The influence of serum on lymphocyte cultures. II. Cell cycle specificity of serum action in spleen cells.

abstract：:Co-infection with virus and bacteria happens frequently and often results in an exacerbated clinical course of the disease, possibly due to mechanisms including altered cytokine production. In the present study, the authors investigated the combined effects of avirulent Semliki Forest virus (SFV-A7) and bacterial lipo...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Yang J,Hukkanen V,Seljelid R,Salmi AA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the production of interleukin 2 (IL-2) by human T cells after their stimulation by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA). T cells isolated by rosetting with sheep erythrocytes produced high levels of IL-2. Further separation of rosette-forming cells, according to the expression of Fc receptors for IgG, showed...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Silva AG,Alvarez JM,Bonnard GD,de Landazuri MO

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cockroaches have been identified as one of the major indoor allergens inducing perennial rhinitis and asthma. Per a 1s are a group of the major allergens from American cockroach. Although Per a 1s are major allergens from American cockroach, factors contributing to the allergenicity of Per a 1s are still poorly define...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： He S,Zhang Z,Zhang H,Wei J,Yang L,Yang H,Sun W,Zeng X,Yang P

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of HLA DQA1, DQB1, and DPB1 mismatches was evaluated in 110 HLA class I- and DRB1-matched, unrelated pairs who were tested in mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) in connection with a potential allogeneic bone-marrow transplantation between unrelated persons. After typing of the DQA1, DQB1, and DPB1 genes retr...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Partanen J,Koskimies S

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:During immunological rejection of the transplanted heart, cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) infiltrate the myocardium and by damaging the myocytes contribute to loss of function. To address one important aspect of heart transplant rejection, we investigated in guinea pig ventricular myocytes how CTL-derived lytic granules...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Binah O,Kline R,Berke G,Hoffman B

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects millions of people worldwide and about half a million people die every year. India represents the second largest pool of chronic HBV infections with an estimated 40 million chronically infected patients. Persistence or clearance of HBV infection mainly depends upon hos...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Vyas AK,Jindal A,Hissar S,Ramakrishna G,Trehanpati N

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central events in the host defence system and immune-mediated damage are tightly regulated by cell adhesion molecules. Sera from 28 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infected children divided into groups according to disease severity, six seroreverting (SR) children and 25 healthy controls were studied to detect th...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Gaddi E,Laucella S,Balbaryski J,Cantisano C,Barboni G,Candi M,Giraudi V

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune complexes of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and rabbit IgG antibodies to HRP were used to study the Fcgamma receptors in normal human placenta. Cryostat sections of placental tissue were incubated with the complexes, and the peroxidase activity was revealed histochemically. The bound complexes were localized to t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Matre R,Haugen A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen cells from mice exposed to 500 rad sublethal whole-body irradiation before immunization with 100 x 10(6) allogeneic spleen cells exhibited an enhanced cytolytic T-lymphocyte (CTL) activity. In contrast, this treatment completely abrogated the humoral alloantibody response, as measured by complement-mediated lys...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Engers HD,Louis J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren's syndrome is characterized by dryness of the eyes and the mouth due to mononuclear cell infiltration of the lacrimal and salivary glands. The aetiology is unknown but autoimmunity is considered to play a significant role in the pathogenesis. Recent studies have focused on the fact that tear and salivary flow ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Humphreys-Beher MG,Brayer J,Yamachika S,Peck AB,Jonsson R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using cytotoxic effector cells of different anti-H-2 specificities, new cell-mediated lympholysis targets, normally undetected on Meth. A tumour cells, were shown after passage with vaccinia or Moloney virus. The H-2d CML targets on Meth. A cells recognized by B10.BR anti-B10.D2 effector cells were presented only afte...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Matossian-Rogers A,Garrido F,Festenstein H

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (AMLR) and T-cell subsets defined with monoclonal antibodies were examined in the peripheral blood of six patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC). The AMLR was deficient in four of six patients when compared with simultaneously studied healthy controls. These pati...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Gupta S

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of mice bearing the autosomal recessive lpr gene (MRL, C57BL/6, and C3H) that had spontaneously developed a lupus-like disease were studied sequentially for functional natural killer (NK) and natural cytotoxic (NC) cell activity. Natural killing was impaired in spleen and bone marrow cells from all the l...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Pan LZ,Dauphinée MJ,Ansar Ahmed S,Talal N

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood neutrophils from germ-free (GF), specific-pathogen-free (SPF) and conventional (CV) rats were compared. Besides neutropenia and impaired superoxide anion generation as previously reported, it was found that GF rats had lower phagocytic function (70%) and generated less nitric oxide than the other rats...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Ohkubo T,Tsuda M,Suzuki S,El Borai N,Yamamura M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glomeruli in Cryostat sections of foetal and adult renal tissues adsorbed sheep erythrocytes sensitized with IgM antibody and human or mouse complement (EAC). Activated complement was essential for the reaction to occur. The receptor had specificity for the C3b fragment of C3 and is probably of protein or glycoprotein...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Matre R,Tönder O

