Antibodies against human IFN-alpha and -beta recognized the immunosuppressive domain of HIV-1 gp41 and inhibit gp41-binding to the putative cellular receptor protein p45.

abstract：:Fc gamma receptors type IIb1 (Fc gammaRIIb1) inhibit B-cell activation when co-ligated with B-cell antigen receptors (BCR) by immune complexes. In murine B-cells the inhibition is mediated by the interaction of the phosphorylated immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (P-ITIM) of Fc gammaRIIb1 with the SH2 dom...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Sármay G,Koncz G,Gergely J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) from cancer patients, as well as tumor-infiltrating DCs, are reported to have suppressed immunostimulatory capacity. One of the major problems in the clinical use of DCs for treating tumors is that the DCs must be autologous ones obtained from patients. Compared with normal DCs (nDCs), flow-cytom...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Furumoto K,Mori A,Yamasaki S,Inoue N,Yang W,Nakau M,Yasuda S,Arii S,Imamura M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several immunodominant B-cell epitopes of the P. falciparum antigen blood stage Pf155/RESA, a major vaccine candidate antigen, are located in the molecular regions containing amino acid repeats. We started to map Pf155/RESA for T cell reactive epitopes. For this purpose, short synthetic peptides corresponding to the 3...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Troye-Blomberg M,Kabilan L,Riley EM,Ortlund J,Andersson G,Perlmann H,Olerup O,Högh B,Petersen E,Snow RW

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in ocular inflammation, we examined the localization of MIF in the normal anterior uveal tract of rats. Immunohistochemistry using an anti-MIF antibody revealed that MIF was present in non-pigment epithelial cells of the ciliary body and the epithel...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Matsuda A,Kotake S,Tagawa Y,Matsuda H,Nishihira J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative approach was applied to the study of in vivo expression of foreign genes introduced into mice by ballistic transfection. Because in some cases one must take into account both the level of synthesized protein and that of antibodies to it, we derived the equation which allows to calculate the exact quanti...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Rodin DV,Kolesnikov VA,Zelenina IA,Zelenin AV,Deyev SM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the NF-κB pathway is causally linked to initiation and progression of diverse cancers. Therefore, IKKβ, the key regulatory kinase of the canonical NF-κB pathway, should be a logical target for cancer treatment. However, existing IKKβ inhibitors are known to induce paradoxical immune activation, which lim...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Maroni D,Rana S,Mukhopadhyay C,Natarajan A,Naramura M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement factor I (CFI) deficiency is typically associated to recurrent infections with encapsulated microorganisms and, less commonly, to autoimmunity. We report a 53-years old male who, in a routine control for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, presented a flat beta-2 fraction at the capillary protein electropher...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Franco-Jarava C,Colobran R,Mestre-Torres J,Vargas V,Pujol-Borrell R,Hernández-González M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit anti-ovalbumin antibodies were found to bind to Swiss NIH 3T3 fibroblasts by indirect immunofluorescence, and to induce DNA synthesis when these cells were arrested in G0 phase of their replicating cycle (G0-S activity). The proof that these effects were related to the ovalbumin paratopes is based on the follow...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Mangalo R,Doligez-Chambost A,Marcovich H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) can often lead to many life-threatening diseases. It has the ability to invade normal endovascular tissue. Acute inflammation and its resolution are important to ensure bacterial clearance and limit tissue injury. Carbon monoxide (CO) has been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tsai MH,Yang CM,Chang KT,Chuang CC,Lin WN,Jiang RS,Wu CH,Lee IT

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent, thought-provoking novel by Elizabeth McCracken (The Giant's House. Avon Books, New York, 1997), two characters discuss love and its impossibilities. One brashly claims to be "immune to love", explaining the concept to his perplexed interlocutor, "...people become immune to love like they become immune to ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Clerici M,Salvi A,Trabattoni D,Lo Caputo S,Semplici F,Biasin M,Ble C,Meacci F,Romeo C,Piconi S,Mazzotta F,Villa ML,Mazzoli S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several components of the microbial wall of gram-positive bacteria and fungi possess immunostimulatory properties, their pathogenetic role remains incompletely evaluated. The purpose of this study was to assess the basic immune status of patients susceptible to infections and their capability for cytokine pro...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tsigou E,Aloizos S,Myrianthefs P,Gourgiotis S,Tsakris A,Baltopoulos G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is an enzyme with an immunosuppressive effect whose function is diverted by tumor cells to counteract immune cell functions, inducing immune escape of tumor cells. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical significance of IDO in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Compared to ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ben-Haj-Ayed A,Moussa A,Ghedira R,Gabbouj S,Miled S,Bouzid N,Tebra-Mrad S,Bouaouina N,Chouchane L,Zakhama A,Hassen E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is usually known as an immunosuppressive cytokine, but we and others have shown stimulatory effects of TGF-beta on activation of Th2 T-lymphocytes. In the present investigation we have studied the effect of TGF-beta1 on phosphorylation of ERK, a MAP-kinase downstream of the R...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Schiött A,Sjögren HO,Lindvall M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coelomic fluid from the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris is known to contain immunoactive cells and molecules involved in immune defense. To assess the ability of such molecules to form precipitating complexes with anti-human immunoglobulins, radial immunodiffusion experiments were conducted. Anti-human IgG, anti-human ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Eyambe GS

