The effect of anti-Ia antibody on immunoglobulin-secreting cells from healthy individuals and myeloma patients.

abstract：:Bone marrow cells from two patients without detectable monoclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) in serum and urine but with the clinical picture of plasma cell myeloma were cultivated in vitro. Immunofluorescence studies of cultured living and fixed bone marrow cells showed no signs of Ig production in one of the cases, whereas...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Nilsson K,Killander D,Killander J,Mellstedt H

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:In order to study the pathogenic potential of IgG rheumatoid factor (IgG-RF) we generated a human monoclonal IgG4-RF-producing cell line, OR-1, by Epstein-Barr virus transformation of B cells derived from a healthy donor. Characterization of OR-1 RF specificity demonstrated that this RF binds only to IgG and not to ds...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Otten HG,Daha MR,De Rooy HH,Breedveld FC

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MTB12 protein, also called CFP-2, is a major and early secreted component of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, its role during mycobacterial infection has been poorly characterized. In this study, we purified the native MTB12 protein and investigated the profile of MTB12-induced cytokines [interferon (IFN)-gamma, t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Lee JS,Son JW,Jung SB,Kwon YM,Yang CS,Oh JH,Song CH,Kim HJ,Park JK,Paik TH,Jo EK

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) was evaluated as a tool for diagnostic screening of polymorphisms in the tumour necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 6 (TNFRSF6) also known as CD95, Apo-1 or Fas gene. Exons 1-9 of the TNFRSF6 gene were amplified from genomic DNA of 38 individuals, of wh...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Etokebe GE,Abrahamsen TG,Bogen B,Spurkland A

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：: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：:The mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) response of lymphocytes from CBA mice against C3H cells was studied after injection of spleen cells from C3H mice or C3H hybrids. Intravenous infusion of C3H cells resulted in a strongly suppressed specific MLC response, but this was not the case when cells from H-2-incompatible hybr...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Lilliehöök B,Jacobsson H,Blomgren H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Lyt 1+ T-cell-derived secondard CTL inducing factor allowed the cloning of alloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) by the limiting dilution approach. Several monoclonal cell lines were established in vitro. The lytic activity of some of the cell lines exceeded that of CTL from bulk cultures; that is, 50...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Schawaller R,Röllinghoff M,Wagner H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are undergoing therapy with infliximab, an antibody specific for TNF. However, the exact mechanisms of action of infliximab are not completely understood. The aim of this study was to determine the in vitro effects of infliximab on blood T cells derived from anti-TNF...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Dahlén R,Strid H,Lundgren A,Isaksson S,Raghavan S,Magnusson MK,Simrén M,Sjövall H,Öhman L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse monoclonal antibodies against ED sequence-containing cellular fibronectin (cFn) were used to show that Fn in the inflamed synovium is distinct from the major form of plasma Fn (pFn). An accumulation of cFn was seen at sites of hyperplasia of the rheumatoid synovial membrane and in the walls of small vessels in t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Walle TK,Vartio T,Helve T,Virtanen I,Kurki P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medial histocompatibility (H) antigens are weak H antigens, recognized by unrestricted T cells; they differ thus from both major and minor H antigens. An example, Qed-1, is described in detail, and other known medial H antigens of the mouse are reviewed. The structural and genetic relationships of major and medial H a...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Lindahl KF,Langhorne J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood lymphocytes from nine patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) have been stimulated by photohaemagglutinin, pokeweed mitogen and Epstein-Barr virus. Our results provide proof that the leukaemic B cells in CLL are capable of responding to mitogenic signals by producing and secreting antibodies, ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Robèrt KH,Bird AG,Möller E

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) possesses an antimicrobial effect in several animal models of infection. To evaluate a possible effect of G-CSF on the course of pneumococcal meningitis, rabbits infected intracisternally (i.c.) with Streptococcus pneumoniae type 3 (n = 7) received 50 microgram/kg of rhG-C...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Schmidt H,Stuertz K,Brück W,Chen V,Stringaris AK,Fischer FR,Nau R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin (Ig) plasma levels are known to be, at least partially, genetically regulated, but all the genes involved are not known. Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a potent proinflammatory cytokine able to serve as an adjuvant for immune responses. IL-1alpha gene is polymorphic, and at least one of the polymorphisms h...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Kilpinen S,Laine S,Hulkkonen J,Hurme M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human glomerular basement membrane (H-GBM) was solubilized by collagenase and subjected to crossed immunoelectrophoresis with rabbit antibodies against H-GBM. Seven precipitates appeared with the mobility of alpha, beta, and gamma globulins. Only two of these precipitates might be specific for GBM, since the ot...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Henriksen K,Jensen H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MCP-1/IL-6 in vitro monocyte secretion upon coculture with autologous fragment spheroids was studied in relation to patient 5- and 10-year overall survival rates in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients (n = 65) diagnosed between 1998 and 2005, nine of whom had an human papilloma virus (HPV) tumour in...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Aarstad HJ,Aarstad HH,Vintermyr OK,Kross KW,Lybak S,Heimdal JH

