Prostaglandin E2 down-regulates viable Bacille Calmette-Guérin-induced macrophage cytotoxicity against murine bladder cancer cell MBT-2 in vitro.

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：:The failure of B cells from CVI patients to secrete normal amounts of antibodies has been attributed either to an intrinsic B cell defect or to a lack of cooperation from T cells. In an attempt to improve the definition of the origin of this defect in one of the main cellular compartments, we studied the ability of he...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ferrer JM,Iglesias J,Hernández M,Matamoros N

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliable risk assessment for biotherapeutics requires accurate evaluation of risk factors associated with immunogenicity. Immunogenicity risk assessment tools were developed and applied to investigate the immunogenicity of a fully human therapeutic monoclonal antibody, ATR-107 [anti-interleukin (IL)-21 receptor] that ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xue L,Hickling T,Song R,Nowak J,Rup B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyses the expression by rat lymphocytes of six renal brush border (BB) antigens defined by a set of monoclonal antibodies and demonstrates that a 90 kD protein (gp 90), synthesized by BB and glomeruli is found on the surface of T and B cells. The other antigens, including the 330 kD protein involved in H...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Leer EH,Moullier P,Ronco P,Verroust P

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the clearance kinetics and tissue distribution of different sized IgA in normal and macrophage-depleted rats. Rats were injected iv with liposomes containing dichloromethylene diphosphonate (DMDP). DMDP treatment resulted in complete depletion of liver macrophages 24-48 h after administration. Normal a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bogers WM,Stad RK,Janssen DJ,Prins FA,van Rooijen N,van Es LA,Daha MR

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor H is an abundant plasma glycoprotein that plays a critical role in the regulation of the complement system in plasma and in the protection of host cells and tissues from damage by complement activation. Several recent studies have described the association of genetic variations of the complement factor H gene (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Córdoba SR,de Jorge EG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to Salmonella typhi were studied in 10 chronic typhoid carriers, and in healthy controls. Carriers showed impaired cellular reactivity to S. typhi antigens in the leucocyte migration inhibition test (LMI). Carriers did not show a generalized depression of cell-mediated immuni...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dham SK,Thompson RA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four murine monoclonal antibodies having high levels of activity against phosphatidyl-inositol phosphate (PIP) were tested for lupus anticoagulant activity. The antibodies showed different degrees of potency in a modified partial thromboplastin time test (APTT) that used dilutions of either bovine brain extract (Throm...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alving BM,Banerji B,Fogler WE,Alving CR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern era advancements in medical care, with improved treatment of infections, can result in delayed diagnosis of congenital immunodeficiencies. In this study we present a retrospective cohort of 16 patients diagnosed with Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) at adulthood. Some of the patients had a milder clinical ph...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barkai T,Somech R,Broides A,Gavrieli R,Wolach B,Marcus N,Hagin D,Stauber T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the VH gene repertoire of the J558 family was done in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated resting cells and in vivo activated cells derived from C57Bl/6-lpr mice (IghCb). Using a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) based on digestion with the restriction enzyme Pstl, the expression of the subfa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alarcón-Riquelme ME,Fernández C

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypersensitivity to Chironomidae (non-biting midges) has been a problem in Northern Sudan since about 1927 and is probably due to the working of dams which have produced lake-like conditions on parts of the Blue and main Niles where breeding has evidently increased. Studies were undertaken to determine whether this hy...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kay AB,Gad El Rab MO,Stewart J,Erwa HH

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis with cardiac and noncardiac complications. Anti--endothelial cell antibodies (AECA) are found among many patients with KD. The aim of this study was to investigate the pathogenic role of AECA in KD using in vitro and in vivo experimental models. F(ab)2 fragments of IgG-AE...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Grunebaum E,Blank M,Cohen S,Afek A,Kopolovic J,Meroni PL,Youinou P,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of human umbilical vein endothelial (HUVE) cells with the inflammatory mediators tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), interleukin-1 (IL-1), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and phorbol esters enhanced their adhesiveness for leucocytes. The appearance of an activation antigen ELAM-1, recognized by a monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Leeuwenberg JF,Jeunhomme GM,Buurman WA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing speculation about the meaning of reported imbalances in subpopulations of T lymphocytes in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). This study compared two techniques for producing T cell enriched subpopulations from both patients with CLL and normal individuals and the effects of these tech...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dickinson AM,George S,Proctor SJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically significant levels of IL-2 activity were produced by isolated lamina propria mononuclear cells (LPMC) from normal intestine (n = 12), cancer-bearing colons (n = 35) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affected tissue (n = 12). The levels of IL-2 produced were similar for all three sources of LPMC (normal...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pullman WE,Doe WF

