Influence of HLA-DR2, HLA-DPw4, and T cell receptor alpha chain genes on the susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.

abstract：:The Lewis rat, an inbred rat strain susceptible to several well-characterized experimental autoimmune diseases, provides a good model to study peptide-mediated immunotherapy. Peptide immunotherapy focussing on the modulation of T cell responses by interfering with TCR-peptide-MHC complex formation requires the elucida...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Wauben MH,van der Kraan M,Grosfeld-Stulemeyer MC,Joosten I

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the characteristic features of asthma is chronic airway inflammation typically with eosinophil infiltration. Most asthmatics can be treated successfully with conventional treatment appropriate for their severity, but in some severe cases, asthma cannot be well controlled even with thorough treatment and this co...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ohta K,Nagase H,Suzukawa M,Ohta S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis capsular type 2 is an important swine pathogen and an agent of zoonosis. Although meningitis is the most common form of disease, septicemia and septic shock are also frequently reported. Despite reports that CD14 is involved in the recognition of encapsulated S. suis by host cells, the mechanisms un...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Graveline R,Segura M,Radzioch D,Gottschalk M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration of large doses of protein antigen generally induces a state of systemic unresponsiveness currently termed mucosally induced tolerance. In this study, we used human milk protein (HMP) without casein as a multi-protein antigen for the study of mucosally induced tolerance. The HMP utilized in this stu...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yuki Y,Fujihashi K,Yamamoto M,McGhee JR,Kiyono H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody responses to ingested antigens can be inhibited by a mechanism known as oral tolerance which acts to prevent excessive stimulation from luminal contents. Local IgA responses can be induced in this non-responsive environment and during intestinal inflammation, mucosal IgG responses can also be increased. The p...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Zettel L,Clark DA,Ernst PB

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying selective IgG subclass deficiency is largely unknown in humans. We have previously reported the acquisition of a complete IgG2 deficiency in a leukemia patient after bone marrow transplantation. Southern blot analysis showed a deletion including the Cgamma2 and Cgamma4 genes on one chromosome ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Zhao Y,Pan-Hammarström Q,Zhao Z,Wen S,Hammarström L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we propose that certain modifications in cellular metabolism might function as danger signals triggering inflammasome-mediated immune responses. We propose to call them danger-associated metabolic modifications (DAMMs). As intracellular bacteria can actively modulate macrophage metabolism for their ben...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Dramé M,Buchrieser C,Escoll P

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CD161(++)IL-18Rα(+)CD8(+) human T cells have recently been identified as a new subset of memory cells but their exact role remains unclear. CD161(++)IL-18Rα(+)CD8(+), mucosal-associated invariant T cells express a semi-invariant TCR Vα7.2-Jα33, which recognizes the MHC-related protein 1. On the basis of properties inc...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Havenith SH,Yong SL,Henson SM,Piet B,Idu MM,Koch SD,Jonkers RE,Kragten NA,Akbar AN,van Lier RA,ten Berge IJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD40 has been shown to play an important role in the regulation of B cell survival, proliferation and Ig class switching. The natural partner for CD40 is CD40 ligand, gp 39, which is transiently expressed on activated T cells. In vitro, CD40 ligation leads to polyclonal B cell proliferation and, in the presence of app...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Wohlleben G,Gray D,Schimpl A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells expressing the retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor γt (RORγt) and producing IL-17 represent a minor subset of CD1d-restricted iNKT cells (iNKT17) in C57BL/6J (B6) mice. We aimed in this study to define the reasons for their low distribution and the sequence of events ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Klibi J,Li S,Amable L,Joseph C,Brunet S,Delord M,Parietti V,Jaubert J,Marie J,Karray S,Eberl G,Lucas B,Toubert A,Benlagha K

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intranasal administration of high amount of allergen was shown to induce tolerance and to reverse the allergic phenotype. However, mechanisms of tolerance induction via the mucosal route are still unclear. OBJECTIVES:To characterize the therapeutic effects of intranasal application of ovalbumin (OVA) in a m...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Pellaton-Longaretti C,Boudousquié C,Barbier N,Barbey C,Argiroffo CB,Donati Y,Sauty A,Spertini F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymus leukemia antigens (TL) belong to the MHC class Ib family and can be recognized by CD8-dependent or -independent cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) showing TL, but not H-2, restriction. We previously reported that the CTL epitope is TAP independent and in the present study we further characterize the recognition ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Tsujimura K,Obata Y,Kondo E,Nishida K,Matsudaira Y,Akatsuka Y,Kuzushima K,Takahashi T

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine complement receptor type 2 (MCR2) is homologous to human CR2, whereas murine CR1 (MCR1) is structurally and evolutionary different from human CR1. Since ligand specificities of MCR1 and MCR2 are not completely clarified, we analyzed their functional characteristics to correlate them with structural information ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Pramoonjago P,Takeda J,Kim YU,Inoue K,Kinoshita T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-linking of the IgM antigen receptor on an immature B cell lymphoma (BKS-2) induces growth arrest and apoptosis. This is accompanied by down-regulation of the immediate early genes, egr-1 and c-myc, and a reduction in NF-kappaB activity. Anti-IgM-induced growth arrest and apoptosis of this murine B cell lymphoma ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Han SS,Chung ST,Robertson DA,Chelvarajan RL,Bondada S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schnurri (Shn)-2 is a large zinc finger-containing protein, which plays a critical role in cell growth, signal transduction and lymphocyte development. In Shn-2-deficient (Shn-2(-/-)) CD4 T cells, the activation of nuclear factor-kappaB is up-regulated and their ability to differentiate into Th2 is enhanced. Here, we ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Iwamura C,Kimura MY,Shinoda K,Endo Y,Hasegawa A,Yamashita M,Nakayama T

