Interferons and interferon (IFN)-inducible protein 10 during highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART)-possible immunosuppressive role of IFN-alpha in HIV infection.

abstract：:The tryptic FAD-peptide carrying the flavin in 8alpha-(N3)histidyl linkage as natural hapten was isolated by HPLC from the bacterial enzyme 6-hydroxy-d-nicotine oxidase. The same flavin protein linkage is found in the mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase flavoprotein subunit, the predominant flavoprotein with covalen...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cicek G,Schiltz E,Staiger J,Neumann FJ,Melchers I,Brandsch R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchoalveolar washings (BAW) were obtained from rats primarily infected with N. brasiliensis during the early infection stage that coincides with the lung passage of the parasite and the recruitment of inflammatory cells. BAW were tested for IL-1, IL-6 and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) activities. We found that IL-1 ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Benbernou N,Matsiota-Bernard P,Jolivet C,Ougen P,Guenounou M

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human null lymphocytes which lack B- and T-lymphocyte markers were found to form spontaneous rosettes with uncoated Rhesus monkey erythrocytes. Rosette-forming null lymphocytes were determined in null lymphocyte-enriched preparations of healthy persons and of patients with lymphoproliferative diseases. Quantitative de...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chiao JW,Dowling M,Good RA

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient stimulatory capacities of autologous dendritic cells (DC) may contribute in part to impaired T cell stimulation and therefore viral persistence in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. In order to characterize the antigen presenting functions of DC from chronic HBV carriers and controls...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Löhr HF,Pingel S,Böcher WO,Bernhard H,Herzog-Hauff S,Rose-John S,Galle PR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proliferative responses to stimulation with phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) in cultures of lymphocytes from newly calved and non-pregnant cattle were compared. Lymphocyte cultures from newly calved cows were seen to respond less to PHA than cultures from the non-pregnant cows. It is suggested that this depression in res...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wells PW,Burrells C,Martin WB

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytohaemagglutinin-induced lymphocyte transformation of four healthy adults and a child with kwashiorkor was performed in the presence of plasma from nineteen patients with protein energy malnutrition and a nutritionally normal child. Marked inhibition occurred in the presence of plasma from six patients who subseque...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Heyworth B,Moore DL,Brown J

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human alveolar macrophages (AM) were obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage from 18 patients with a variety of conditions. For each patient the percentages of AM showing the following properties were determined: (1) staining for the enzymes non-specific esterase (NSE) and acid phosphatase (ACP); (2) in vitro phagocytosis ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gant VA,Hamblin AS

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:Muscle is an attractive target for gene therapy and for immunization with DNA vaccines and is also the target of immunological injury in myositis. It is important therefore to understand the immunologic capabilities of muscle cells themselves. In this study, we show that proinflammatory stimuli induce the expression o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nagaraju K,Raben N,Merritt G,Loeffler L,Kirk K,Plotz P

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphotoxin-beta receptor (LTbetaR) pathway is critical for maintenance of organized lymphoid structures and is involved in the development of colitis. To investigate the mechanisms by which LTbetaR activation contributes to the pathology of chronic inflammation we used a soluble LTbetaR-Ig fusion protein as a com...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stopfer P,Obermeier F,Dunger N,Falk W,Farkas S,Janotta M,Möller A,Männel DN,Hehlgans T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulatory effect of human milk proteins from colostrum and late milk on the proliferative response of human T lymphocytes activated by mitogens (OKT3 and leucoagglutinin from Phaseolus vulgaris) and alloantigens was studied. High concentrations (10-100 micrograms/ml) of crude colostral milk proteins had an inhibi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mincheva-Nilsson L,Hammarström ML,Juto P,Hammarström S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of immunoglobulins, anti-ssDNA, anti-dsDNA, anti-TNP antibodies, IgM rheumatoid factor, C3, immune complexes and serum amyloid P component (SAP), in the serum were measured in 68 male and female MRL/lpr/lpr mice, a strain affected with a systemic autoimmune disease. The degree of lymphoproliferation ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rordorf-Adam C,Serban D,Pataki A,Grüninger M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in immunological and genetic research in coeliac disease provide new and complementary insights into the immune response driving this chronic intestinal inflammatory disorder. Both approaches confirm the central importance of T cell-mediated immune responses to disease pathogenesis and have further beg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dubois PC,van Heel DA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated cytotoxicity was examined in thirty-seven patients with systemic sclerosis using both whole blood and purified peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) to measure antibody-dependent (ADCC) and phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) induced lymphocyte cytotoxicity to 51Cr-labelled Chang liver cells. In twenty-three mi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wright JK,Hughes P,Rowell NR,Sneddon IB

