Association of interleukin (IL)-4 variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs) and IL-4-590 promoter polymorphisms with susceptibility to pediatric autoimmune hepatitis type 1.

abstract：:IL-1 family members regulate innate immune responses, are produced by gestation-associated tissues, and have a role in healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes. To better understand their role at the materno-fetal interface we used a human tissue explant model to map lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated production of IL-...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Scott LM,Bryant AH,Rees A,Down B,Jones RH,Thornton CA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the cytokines IFN-alpha, IL-6 and IL-10 present in the serum of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients on the differentiation and maturation of DCs derived from CD34(+) hematopoietic precursor cells (HPCs). CD34(+) HPCs cultured in SLE serum containing...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Zhang R,Xing M,Ji X,Gu L,Yang X,Wang H,Jiang P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic vulnerability, a leading cause of defective immunity, was discovered decades ago. To date, several strategies have been investigated to unveil any immunorestorative capacities they might confer. Studies exploiting castration, transplantation, adoptive cell therapies, hormones/growth factors, and cytokines have ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： El-Kadiry AE,Rafei M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens have been associated with risk for epithelial ovarian cancer (OVCA). Both IL-6 and IL-8 are also likely involved in the progression of OVCA. In order to discover the underline molecular mechanism, we investigated the modulation of estrogen and two cytokines in the growth and progression of epithelial OVCA. I...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Yang J,Wang Y,Gao Y,Shao J,Zhang XJ,Yao Z

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) activates endothelial cell NADPH oxidase which catalyzes production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). This activity is required for VCAM-1-dependent lymphocyte migration. The focus of our study was to determine whether these VCAM-1-dependent functions are modulated by cytokin...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Tudor KS,Hess KL,Cook-Mills JM

更新日期：2001-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen (Ag)-stimulated mast cells induce synthesis and production of cytokines including tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interleukin (IL)-6 with proinflammatory and immune regulatory properties. Expression of TNF-alpha and IL-6 was regulated by a transcription factor, nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB. The iridoid gly...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Jeong HJ,Koo HN,Na HJ,Kim MS,Hong SH,Eom JW,Kim KS,Shin TY,Kim HM

更新日期：2002-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic basis of complex diseases like ischemic stroke probably consists of several predisposing risk factors, such as genes involved in inflammation and thrombotic pathways. On this basis the aim of our study was to evaluate the role of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) of some pro-inflammatory/ant...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Tuttolomondo A,Di Raimondo D,Forte GI,Casuccio A,Vaccarino L,Scola L,Pecoraro R,Serio A,Clemente G,Arnao V,Palmeri M,Misiano G,Lio D,Pinto A,Licata G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon (IFN)-alpha and -beta are important antiviral mediators. IFN-alpha is widely used for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. In our previous studies, a subtype of woodchuck IFN-alpha (wIFN-alpha) was characterized and has been shown to be active in suppressing the replication of woodchuck hepatitis virus (WH...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Lu Y,Xu Y,Yang D,Kemper T,Roggendorf M,Lu M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain abscess develops in response to a parenchymal infection with pyogenic bacteria. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β) are the most crucial pro-inflammatory cytokines with both beneficial and destructive properties for the central nervous system. The present study evaluated the assoc...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Mishra P,Prasad KN,Singh K,Bajpai A,Sahu RN,Ojha BK

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LIGHT (lymphotoxin-like inducible protein that competes with glycoprotein D for binding herpesvirus entry mediator on T cells) is a recently identified of the tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) ligand superfamily. We wanted to establish whether the presence of chronic viral hepatitis could be implicated in enhanc...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Pawlak K,Mysliwiec M,Pawlak D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated inflammatory cytokine response in chronic depressed patients during abdominal surgery. Twenty-five major depressed patients (Group D) and twenty-five patients (Group C) as the control were studied. Plasma interleukin 6 (IL-6), interleukin 8 (IL-8) and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) concentrat...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Kudoh A,Katagai H,Takazawa T

更新日期：2001-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Among New Mexican Hispanic women, breast cancer is detected at a more advanced stage than compared to Non-Hispanic White women. One central factor that has been little studied is the role of critical cytokines. We genotyped incident breast cancer cases and their age-, gender- and smoking-matched controls (N=40 matched...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Erdei E,Kang H,Meisner A,White K,Pickett G,Baca C,Royce M,Berwick M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine eotaxin (CCL11) is a key player in the trafficking of eosinophils to normal tissues and in the tissue eosinophilia associated with human allergic disease. We have recently cloned equine eotaxin and here we report the production of rEq eotaxin, with and without a C-terminal fusion peptide, in a novel expr...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Benarafa C,Collins ME,Hamblin AS,Sabroe I,Cunningham FM

更新日期：2002-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of cytokine genes, TNF-alpha, TNF-beta and IFN-gamma, in human astroglial cell lines and in fresh brain specimens was studied by PCR. mRNA transcripts of TNF-alpha could be detected in three out of five astrocytomas and neuroblastoma cell lines, and after stimulation with IL-1 beta/IFN-gamma or LPS/IFN-gamm...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Nitta T,Ebato M,Sato K,Okumura K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery is followed by an acute-phase response, including hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis activation and fever. Considering its physiological properties and its behaviour in plasma after stress and surgery, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 is a putative candidate in eliciting these stress-rela...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： De Jongh RF,Vissers KC,Booij LH,De Jongh KL,Vincken P,Meert TF

