Mycobacterial antigen-specific human T-cell clones secreting macrophage activating factors.

abstract：:Canine cutaneous histiocytoma is a benign epidermal neoplasm of Langerhans cell origin, which usually displays spontaneous regression. Based on the degree of lymphocytic infiltration, 30 histiocytomas were classified into four groups representing different stages of tumour regression. To elucidate further the mechanis...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kaim U,Moritz A,Failing K,Baumgärtner W

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells to pokeweed mitogen (PWM) stimulation was investigated with combined light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The DNA content of the nucleus of a cell (measured by fluorescence) was compared directly with the diameter and morphological features (by SEM). It ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Wouters CH,van der Weij JP,Koper GJ,Daems WT,de Vries E,Ploem JS

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration of leucocytes into tissues is a process mediated by leucocyte endothelial interactions, in which adhesion receptors play a crucial role. Recently, it was found that 80-90% of T cells in inflammatory skin diseases were reactive to the monoclonal antibody (mAb) HECA-452+ in contrast to inflamed non-cutaneo...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： De Boer OJ,Horst E,Pals ST,Bos JD,Das PK

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin is a transmembranous glycoprotein of endothelial cells. In vitro it is a marker of endothelial cell injury. In vivo the levels of serum thrombomodulin are regarded as a parameter of activity in vasculitides. The latter are pathophysiologically determined by neutrophil-derived inflammation and endothelia...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Boehme MW,Galle P,Stremmel W

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal epithelium is rich in γδ T cells and the gut is a site of residence for a wide variety of pathogens, including nematodes. Although CD4+ T-cell receptor (TCR) -αβ+ T helper type 2 T cells are essential for the expulsion of intestinal nematodes, little information is available on the function of γδ T cell...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Inagaki-Ohara K,Sakamoto Y,Dohi T,Smith AL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four specific interleukin-2 (IL-2) surface binding proteins can be detected by covalent cross-linking of [125I]IL-2 to rat spleen cells that have been activated with various stimuli including concanavalin A (Con A), phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), calcium ionophore, and phorbol dibutyrate (PDB) with or without calcium iono...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Chopra RK,Carroll MP,May WS,Bhatia SK,Margolick JB,Nagel JE,Adler WH

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse peritoneal macrophages (M phi) expressed enhanced tumoricidal activity upon in vitro stimulation either with the lymphokine M phi-activating factor (MAF) or with fibroblast interferon (IFN-beta). In contrast, M phi suppressive activity on lymphoproliferation was not affected by MAF pretreatment, but was drastica...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Boraschi D,Ghezzi P,Pasqualetto E,Salmona M,Nencioni L,Soldateschi D,Villa L,Tagliabue A

更新日期：1983-11-01 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：: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：:Mice injected in the footpad with carrageenin developed local inflammation which peaked at 48 hr. This delayed-type footpad swelling was significantly reduced in mice injected intraperitoneally (i.p.) with a specific nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor, L-NGmonomethyl-arginine (L-NMMA). The draining lymph node (DLN) ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Ianaro A,O'Donnell CA,Di Rosa M,Liew FY

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of vascular leakage and tachyphylaxis induced by histamine and bradykinin were examined in rabbit skin and were compared with the kinetics of tachyphylaxis of neutrophil accumulation in lesions induced with the chemotaxin formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP). Maximal leakage of 125I-human serum alb...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Colditz IG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and Fc receptor-mediated phagocytosis were determined with human monocytes, monocyte-derived macrophages and activated macrophages, using rabbit IgG-covered sheep red blood cells (EAs) and anti-D-treated human erythrocytes (EAhu) as target cells. Monocyte and macrophage-...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Rüegg SJ,Jungi TW

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, the majority of bacteria are pre-inflammatory when injected in experimental animals. However, Mycobacterium leprae has no inflammatory effect when injected into mouse footpad, but using the delipidated mycobacteria we observed a mild significant increase in footpad oedema. Other mycobacteria, Mycobacterium...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Moura AC,Mariano M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood dendritic cells carry the terminal complement complex (TCC) on their surface, as detected by three monoclonal antibodies (mAb). Two of these mAb were generated by immunizing mice with the terminal complement complex, whereas the third was generated by immunizing mice with blood dendritic cells. All three mAb are...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Würzner R,Xu H,Franzke A,Schulze M,Peters JH,Götze O

