Staphylococcal enterotoxin B-induced activation and concomitant resistance to cell death in CD28-deficient HLA-DQ8 transgenic mice.

abstract：:Epitope spreading has been best characterized as an exacerbating factor in CD4(+) T cell-dependent autoimmune disease models and is believed to occur via presentation of antigens liberated by tissue destruction initiated by CD4(+) T cells specific for a primary epitope. The growing evidence that exogenous antigens can...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Markiewicz MA,Fallarino F,Ashikari A,Gajewski TF

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of self MHC-restricted T cells responding to peptide fragments of processed antigen has been well characterized. However, the means by which alloreactive T lymphocytes recognize MHC alloantigen remain poorly understood. We now provide evidence that the recognition of class I human leukocyte antigen (HL...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Breur-Vriesendorp BS,Ivanyi P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies have demonstrated an over-expression of 9-O-acetylated sialoglycoconjugates (9-OAcSGs) on lymphoblasts, concomitant with high titers of anti-9-OAcSGs in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The present study was aimed to evaluate whether this high induction of anti-9-OAcSGs at disease presenta...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bandyopadhyay S,Bhattacharyya A,Mallick A,Sen AK,Tripathi G,Das T,Sa G,Bhattacharya DK,Mandal C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocytes (pivotal in many inflammatory pathologies) are targets for glucocorticoid hormone (GC). How TCR-mediated activation and GC signaling via glucocorticoid receptor (GR) impact on T-cell fates is not fully defined. We delineated here the expression of a recently identified glucocorticoid-induced TNF receptor...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Zhan Y,Funda DP,Every AL,Fundova P,Purton JF,Liddicoat DR,Cole TJ,Godfrey DI,Brady JL,Mannering SI,Harrison LC,Lew AM

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD6, a 130-kDa surface glycoprotein, is expressed primarily on cells of T lineage. A co-stimulatory role for CD6 in mature T cells has been shown, but the function of CD6 during thymocyte development is unknown. Since CD6 ligands are expressed on thymic epithelium, their interactions with CD6 could be important in thy...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Singer NG,Fox DA,Haqqi TM,Beretta L,Endres JS,Prohaska S,Parnes JR,Bromberg J,Sramkoski RM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to identify autoantigens of synovium in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we constructed lambda phage expression cDNA libraries from synovium and screened them by IgG purified from synovial fluids, both of which were derived from RA patients. As a result of this unique combination of the libraries and probes, w...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Tanaka M,Ozaki S,Osakada F,Mori K,Okubo M,Nakao K

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM) are able to inhibit the intracellular growth of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv after activation with recombinant (r) IFN and growth inhibition is mediated by reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNI) derived from L-arginine. We now demonstrate that tum...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Flesch IE,Hess JH,Oswald IP,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments in transgenic mice have demonstrated that thymocyte differentiation into the mature CD4+ helper or CD8+ cytotoxic T cell lineage is ultimately dependent upon the specificity of the TCR for class II or class I MHC molecules respectively. However, the initial mechanistic events involved in this process remai...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： DeKoning J,Carbone FR,Kaye J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-12 has been shown to play a central role in cell-mediated inflammatory reactions through direct activation of T cells and NK cells. IL-12 also strongly influences humoral immunity but these effects have been thought to be indirect and caused by intermediary cytokines. Using flow cytometry, we now show that IL-12 di...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Vogel LA,Showe LC,Lester TL,McNutt RM,Van Cleave VH,Metzger DW

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is one of the major causes of lethality and disability, yet few effective therapies have been established for ischemic stroke. Inflammation in the ischemic brain is induced by the infiltration and subsequent activation of immune cells. Loss of cerebral blood flow and ischemic brain-cell death trigger the activa...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nakamura A,Otani K,Shichita T

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles are a highly effective type of subunit vaccine that mimics the overall structure of virus particles without containing infectious genetic material. In this work, a particulate form of the recombinant capsid protein from dengue-2 was evaluated in mice to determine the level of protection against vi...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Gil L,López C,Lazo L,Valdés I,Marcos E,Alonso R,Gambe A,Martín J,Romero Y,Guzmán MG,Guillén G,Hermida L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of celiac disease (CD) with HLA-DQ2 and HLA-DQ8 is indicative of preferential mucosal T cell recognition of gluten fragments bound to either DQ allele. We have recently identified two gluten-derived, HLA-DQ8-restricted T cell stimulatory peptides, one each from gliadin and glutenin, recognized by speci...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Moustakas AK,van de Wal Y,Routsias J,Kooy YM,van Veelen P,Drijfhout JW,Koning F,Papadopoulos GK

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 1 (TRAF1), an intracellular protein, which binds to a range of molecules, including tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor family members, regulates TNF-induced NF-kappaB and AP-1 signaling as well as TCR-triggered proliferative responses ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bryce PJ,Oyoshi MK,Kawamoto S,Oettgen HC,Tsitsikov EN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell apoptosis has been proposed as an important contributor to the functional defects and depletion of T cells in HIV-infected individuals. However, the mechanisms involved in this apoptosis have not been elucidated. We recently showed that peripheral blood T cells from HIV-infected individuals are especially susce...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Katsikis PD,García-Ojeda ME,Wunderlich ES,Smith CA,Yagita H,Okumura K,Kayagaki N,Alderson M,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NKT follicular helper cells (NKTfh cells) are a recently discovered functional subset of CD1d-restricted NKT cells. Given the potential for NKTfh cells to promote specific antibody responses and germinal center reactions, there is much interest in determining the conditions under which NKTfh cells proliferate and/or d...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Rampuria P,Lang ML