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), CD25 expression is increased on circulating T cells. Although in animal experiments the role of CD4(+) CD25(+) T-regulatory-cells (T(reg)) in protection against autoimmunity is well established, the role of these cells in AAV is unknown. To investigate the hypothesis ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Marinaki S,Neumann I,Kälsch AI,Grimminger P,Breedijk A,Birck R,Schmitt W,Waldherr R,Yard BA,Van Der Woude FJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) participates in intracellular signalling cascades that mediate inflammatory responses. Therefore, the JNK signalling may be involved in gastric injury and inhibition of this pathway may form the basis of a new strategy for the treatment of gastric injury. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mitsuyama K,Tsuruta O,Matsui Y,Harada K,Tomiyasu N,Suzuki A,Takaki K,Masuda J,Handa K,Satoh Y,Bennett BL,Toyonaga A,Sata M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin is a major target organ in human graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after bone-marrow transplantation. GVHD can be induced in mice by i.v. injection of T cells into unirradiated semi-allogeneic or lethally irradiated allogeneic recipients. However, in the murine systemic GVHD model, cutaneous lesions occur only...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kawai K,Matsumoto Y,Watanabe H,Ito M,Fujiwara M

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that the LAD-4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed against a fibronectin receptor (FNR) on RL-male-1 T lymphoma cells in BALB/c mice partially inhibited their migration to the liver. In the present study, we examined the mechanism by which another anti-FNR mAb, LAD-1, exerts its antitumourig...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ito M,Omoto S,Kato Y,Hayashi T,Mori N,Fujii YR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most likely source of autoantigens in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is apoptotic material. Because increased levels of circulating apoptotic cells are found in SLE we wanted to investigate the capacity of serum from patients with SLE or other autoimmune or infectious diseases and normal healthy donors (NHD) t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bengtsson AA,Sturfelt G,Gullstrand B,Truedsson L

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare form of systemic vasculitis occurring in patients with asthma and hypereosinophilia; however, its mechanisms involved in the severe tissue inflammation with vasculitis are poorly understood. High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein, originally identified as a DNA binding protein...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Taira T,Matsuyama W,Mitsuyama H,Kawahara KI,Higashimoto I,Maruyama I,Osame M,Arimura K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by an abnormal regulatory T cell (T(reg)) response and increases in T helper type 1 (Th1) and Th17 cell responses. It is unclear if dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNA) within T(reg) cells contributes to the abnormal inflammatory response in COPD. In this stu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chatila WM,Criner GJ,Hancock WW,Akimova T,Moldover B,Chang JK,Cornwell W,Santerre M,Rogers TJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of circulating T lymphocytes (ET-RFC) and a sub-population of T lymphocytes (EE-RFC) were monitored in the blood of seventy-one cadaver renal allograft recipients for the first 2 months after transplantation. In patients with uneventful post-operative courses, the incidence of both ET-RFC and EE-RFC fell...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kelly GE,Sheil AG

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of neonatal sepsis is difficult, resulting in unnecessary treatment to minimize morbidity and mortality. We hypothesized that exposure to antenatal risk factors for sepsis alters the perinatal neutrophil phenotype. The study setting was a tertiary referral university-affiliated maternity and neonatal hos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Molloy EJ,O'Neill AJ,Grantham-Sloan JJ,Webb DW,Watson RW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against cytomegalovirus-specific early antigens (CMV-EA) were followed in sera, obtained from fifteen immunosuppressed renal-allograft recipients. Eight patients (sixty-two sera) showed seroconversion 47--137 days post-transplantation. Five patients (forty sera) with CMV antibodies at the moment of renal im...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： The TH,Andersen HK,Spencer ES,Klein G

更新日期：1977-06-01 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：:Erythrocyte autoantibodies in NZB mice react by hemagglutination methods with exposed and hidden red cell antigens. The hidden antigens can be exposed by treatment with proteolytic enzymes. By indirect immunofluorescence one antibody population can be shown to react with modified red cells. In the present study the lo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Linder E

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D has been shown to modulate innate immune responses in vitro and ex vivo; however, human in-vivo data are lacking. At high latitudes, seasonal vitamin D deficiency is common due to alternating ultraviolet (UV)-B radiation exposure. In the present study, we investigated whether levels of 25 hydroxyvitamin D(3)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kox M,van den Berg MJ,van der Hoeven JG,Wielders JP,van der Ven AJ,Pickkers P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the significance of circulating adhesion molecules associated with leucocyte-endothelial cell interaction in Kawasaki disease (KD), serum levels of soluble E-, P-, L-selectin (sE-, sP-, sL-selectin), and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) were measured in 16 patients with KD, eight with other fe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takeshita S,Dobashi H,Nakatani K,Koike Y,Tsujimoto H,Hirayama K,Kawamura Y,Mori K,Sekine I,Yoshioka S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously unrecognized autoantibody, detected by immunofluorescence, reacted with all human organs but gave negative results on tissues from rat, mouse, rabbit, guinea-pig, calf and chicken. From its predilection for mitochondria-rich cells (oncocytes) and its selective absorption with human but not animal mitochon...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Swana GT,Swana MR,Bottazzo GF,Doniach D

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new disease which has spread rapidly and widely. We wished to know whether evaluation of in vitro cytokine production could contribute to improved understanding of disease pathogenesis and to better patient management. Numbers of unstimulated and mitogen-stimulated cytokin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jones BM,Ma ES,Peiris JS,Wong PC,Ho JC,Lam B,Lai KN,Tsang KW

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00