The clonal composition of myelin basic protein-reactive encephalitogenic T cell populations is influenced both by the structure of relevant antigens and the nature of antigen-presenting cells.

abstract：:Cathelicidins are a family of host defence peptides that are known to selectively alter innate immunity in response to infection and other changes in immune status. A study in this issue of the European Journal of Immunology elucidates a new role for mouse cathelin-related antimicrobial peptide in the adaptive immune ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Wuerth K,Hancock RE

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elevated interleukin (IL)-4 and IgE production in Schistosoma mansoni infection seems to be induced essentially by the egg stage of the parasite. The underlying mechanism, however, is not known. Since basophils from human peripheral blood can produce IL-4, we asked, whether soluble S. mansoni egg antigens (SEA) wo...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Falcone FH,Dahinden CA,Gibbs BF,Noll T,Amon U,Hebestreit H,Abrahamsen O,Klaucke J,Schlaak M,Haas H

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify reasons of the constant presence of IgM in human cord blood, some functions of this immunoglobulin class were analyzed. Cord IgM was collected from cord blood, and the cord IgM F(ab')2 fragment was obtained by trypsin cleavage. Maternal T and adult T cells were stained with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Miyagawa Y,Komiyama A,Akabane T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human IgE-producing myeloma has been cultivated in vitro as a continuous cell line (U-266) since 1968. Analysis of immunoglobulin production during early passages of the cell line demonstrated a high synthesis rate of monoclonal IgE. Analysis of late passages, cultivated after 1980, revealed a 3-6-fold lower rate of...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Hellman L,Josephson S,Jernberg H,Nilsson K,Pettersson U

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional half-life, a measure of the persistence of lymphocytes in an antigen-free environment, has been estimated and found to be about 7 days for virgin 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl (TNP)-reactive mouse B cells, and 2--3 times longer for TNP-primed B cells. Using allotype-congenic mice, lymph node cells were transferr...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Elson CJ,Jablonska KF,Taylor RB

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA vaccines induce CTL attack on target tumor epitopes, but tumor elimination in vivo also requires sufficient effector CTL to enter the site, guided by inflammatory chemokines. Many herpesviruses contain genes for chemokine and chemokine receptor-like proteins to protect infected cells from immune attack. To assess ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Rice J,de Lima B,Stevenson FK,Stevenson PG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between activated T cells and eosinophils has been proposed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases. T cell-derived cytokines such as interleukin-5 and granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor inhibit eosinophil apoptosis and may therefore contribute to the developmen...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Hebestreit H,Yousefi S,Balatti I,Weber M,Crameri R,Simon D,Hartung K,Schapowal A,Blaser K,Simon HU

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory cytokine IL-17 plays a critical role in immunity to infection and is involved in the inflammatory pathology associated with certain autoimmune diseases, such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis. While CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells are important sources of this cytokine, recent evidence has suggested tha...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Sutton CE,Mielke LA,Mills KH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inducible B cell lymphoma, CH12, and its in vitro adapted subclone, CH12-LBK, produce immunoglobulins of identical sequence, specificity and isotype, with equivalent affinities for the hapten trimethyl ammonium. However, the hemolytic efficiencies of the antibody secreted by the two cell lines are quite different....

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Randall TD,King LB,Corley RB

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), tested in the form of the product of a cloned murine IFN-gamma gene, was found to increase the expression of H-2 antigens on cultured cell lines of a wide variety of cell types including factor-dependent hemopoietic cells, pre-B and B cells, macrophages, T cells, mast cells and cell lines...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Wong GH,Clark-Lewis I,Harris AW,Schrader JW

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal keratinocytes differentiate and form a multilayered epidermis, which is the primary barrier between the body and the outer environment. As the epidermis is constantly exposed to a variety of microbial pathogens, its function of resisting microbial pathogens is vital. This characteristic feature is formed dur...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Sayama K,Komatsuzawa H,Yamasaki K,Shirakata Y,Hanakawa Y,Ouhara K,Tokumaru S,Dai X,Tohyama M,Ten Dijke P,Sugai M,Ichijo H,Hashimoto K

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the control of immunoglobulin kappa light chain gene rearrangement, we generated transgenic mice carrying a germ-line human kappa minilocus (HK) containing the J kappa-proximal V gene, V kappa IV, the V-J intergenic region, the five J kappa segments and the C kappa gene. This construct includes the intronic, ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Cavelier P,Nato F,Coquilleau I,Rolink A,Rougeon F,Goodhardt M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal macrophages from C57BL/6 mice process antigens from bacteria or coated on polystyrene beads for presentation by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. To investigate this antigen processing pathway, peritoneal macrophages from homozygous TAP1-/- mice, which lack the transporter associated...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Wick MJ,Pfeifer JD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine X-linked lymphoproliferative disease scurfy is similar to the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in humans. Disease in scurfy (sf) mice is mediated by CD4+ T cells. Based on similarities in scurfy mice and transgenic mice that overexpress specific cytokine genes, we evaluated the expression of cytokines in the lesion...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Kanangat S,Blair P,Reddy R,Daheshia M,Godfrey V,Rouse BT,Wilkinson E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-graft priming of heart allograft recipients with donor strain blood induces tolerance in 100% of adult rats in the congenic LEW.1W to LEW.1A combination. This tolerant state is specific for donor MHC antigens as third-party blood transfusions fail to induce tolerance, and third-party skin grafts are promptly rejec...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： van Denderen B,Pêche H,Gagne K,Usal C,Cuturi MC,Soulillou JP

