Stress and substance P but not the substance P-metabolite SP5-11 trigger murine abortion by augmenting TNF-alpha levels at the feto-maternal interface.

abstract：:Antibodies to interleukin-2 (IL-2) have been reported in the sera of patients under therapies involving this cytokine and in the sera of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Our study proves that auto-antibodies to IL-2 are present also, at a lower titre, in healthy individuals. These antibodies ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Tiberio L,Caruso A,Pozzi A,Rivoltini L,Morelli D,Monti E,Balsari A

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：:Mouse macrophages were cultured on chemically modified plastic dishes. On dishes covered with immobilized glycans, the macrophages were stimulated as judged by increased 14C-glucosamine incorporation, increased cytostatic and cytolytic capacities and by morphology as seen by scanning electron microscopy. The correspon...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Bøgwald J,Gouda I,Hoffman J,Larm O,Larsson R,Seljelid R

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear cell function tests were performed in 340 patients with recurrent unexplained infections. Serum-dependent defects in phagocytosis and intracellular killing of Candida albicans (Candida opsonin and procidin defects) were specifically associated with susceptibility to recurrent pyogenic infections, Can...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Parkin JM,Bridges J,Sloper KS,Warner JO,Pinching AJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human peripheral blood monocyte subsets with and without Fc receptor for human IgG are known to suppress (FcR+) and enhance (FcR-) pokeweed mitogen-induced polyclonal immunoglobulin synthesis in vitro. The ability of these subsets to modulate immunoglobulin production in the presence or absence of OKT8+ T cells and un...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Pryjma J,Flad HD,Gruber M,Ernst M

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight children infected with Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni were tested for natural killer (NK) cell activity in vitro using the myeloid/erythroid cell line K562 as target. In addition, the frequency of large granular lymphocytes (LGL) and the number of HNK-1+ lymphocytes were examined in peripheral blo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Gastl GA,Feldmeier H,Kortmann C,Daffalla AA,Peter HH

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to DNA (anti-DNA) play an important role in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In blood, these antibodies may exist in a free, unbound state or as part of complexes with DNA. Furthermore, circulating DNA may be either complexed or free. Because of the central role of these immunoreactan...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Björkman L,Reich CF,Pisetsky DS

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During B-cell development in the avian bursa of Fabricius most of the developing B cells die by apoptosis and only a minority survive to emigrate into the periphery. Recently, it has been shown that when developing bursal cells become mature and ready to migrate they start to express chL12 antigen. The expression of t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Lampisuo M,Arstila TP,Liippo J,Lassila O

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocytes are activated by the interaction between the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) and peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. The avidity of this TCR-pMHC interaction is very low. Therefore, several hypotheses have been put forward to explain how T cells become specifically activ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Rubin B,Knibiehler M,Gairin JE

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral CD4 T-cell depletion has been observed in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). To investigate more accurately this alteration, we studied peripheral blood CD45RA(+) and CD29(high) CD4 subsets in 79 TB patients with (HIV(+)TB(+)) or without (HIV(-)TB(+)) HIV ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Diagbouga S,Chiron JP,Sanou O,Ledru E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, T-cell subsets from aged individuals were examined by using anti-BAT (brain-associated thymocyte antigen) serum. Anti-BAT serum was raised against the human fetal brain at 28 weeks of gestation. After absorption wit AB erythrocytes, B-cell lines, and leukaemic cells, anti-BAT serum was T cell-spe...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Abe T,Morimoto C,Toguchi T,Kiyotaki M,Homma M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrate the use of oligonucleotide probes to the most VH family-specific framework, the Framework 3 (FR3) gene segment, in the analysis of germline DNA. Compared with the hybridization of restriction enzyme-digested genomic DNA to large, cloned human VH family probes, hybridization with oligonucl...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Rubinstein DB,Symann M,Guillaume T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glomerular complement receptors (GCR) were demonstrated by the adsorption of C3 coated sheep erythrocytes to cryostat sections of human kidneys. An epithelial localization of the GCR is implied by the binding pattern of the indicator cells. The GCR activity was reduced in all glomeruli where in vivo deposition of immu...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Matre R,Iversen BM,Thunold S,Tønder O

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are specific antigen-presenting cells that play critical roles in the initiation and polarization of immune responses. DCs residing in the lungs might be detected in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). We analysed DC compartment in the peripheral blood and BALF of patients with allergy and i...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Kayserova J,Zentsova-Jaresova I,Budinsky V,Rozkova D,Kopecka J,Vernerova E,Pohunek P,Skalicka V,Spisek R,Sediva A

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of IFN-gamma (interferon gamma) in IL-12- (interleukin-12)-induced inhibition of the inflammatory response in the eye during endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU). C57BL/6 wild type mice and IFN-gamma-deficient (GKO) mice were injected with 250 microg of Salmonella typhymurium endotoxin as a model for E...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Figueiredo F,Commodaro AG,de Camargo MM,Rizzo LV,Belfort R Jr

