Could cross-reactivity rescue Foxp3+ regulatory T cell precursors from thymic deletion?

abstract：:The in vitro effect of superoxide anion and lysosomal enzyme activity on the killing of Listeria monocytogenes EGD (listeria) by peritoneal macrophages (PM) was investigated. Generation of superoxide anion by PM stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) was significantly increased by intraperitoneal injection of...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Hashimoto S,Nomoto K,Yokokura T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour regression induced in cancer patients by local instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) into the bladder has been considered to be mainly mediated by activated cellular immunity and inflammatory reactions. In the present study we investigated the cytotoxicity of T cells bearing gamma/delta T-cell receptor...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Wang MH,Chen YQ,Gercken J,Ernst M,Böhle A,Flad HD,Ulmer AJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific lymphocyte hybridomas have been produced by a simple in vitro immunization procedure. Non-immune spleen cells have been activated in vitro, and the B-cell blasts have subsequently been used for somatic cell hybridization. Hybrids secreting monoclonal antibodies to human myoglobin, pig insulin, and ben...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Borrebaeck CA

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coeliac disease probably results from a T-cell response to wheat gliadin and is associated to HLA-DQ2. No gliadin epitopes recognized by intestinal T cells have yet been identified, limiting our understanding of the pathogenesis. Gut-lesion-derived DQ2-restricted T cells from coeliac disease patients were used to iden...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Sjöström H,Lundin KE,Molberg O,Körner R,McAdam SN,Anthonsen D,Quarsten H,Norén O,Roepstorff P,Thorsby E,Sollid LM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of HLA class I subunits in class II-restricted immune responses was investigated by means of a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) recognizing HLA-A,B,C heavy chain and different beta 2 microglobulin (beta 2m) epitopes. MoAb against either class I subunit strongly inhibited mixed lymphocyte cultures, genera...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Spagnoli GC,Ausiello CM,Cassone A,Casciani CU,Bellone G,Malavasi F

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro anti-trinitrophenyl (TNP) response induced by TNP-lipopolysaccharide (TNP-LPs) in mouse spleen cells was eliminated by passage through Sephadex G10 columns. Conditioned medium obtained from peritoneal macrophages restored the response, indicating the supportive role of such cells in the response. Converse...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Martinez-Alonso C,Bernabe RR,Diaz-Espada F

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive antibody can both suppress and augment immune responses. Until recently, there was virtual unanimity on the importance of the interaction of the Fc portion of modulating antibody with Fc-receptors (Fc-signalling), especially in experiments involving the suppression by antibody. Experiments reported in the last...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Sinclair NR

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:The Kva IgG2(k) myeloma protein showed a complete resistance to papain in the presence of cysteine at neutral pH, and a higher resistance to trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin digestion than other IgG2 proteins. On the other hand, the Kva molecule was cleaved by pepsin at low pH to give the expected F(ab')2 fragment. When...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Vogt RA,Michaelsen TE

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of cytotoxic responses by viral immunoevasins plays an important role in the establishment of latent and persistent viral infections. Together with MHC class-I-restricted CD8T-lymphocytes, non-MHC-restricted natural killer (NK) and lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells participate in this anti-viral contr...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Cartier A,Masucci MG

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we analyse the ability of soluble immune complexes (IC) prepared with cationized antibodies to induce cytotoxic responses mediated by neutrophils. While cationized IC induced high levels of cytotoxicity, control IC induced very low levels of response. Inhibition of cytotoxicity by catalase but not by three haemen...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Geffner JR,Trevani AS,Malchiodi E,Serebrinsky GP,Isturiz MA

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of several adhesion molecules for lymphocyte-endothelial interactions in the synovia of rheumatoid arthritis patients was studied using the frozen section assay. Partial inhibition of lymphocyte binding to endothelium of synovial sections could be observed with antibodies against CD44, L-selectin, and beta 1-...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Fischer C,Thiele HG,Hamann A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of separating neutrophils from the peripheral blood of rats with 95% purity is described. To determine the role of antigenic stimulation in neutrophil function, neutrophils from germ-free (GF) rats were compared with those of conventional (CV) rats. Neutrophil counts were lower in GF rats but the total number...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Ohkubo T,Tsuda M,Tamura M,Yamamura M

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midtrimester amniotic fluid cytokines may reflect the function of the maternal immune system in the maternal-fetal interface and thus be predictive of pre-eclampsia. We determined the concentrations of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-11, IL-12, IL-15, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and transforming growth fact...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Heikkinen J,Möttönen M,Pulkki K,Lassila O,Alanen A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ T cells are the central element of the adaptive immune responses and protect the body from a variety of pathogens. Starting from naive cells, CD4+ T cells can differentiate into various effector cell subsets with specialized functions including T helper (Th) 1, Th2, Th17, regulatory T (Treg) and T follicular help...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Wan Z,Zhou Z,Liu Y,Lai Y,Luo Y,Peng X,Zou W