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological ageing is accompanied by decline in immune system function and immune alteration during ageing increases susceptibility to infections. We retrospectively analysed the data for complete blood count (CBC) and lymphocyte subsets from infant to elderly age groups to determine changes during ageing. Data from...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Valiathan R,Ashman M,Asthana D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous work the authors demonstrated that immunization with Schistosoma mansoni 28-kDa glutathione-S-transferase (Sm28GST) was able to reduce hepatic damage in infected mice and that the adoptive transfer of Sm28GST-specific T cells reproduced the protective effect obtained with the recombinant molecule. In the...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Pancré V,Gras-Masse H,Delanoye A,Herno J,Capron A,Auriault C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide is well documented to be an effective treatment for erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) occurring in lepromatous leprosy. To be beneficial, thalidomide must interfere with one or more of the several essential steps in the pathogenesis of this syndrome, which is presumed to be a clinical manifestation of an Art...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Shannon EJ,Miranda RO,Morales MJ,Hastings RC

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of advanced molecular biological techniques in the last two decades has allowed the study of genetic factors in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A variety of techniques have been employed to elucidate the effects of genes, starting with the clinical observations that IBD is more common in the relatives of ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Orchard TR,Satsangi J,Van Heel D,Jewell DP

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:An immunization protocol that induces antibodies (Abs) directed to cryptic epitopes of a protein antigen (Ag) reduces the efficacy of vaccines that ideally should induce Abs against native epitopes. We have shown earlier that viral infections concomitant with immunization against a protein tend to shift the Ab specifi...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Gómez KA,Longhi SA,Marino VJ,Mathieu PA,Loureiro ME,Coutelier JP,Roguin LP,Retegui LA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of pokeweed mitogen (PWM) on axial organ (AO) cells of the echinoderm starfish Asteria rubens have been studied. PWM stimulates 3H-thymidine incorporation by the whole population of AO cells (index of stimulation 4-5). On the basis of surface adherence to nylon wool the AO cell population can be f...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Leclerc M,Brillouet C,Luquet G,Agogue P,Binaghi RA

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Culture filtrate from Mycobacterium tuberculosis contains protective molecules which have been used successfully in experimental vaccines against tuberculosis. Despite an increasing number of mycobacterial proteins being characterised, a major effort is still needed to get an overview of the many potentially interesti...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Weldingh K,Hansen A,Jacobsen S,Andersen P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8+ T cells are thought to play an important role in protective immunity against tuberculosis. We report the identification of three peptides derived from Rv1818c, Rv3812 and Rv3018c proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that bound to HLA-A*0201 molecules and their ability to induce in vitro T-cell response in perip...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Chaitra MG,Shaila MS,Chandra NR,Nayak R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lectin pathway (LP) of the complement system may initiate inflammatory reactions when body tissue is altered. We aimed to investigate levels of the LP proteins in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients, and to compare these with healthy individuals. Furthermore, we aimed to clarify whether duration of targeted te...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Haugaard SF,Jeppesen AN,Troldborg A,Kirkegaard H,Thiel S,Hvas AM

更新日期：2018-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on their immunodominant nature and ability to induce appropriate immune responses in the host, several antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have shown promise of protection. However, most of the candidate vaccines developed by employing various strategies have afforded protection that is at best comparable wit...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Rao V,Dhar N,Tyagi AK

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes a 7 amino acid-long sequence (YQQQGRL) which is identical in HLA-associated invariant chain and mumps virus nucleocapsid protein and is additionally followed by one conservative amino acid pair. As such a long amino acid homology is extremely rare in two evolutionarily unrelated proteins th...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Hyöty H,Parkkonen P,Rode M,Bakke O,Leinikki P

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00