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclasts are responsible for bone destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (ADSCs) can inhibit experimental collagen-induced arthritis model. This study aims to determine whether ADSCs also suppresses osteoclastogenesis and bone erosion in collagen-induced arthritis (C...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Chang Q,Li C,Lu Y,Geng R,Wei JN,Hu JZ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus by human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) on the surface of endothelial cells is accompanied by adherence of the PMN to the endothelial surface and detachment of the endothelial cells from the culture monolayer. We studied the role of the leucocyte adherence-related glycoprotein...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Thijssen HM,Tetteroo PA,Rozemuller E,Verhoef J

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes Leishmania antigen-induced activation of lymphocytes isolated from Kenyan donors, previously treated for visceral leishmaniasis, and from Danish and Kenyan controls. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from cured Kala-Azar patients proliferated and produced Interferon-gamma in vitro in respo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Kemp M,Theander TG,Handman E,Hey AS,Kurtzhals JA,Hviid L,Sørensen AL,Were JO,Koech DK,Kharazmi A

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-binding peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) from normal and bursectomized agammaglobulinemic chickens were labeled by incubation in vitro with radioiodinated antigen at 4 degrees C in the presence of sodium azide. [125I]TGAL-binding cells could be detected by autoradiography of PBL from normal, unimmunized chick...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Jensenius C,Crone M,Koch C

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta 2-glycoprotein I (beta 2-GPI) is a 50 kDa protein in human plasma composed of five repeating complement control protein modules thereby closely resembling complement factor H which has 20 such units. Both beta 2-GPI and factor H (150 kDa) have binding sites for negatively charged polyions. beta 2-GPI has been sho...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Puurunen M,Jokiranta S,Vaarala O,Meri S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis are targets of host immune responses and as such are investigated for vaccine and immunodiagnostics development. Computer-driven searches of the M. tuberculosis H37Rv genome had previously identified 45 novel secreted proteins. Here, we report the characterization of the...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Ben Amor Y,Shashkina E,Johnson S,Bifani PJ,Kurepina N,Kreiswirth B,Bhattacharya S,Spencer J,Rendon A,Catanzaro A,Gennaro ML

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The average frequency of cytotoxic precursor cells in DBA/2 lymph node cell preparations reactive to the syngeneic tumour P815 has been determined as 1 in 2000. This frequency is similar to the precursor frequency for an allogeneic tumour EL-4. The normal lack of response of DBA/2 lymph node cells to the syngeneic tum...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Warren HS,Lafferty KJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response of adult BALB/c mice against the bacterial antigen dextran B1355S (Dex) is well characterized as thymus independent (TI type 2) and Igha linked. The antisera consist of mainly IgM/lambda antibodies directed against the alpha(1-->3) glucosidic linkage. This study describes the immune response agains...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Willers J,Weiler E,Kolb C

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is one of the most debilitating diseases among psychiatric disorders. Recent studies suggest the existence of effective immunological changes in the pathophysiology of this disease. The purpose of the current study was to determine the changes in serum levels of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Ajami A,Hosseini SH,Taghipour M,Khalilian A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart block (CHB) is a conduction abnormality that affects hearts of foetuses and/or newborn to mothers with autoantibodies reactive with the intracellular soluble ribonucleoproteins 48-kD La, 52-kD Ro and 60-kD Ro. CHB carries substantial mortality and morbidity, with more than 60% of affected children req...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Karnabi E,Boutjdir M

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a self-healing skin disease which rarely for unknown reason(s) the lesion develops to a non-healing form. It seems that the initial contact of Leishmania parasites with the host innate immune system is an important step in the outcome of the disease. Recent studies suggested that toll-l...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Tolouei S,Hejazi SH,Ghaedi K,Khamesipour A,Hasheminia SJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral commensal bacterium Streptococcus gordonii has been gathering interest as a candidate live mucosal vaccine delivery vector. S. gordonii has been shown to be capable of activating antigen presenting immune cells in a manner which leads to their activation and maturation, yet the mechanism used by S. gordonii t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Mayer ML,Phillips CM,Townsend RA,Halperin SA,Lee SF

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified C-reactive protein (mCRP) has been reported to non-specifically bind to immunoglobulins; notwithstanding, the nature of these interactions is not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate the binding of antibodies directed against HSA and IgG to mCRP, fibrinogen (Fg), IgG, fibronectin (Fn) and C1q and i...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Boncler M,Dudzińska D,Nowak J,Watała C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate T-T cell interactions that may be involved in the pathogenesis of chronic synovitis. Two CD4+ T-cell clones, termed N16 and N18, sharing similar cytokine profiles were isolated from the synovial tissue of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. Activated N16 cells induced prolifer...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Van Laar JM,Miltenburg AM,De Kuiper P,Daha MR,De Vries RR,Breedveld FC

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00