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haptoglobin (Hp), a major acute-phase plasma protein, has been found in arthritic synovial fluid (SF). However, the function and structural modifications of Hp in arthritic SF are unknown. To investigate in vivo generation of modified Hp associated with inflammatory disease, we examined a new Hp isoform in SF from pat...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Park HJ,Oh MK,Kim NH,Cho ML,Kim IS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopic findings made on microsomal fractions of rat liver after treatment with microsomal antibodies obtained from the blood of patients diagnosed as having chronic aggressive hepatitis and liver cirrhosis and after incubation with peroxidase-labelled antihuman IgG are described and presented in this pap...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Storch W,Cossel L,Dargel R

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of autoimmune antibodies against antigens of glomerular basement membrane (GBM) was studied in nine inbred strains of rats each with a different major histocompatibility complex H-1. Brown-Norway (BN) (H-1n), Lewis (H-1(1)), PVG/c (H-1c), AS2 (H-1f), AVN (H-1a), BD V (H-1d), DA (H-1a) and F344 (H-1(1)) rats ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Stuffers-Heiman M,Günther E,van Es LA

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface receptors on peripheral blood neutrophils and monocytes from normal and immunodeficient horses have been studied. Sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) coated with IgG, IgM, and complement but not IgG(T), readily bound to normal equine monocytes and neutrophils. More than 4000 molecules of IgG were required to sensitize e...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Banks KL,McGuire TC

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact sensitization by epicutaneous application of picryl chloride causes in mice a significant reduction of the antibody responses to immunogenic TNP-conjugates. This split unresponsiveness is along-lasting. It was found that hapten applied on the skin became attached to the serum proteins and the transfer of such ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Rózycka D,Ptak W

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Gal is the most abundant natural antibody in humans, constituting ~ 1% of immunoglobulins. Anti-Gal is naturally produced also in apes and Old World monkeys. The ligand of anti-Gal is a carbohydrate antigen called the 'α-gal epitope' with the structure Galα1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc-R. The α-gal epitope is present as a maj...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Galili U

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Sialoadhesin (Sn, also known as Siglec-1 and CD169) is a macrophage-restricted cell surface receptor that is conserved across mammals. Sn is a member of the sialic acid-binding IgG-like lectin (Siglec) family of proteins characterized by affinity to specifically sialylated ligands, and under normal conditions is expre...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： O'Neill AS,van den Berg TK,Mullen GE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) is important in protection against lethal Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) infection. Control of the early stages of sublethal S. Typhimurium infection in mice depends on TLR4-dependent activation of macrophages and natural killer (NK) cells to drive an inflammatory ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Talbot S,Tötemeyer S,Yamamoto M,Akira S,Hughes K,Gray D,Barr T,Mastroeni P,Maskell DJ,Bryant CE

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:In many species, the rejection of liver allografts is milder than that of other organs. This is especially so in the rat where, without immunosuppressive treatment, liver grafts between certain strain combinations are accepted permanently, whereas skin, heart and renal allografts undergo acute rejection. Reliable surg...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Kamada N

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the immune system to respond efficiently to new antigens depends upon a continuous source of naive CD4+ T cells. Such cells exit from the thymus and join the recirculated T-cell pool. Factors present at the sites of naive CD4+ T-cell circulation must be responsible for their survival, since upon remova...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Webb LM,Foxwell BM,Feldmann M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether Litomosoides sigmodontis, a filarial infection of rodents, protects against type 1 diabetes in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. Six-week-old NOD mice were sham-infected or infected with either L3 larvae, adult male worms, or adult female worms. Whereas 82% of uninfected NOD mice developed ...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Hübner MP,Stocker JT,Mitre E

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for the Fc fragment of IgG (Fc gamma R) have a well-documented role in the generation of oxidative burst. It is tempting to speculate that the type of interaction with Fc gamma R could be a mechanism of regulation of this process. Here we report on a comparative study of the induction of oxidative burst in h...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Casado JA,Merino J,Cid J,Subira ML,Sanchez-Ibarrola A

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:It is increasingly becoming clear that various immune cells are infected by the very pathogens that they are supposed to attack. Although many mechanisms for microbial entry exist, it appears that a common route of entry shared by certain bacteria, viruses and parasites involves cellular lipid-rich microdomains someti...

journal_title：Immunology

authors： Shin JS,Abraham SN

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00