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the biological consequences of cytokine production and apoptosis by intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL), we have studied these characteristics in both the high and low density CD3+ IEL populations. Stimulation of low- or high-density CD3+ IEL via the T cell receptor (TCR)-CD3 complex using monoclonal anti-CD3, ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Yamamoto M,Fujihashi K,Amano M,McGhee JR,Beagley KW,Kiyono H

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-33 is a novel multi-functional IL-1 family member that, in contrast to other family members, is associated with Th2 responses. IL-33 signals via a heterodimer composed of its receptor, IL-1 receptor-like-1 (IL-1RL1), more commonly known as ST2L, and the IL-1R accessory protein. ST2L is expressed by endothelial cell...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Turnquist HR,Thomson AW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naive and central memory CD8 T cells use CCR7 to recirculate through T cell zones of secondary lymphoid organs where they can encounter antigen. Here we describe a subset of human CD8 T cells expressing CXCR5 which enables homing in response to CXCL13 produced within B cell follicles. CXCR5+ CD8 T cells were found in ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Quigley MF,Gonzalez VD,Granath A,Andersson J,Sandberg JK

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major contributing factor to the final magnitude and breadth of CD8(+) T-cell responses to complex antigens is immunodomination, where CD8(+) T cells recognizing their cognate ligand inhibit the proliferation of other CD8(+) T cells engaged with the same APC. In this study, we examined how the half-life of cell s...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Galea I,Stasakova J,Dunscombe MS,Ottensmeier CH,Elliott T,Thirdborough SM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major advances in preventing, delaying, or curing individual pathologies are responsible for an increasingly long life span in the developed parts of our planet, and indeed reaching eight to nine decades of life is nowadays extremely frequent. However, medical and sanitary advances have not prevented or delayed the un...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Pinti M,Appay V,Campisi J,Frasca D,Fülöp T,Sauce D,Larbi A,Weinberger B,Cossarizza A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulatory activity of dextran sulfate with a relative molecular mass of 8 and 500 kDa and pentosan polysulfate with a relative molecular mass of 6 kDa on human T cell surface molecules CD2, CD3, CD4, CD8 and HLA-DR was investigated by analytical flow cytometry. The 500-kDa dextran sulfate induces a complete disap...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Thiele B,Braig HR,Ehm I,Kunze R,Ruf B

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that the phenotype of the rat T helper cells is stable after priming and boosting with a hapten-carrier conjugate and that the phenotype is W3/25+, MRC OX-22-, MRC OX-8-. Data are also presented that demonstrate the presence of doubly marked, W3/25+, MRC OX-8+, cells in the spleens of rats primed...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Spickett GP,Mason DW

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies in human patients and in laboratory animals have revealed a correlation between serum interleukin (IL)-6 levels and outcome in clinical sepsis and in related animal models, respectively. In the present study, two monoclonal antibodies were used to investigate the contribution of IL-6 in the lethal acti...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Libert C,Vink A,Coulie P,Brouckaert P,Everaerdt B,Van Snick J,Fiers W

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TCR structure of T cell hybridomas recognizing a tumor glycan-defined epitope has been studied using reverse transcriptase-PCR and gene sequencing. The hybridomas had been raised against a glycopeptide, T72(Tn), consisting of the mouse hemoglobin-derived decapeptide Hb(67 - 76), O-glycoslated in position 72 with a...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Jensen T,Hansen P,Faurskov Nielsen A,Meldal M,Komba S,Werdelin O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the capacity of human factor H to promote the secretion of a lymphocyte-activating factor (LAF) by human monocytes cultured under serum-free conditions. Presence of LAF in the culture supernatants was assessed with the mouse thymocyte assay. Highly purified factor H alone had no effect on thymocyte prolifer...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Iferroudjene D,Schouft MT,Lemercier C,Gilbert D,Fontaine M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic development is a delicate balance of cell fate decisions in multipotent cells between self-renewal and differentiation. In multiple developmental systems, the Notch receptors are important factors regulating these processes. Hematopoietic progenitor cells have been shown to express Notch1, and studies wi...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Jönsson JI,Xiang Z,Pettersson M,Lardelli M,Nilsson G

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F protein is found predominantly in the liver and is of unknown function. The protein has been of interest to immunologists in the areas of self tolerance and the immunogenetics of the anti-F protein response. In the mouse there are two alleles (F1 and F2), and although mice are completely tolerant to the self form of...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Schofield JP,Vijayakumar RK,Oliveira DB

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is accompanied by altered immunity, resulting in a variable state of poorly understood immunodeficiency. While both the numbers and the functionality of naïve T cells are decreased by aging, the impact of these changes upon immune defense against bacterial pathogens in vivo remains understudied. Using a model of...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Smithey MJ,Renkema KR,Rudd BD,Nikolich-Žugich J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is acquired by neonates through milk and first infects lymphocytes in Peyer's patches. We show here that newborn mice lacking beta7 integrin or L-selectin were infected with MMTV at wild-type levels in both their lymphoid and mammary tissues. Superantigen-mediated activation and cognat...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Czarneski J,Berguer P,Bekinschtein P,Kim DC,Hakimpour P,Wagner N,Nepomnaschy I,Piazzon I,Ross SR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal boosting of BCG-immunised individuals with a subunit tuberculosis (TB) vaccine would be highly desirable, considering that the lungs are the principal port of entry for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and the site of the primary infection and reactivation. However, the main roadblock for subunit TB vaccine de...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Stylianou E,Diogo GR,Pepponi I,van Dolleweerd C,Arias MA,Locht C,Rider CC,Sibley L,Cutting SM,Loxley A,Ma JK,Reljic R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00