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined for the presence or absence of T cell receptor V-alpha (VA) and V-beta (VB) gene expression in infiltrating T lymphocytes (ITL) isolated from Graves' thyroid glands in comparison to paired peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) samples using a qualitative based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. Sequen...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Caso-Peláez E,McGregor AM,Banga JP

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main object of this study was to see whether or not chromatin constituents are present in cell membranes. The binding of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) to plasma membranes of leucocytes was studied by using autoantibodies and induced antibodies to different histones and histone peptides, and autoantibodies to double...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Rekvig OP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that various benign and malignant natural killer (NK)-resistant monolayer cells inhibit endogenous human NK activity, probably by reducing the secretion of cytotoxic factors from the effector cells. The nature of the molecules responsible for the inhibition has been unclear. In this study we s...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Heiskala MK,Stenman UH,Koivunen E,Carpén O,Saksela E,Timonen T

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan-binding lectin (MBL) is a pattern recognition receptor in the innate immune system. It recognizes certain sugar residues arranged in a pattern that enables MBL to bind with sufficient strength. Such sugar patterns are common on the surface of many microorganisms, and MBL has therefore been considered to be an a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Saevarsdottir S,Vikingsdottir T,Valdimarsson H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, caused by Mycoplasma mycoides ssp. mycoides biotype small colony (MmmSC), is one of the most serious cattle diseases in Africa. Several observations suggested that MmmSC had evolved an efficient way to escape the bovine immune responses by triggering host-cell cytotoxicity. This stud...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Dedieu L,Chapey E,Balcer-Rodrigues V

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is regarded as an important component of the innate defence system against invading bacteria. However, synergistic actions between the complement and the other components of innate immunity are incompletely known. Human group IIA phospholipase A(2) (hGIIA PLA(2)) is an effective antibacterial enz...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Grönroos JO,Salonen JH,Viander M,Nevalainen TJ,Laine VJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the epitope recognition pattern of La(SS-B) autoantibodies in sera from patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using overlapping synthetic decapeptides on solid phase. Eighty different decapeptides with five amino acids overlap from the hum...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Haaheim LR,Halse AK,Kvakestad R,Stern B,Normann O,Jonsson R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral response against the bacterial polysaccharide antigen alpha(1-->3) dextran (Dex) is controlled by J558 idiotype-(Id) specific T cells. These T cells of which the cell clone 178-4 Ts is a representative by all relevant criteria, recognize J558 Id-bearing B cells in an I-Ed-restricted manner. Costimulation v...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Rademaekers A,Specht C,Kölsch E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of macrophages in the in vitro response of mouse spleen cells to the insolubilized, T-independent antigen trinitrophenylated polyacrylamide (TNP-PAA) is demonstrated by the following points. The response is abolished by filtration on Sephadex G-10 and can be restored by the addition of splenic adherent cells,...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Duclos H,Galanaud P,Maillot MC,Crevon MC,Dormont J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the so-called natural interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) producing cell (IPC), stimulated to produce IFN-alpha by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV), and of dendritic cells (DC) in peripheral blood leucocytes was investigated. The simultaneous expression of cell surface antigens and intracellular IFN...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Svensson H,Johannisson A,Nikkilä T,Alm GV,Cederblad B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2m) constitutes the common light chain of both the MHC-encoded HLA-ABC molecules and a group of structurally related glycoproteins recognized by antibodies of the first cluster of differentiation (CD1a, CD1b and CD1c). These CD1 antigens appear similar to murine T1 and Qa molecules in terms ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Jones RA,Child JA,Master PS,Scott CS

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper briefly reviews commonly used procedures for separation of mononuclear cells (MNC) and granulocytes from human blood with X-ray contrast media as gradient material, and also presents new and modified procedures for leucocyte preparation. Standard techniques for human blood do not always yield satisfactory r...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Bøyum A,Løvhaug D,Tresland L,Nordlie EM

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The homogenates of amyloid-laden spleens prepared from CBA mice were analysed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting employing rat anti-murine monoclonal antibody, MSA 4-26. The results showed that the precursor of amyloid A protein (AA), serum amyloid A protein 2 (SAA2), and SAA intermediates with molecular weights of 10,000...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Shiroo M,Kawahara E,Nakanishi I,Migita S

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration inhibition in vitro induced by measles virus material on leukocytes from 17 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) was compared with that of 8 patients with various other central nervous system diseases and that of 12 healthy blood donors. Significant differences could not be demonstrated. The results do ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Nordal HJ,Froland SS,Vandvik B,Norrby E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice treated with intranasal instillation of 100 micrograms of Aspergillus antigen three times a week developed a pulmonary eosinophilia, observed in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and on histopathological examination. At week 3, the instillation of Aspergillus antigen provoked a 10-fold increase in the BAL ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Wang JM,Denis M,Fournier M,Laviolette M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00