Structural relationship of kappa-type light chains with AL amyloidosis: multiple deletions found in a VkappaIV protein.

abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) is a diagnostic hallmark of HT. The aim of our study was to evaluate the avidity of TgAb in sera from HT patients with different thyroid functional status. Sera from 50 patients with newly diagnosed HT ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Gao Y,Li M,Xie L,Huang Y,Gao Y,Guo X

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that monocytes may play an active role in thrombogenesis, since they may express on their surface tissue factor, the major initiator of the clotting cascade. The results of this investigation demonstrate beta-2-glycoprotein I (beta2-GPI) mRNA expression by human peripheral blood monocytes, indicating ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Conti F,Sorice M,Circella A,Alessandri C,Pittoni V,Caronti B,Calderaro C,Griggi T,Misasi R,Valesini G

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons play an important, but incompletely understood role in HIV-related disease. We investigated the effect of HAART on plasma levels of IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma, neopterin and interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) in 41 HIV-infected patients during 78 weeks of therapy. At baseline HIV-infected patients had raise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stylianou E,Aukrust P,Bendtzen K,Müller F,Frøland SS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aims were to identify the differential expression of microRNA (miR)-155, as well as to explore the possible regulatory effects of miR-155 on the differentiation and function of T helper type 17 (Th17) cells in atopic dermatitis (AD). The Th17 cell percentage and expression levels of miR-155, retinoic acid-related ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ma L,Xue HB,Wang F,Shu CM,Zhang JH

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production in vitro of antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen by peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy volunteers was studied after each of the three doses of hepatitis B vaccine. An in vitro hepatitis B surface antigen antibody response was successfully induced in 12% of the specimens taken over a 7 mont...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Filion LG,Saginur R

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease primarily affecting cartilaginous joints but also extra-articular tissues such as the nose and upper respiratory tract. We have investigated extra-articular cartilage involvement in two commonly used animal models for RA, collagen-induced and pristane-induced...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hansson AS,Lu S,Holmdahl R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major obstacles in dissecting the mechanism of pathology in human primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) has been the absence of animal models. Our laboratory has focused on a model in which mice, following immunization with a xenobiotic chemical mimic of the immunodominant autoepitope of the E2 component of pyruv...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shimoda S,Tsuneyama K,Kikuchi K,Harada K,Nakanuma Y,Nakamura M,Ishibashi H,Hisamoto S,Niiro H,Leung PS,Ansari AA,Gershwin ME,Akashi K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-proteinase 3 antibodies are a subgroup of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), and we have established an ELISA for their detection using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-purified protein. This assay is sensitive and specific: inhibition studies have shown that despite the homology between ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jennings JG,Chang L,Savige JA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens (SAgs) are potent stimulators of T cells bearing specific Vbeta T cell receptors (TCR) and may play a role in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki syndrome (KS), although despite 15 years of intense study this area remains controversial. Because SAgs can cause Vbeta restricted T cell activation in the absence of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brogan PA,Shah V,Clarke LA,Dillon MJ,Klein N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of chemokines in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), we examined serum levels, spontaneous production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), and histological distribution in the affected skin, of MCP-1, MIP-1alpha and MIP-1beta in SSc patients. Serum levels of these chemokines we...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hasegawa M,Sato S,Takehara K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the correlation between natural killer (NK) cell function and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 disease progression in 133 untreated HIV-1 positive Chinese subjects, including 41 former plasma donors (FPDs) and 92 men who have sex with men, and 35 HIV-negative controls. Flow cytometry was used ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jia M,Li D,He X,Zhao Y,Peng H,Ma P,Hong K,Liang H,Shao Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological marker studies using direct immunofluorescence and rosette methods were performed on the bone marrow and peripheral blood of an IgM myeloma, and on the peripheral blood of two cases of IgA myeloma and one IgG myeloma. These studies confirmed the peripheral blood involvement in plasma cell dyscrasias. In ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Burns GF,Cawley JC,Barker CR,Worman CP,Raper CG,Hayhoe FG

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to test whether normal rat epiphyseal chondrocytes react with monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) detecting different markers of lymphoid cells. For this purpose, isolated chondrocyte and, for comparison, splenocyte cytosmears were exposed to a battery of different MoAbs followed by indirect immunop...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Malejczyk J,Romaniuk A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic value of the determination of the relative distribution of B (SmIg-positive) and T (E rosetting) cells in the blood and in pleural or ascitic effusions was evaluated in 10 patients with tuberculosis and in six with malignant diseases. A higher percentage of T and a lower percentage of B lymphocytes in s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Falcão RP,Bottura C

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that immune platelet destruction observed in an AIDS-free HIV-infected patient was associated with the presence of a cross-reactive antibody recognizing both HIV-glycoprotein (gp)120 and platelet gpIIIa (CD61). We have now investigated the presence of such antibodies in other HIV-infect...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bettaieb A,Oksenhendler E,Duedari N,Bierling P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous work we have demonstrated that in patients exhibiting a late allergic reaction (LAR), alveolar macrophages (AM) collected 18 h after bronchial allergen challenge produced high levels of IL-6 and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) which is known to up-regulate the endothelial cell expression of adhesion m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lassalle P,Gosset P,Delneste Y,Tsicopoulos A,Capron A,Joseph M,Tonnel AB

