Biclonal expansion of T cells infected with monoclonal Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in a patient with chronic, active EBV infection.

abstract：:Eleven Norwegian patients (aged 2-33 years, seven males and four females) with Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) and their parents were investigated. Five of the patients were homozygous for the same ATM mutation, 3245delATCinsTGAT, a Norwegian founder mutation. They had the lowest IgG2 levels; mean (95% confidence interval...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stray-Pedersen A,Jónsson T,Heiberg A,Lindman CR,Widing E,Aaberge IS,Borresen-Dale AL,Abrahamsen TG

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that peripheral blood monocytes from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a defect in stimulating autologous and allogeneic T lymphocytes. This defect was found to correlate with disease activity. In this report we demonstrate that prothymosin alpha (ProT alpha), a rat thymus fracti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Reclos GJ,Baxevanis CN,Sfagos C,Papageorgiou C,Tsokos GC,Papamichail M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus, a ubiquitous fungus, is implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of clinically different allergic diseases in man, including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Peptide-based immunotherapy may offer an alternative treatment strategy for the management of allergic disease. The objective of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Svirshchevskaya EV,Alekseeva L,Marchenko A,Viskova N,Andronova TM,Benevolenskii SV,Kurup VP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work indicated that exercise stress in mice was associated with reduced splenic lymphocyte proliferation to T cell mitogens. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of acute exercise stress and exercise training on the phenotype distribution of murine lymphocytes in the spleen, lymph nodes a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman-Goetz L,Thorne R,Simpson JA,Arumugam Y

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that monocytes may play an active role in thrombogenesis, since they may express on their surface tissue factor, the major initiator of the clotting cascade. The results of this investigation demonstrate beta-2-glycoprotein I (beta2-GPI) mRNA expression by human peripheral blood monocytes, indicating ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Conti F,Sorice M,Circella A,Alessandri C,Pittoni V,Caronti B,Calderaro C,Griggi T,Misasi R,Valesini G

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into possible determinants of in vivo polyclonal B cell activation seen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we enumerated immunoglobulin secreting cells appearing in cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells that were stimulated with pokeweed mitogen (PWM) or a newly described polyclonal B cell activato...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pardo I,Carafa C,Dziarski R,Levinson AI

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia is an endothelial disorder and TNF-alpha has fundamental effects on endothelial cells by several means, including altering the balance between oxidant and anti-oxidant, changing the pattern of prostaglandin production and affecting expression of several cell surface components. To determine whether TNF-a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chen G,R Wilson,Wang SH,Zheng HZ,Walker JJ,McKillop JH

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fifty-seven healthy individuals a significant correlation ( r = 0.3, P < 0.05) has been found between responses of their lymphocytes to stimulation by PHA and by pooled lymphocytes in MLC. It is suggested that these tests quantitate the general status of T cell reactivity of individuals, and may be used in conjunct...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nanra SK,Boettcher B

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that neutralization of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) by anti-MIF antibody reduces intestinal inflammation in mice. In this study we tested whether or not anti-MIF autoantibody induced by DNA vaccine targeting MIF protects mice against experimental colitis. Mice were administe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ohkawara T,Koyama Y,Onodera S,Takeda H,Kato M,Asaka M,Nishihira J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes and plasma cells in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma, benign monoclonal gammopathy and Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia were investigated for their cytoplasmic immunoglobulin distribution. Anti-idiotypic sera were used as markers for monoclonality. Double-wavelength fl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Camp B,Reynaert P,Broodtaerts L

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the histamine release from basophils in patients suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) (median 17.2 years of age) and compared the data with an age-matched group of healthy donors. No significant differences in the basophil counts were determined between the CF and control groups. However, the absolute his...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schönfeld W,Saak A,Steinkamp G,Van der Hardt H,König W

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple halothane exposures in rabbits generate modified liver proteins or antigens that appear to incorporate the metabolic intermediate of halothane, trifluoroacetyl halide (TFA), as identified by specific anti-TFA antibody. These halothane-induced antigens are most prevalent throughout the second to fourth days fo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Roth TP,Hubbard AK,Gandolfi AJ,Brown BR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the mechanisms of anti-DNA production, we assessed the binding of sera of normal human subjects (NHS) and patients with SLE to a panel of bacterial and mammalian DNA. Using single-stranded DNA as antigens in an ELISA, NHS showed significant binding to some but not all bacterial DNA, while lacking reactivi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wu ZQ,Drayton D,Pisetsky DS

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the proportions of different microparticles (MPs) in plasma from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and assessed their relationship with disease activity/therapy and their in-vitro effect on proinflammatory cytokine release. Blood and urine samples were obtained from 55 patients with RA (24 untreated...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Viñuela-Berni V,Doníz-Padilla L,Figueroa-Vega N,Portillo-Salazar H,Abud-Mendoza C,Baranda L,González-Amaro R