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight genetically different strains of mice were compared regarding the dissemination of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis to the lungs, liver and omentum/pancreas, DTH responses and specific antibody production at 16 weeks after intraperitoneal infection with Pb18, a virulent P. brasiliensis isolate. The degree of dissem...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Singer-Vermes LM,Sakamoto TN,Vaz CA,Calich VL

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of cytokine production and T cell proliferation by other cytokines is mandatory in mediating inflammatory responses but the full understanding is far from complete. We have previously reported increased production of IL-2 and IL-2 receptors (IL-2R) in IgA nephropathy. The present study was undertaken to...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lai KN,Leung JC,Li PK,Lui SF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is emerging that exposure to mercury (Hg) may elicit many pathological manifestations, including immunomodulation. We tested whether changing cellular activation pathways may affect the immunomodulation by Hg. Human cell cultures were set up where isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells, activated by mono...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hemdan NY,Lehmann I,Wichmann G,Lehmann J,Emmrich F,Sack U

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine antibody response to porcine insulin is controlled by immune response genes of the major histocompatibility complex. Animals of the one haplotype (H-2d) produce specific antibodies to pork insulin, while animals of other haplotypes do not. We analysed the antibody responses to purified pork insulin by anima...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Strayer DS,Kapp J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase radioimmunoassay was developed to detect antibodies to liver membrane antigens in sera of patients with HBsAg-negative and -positive liver diseases and primary non-hepatic autoimmune diseases. Ten of fourteen patients with HBsAg-negative CAH had autoantibodies detected by RIA; negative results were obtai...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Manns M,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH,Hütteroth TH,Hess G

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：:Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory, hyperproliferative skin disease, in which autoimmunity plays a great role. Natural killer T cells (NK T cells), are suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of different autoimmune diseases. To examine the involvement of CD3+CD56+ NK T cells in the pathogenesis of psoriasis, w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koreck A,Surányi A,Szöny BJ,Farkas A,Bata-Csörgö Z,Kemény L,Dobozy A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of monocytes and neutrophils into the inflamed tissue could be an important aspect in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A membrane protein involved in the monocyte/neutrophil adherence to endothelium is CD11b/CD18 or alpha M beta 2 (complement receptor type 3 = CR3). In the present study...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Palmen MJ,Dijkstra CD,van der Ende MB,Peña AS,van Rees EP

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, naturally occurring antibodies to IFN-alpha were discovered in a few systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and cancer patients; however, in most patients monitored for anti-IFN antibodies before treatment, no antibodies were found. In an attempt to explain the 'IFN-blocking effect' that we observed in all serum...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ross C,Hansen MB,Schyberg T,Berg K

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Cytokines have been extensively studied in coeliac disease, but cytokine release related to exposure to gluten and associated symptoms has only recently been described. Prominent, early elevations in serum interleukin (IL)-2 after gluten support a central role for T cell activation in the clinical reactions to gluten ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goel G,Daveson AJM,Hooi CE,Tye-Din JA,Wang S,Szymczak E,Williams LJ,Dzuris JL,Neff KM,Truitt KE,Anderson RP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide-binding, oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor family, pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) gene polymorphism was reported to be associated with susceptibility, disease activity or anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the roles of NLRP3 inflammasome i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Guo C,Fu R,Wang S,Huang Y,Li X,Zhou M,Zhao J,Yang N

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human deoxyribonuclease I (rhDNase) may be an effective therapeutic for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The pharmacodynamics of rhDNase in serum was investigated using two activity assays: one based on hydrolysis of a radiolabelled phage DNA and the other based on hydrolysis of human c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Prince WS,Baker DL,Dodge AH,Ahmed AE,Chestnut RW,Sinicropi DV

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils contribute to the pathogenesis of bullous pemphigoid (BP) by secretion of proinflammatory cytokines and proteases. Trafficking of eosinophils into tissue in animal models and asthma depends on interleukin-5 and a family of chemokines named eotaxins, comprising CCL11, CCL24 and CCL26. Up-regulation of CCL11...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Günther C,Wozel G,Meurer M,Pfeiffer C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A blood sample was taken from children aged 13-15 years immediately before BCG vaccination and 8 weeks after. The children were tuberculin skin-test negative to PPD-S before vaccination and positive after. Mononuclear cells were separated from the blood, infected with Mycobacterium microti at a low bacterium/monocyte ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cheng SH,Walker L,Poole J,Aber VR,Walker KB,Mitchison DA,Lowrie DB

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00