ELNKWA-epitope specific antibodies induced by epitope-vaccine recognize ELDKWA- and other two neutralizing-resistant mutated epitopes on HIV-1 gp41.

abstract：:We have utilized a limiting dilution assay, involving a minimum of in vitro culture, to determine the frequencies of CD4+ T cells which have the capacity to secrete IL-2 (Th1), IL-4 (Th2) or IL-2 and IL-4 (Th0). CD4+ lymph node cells obtained from unimmunized mice were found to contain 40% Th1, 34% Th2, and 26% Th0 ce...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Torbett BE,Laxer JA,Glasebrook AL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of cell types may be involved in the regulation of IgA secretion at the intestinal mucosa. Intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) are known to have the capacity to secrete several cytokines which may exert an important regulatory effect on local immunoglobulin secretion by mucosal B cells. In this study, we have ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Goodrich ME,McGee DW

更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While the spleen is an active site for myelopoiesis during the late embryonal and perinatal stages, the activity is gradually lost later. However, myelopoiesis in the adult spleen can be reactivated by irradiation or various stimulants. In this study we investigated factors which determine the myelopoiesis-supporting ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ohno H,Ogawa M,Nishikawa S,Hayashi S,Kunisada T,Nishikawa S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 envelope protein contains several regions with amino acid homology to HLA class I and class II molecules. We evaluated possible changes in antibody responses to those regions during vaccination with rgp 160 produced in a baculovirus system. Forty asymptomatic HIV-infected patients with CD4 cell counts above ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Lundholm P,Wahren M,Sandström E,Volvovitz F,Wahren B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-sensitive serum masking cofactor(s) of antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) in normal human sera (NHS) are specifically inactivated at 56 degrees C. The degree of binding in ELISA by unmasked aPL in NHS was equivalent to that in non-heated, aPL-reactive autoimmune SLE sera. Previously "negative" SLE sera also reacted ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Cheng HM,Wong KK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of synthetic peptides representing human lymphocyte antigen (HLA) B8, other class I and class II restricted T cell epitopes and two B cell epitopes, were all able to compete with recognition of a HLA B8 restricted epitope by a cytotoxic T cell clone. Competition was obtained when the competitor peptides were a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Fernan A,Burrows SR,Moss DJ,Saul A,Suhrbier A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diminished expression of HLA-DR on monocytes has been proposed as a reliable marker of immunosuppression occuring during septic shock. The objective of the present observational study was to establish the time-dependent relation between plasma cytokines interleukin (IL)-10, transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1, ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Monneret G,Finck ME,Venet F,Debard AL,Bohé J,Bienvenu J,Lepape A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal and tumor-bearing host (TBH) peritoneal macrophage (M phi) responses to in vitro lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment were measured by assessing functional and phenotypic changes. Both normal and TBH untreated M phi suppressed mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) reactivity at all concentrations. Normal host M phi tre...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Askew D,Yurochko AD,Burger CJ,Elgert KD

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-established that chemokines play a critical role in the orchestration of inflammation and immunity. Interactions between chemokines and their receptors are essential for the homing of specific subsets of leukocytes to their functional microenvironments. They also influence other diverse biological processes...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Comerford I,Nibbs RJ

更新日期：2005-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture of high density resting murine B cells with recombinant IL-4 caused changes in the patterns of phosphoproteins associated with the plasma membranes isolated from such cells. The principal difference was the appearance of an alkali-resistant phosphoprotein of Mr = 75,000-80,000. Culture with LPS also gave rise ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： McGarvie GM,Cushley W

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the most common non-traumatic disabling disease among adolescents, multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating neurological inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. Research has not yet fully elucidated its pathogenesis, but it has shown MS to be a complex, multifactorial disease with many interplaying fact...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Mimpen M,Smolders J,Hupperts R,Damoiseaux J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SJL mice develop resistance against tolerance between the 9th and 25th wk of life. This resistance is linked with a loss of suppressor capacity in the thymus. We have shown here that contact photosensitivity (CPS) decreases as a function of age and that this is due to an age-dependent increase in suppressor capacity. ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Cinader B,Clandinin MT,Koh SW,Brown WR,Ramsay CA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I Diabetes mellitus (DM1) is the effect of T cell dependent autoimmune destruction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas islet. T cells are activated in response to islet dominant autoantigens, the result being the development of DM1. Insulin is one of the islet autoantigens responsible for activation o...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tchórzewski H,Głowacka E,Banasik M,Lewkowicz P,Szałapska-Zawodniak M

