Circulating, Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific lymphocytes from PPD skin test-negative patients with tuberculosis do not secrete interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and lack the cutaneous lymphocyte antigen skin-selective homing receptor.

abstract：:Psoriasis (Ps), psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are common diseases dependent on environmental factors that activate the immune system in unknown ways. Mannan is a group of polysaccharides common in the environment; they are potentially pathogenic, because at least some of them induce Ps-, PsA-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hagert C,Siitonen R,Li XG,Liljenbäck H,Roivainen A,Holmdahl R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 25 years of research since HIV-1 was first identified in Paris, there have been great advances in our understanding of the virus and of the immune system. Practical advances include the early development of diagnostic tests of infection that made blood donation safe, and since 1996, combination anti-retroviral ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Weiss RA

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of NK T cells was measured in relation to the Th1/Th2 imbalance observed in RA. Peripheral blood samples of patients with RA (n = 60) and healthy controls (n = 36) were stained with anti-NK receptor 1A (anti-NKR-P1A), anti-CD56, and anti-CD3 MoAbs, and examined by three-colour flow cytometry. NK T (NKR-P1A+...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yanagihara Y,Shiozawa K,Takai M,Kyogoku M,Shiozawa S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation, local and systemic bone loss and a lack of compensatory bone repair. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) are the most abundant cells of the stroma and a key population in autoimmune diseases such as RA. An increasing body of evide...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wehmeyer C,Pap T,Buckley CD,Naylor AJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and in laboratory animals, administration of a single does of glucocorticosteroids induces a rapid and transient decrease in the numbers of peripheral blood lymphocytes through a redistribution of circulating lymphocytes. This lymphocytopenic effect is an important factor in the immunosuppressive capacity of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bloemena E,Weinreich S,Schellekens PT

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic inflammatory response is a challenge in the management of paediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Although multi-factorial, a contribution by the lectin pathway of complement activation has been postulated. We therefore investigated the changes in serum levels of mannose binding lectin (MBL) and a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pągowska-Klimek I,Świerzko AS,Michalski M,Głowacka E,Szala-Poździej A,Sokołowska A,Moll M,Krajewski WR,Romak J,Cedzyński M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are uncommon, chronic and severe disorders of the immune system in which patients cannot mount a sufficiently protective immune response, leading to an increased susceptibility to infections. The treatment of choice for PID patients with predominant antibody deficiency is intravenous ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ballow M,Notarangelo L,Grimbacher B,Cunningham-Rundles C,Stein M,Helbert M,Gathmann B,Kindle G,Knight AK,Ochs HD,Sullivan K,Franco JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that multiple sclerosis (MS) is mediated by autoreactive T cells and that myelin basic protein (MBP) is one of the target autoantigens. The T-cell response to MBP has been analysed extensively, largely through the use of T-cell lines (TCL) and T-cell clones (TCC), and to date, three immunodomi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mazza G,Ponsford M,Lowrey P,Campbell MJ,Zajicek J,Wraith DC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an obligate pathogen that causes pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, pharyngitis and asthma in humans. It is well recognized that membrane lipoproteins are immunostimulants exerting as lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory responses upon M. pneumoniae ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo H,He J,Qin L,Chen Y,Chen L,Li R,Zeng Y,Zhu C,You X,Wu Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) seems to be the target self-antigen for endomysial antibodies in coeliac disease (CD) and to catalyse the critical deamidation of gliadin which strengthens its recognition by HLA-restricted gut-derived T cells. To date, it has not been demonstrated whether gliadin is cross-linked to tTG w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ciccocioppo R,Di Sabatino A,Ara C,Biagi F,Perilli M,Amicosante G,Cifone MG,Corazza GR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3.5 year old boy with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID), who had been in laminar flow isolation throughout his life, developed a B cell tumour producing up to 3008 mg/dl of an IgM kappa paraprotein 1 month after infusion of both liver and thymus cells from a fetal donor and 6 months after the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shirley LR,Buckley RH,Borowitz MJ,Welt SI,Kostyu DD

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by synovial fibroblast hyperplasia and bone erosion. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) play a pivotal role in RA pathogenesis through aggressive migration and matrix invasion, and certain proinflammatory cytokines may affect synoviocyte invasio...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xing R,Jin Y,Sun L,Yang L,Li C,Li Z,Liu X,Zhao J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of hepatocytes from patients with chronic hepatitis B to complement-dependent cytotoxicity mediated by heterologous antibodies to hepatitis B virus core (anti-HBc) and surface (anti-HBs) antigens and to hepatic asialoglycoprotein receptor was examined using a microcytotoxicity assay. The anti-HBc-in...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Michalak TI,Lau JY,McFarlane BM,Alexander GJ,Eddleston AL,Williams R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in-vivo clearance of Bordetella pertussis infections in murine models in naive mice and animals vaccinated with whole-cell vaccine is considered to be via a Th-1-dependent mechanism in which interleukin-12 (IL)-12 may play a prominent role. It has also been demonstrated clearly that the treatment of animals with m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carter CR,Dagg BM,Whitmore KM,Keeble JR,Asokanathan C,Xing D,Walker KB