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) is one of the major immune and inflammation factors responsible for regulating cell proliferation, differentiation, angiogenesis, and immune responses. Deregulated TGF-β activity, especially its influence in peritoneal cytokine cross-talk, has been implicated in pathologies ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Sikora J,Smycz-Kubańska M,Mielczarek-Palacz A,Bednarek I,Kondera-Anasz Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine induced killer (CIK) cells have a powerful tumor cells killing activity both in vitro and in vivo and transfusion of these cells have become an adjuvant treatment for tumors. CIK cells are induced and amplified from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) with multiple cytokines. As CD4+CD25bri regulatory ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Zhao P,Zhu D,Zhang Z,Han B,Gao D,Wei X,Xie X,Li C,Sun W,Wang Q,Guo Q

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several diseases where the immune system plays an important role there has been a tremendous progress in treatment efficacy during the last decades. Based on necessary basic science these improvements are results of rapid, numerous and open-minded clinical trials where pieces of positive results step by step have b...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ludvigsson J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human natural killer (NK) cell activity was not significantly affected by leukotriene (LT) B4 over a wide concentration range (10(-6)-10(-14) M), whether added directly to the NK cell assay or after preincubation of effector cells for 2 h with the drug before addition of Cr labelled K562 target cells. In addition, LTB...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hall TJ,Brostoff J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgE-mediated activation of basophil granulocytes and mast cells follows a bell-shaped dose-response curve. The decreased activation at supraoptimal allergen stimulation is thought to be associated with SH2-containing inositol-5'-phosphatase 1 (SHIP-1). SHIP-1 phosphorylation is inversely related to IgE-mediated releas...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Rasmussen P,Spillner E,Hoffmann HJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human homologue of 4-1BB (H4-1BB) cDNA was isolated from PMA plus ionomycin-treated human peripheral T-cell cDNA libraries. The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence showed that the protein is composed of 255 amino acids with 2 potential N-linked glycosylation sites. The molecular weight of its ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Zhou Z,Kim S,Hurtado J,Lee ZH,Kim KK,Pollok KE,Kwon BS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of dendritic cells (DCs) in mycobacterium-containing granulomas, as well as in other granuloma-inducing diseases, is beginning to be appreciated. This review will summarize what is known about DCs with regards to the granuloma and discuss the potential roles DCs may be playing during mycobacterial infecti...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Schreiber HA,Sandor M

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It was attempted to monitor the immunological response of monoclonal antibodies directed to human alkaline phosphatase in ancient Egyptian bones from the ptolemeic period. The intactness of the respective epitopes of the bone enzyme was successfully demonstrated in an ELISA. Fortunately, the mummified bone was not con...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Etspüler H,Kaup Y,Bailyes EM,Luzio JP,Weser U

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine monoclonal antibody (IgG) has been generated that binds to DNA modified with osmium tetroxide in the presence of 2,2'-bipyridine and does not interact with unmodified DNA. Reactivity of the antibody was tested by gel retardation assay, ELISA, dot-binding assay and immunoblotting. The results obtained suggest ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kabakov AE,Podgorodnichenko VK,Poverenny AM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic functions of the immune system are protection from pathogens and maintenance of tolerance to self. The maintenance of commensal microbiota at mucosal surfaces adds a layer of complexity to these basic functions. Recent reports suggest follicular helper T cells (Tfh), a CD4(+) T cell subset specialized to pro...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Winstead CJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ITIM-bearing receptors, a family which only recently has been recognized, play a key role in the regulation of the ITAM-induced activation of immune competent cells. The mechanism of ITM-mediated regulation in various cells was recently clarified. The present review focuses on ITIM bearing membrane proteins that negat...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Gergely J,Pecht I,Sármay G

更新日期：1999-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressant rapamycin is known to be a potent inhibitor of cytokine driven proliferation of T-lymphocytes and other cell types. Here we have examined the effect of rapamycin on the myeloblastic cell line M1 which responds to interleukin-6 (IL-6) with growth arrest and monocytoid differentiation. Single-agent...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kloke O,Kummer G,Seeber S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical analysis of experimental data is presented in this mini-review on non-random homo- and hetero-associations of cell surface receptors, which can be recruited in the plasma membrane or at the surface of the rough endoplasmic reticulum during the protein synthesis. In the latter case, the likely genetic ori...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Damjanovich S,Mátyus L,Damjanovich L,Bene L,Jenei A,Matkó J,Gáspár R,Szöllösi J

更新日期：2002-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Yolkin is a product of proteolytic degradation of vitellogenin, a protein contained in eggs' yolk, with already described procognitive properties. Here, we investigated effects of yolkin on the humoral and cellular immune response in mice, phenotype of cells from lymphoid organs and function of innate immunity cells. ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Obmińska-Mrukowicz B,Szczypka M,Lis M,Pawlak A,Suszko-Pawłowska A,Sysak A,Zambrowicz A,Burster T,Kocięba M,Artym J,Zaczyńska E,Kochanowska I,Zimecki M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human deficiency in transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) is characterized by a very low surface expression of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules in hematopoietic and non hematopoietic cells. Among the latter, TAP-deficient skin fibroblasts have previously been shown by us to be very sensit...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Zimmer J,Poli A,Andrès E,Hanau D,Brons NH,Hentges F

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments with malaria in mice suggest that protective immunity depends not only on antibody but also on activation of macrophages. Activated macrophages may cause intra-erythrocytic death of parasites by releasing reactive oxygen intermediates and/or tumour necrosis factor. Macrophage activation for both types of p...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Playfair JH,Dockrell H,Taverne J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00