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence for the role of basophils in allergic bronchial asthma. We studied the potential role of basophils in the pathogenesis of post-exercise-induced bronchoconstriction by measuring the histamine release from basophils both spontaneously and following ConA, FMLP, anti-IgE and TPA treatment. Two...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kivity S,Schwarz I,Agami O,Topilsky M,Fireman E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early seventies "natural killer (NK) cells", a third lymphocyte subset was discovered that revealed an unexpected ability to kill syngeneic and allogeneic tumor targets, thus emerging as the most potent non-specific cytotoxic cells in both human and mouse. Decades of research revealed the multifaceted nature of the...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Bellora F,Castriconi R,Dondero A,Carrega P,Mantovani A,Ferlazzo G,Moretta A,Bottino C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are the most common benign tumors of childhood. They are characterized by a unique clinical course with two phases, proliferation and involution, which are followed by regression. The therapy of infantile hemangiomas was revolutionized in 2008 by the introduction of propranolol, h...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Wnęk A,Andrzejewska E,Kobos J,Taran K,Przewratil P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous and immune systems share specific recognition molecules for signals that originate in both systems. The information substances are polypeptides and their receptors. They comprise the multi-directional information exchange network whereby brain and nervous system function including mood and emotion can be integ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Wiedermann CJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD27, which belongs to the TNF receptor family, is a costimulatory molecule that participates in T-cell activation. Unlike costimulatory molecules such as OX40 and 4-1BB, little is known about the role CD27 plays a role in the development of experimental diseases. We asked whether CD27 and its ligand CD70 participate ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Sumi T,Ishida W,Ojima A,Kajisako M,Sakanishi T,Yagita H,Fukushima A

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we summarize the steps of a common scientific path taken by the two Guest Editors, an Anesthesiologist (EA) and an Immunologist (AS), and started 25 years ago at the National Cancer Institute in Rome. When in 1980 WHO codified the usage of opioids for cancer pain relief, it was matter of debate whether only di...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Santoni A,Arcuri E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immune system is a complex machinery involving numerous proteins. Proteins located at the cell surface of immune cells are of particular relevance due not only to their participation in the network of interactions that regulate the immune response but also to their potential as excellent targets for diagnost...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Díaz-Ramos MC,Engel P,Bastos R

更新日期：2011-01-30 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：:Tumor cells express a range of antigens including self-antigens (those whose expression is shared by normal host tissue) and non-self antigens (such as those that arise as a result of mutations in normal cellular genes or in the case of some tumors, viral antigens). Immune responses to both types of antigen have been ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Jones E,Dahm-Vicker M,Golgher D,Gallimore A

更新日期：2003-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-35 (IL-35) is a novel anti-inflammatory cytokine and has been shown to play an important role in maintaining immune homeostasis. However, the effect of IL-35 on human asthma remains unclear. The present study is to investigate the expression and significance of IL-35 in childhood asthma. Forty-one asthmati...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ma Y,Liu X,Wei Z,Wang X,Xu D,Dai S,Li Y,Gao M,Ji C,Guo C,Zhang L,Wang X

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibody response in humans naturally primed to a malaria vaccine candidate antigen (Pf155/RESA) is genetically regulated. Here, the impact of antigen presenting cells (APC) on the control of in vitro T-cell responses induced by Pf155/RESA or synthetic peptides corresponding to its major Pf155/RESA epitopes was st...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Troye-Blomberg M,Lepers JP,Sjöberg K,Rahalimalala L,Larsson A,Olerup O,Perlmann P

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African swine fever (ASF) virus has been reported to infect cells of the monocyte family, probably macrophage-like cells, but there is variation in the apparent susceptibility of these cells. We have demonstrated that the phenotype and activity of porcine monocytic cells varies between different isolations and also up...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： McCullough KC,Schaffner R,Fraefel W,Kihm U

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of asthma and allergic disease has increased in many countries and there has been speculation that immunization promotes allergic sensitization. Bordetella pertussis infection exacerbates allergic asthmatic responses. We investigated whether whole-cell pertussis vaccine (Pw) enhanced or prevented B. per...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ennis DP,Cassidy JP,Mahon BP

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-dependent RNA polymerase was partially purified from wheat germ extract and tested for inhibition by antinuclear autoantibodies from the sera of patients with connective tissue diseases. The enzyme was inhibited by anti-DNA and by autoantibodies to the nuclear ribonucleoprotein nRNP. Autoantibodies to other ribonu...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hough DW,Miller NI,Maddison PJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peanut agglutinin (PNA), a D-galactose specific lectin, agglutinated 10-18% of lymphocytes isolated from tonsils of 3- to 6-yr-old children. PNA+ cells were found to be mainly B lymphocytes showing a 9.6 times higher specific activity of DNA polymerase alpha compared to the PNA- cells. The specific activity of deoxycy...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Taljanidisz J,Spasokukotskaja T,Sasvári-Székely M,Antoni F,Staub M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst many physiological functions of nitric oxide (NO) have been revealed so far, recent evidence proposes an essential role for NO in T lymphocyte activation and signal transduction. NO acts as a second messenger, activating soluble guanyl cyclase and participating in signal transduction pathways involving cyclic G...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Nagy G,Clark JM,Buzás EI,Gorman CL,Cope AP

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data suggests that autoimmune factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. In this context several autoantigens have been shown to elicit an immune response that results in accelerated atherosclerotic plaque formation. In the present study, we investigated whether elevated titers of an...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： George J,Harats D,Bakshi E,Adler Y,Levy Y,Gilburd B,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00