更新日期：2003-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and performed the first functional characterization of the chemokine receptor, CCR3, of Cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis). The deduced amino acid sequence of the cloned Cynomolgus CCR3 was found to be more similar to that of a previously-reported Rhesus (Macaca mulatta) CCR3 (99.4%) than that of a...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Iino T,Sugimoto H,Watanabe A,Encinas JA,Liu N,Floeckner J,Bacon KB

更新日期：2002-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and the members of the interferon (IFN) family are major inducible cytokines that function to counteract viral infections or cellular transformation. Recently, our lab has characterized a novel antiviral state which is induced in primary human fibroblasts by co-treatment with TNF plus IFNbe...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Bartee E,McFadden G

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Immune and inflammatory responses, mediated by cytokines, play important roles in the pathophysiology of asthma. These responses are associated with over expression of T helper (Th)-2 cytokine, particularly interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-5, and decreased expression of Th-1 cytokine, IL-2 and IFN-γ. We...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Lama M,Chatterjee M,Nayak CR,Chaudhuri TK

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal immunity differs from systemic immunity in several aspects and is frequently studied separately. In this work we have analysed the frequency of mononuclear cells spontaneously secreting the cytokines IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) and tumour necrosis factor (TNF-alpha), in Peyer...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Vázquez E,Gil A,García-Olivares E,Rueda R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The clinical symptoms of the patients with intracellular bacterial bloodstream infections (Intra-bac BSIs) are atypical, and no early and accurate diagnostic biomarkers exist, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis, inappropriate and delayed treatment. Therefore, it is imperative to find novel biomarkers to h...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Lin MF,Sun B,Liu ZY,Tang P,Zhang LJ,Wang YY

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated leptin as a "stress" hormone and highlighted its association with increases in inflammatory cytokines, C-reactive protein and cortisol. In order to investigate the exact temporal leptin response to stress we undertook a detailed longitudinal study of circulating leptin concentrations dur...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Wallace AM,Sattar N,Mcmillan DC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-18 is a pleiotropic and multifunctional cytokine that belongs to the IL-1 family. It is produced as a biologically inactive precursor, which is cleaved into its active mature form mainly by caspase-1. The caspase becomes active from its inactive precursor (procaspase-1) upon assembly of an inflammasome. Because of ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Samarani S,Allam O,Sagala P,Aldabah Z,Jenabian MA,Mehraj V,Tremblay C,Routy JP,Amre D,Ahmad A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) demonstrating pro-angiogenic activity promote new blood vessel formation in psoriatic lesions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the serum concentrations of VEGF, its soluble receptors (sVEGF R1 and R2) and VEGF content in scales of patients with psoriasis. To analyze poss...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Flisiak I,Zaniewski P,Rogalska M,Myśliwiec H,Jaroszewicz J,Chodynicka B

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-reactive protein (CRP) has been demonstrated to induce blood-brain barrier disruption (BBB) involving NAD(P)H-oxidase dependent oxidative stress. It is unclear why CRP affects the BBB and not other vascular beds following stroke. Therefore we examined CRP receptor and NAD(P)H-oxidase expression levels in bovine brai...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Closhen D,Bender B,Luhmann HJ,Kuhlmann CR

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the family of cytokines and cytokine receptors, alternative splicing of pre-mRNA is a frequently observed process that generates different protein isoforms from a single genetic locus. The splicing-derived cytokine receptor protein isoforms are mostly soluble receptors or show alterations in their cytoplasmic domai...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Korte A,Köchling J,Badiali L,Eckert C,Andreae J,Geilen W,Kebelmann-Betzing C,Taube T,Wu S,Henze G,Seeger K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helminths and their products have a profound immunomodulatory effect upon the inductive and effector phases of inflammatory responses, including allergy. We have demonstrated that PAS-1, a protein isolated from Ascaris suum worms, has an inhibitory effect on lung allergic inflammation due to its ability to down-regula...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Araújo CA,Perini A,Martins MA,Macedo MS,Macedo-Soares MF

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated changes in the myokines IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α, as well as HSP72, after endurance training and after a session of downhill running. Twenty-eight rats were allocated to four different groups: 1. Eight weeks of endurance training at 65-70% VO2max (Trained); 2. Endurance training and a single sess...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Isanejad A,Saraf ZH,Mahdavi M,Gharakhanlou R,Shamsi MM,Paulsen G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To verify the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in tumourigenesis, we examined the effect of an anti-MIF antibody on tumour growth and angiogenesis. We inoculated murine colon adenocarcinoma cell line colon 26 cells subcutaneously into the flank in BALB/c mice. After nine days, we treated tumour-bea...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Ogawa H,Nishihira J,Sato Y,Kondo M,Takahashi N,Oshima T,Todo S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition caused by damage to the somatosensory nervous system, such as peripheral nerve injury. The immune system, and in particular the adaptive T cell response, plays a key role in mediating such pain. Regulatory T (Treg) cells are a small subpopulation of inhibitory T cells that ...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Lees JG,Duffy SS,Perera CJ,Moalem-Taylor G

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that the rate of progression of the HIV-1 disease is significantly reduced in thalassaemia major patients upon treatment with high doses of desferrioxamine (DFX). The authors have previously demonstrated that in vitro exposure of mononuclear cells to DFX decreases the bioavailability of tumou...

journal_title：Cytokine

authors： Bellocq A,Israël-Biet D,Cadranel J,Perez J,Fouqueray B,Kanfer A,Girot R,Baud L

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00