Fujiwara S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunohistological techniques, class 1 products of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) have been demonstrated on various forms of human extra-villous trophoblast in placental tissues taken from first, second and third trimester pregnancies. This contrasts with the absence of class 1 MHC antigens on all fo...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Redman CW,McMichael AJ,Stirrat GM,Sunderland CA,Ting A

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global health problem characterized by a high rate of chronic infection, which may in part be due to a defect in myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs). This defect appears to be remedied by treatment with interferon-α (IFN-α) -based antiviral therapies; however, the molecular mechanisms...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Ma L,Zhou Y,Zhang Y,Li Y,Guo Y,He Y,Wang J,Lian J,Hao C,Moorman JP,Yao ZQ,Zhou Y,Jia Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies employing reverse transription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) have demonstrated the intrathymic presence of mRNA for various autoantigens, including thyroglobulin (Tg). Deliberations on the mechanisms of central tolerance usually assume that this approach detects intact mRNA transcripts that can be ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Li HS,Carayanniotis G

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD8(+) T cells regain function during a recall response, but the requirement of signals in addition to antigen during a secondary immune response is unknown. In this study, the ability of interleukin-7 (IL-7) to enhance memory CD8(+ ) CD45RA(- ) CD127(+) T-cell responses in health and in human immunodeficiency ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： O'Connor AM,Crawley AM,Angel JB

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemically cross-linked C-reactive protein (CRP) oligomers were prepared and characterized, and C1q binding and C activation were investigated. Purified human CRP was polymerized in the presence of both non-cleavable and cleavable cross-linking agents and further separated by Superose 12 analytical FPLC column chromat...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Jiang H,Lint TF,Gewurz H

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble low-affinity receptors for IgG are known to inhibit immune complex (IC)-mediated inflammation, and expression by leukocytes is elevated in several inflammatory diseases. Immunoglobulin M (IgM) rheumatoid factors (RF), anti-Fc autoantibodies, are found in autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Wines BD,Gavin A,Powell MS,Steinitz M,Buchanan RR,Mark Hogarth P

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional and phenotypic properties of porcine peripheral blood CD4/CD8 double-positive (DP) lymphocytes were examined. In cross-sectional and longitudinal studies involving a total of 103 pigs, this lymphocyte population was found to increase gradually in proportion with age, comprising < 2% of the total peripheral ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Zuckermann FA,Husmann RJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans' cells (LC) cultured for 1-3 days lose their ability to process native protein antigens but acquire the ability to stimulate resting T cells as assessed in an allogeneic mixed lymphocyte response (MLR). Lymph-borne dendritic cells (L-DC) are physiologically involved in the transport of antigens to lymph nod...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Liu LM,MacPherson GG

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ly-49A is a member of the Ly-49 family of mouse natural killer cell receptors that inhibit cytotoxicity upon recognition of their ligands, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules, on the target cell surface. Although Ly-49A has an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motif (ITIM) in its cytopl...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Motoda K,Takata M,Kiura K,Nakamura I,Harada M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathology of the spleen, lymph nodes and thymus of C57L/J mice, infected intraperitoneally with 20 and 100 cysts of Echinococcus multilocularis is described at 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks postinfection (p.i.). For the first 8 weeks, growth of the larval cyst mass (LCM) was slow and blastogenesis in T-dependent areas of b...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Ali-Khan Z

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenaline is a catecholamine hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to acute stress. Previous studies have shown that adrenaline suppresses the nitric oxide (NO) response of murine macrophages (M phi s) stimulated in vitro with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). We have now extended these studies to examine the e...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Zinyama RB,Bancroft GJ,Sigola LB

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LacZ (Gal)-reactive immune cells were transferred into athymic nu/nu mice inoculated with Gal-expressing syngeneic tumour cells (ESbL-Gal) in order to study tumour-protective T-cell memory. This transfer prevented tumour outgrowth in recipients and resulted in the persistence of a high frequency of Gal-specific CD8(+)...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Mahnke YD,Schwendemann J,Beckhove P,Schirrmacher V

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Runx1 transcription factor is highly expressed at a CD4/CD8-double-negative (DN) stage of thymocyte development but is down-regulated when cells proceed to the double-positive (DP) stage. In the present study, we examined whether the down-regulation of Runx1 is necessary for thymocyte differentiation from the DN to DP...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Wong WF,Nakazato M,Watanabe T,Kohu K,Ogata T,Yoshida N,Sotomaru Y,Ito M,Araki K,Telfer J,Fukumoto M,Suzuki D,Sato T,Hozumi K,Habu S,Satake M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear (PBM) cells from five of 21 patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVI) stimulated in vitro by antigen produced antibodies normally. In 11 of the 16 non-responders, removal of adherent suppressor cells by Sephadex G-10 or removal of monocytes or OKT8 positive suppressor lymphocyte...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Pollack S,Reisner Y,Koziner B,Good RA,Hoffman MK

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 15 years, regulatory T cell (Treg) suppression has graduated from a phenomenon that 'dare not speak its name' to a field at the centre of a global research effort. It is now accepted that Tregs can target numerous cell populations to elicit potent immunosuppression. Intriguingly, emerging data suggest that...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Walker LS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies were designed to investigate the effect of ageing and low protein (4%) diet on antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and IgA concentration in the intestine. Both ADCC activity and IgA concentration were shown to reach mature levels at 17 weeks old. The effect of ageing was greater on ADCC ac...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Lim TS,Messiha N,Watson RR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppressor T (Ts) cells specific for minor alloantigens can be generated by intravenous administration of high doses (10(8) cells) of alloantigenic spleen cells. Such Ts cells have previously been shown to inhibit the in vivo induction of CTL responses and are now shown to suppress in vitro proliferative responses to ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Nanda NK

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocultures of dispersed human fetal liver cells with murine Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts resulted in the development of human mast cells after 1 to 4 weeks of culture. Mast cells were detected by immunohistochemistry using a murine monoclonal anti-tryptase antibody, before metachromasia appeared with toluidine blue. When sub...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Irani AA,Craig SS,Nilsson G,Ishizaka T,Schwartz LB

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine macrophage Fc receptor function has been studied with the membrane-impermeable sulphydryl-blocking reagent p-chloromercuribenzenesulphonic acid (PCMBSA). Antibody-dependent endocytosis of fluorescein-labelled immune complexes was studied with video intensification microscopy. PCMBSA was found to inhibit the end...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Petty HR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00