Down-regulation of KOLT-2 antigen (CD28) by interleukin 2; role of IL-2R (p70).

abstract：:The process by which naive T cells become activated, differentiate into effector cells and ultimately generate long-lived memory cells is dependent upon a number of factors, including the costimulatory signals received by the T cell. To best understand the multiple events involved, it is important to understand the po...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kohlmeier JE,Chan MA,Benedict SH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits immunized with complexes of denatured calf thymus DNA and methylated bovine serum albumin (MBSA) produced only IgM antibodies to denatured DNA, confirming the results of previous studies. In contrast, both IgM and IgG antibodies were induced by MBSA complexes of Trypanosoma brucei DNA. A similar response was o...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kushimo JB

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we describe the ability of hybrid mouse monoclonal antibody (mAb) to induce monocyte-mediated cytotoxicity towards human IgA1-coated E (HuIgA1-E), and the effect of mAb binding valency on Fc gamma RI-mediated ADCC. All hybrid monospecific (ms) anti-HuIgA1 and bispecific (bs) anti-HuIgA1/HRP mAb were cap...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Koolwijk P,Van de Winkel JG,Otten I,Bast BJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone-marrow-derived macrophages are divided into two phenotypically and functionally distinct subsets, M1 and M2 macrophages. Recently, it was shown that adoptive transfer of M2-polarized peritoneal macrophages reduced the severity of experimental colitis in mice. However, it is still unclear whether peritoneal macrop...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Oishi S,Takano R,Tamura S,Tani S,Iwaizumi M,Hamaya Y,Takagaki K,Nagata T,Seto S,Horii T,Osawa S,Furuta T,Miyajima H,Sugimoto K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular characteristics of a serum IL-2 inhibitor were determined by fractionating active sera from normal and malaria-infected mice, and assaying inhibitory activity in blocking production and expression of IL-2 activity. Using isoelectric focusing and ion exchange chromatography, the activity resolved in a sin...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Male D,Lelchuk R,Curry S,Pryce G,Playfair JH

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus is often associated in asthmatic patients with the exacerbation of asthma symptoms. The pathomechanism of this phenomenon has not been fully understood. Here, we evaluated the immunological mechanisms and the role of the prostaglandin D2 / Chemoattractant Receptor-Homologous Molecule Expressed on...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Liu H,Zheng M,Qiao J,Dang Y,Zhang P,Jin X

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trinitrophenyl (TNP)-specific humoral response was tested after immunization with TNP-protein conjugates composed of either native proteins or proteins modified by chlorination. Significant enhancement of the hapten-specific response was observed as a result of carrier chlorination. This effect was dose dependent and ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Marcinkiewicz J,Olszowska E,Olszowski S,Zgliczynski JM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is considered a non-immunogenic malignany. One strategy to augment the immunogenicity of such tumours is represented by the expression of costimulatory molecules by gene transfer. Using transfected variants of the human colorectal cancer cell line SW480 we tested various costimulatory molecules (CD80...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Lindauer M,Rudy W,Gückel B,Doeberitz MV,Meuer SC,Moebius U

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (400 microg/kg body weight) induced the expression of mRNAs of inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-6 and tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha in the submandibular gland (SMG) of C3H/HeN mice but not that of C3H/HeJ mice, a mutant strain for ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Yao C,Li X,Murdiastuti K,Kosugi-Tanaka C,Akamatsu T,Kanamori N,Hosoi K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural cell-mediated cytotoxicity is mediated by a family of effector cells that express cytolytic activities distinct from those generally attributed to B cells, T cells and macrophages; it includes both natural killer (NK) and natural cytotoxic (NC) activities. There is now convincing evidence to show that NC activ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Patek PQ,Lin Y

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA), tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-1 (IL-1) activities were measured for highly purified human monocytes cultured for 18 hr with recombinant human interleukin-3 (IL-3). IL-3 alone stimulated monocyte u-PA activity, but not TNF-alpha or IL-1 activity. H...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Hart PH,Whitty GA,Burgess DR,Hamilton JA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against lymphocytes have been shown in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, but their relevance in the pathogenesis of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains controversial. We investigated increased levels of lymphocyte surface Ig and antibodies against CD4+ T cells in the plasm...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Müller C,Kukel S,Bauer R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suppression of immune responsiveness to heterologous antigenic stimulation during concurrent infection with Nematospiroides dubius was reproduced using soluble antigens derived from adult parasites. Immunosuppression appeared to be selective in that the administration of equivalent quantities of an irrelevant hete...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Pritchard DI,Ali NM,Behnke JM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleic acid (immune RNA, iRNA), extracted from the spleens of mice immunized with sheep red blood cells (SRBC), induced specific immunological memory. The humoral immune responses of iRNA-treated animals were compared with in vivo and in vitro primary and secondary responses, using the haemolytic plaque-forming c...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kodama K,Yoshida T,Shibiya T,Kurashige S,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated human mononuclear cells were fractionated according to their membrane characteristics or physical properties. Adherent cells were depleted by filtration through glass columns; phagocytic cells were removed by iron treatment and cell subpopulations capable of forming rosettes with sheep erythrocytes (E), eryth...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： De Bracco MM,Isturiz MA,Manni JA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD44, a cell adhesion molecule, exists in multiple isoforms that are generated by RNA alternative splicing. CD44 isoforms containing exon V6 (CD44 V6) have been associated with tumorigenesis and metastasis. We investigated the association between human B-cell activation and CD44 V6 isoform expression by analysing its ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kryworuckho M,Diaz-Mitoma F,Kumar A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological outcome of infections and vaccinations is largely determined during the initial first days in which antigen-presenting cells instruct T cells to expand and differentiate into effector and memory cells. Besides the essential stimulation of the T-cell receptor complex a plethora of co-stimulatory signa...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Bathke B,Pätzold J,Kassub R,Giessel R,Lämmermann K,Hinterberger M,Brinkmann K,Chaplin P,Suter M,Hochrein H,Lauterbach H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) impeded monocyte to macrophage differentiation with respect to typical phenotypic modulation and certain phagocyte-related processes. The down-regulation of the porcine monocyte marker SWC1, and up-regulation of the SWC9 macrophage marker were ret...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Basta S,Knoetig S,Summerfield A,McCullough KC