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is a systemic, inflammatory disorder, which in a proportion of patients runs a chronic progressive course despite immunosuppressive treatment. Therapeutic granulocyte and monocyte apheresis (GMA) has been shown to be an effective treatment option for other systemic inflammatory disorders, but has not yet b...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Olsen HH,Muratov V,Cederlund K,Lundahl J,Eklund A,Grunewald J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are often exclusively considered as a first-line innate immune defence, able to rapidly kill or trap pathogens and causing in case of over-activation tissue damage. In the female reproductive tract, however, the presence and activity of neutrophils seems to be tightly regulated. Major players in orchestrat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hahn S,Hasler P,Vokalova L,van Breda SV,Lapaire O,Than NG,Hoesli I,Rossi SW

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte-enriched mononuclear cell fractions were obtained from the peripheral blood of four healthy young adults. Living B cells with membrane immunoglobulin (Ig) were studied by immunofluorescence to reveal exposed J-chain determinants or surface affinity for the secretory component (SC). Alcohol-fixed cell smears...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brandtzaeg P

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kinds of brush border antigens were isolated from pronase-treated rat tubular material by gel filtration, DEAE-chromatography and disc-electrophoresis, successively. One, a 0.05 M antigen which was eluted from DEAE-column with 0.05 mol of NaCl solution, has no nephritogenic ability when inoculated into homologous ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kawai H,Yano S,Naruse T

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte C3b receptors (ECR1) have been measured in 122 pairs of twins (60 monozygotic, 62 dizygotic) using an [125I]-labelled monoclonal antibody (E11). The range of ECR1 numbers was wide, 99-4179 sites/cell, with a log-normal distribution around a geometric mean of 837 sites/cell. The intra-pair variance in dizyg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fyfe A,Holme ER,McKay IC,Zoma A,Hunter J,Lucie NP,Whaley K

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum specimens from 66 HIV-1-infected subjects were tested by ELISA for the presence of IgA antibodies to HIV-1: 44 samples were found positive and 37 were confirmed by immunoblot. In these subjects, the presence of anti-HIV IgA antibodies was studied in relation to the total count of circulating CD4+ lymphocytes and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Quesnel A,Pozzetto B,Moja P,Grattard F,Lucht FR,Touraine JL,Gaudin OG,Genin C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This longitudinal study investigates the change of erythrocyte complement receptor (E-CR1) expression in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Circulating E-CR1 expression was semiquantified by flow cytometric analyses in 54 SARS patients and in 212 healthy individuals as a control. Since E-CR1 expre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang FS,Chu FL,Jin L,Li YG,Zhang Z,Xu D,Shi M,Wu H,Moulds JM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) constitute an archetypal pattern recognition system. Their sophisticated biology underpins the ability of innate immunity to discriminate between highly diverse microbial pathogens and self. However, the remarkable progress made in describing this biology has also revealed new immunological ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hopkins PA,Sriskandan S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the differential state of B cell activation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we investigated the expression of low-affinity receptor for IgE (Fc epsilon RII; CD23) on their peripheral B cells by a cytofluorometry using H107 (CD23) and Leu-16 (CD20) monoclona...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kumagai S,Ishida H,Iwai K,Tsubata T,Umehara H,Ozaki S,Suginoshita T,Araya S,Imura H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a link between increased allergy and a reduction of some infections in western countries. Epidemiological data also show that respiratory allergy is less frequent in people exposed to orofaecal and foodborne microbes such as Toxoplasma gondii. Infection with T. gondii induces a strong cell-mediated immunity w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fenoy I,Giovannoni M,Batalla E,Martin V,Frank FM,Piazzon I,Goldman A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immune response to the 10-kD M. tuberculosis protein was studied by a competition ELISA using monoclonal antibody (MoAb) SA-12. Twenty-five per cent of the sera from 20 patients with tuberculosis and none from 21 control subjects inhibited binding of SA-12 to the 10-kD antigen. To characterize the antigenic ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Verbon A,Hartskeerl RA,Kolk AH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy has, besides the beneficial effects, several adverse effects. Suppression of the immune system is one of the most important problems. Infections caused by encapsulated bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae are responsible for a major part of infectious problems during and after treatment. The splenic mar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zandvoort A,Lodewijk ME,Klok PA,Breukels MA,Rijkers GT,Timens W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sera of seven out of eight patients with Herpes gestationis contained a factor which fixed C3 but not detectable amounts of immunoglobulin (Ig) on the basement membrane zone (BMZ) of normal human skin. Using C2-deficient human serum and C4-deficient guinea-pig serum, fixation was shown to be dependent upon activat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carruthers JA,Ewins AR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review the authors discuss the evidence for T helper type 17 (Th17) cells as pathogenic T cells in autoimmunity. Studies with cytokine-deficient mice or blocking of interleukin (IL)-17, IL-21 and IL-22 have resulted in a conflicting data set. Although in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koenders MI,van den Berg WB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00