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:Expression of the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has been found to be up-regulated in cytokine-stimulated mesangial cells (MC) and in experimental glomerulonephritis. Since direct toxicity of nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in damage of bacteria, neoplastic and intact pancreatic cells, we investi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hruby Z,Beck KF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied immunological, serological and clinical abnormalities in 264 HIV-positive and HIV-negative drug abusers. Ninety percent of the 264 drug addicts (mean age 26 +/- 0.8 years) were found to have HIV antibodies and there was a significant increase (P less than 0.01) in the frequency of HIV antibody positivi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fernandez-Cruz E,Fernandez AM,Gutierrez C,Garcia-Montes M,de la Morena MT,Rodriguez-Villanueva J,Longo N,Zabay JM

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：:We studied the effects of ultraviolet B (UV-B) irradiation on cell-cell interactions using mouse lymphoma RMA cells and T cell hybridoma HTB-176.10. RMA cells act as stimulators by presenting H-2Kb surface antigens to HTB-176.10 cells, inducing IL-2 production in HTB-176.10 cells. Irradiating RMA cells with 1000J/m2 U...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Maekawa TL,Takahashi TA,Fujihara M,Akasaka J,Fujikawa S,Minami M,Sekiguchi S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility genes for psoriasis remain to be identified. At least one of these must be in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) to explain associations with alleles at human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-A, -B, -C, -DR, -DQ and C4. In fact, most of these alleles are components of just two ancestral haplotypes (A...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tay GK,Hui J,Gaudieri S,Schmitt-Egenolf M,Martinez OP,Leelayuwat C,Williamson JF,Eiermann TH,Dawkins RL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy C3 glomerular deposits were observed in rabbits injected intravenously with C5 streptococcal vaccine. Immunoglobulin deposits appeared later in a few rabbits. Although some data favour the presence of circulating immune complexes during the course of this glomerulonephritis, no evidence for their initiating role...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bellon B,Kuhn J,Ayed K,Girard JF,Druet P

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that the peanut agglutinin (PNA) receptor and/or its co-ordinate structures on the surface of leukaemia cells might be recognized by lectin free crude interleukin-2 (IL-2) activated human peripheral blood lymphocytes (LAK) was investigated. Analysis was undertaken of the correlation between the sensiti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gotoh YI,Minegishi M,Yamaguchi Y,Konno T,Tada K

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the innate immune response against infections, Natural Killer (NK) cells are as important effector cells as are Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) generated after antigenic stimulation in the adaptative response. NK cells increase in numbers, after viral infection or vaccination. We investigated the NK cell and CD8 ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Azeredo EL,De Oliveira-Pinto LM,Zagne SM,Cerqueira DI,Nogueira RM,Kubelka CF

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During pathogenesis of diabetes, pancreatic islets are exposed to high levels of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators that induce deterioration of insulin-producing beta cells. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) plays a key role in the onset and development of several immunoinflammatory diseases and al...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stojanovic I,Saksida T,Nikolic I,Nicoletti F,Stosic-Grujicic S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a previous study suggested that peripheral blood monocytes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be activated. Therefore, in this study we sought further evidence of 'presynovial' activation of monocytes. Our results show that phenotypic changes are demonstrable in peripheral blood monocytes in pati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Highton J,Carlisle B,Palmer DG

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-1 acts on many cells as an inflammatory mediator. Its two forms, IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta, are regulated differentially within hyperproliferative inflammatory skin conditions, such as psoriasis. While IL-1 alpha is down-regulated within psoriatic lesions, the levels of IL-1 beta are increased. However, some investi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schön M,Behmenburg C,Denzer D,Schön MP

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Monocytes (MO) migrating into normal, non-inflamed intestinal mucosa undergo a specific differentiation resulting in a non-reactive, tolerogenic intestinal macrophage (IMAC). Recently we demonstrated the differentiation of MO into an intestinal-like macrophage (MAC) phenotype in vitro in a three-dimensional cell cultu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Spoettl T,Hausmann M,Herlyn M,Gunckel M,Dirmeier A,Falk W,Herfarth H,Schoelmerich J,Rogler G

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenine nucleotide translocator protein (ANT) is the first well-characterized mitochondrial polypeptide to be identified as an antigen for antimitochondrial autoantibodies (AMA) in PBC sera. Because of the potential use for a highly purified antigen as a tool in studying the aetiology of PBC, we have undertaken an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mendel-Hartvig I,Frostell A,Nelson BD

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction of cytotoxic activity of T and natural killer (NK) lymphocytes is a main immunological feature in patients with AIDS, but its basis are not well understood. It has been recently described that T and NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity can be regulated by HLA killer inhibitory receptors (KIR). In this work, we ha...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Galiani MD,Aguado E,Tarazona R,Romero P,Molina I,Santamaria M,Solana R,Peña J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00