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that the addition of polymer to the surface of liposome/DNA complexes may potentially enhance in vivo delivery of plasmid DNA to antigen-presenting cells and thereby facilitate enhanced immune responses to encoded protein. BALB/c mice were immunized subcutaneously or intramuscularly three times with a ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Bramwell VW,Eyles JE,Somavarapu S,Alpar HO

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sudden upsurge of fever cases with joint pain was observed in the outpatient department, Community Health Centre, Rangat during July-August 2010 in Rangat Middle Andaman, India. The aetiological agent responsible for the outbreak was identified as chikungunya virus (CHIKV), by using RT-PCR and IgM ELISA. The study i...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Chaaithanya IK,Muruganandam N,Anwesh M,Rajesh R,Ghosal SR,Kartick C,Prasad KN,Muthumani K,Vijayachari P

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor B-like activity associated with human peripheral blood lymphocytes was first described by Halbwachs & Lachmann (1976), who employed a functional assay. In this present study, clones of B cells from patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) and lymphoblastoid 'Raji' cells were used. The surface of these ce...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Woo P,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine interleukin-12 (IL-12) is essential for resistance to Trypanosoma cruzi infection because it stimulates the synthesis of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), a major activator of the parasiticidal effect of macrophages. A less studied property of IL-12 is its ability to amplify the proliferation of T or natural ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Galvão da Silva AP,de Almeida Abrahamsohn I

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells have a specialized function in peripheral organs, which is determined by the organ-specific niches. We have attempted to explore whether lung NK cells display a particular phenotype according to their function in the unique pulmonary environment in health or during respiratory infection in mi...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Wang J,Li F,Zheng M,Sun R,Wei H,Tian Z

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T. brucei infection in mice causes generalized immunosuppression with multiple changes in the cells of the lymphoid tissue. Loss of B cell responsiveness to antigens and mitogens, and the induction of suppressive T-cells and macrophages, have been previously reported (Hudson, Byner, Freeman & Terry, 1976; Corsini, Cla...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Askonas BA,Corsini AC,Clayton CE,Ogilvie BM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are the most important inducers of T helper (Th) cell differentiation. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) and interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) are responsible for human Th1-cell differentiation, while IL-4 is the critical cytokine promoting Th2-cell development. These two subsets of cells co-ordinate immunological responses...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Aho TL,Lund RJ,Ylikoski EK,Matikainen S,Lahesmaa R,Koskinen PJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of improved vaccines and vaccination strategies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been hindered by a limited understanding of the immune correlates of anti-tuberculosis protective immunity. Simple measurement of interferon-γ frequency or production per se does not provide adequate prediction of im...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kang H,Yuan Q,Ma H,Hu ZD,Han DP,Wu K,Lowrie DB,Fan XY

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte migration into inflammatory sites involves a change from a spherical, non-motile phenotype to an irregular, constantly shape-changing, motile phenotype. We have previously shown that lymphocytes are maintained in the non-motile state by the constitutive activity of protein kinase C (PKC). In this paper we h...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Thorp KM,Verschueren H,De Baetselier P,Southern C,Matthews N

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (OxLDL) plays a crucial role in the development of atherosclerosis. Carbamylated LDL has been suggested to promote atherogenesis in patients with chronic kidney disease. Here we observed that plasma IgG and IgM antibodies to carbamylated epitopes were associated with IgG and IgM antibo...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kummu O,Turunen SP,Prus P,Lehtimäki J,Veneskoski M,Wang C,Hörkkö S

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant lectin concanavalin A (Con A) has been used in an invertebrate model of lectin-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (LDCC). Macrophage-like cells from the susceptible host snail Biomphalaria glabrata become cytotoxic effectors when they encounter sporocysts of the parasitic trematode Schistosoma mansoni that...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Boswell CA,Bayne CJ

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea-pig erythrocytes that had been exposed to influenza A virus or Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase activated the classical complement pathway in autologous serum. Because all viral particles were eluted from the treated cells, activation was not dependent on anti-viral antibodies or on the particles themselves. After...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Lambre CR,Thibon M,Le Maho S,Di Bella G

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00