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude preparations of platelet-activating factors (PAF) derived by methanolic extraction of supernatants from antigen-challenged basophils generally stimulated the secretion of histamine from human peripheral blood leucocytes when co-incubated with these cells in the absence of an additional stimulator. When these cru...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： O'Donnell MC,Fiedel BA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS) were described as playing a decisive role in amyloidogenesis. A relationship between the amyloid enhancing factor (AEF) and MPS cells was suggested and recently AEF activity was attributed to a serine esterase (SE) of leucocytic origin. In the present study, no correlat...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Niewold TA,Gruys E,Kisilevsky R,Shirahama TS

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic autoimmune diseases are characterized by the development of antinuclear autoantibodies. In order to understand the immunologic events leading to the development of such antibodies, knowledge of mechanisms of immune tolerance to nuclear antigens is required. By utilizing adoptive T-cell transfer strategies wit...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Nakken B,Davis KE,Pan ZJ,Bachmann M,Farris AD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic chimaeras that utilize C.B-17 SCID mice (H-2d) as recipients of MHC mismatched bone marrow from C57B1/6 (H-2b) or SJL/J (H-2s) mice have been used to provide experimental evidence demonstrating the necessity for a direct interaction between an effector T helper and the cytotoxic T-cell precursor in order to...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Lin Y,Langman R,Cohn M

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphokine secretion patterns of seven independent 91-101.lambda 2(315)/I-Ed specific, CD4+ T-cell clones have been investigated. Six of the clones are of the Th1 type as they secrete IL2 and IFN gamma, but not IL4. Some of these six Th1 clones produce TNF alpha/beta, and some produce minor amounts of IL5 and IL6....

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Lauritzsen GF,Bogen B

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-irradiated (250 rad), cyclophosphamide-treated or ATx A mice injected with syngeneic trinitrophenylated spleen cells (TNP-SC) and footpad challenged with syngeneic lymphoblasts generated delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses 24, 48 and 72 h after challenge. The syngeneic-DTH (syn-DTH) response was mediated b...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Tarcic N,Baler R,Naor D

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new quantitative fluorimetric assay for phagocytosis of bacteria. A suspension of fluorescein-labelled bacteria (Micrococcus lysodeikticus) is mixed and incubated with phagocytes. After fixation with paraformaldehyde, the excess non-phagocytosed and adsorbed bacteria are lysed with a solution of lysozyme...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Vray B,Hoebeke J,Saint-Guillain M,Leloup R,Strosberg AD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently used vaccine against tuberculosis, Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), has variable efficacy, so new vaccine development is crucial. In this study, we evaluated a recombinant vaccine prepared from non-pathogenic Mycobacterium smegmatis (rMS) that expresses a fusion of early secreted antigenic target 6-kDa ant...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Zhang H,Peng P,Miao S,Zhao Y,Mao F,Wang L,Bai Y,Xu Z,Wei S,Shi C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new assay for quantitative detection of all helper T cells that can induce normal B lymphocytes to proliferation and Ig secretion. To establish the optimal assay conditions, we have used cloned T helper cells of defined specificities that had previously been shown to activate normal B lymphocytes e...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Pobor G,Bandeira A,Pettersson S,Coutinho A

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pair of microH-chain and kappa L-chain transgenes encoding the Sp6 TNP/DNA-specific IgM was bred onto the rearrangement-deficient genetic background of RAG-2T mice, and onto the kappa L-chain expression-deficient background of iE kappa T mice. Bone marrow of Sp6 transgenic RAG-2T mice contained normal numbers of B...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Andersson J,Melchers F,Rolink A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial DNA differs from mammalian DNA by the presence of unmethylated cytosine-phosphate-guanosine (CpG) motifs. The immunostimulatory properties of a DNA vaccine have been suspected to be associated with these motifs. The aim of this study was to assess the inactivation of the immunostimulatory potential of a plas...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Cornélie S,Poulain-Godefroy O,Lund C,Vendeville C,Ban E,Capron M,Riveau G

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of complement components within the classical pathway is associated with increased risk for immune complex disease. However, C2-deficient individuals often have a mild disease and about 50% are healthy. To study the importance of the different components for immune complex clearance, bovine serum albumin (B...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Klint C,Gullstrand B,Sturfelt G,Truedsson L

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of acute-phase serum amyloid A (A-SAA) synthesis by proinflammatory cytokines and steroid hormones in human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMCs) is distinct from that in HepG2 cells. To study the cis- and trans-activating promoter element involved in the SAA1 gene expression by HASMCs and HepG2 cells, we con...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Kumon Y,Suehiro T,Faulkes DJ,Hosakawa T,Ikeda Y,Woo P,Sipe JD,Hashimoto K

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat popliteal and the iliac lymph nodes were examined after foot-pad injections of colloidal carbon and ferritin-tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate. Carbon rapidly entered medullary sinuses, but the entry of carbon into the interstitium was prohibited by avid phagocytosis, by sinus macrophages and by the lymphoendoth...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of immunology

authors： Fossum S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00