Cell-surface expression of lymphocyte activation markers in myasthenia gravis.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Autoantibodies to tumor-associated antigens including survivin have been detected in sera from patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, little is known about autoantibody responses to tumor-associated antigens in patients with chronic hepatitis, which strongly predisposes to development of HCC....

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Yagihashi A,Asanuma K,Kobayashi D,Tsuji N,Torigoe T,Sato N,Watanabe N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that Ro/SSA autoantigen is heterogeneous. There are two isoform families; the 60 kD forms (Ro60) and the 52 kD forms (Ro52). Recently we have found that autoantibodies to the Ro/SSA proteins are conformation dependent. Anti-Ro60 antibodies are mainly directed to the native protein and convers...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Igarashi T,Itoh Y,Fukunaga Y,Yamamoto M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease associated with a striking increase in the risk of premature cardiovascular (CV) complications due to accelerated atherosclerosis. Traditional CV risk factors seem to be less important predictors of CV events than the presence of active SLE. Immune dysregulation characte...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kaplan MJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's disease (HD) are autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs). Prognosis of AITDs varies in each patient. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are pattern-recognition receptors that activate signaling pathways involved in the production of proinflammatory cytokines. UNC93B1 is a transcription factor ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Inoue N,Katsumata Y,Watanabe M,Ishido N,Manabe Y,Watanabe A,Masutani R,Hidaka Y,Iwatani Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six different hybridomas secreting anti-SCM mAb and one control mAb were placed into adult mice along with [14C] amino acids for biosynthetically labeling. After sacrifice, the 14C mAb ascites along with serum, heart, kidney, lung and skeletal muscle were recovered. Tissue associated specific radio-activity (SpAc) and...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Lange CF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes and pineal glands from 10 monkeys immunized with S-antigen were studied using routine histopathological and immunohistochemical techniques. Seven out of 10 animals developed uveitis between 19 and 33 days after the initial immunization. Histopathology of the eyes harvested 70 days after immunization showed mo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Fujino Y,Li Q,Chung H,Hikita N,Nussenblatt RB,Gery I,Chan CC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is the result of the autoimmune response against pancreatic insulin producing beta cells. This autoimmune response begins months or even years before the first presentation of signs and symptoms of hyperglycemia and at the time of clinical diagnosis near 30% of beta-cell mass still rema...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Couri CE,Voltarelli JC

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse develops diabetes spontaneously due to autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic islets with a higher incidence in the female than the male. Prolactin (PRL), a hormone whose role has been previously focused on reproduction and lactation has been demonstrated to influence immune respons...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hawkins TA,Gala RR,Dunbar JC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that lymphoid cells from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) mice with established disease migrate aberrantly. This study evaluates the abnormal lymphocyte migration patterns found in MRL-lpr/lpr (MRL/l) mice in relation to age, disease manifestations and the expression of lymphocyte homing ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Schrieber L,Manolios N,Cohen MG,Paull SA,Guiffre AK,Hopper KE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flow cytometry-based phagocytosis assay was developed and utilized to measure the LE cell phenomenon at the single cell level in vitro. Since the lupus erythematosus (LE) cell phenomenon is a special form of necro-phagocytosis in the presence of anti-dsDNA antibodies, dead substrate cells or chicken erythrocytes nuc...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Böhm I

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), celiac disease (CD) and autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) are autoimmune conditions relatively common in paediatric age and frequently occur in association in the same subject. This event is not by chance and requires an explanation. Here, we studied the distribution of HLA-DQ αβ hetero...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Larizza D,Calcaterra V,Klersy C,Badulli C,Caramagna C,Ricci A,Brambilla P,Salvaneschi L,Martinetti M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper type 17 (Th17) cells, a newly identified effector T-cell subset, have recently been shown to play a role in numerous autoimmune diseases, including iodine-induced autoimmune thyroiditis in non-obese diabetic (NOD)-H2(h4) mice, which had previously been thought Th1-dominant. We here studied the role of Th17 in...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Horie I,Abiru N,Saitoh O,Ichikawa T,Iwakura Y,Eguchi K,Nagayama Y

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the natural course of beta cell function in recent onset diabetes, a subgroup (n=157) of all incident cases (n=879) 15-34 years old, 1992-1993 in Sweden, and with positivity for at least one autoantibody of islet cell antibodies (ICA), glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies (GADA) or tyrosine phosphatase an...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Törn C,Landin-Olsson M,Lernmark A,Scherstén B,Ostman J,Arnqvist HJ,Björk E,Blohmé G,Bolinder J,Eriksson J,Littorin B,Nyström L,Sundkvist G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study uses the agent-based model IMMSIM to simulate immune responses to a viral infection, with a focus on the impact of preformed memory (homologous and heterologous) on the quality and the efficacy of the response. The in machina results confirm the observed thwarting of new, naïve responses exerted by c...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pearson YE,Cheng Y,Selin LK,Puzone R,Celada F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous insulin treatment of young diabetes prone BB rats has been shown previously to suppress the development of autoimmune diabetes. In this study the hypothesis was tested that exogenous insulin may deviate the autoimmune process by acting on the Th1/Th2 cytokine balance in the pancreas. BB rats were implante...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kolb H,Wörz-Pagenstert U,Kleemann R,Rothe H,Rowsell P,Rastegar S,Scott FW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Increased prevalence of atherosclerosis may explain part of this enhanced risk, but SLE related CVD can also result from other mechanisms. Vascular events may be the result of several pathophysiologic ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Gustafsson JT,Svenungsson E