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally arising CD25(+)CD4(+) regulatory T (T(R)) cells can be exploited to establish immunologic tolerance to non-self antigens. In vivo exposure of CD25(+)CD4(+) T cells from normal naive mice to alloantigen in a T cell-deficient environment elicited spontaneous expansion of alloantigen-specific CD25(+)CD4(+) T(R)...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nishimura E,Sakihama T,Setoguchi R,Tanaka K,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline CH transcripts initiate from a non-coding I exon and terminate downstream of the associated CH exons. Ig heavy chain class switch recombination from the VDJ-C mu gene to particular downstream CH genes appears to be regulated by a process that involves mitogen and/or cytokine induction of germline CH transcrip...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Li SC,Rothman PB,Zhang J,Chan C,Hirsh D,Alt FW

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After activation, populations of antigen-specific T cells flow between sites of antigen expression, local lymphoid structures and other lymphoid and non-lymphoid organs. In this study, we documented the in vivo dynamics of a CD8(+) T cell response to antigen delivered using herpes simplex virus amplicon vectors and re...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Azadniv M,Dugger K,Bowers WJ,Weaver C,Crispe IN

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide motifs of two HLA molecules, B8 and DR3(17), which are associated with autoimmune diseases including myasthenia gravis, were determined from natural peptide pools using Edman degradation. The majority of HLA-B8 ligands are nonamers preferentially terminated by leucine. As a characteristic feature of the HL...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Malcherek G,Falk K,Rötzschke O,Rammensee HG,Stevanović S,Gnau V,Jung G,Melms A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-CD20 chimeric monoclonal antibody rituximab mediates cytotoxicity in malignant B cells via multiple mechanisms, including complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and direct induction of apoptosis. To optimize treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a fuller unders...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mishima Y,Terui Y,Mishima Y,Kuniyoshi R,Matsusaka S,Mikuniya M,Kojima K,Hatake K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue selective traffic of lymphocytes into different lymphoid organs is mediated by adherence of blood borne lymphocytes to specialized endothelial cells lining the high endothelial venules (HEV) in lymphoid organs. Lymphocytes discriminate between HEV in peripheral lymph nodes and in mucosal lymphoid tissues by mea...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mebius RE,Brevé J,Kraal G,Streeter PR

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-signal model states that activation of naive T cells requires a signal 1 stimulus through the TCR and a co-stimulatory signal 2. By contrast, signal 1 alone is sufficient for pre-activated T cells. Recently, however, it has been shown that under certain conditions T cells can bypass the requirement for co-stim...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Pardigon N,Bercovici N,Calbo S,Santos-Lima EC,Liblau R,Kourilsky P,Abastado JP

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells of an unique phenotype (CD3+CD4-CD8- alpha beta TCR+) develop in vitro from the hematopoietic progenitors, the majority of which carry homologous alpha beta TCR (V alpha 4J alpha 28/V beta 2D beta 1.1J beta 2.6). In the present study, antigen corresponding to the particular alpha beta TCR was investigated, tak...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Kubota H,Sato M,Ogawa Y,Iwai K,Hattori M,Yoshida T,Minato N

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets involved in primary allo-MLR responses were re-evaluated in the present study. The slope analysis of B6 allo-MLR responses to MHC class I-disparate bm1 and class II-disparate bm12 revealed the presence of a T-T cell interaction between CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets. The allo-MLR response of B6 ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Asano Y,Komuro T,Tada T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse spontaneously develops T-cell-mediated autoimmune insulitis. We analyzed the clonotypes of T cell infiltrates of the NOD mouse islets using a new method we have developed recently, which consists of RT-PCR amplification of the CDR3 region of the TCR beta chain mRNA and subsequent sin...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Komagata Y,Masuko K,Tashiro F,Kato T,Ikuta K,Nishioka K,Ito K,Miyazaki J,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SDF-1 is a member of the CXC chemokines. In contrast to other chemokines that are induced by inflammation, SDF-1 is constitutively produced by stromal cells. In order to investigate the physiological roles of SDF-1, we constructed a fusion protein, SDF-1-Cgamma1, composed from murine SDF-1alpha and the constant region...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Suzuki G,Nakata Y,Dan Y,Uzawa A,Nakagawa K,Saito T,Mita K,Shirasawa T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucosa is one of the initial sites of group A streptococcal (GAS) infection and salivary IgA (sIgA) is thought to be critical to immunity. However, the target epitopes of sIgA and the function of sIgA in GAS immunity, in particular the role of accessory cells and complement, is largely unknown. We studied the aqui...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Brandt ER,Hayman WA,Currie B,Carapetis J,Jackson DC,Do KA,Good MF

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a set of single-chain variable fragment antibodies (sc) genetically fused with an influenza hemagglutinin-derived peptide as a means to investigate the role of CR1 and CR2 in antigen presentation by B cells. When incubated with the B cell lymphoma 2PK3, peptide-containing sc specific for either CR1 or CR1...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Prechl J,Baiu DC,Horváth A,Erdei A

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinase-2 (Tyk2) participates in the signaling pathways of multiple cytokines in innate and acquired immunity. In the present study, we investigated the in vivo involvement of Tyk2 in anti-type II collagen antibody-induced arthritis (CAIA) using Tyk2-deficient mice. Hind paws of wild-type mice showed massive s...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ishizaki M,Muromoto R,Akimoto T,Ohshiro Y,Takahashi M,Sekine Y,Maeda H,Shimoda K,Oritani K,Matsuda T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under equilibrium conditions, the affinities of five anti-IgG2a mAb isolated from virus-infected mice were comparable to other high-affinity auto-antibodies. Similar to rheumatoid factors, these anti-IgG2a auto-antibodies bound to aggregated or complexed IgG2a with 50 to 1500-fold higher avidity than their monomeric c...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Fazekas G,Pálfi G,Wolff-Winiski B,Rosenwirth B,Dukor P,Gergely J,Rajnavölgyi E

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00