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The era prior to 1990 was a time of careful observation of disease presentation, course, outcomes and meticulous pathology studies. These mainly single-centre studies introduced new life-saving therapies for drugs still used effectively today. In the 1970-1980s, cyclophosphamide (CyP) added to glucocorticosteroids (GC...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman GS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirement for specificity of antibody-dependent inhibition or killing of intracellular Toxoplasma gondii trophozoites by normal mouse peritoneal macrophages was evaluated in vitro using light microscopy and autoradiography. Anti-toxoplasma antibody in the presence of 'accessory factor' rendered extracellular T. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Anderson SE Jr,Bautista SC,Remington JS

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopsy specimens from patients with treated or untreated polymyositis and muscular dystrophy controls were examined by indirect immunoperoxidase staining with a panel of monoclonal antibodies to human leucocyte antigens. In untreated polymyositis, helper/inducer T cells were the predominant T cell subset. In treated c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rowe D,Isenberg DA,Beverley PC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) have been isolated from early primary melanoma (Clark level III) and expanded in vitro using culture conditions with low concentrations of IL-2 (50 U/ml). Immediately after isolation TIL consisted of mainly CD3+ T cells, and the portion of CD56+ natural killer (NK) cells was below...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Becker JC,Schwinn A,Dummer R,Burg G,Bröcker EB

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete functional deficiency of C1q is described in a patient suffering from SLE. From reduced plasma C1 activity of the parents a hereditary trait was assumed. The defective C1q molecule was haemolytically inactive, did not bind to immune complexes, and was not recognized by the monocyte C1q receptor. C1 activity...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kirschfink M,Petry F,Khirwadkar K,Wigand R,Kaltwasser JP,Loos M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the association between factors regulating DNA methylation and the prognosis of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), we genotyped single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes encoding DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), DNMT3A, DNMT3B, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and methionine synthase reductase (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Arakawa Y,Watanabe M,Inoue N,Sarumaru M,Hidaka Y,Iwatani Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon (IFN)-gamma exert detrimental effects in organ-specific autoimmune disease, while both destructive and protective roles have been demonstrated for interleukin (IL)-10, IL-4 and IL-5. We examined the production of these cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nielsen CH,Hegedüs L,Rieneck K,Moeller AC,Leslie RG,Bendtzen K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPIV), a T cell enzyme, has been implicated in the regulation of lymphocyte proliferation in response to lectins and allogeneic cells. A sensitive fluorimetric assay has been established for the enzyme and used to investigate DPIV activity, kinetics and the subcellular localization in lymphocy...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harland C,Shah T,Webster AD,Peters TJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecies immunization of marmosets with platelets leads to an acute thrombocytopenia which appears to be immunologically mediated. The thrombocytopenia is preceded by the formation of antibodies to the donor platelet antigen and deposition of IgG on the host's platelets. Examination of sera obtained from these ani...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gengozian N,Annostby D

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells implicated in chronic inflammatory diseases such as RA respond weakly when stimulated in vitro with mitogen or antigen. The mechanism behind this hyporesponsiveness is unclear, but a depressed expression of the T cell receptor (TCR)-associated CD3zeta chain has been suggested. In the present work we describe a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Berg L,Rönnelid J,Klareskog L,Bucht A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG) in soluble and particulate fractions of discrete tissue samples from multiple sclerosis (MS) brain was analysed. Supernatant IgG/albumin rations and particulate-bound IgG levels were highest in samples dissected from MS plaques and adjacent white matter. Acid extracts of particulate fractions fr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Glynn P,Gilbert HM,Newcombe J,Cuzner ML

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistological analysis of the cellular composition of the small intestinal mucosa in a group of untreated and treated coeliac patients and non-coeliac control subjects was performed using monoclonal antibodies and an immunoperoxidase technique. A characteristic cellular distribution was observed within the normal...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kelly J,O'Farrelly C,O'Mahony C,Weir DG,Feighery C

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) in inflammatory joint disease was investigated. Synovial fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and patients with other non-autoimmune inflammatory joint diseases contained high levels of both active and latent TGF-beta. Levels of active TGF-beta d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brennan FM,Chantry D,Turner M,Foxwell B,Maini R,Feldmann M

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophils, added to fibronectin (FN)-coated polystyrene wells and exposed to tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), were found to exhibit a prolonged production of superoxide anion (O2-) after a lag period of approx 30 min. The O2- production, but not the cell adherence to FN, was completely inhibited by tw...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dapino P,Dallegri F,Ottonello L,Sacchetti C

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:Inspired by the advances presented at the Inflammation and Immune Resolution Plenary Session at the British Society for Immunology Congress, December 2017, in this issue of Clinical & Experimental Immunology we present a Review Series on Inflammation and Immune Resolution. Our selection ranges from an overview of curr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Taams LS

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00