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS 1) is caused by mutations in the AIRE gene that induce intrathymic T-cell tolerance breakdown, which results in tissue-specific autoimmune diseases. DESIGN:To evaluate the effect of a well-defined T-cell repertoire impairment on humoral self-reactive fingerprints...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Dubucquoi S,Proust-Lemoine E,Kemp EH,Ryndak A,Lefèvre-Dutoit V,Bellart M,Saugier-Véber P,Duban-Deweer S,Wémeau JL,Prin L,Lefranc D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CCR5 and its ligands play important roles in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A deletion of 32 bp in its gene leads to the production of a non-functional receptor. Although a protective effect of CCR5 Delta32 for the development of RA has been suggested, future study is required to est...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Martens HA,Kallenberg CG,Bijl M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to a lupus-like syndrome and massive T cell proliferation, MRL-lpr/lpr(MRL/l) mice develop an arthritic process very similar serologically and histologically to human rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Recently, we have developed in DBA/1 mice an experimental model of autoimmune arthritis (EAA) which shares clinic...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Boissier MC,Texier B,Carlioz A,Fournier C

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ T cells play a crucial role in the development of lupus in MRL-lpr/lpr mice: incomplete deletion/silencing of self-reactive CD4+ T cells leads to T cell activation, which causes both polyclonal B cell activation and T cell infiltration of multiple organs. Furthermore, anti-CD4 antibody therapy ameliorates disease...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Duan JM,Fagard R,Madaio MP

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial antigens were purified from rat liver and characterized by immunoblotting. Sera from 19 well defined patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) reacted with two mitochondrial polypeptides of 68 Kd and 45 Kd. Antibodies to these antigens were not detected in any of the sera of patients with cirrhosis o...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zurgil N,Konikoff F,Bakimer R,Slor H,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (cAIT) leads to hypothyroidism due to T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in most cases. By contrast, Graves' disease (GD) with thyrotropin receptor stimulatory autoantibodies cause hyperthyroidism. Cytokines play a crucial role in modulating immune response in both disorders. The aim of study ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mikos H,Mikos M,Rabska-Pietrzak B,Niedziela M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that mice infected with mouse hepatitis virus A59 develop autoantibodies (autoAb) to liver and kidney fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). Because it has been proposed that the immune system is stimulated by alarm signals called damage-associated molecular patterns or alarmins, we investigated the partic...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Duhalde-Vega M,Retegui LA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in available biological data pertaining to autoimmunity research. This includes a tremendous quantity of sequence data (biological structures, genetic and physical maps, pathways, etc.) generated by genome and proteome projects plus extensive clinical and epidemiological...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Petrovsky N,Brusic V

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart block (CHB), a life-threatening manifestation of neonatal lupus, offers aunique opportunity to study the effect or arm of immunity and define the pathogenicity of an autoantibody in mediating tissue injury. This review focuses on our recent in vitro model which supports a cascade from antibody insult ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Buyon JP,Clancy RM

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (Ia antigen) has been analyzed by immunoperoxidase staining in thyroids of normal C3H mice, of iodine-deficient mice with a hyperplastic goiter and of mice during goiter involution induced by administration of either a high iodide dose (HID, 10 micr...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Toussaint-Demylle D,Many MC,Theisen H,Kraal G,Denef JF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by the presence of autoantibody (AAb) to phospholipid (PL)-binding proteins, such as beta2-glycoprotein I (beta2GPI), and clinical manifestations including thrombosis and/or recurrent pregnancy loss. beta2GPI-reactive T cells are clearly implicat...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Tolomeo T,Rico De Souza A,Roter E,Dieudé M,Amireault P,Subang R,Levine JS,Rauch J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGPO-aAb is a bispecific antibody which binds to thyroglobulin as well as thyroid peroxidase. It is supposed to be raised in some patients with autoimmune thyroid disease. We investigated 205 patients suffering from Graves' disease (n = 81), Hashimoto's thyroiditis (n = 36), toxic nodular goitre (n = 50), differentiat...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zöphel K,Grüning T,Wunderlich G,Franke WG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with different helminth species have been observed to ameliorate a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases. Herein, we show that the natural murine helminth species, Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hp) is capable of attenuating disease severity in two different inflammatory arthritis models. Furthermore,...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sarter K,Kulagin M,Schett G,Harris NL,Zaiss MM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a variety of eye muscle antigens are recognized by autoantibodies in the serum from patients with thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) 64 kDa membrane proteins, which are also expressed in the thyroid, are most closely linked to the development of ophthalmopathy in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease....

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Boucher A,Bernard N,Zhang ZG,Rodien P,Salvi M,Wall JR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00