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alloreactive CTL clone, 27.B2, produced in the mouse strain combination B6.C-H-2bm1 (bm1) against C57BL/6 (B6) and nominally directed against the Kb molecule has been shown to be peptide dependent. The clone recognizes intact B6, but not intact bm1 or bm3 target cells. However, peptides recognized by 27.B2 CTL can ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Falk K,Rötzschke O,Rammensee HG

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human CD83 is a cell surface protein expressed predominantly by dendritic cells (DC) and lymphoid cells. So far, there exists no information on the function and distribution of mCD83. Here we demonstrate that mCD83 is moderately expressed on resting T cells and DC, but strongly increases in its expression on T cells f...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Cramer SO,Trumpfheller C,Mehlhoop U,Moré S,Fleischer B,von Bonin A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite intense recent interest, the suppressive mechanisms of regulatory CD25+CD4 T cells remain poorly understood. One deficiency in the field is the lack of in vivo models where the effects of regulatory CD25+CD4 T cells on antigen-specific responder T cells can be measured quantitatively. We describe one such mode...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Thorstenson KM,Herzovi L,Khoruts A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:bcl-2 transgenic mice develop anti-double-stranded (ds) DNA antibodies similar to those present in systemic lupus erythematosus. To begin to understand where a breakdown in the regulation of autoreactive lymphocytes is occurring, we have used a bcl-2 transgene (Tg) in conjunction with an Ig Tg that allows us to identi...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mandik-Nayak L,Nayak S,Sokol C,Eaton-Bassiri A,Madaio MP,Caton AJ,Erikson J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of bone marrow (BM) lymphocytes in C57BL/6 mice homozygous for the lpr mutation (B6.lpr) disclosed low numbers of pre-B and B cells, as compared with age-matched control B6 mice. BM depletion in B6.lpr mice was selective for B-lineage cells, appeared in young adults, and developed markedly with age and diseas...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Sundblad A,Coutinho A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semaphorin 3A (Sema3A), originally identified as a potent growth cone collapsing factor in developing sensory neurons, is now recognized as a key player in immune, cardiovascular, bone metabolism and neurological systems. Here we established an anti-Sema3A monoclonal antibody that neutralizes the effects of Sema3A bot...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yamashita N,Jitsuki-Takahashi A,Ogawara M,Ohkubo W,Araki T,Hotta C,Tamura T,Hashimoto S,Yabuki T,Tsuji T,Sasakura Y,Okumura H,Takaiwa A,Koyama C,Murakami K,Goshima Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to better understand the role of intestinal CD1d, we sought to define the cellular localization and further characterize the biochemical structure of CD1d in human intestinal epithelial cells (IEC). Using a CD1d-specific rabbit anti-gst-CD1d antibody, immunoprecipitation of radiolabeled cell surface proteins ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Somnay-Wadgaonkar K,Nusrat A,Kim HS,Canchis WP,Balk SP,Colgan SP,Blumberg RS

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invertebrate pattern-recognition protein named coelomic cytolytic factor (CCF) and the mammalian cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) share functional analogies that are based on a similar saccharide recognition specificity. In particular, CCF and TNF have been shown to interact with ion channels on the surface of...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bilej M,Josková R,Van den Bergh R,Procházková P,Silerová M,Ameloot P,De Baetselier P,Beschin A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)] and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) are important regulators of autoimmunity. The effect of the VDR on the ability of mice to fight a primary or secondary infection has not been determined. Young and old VDR knockout (KO) mice were able to clear both primary and secondary infe...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bruce D,Whitcomb JP,August A,McDowell MA,Cantorna MT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using anti-Tac (anti-alpha chain) and 2R-B (anti-beta chain) antibodies, we studied the roles of IL-2 receptor subunits (alpha and beta chains) in the formation of IL-2 and high-affinity IL-2 receptor complex, which is the initial event of IL-2 induced T cell growth. High-affinity IL-2 binding which was undetectable i...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Kamio M,Uchiyama T,Arima N,Itoh K,Ishikawa T,Hori T,Uchino H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MHC class II molecules associate with peptides in the endocytic pathway. Different endosomal locations for peptide loading of class II molecules, varying from early endosomes (EE) to lysosomes, have been assigned on the basis of subcellular fractionation experiments. We have determined the intracellular location of HL...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Fernandez-Borja M,Verwoerd D,Sanderson F,Aerts H,Trowsdale J,Tulp A,Neefjes J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal epithelium not only acts as the physical structure that separates the intestinal lumen from the body but also actively participates in intestinal barrier functions. In the past decade, significant progress has been made in the development of culture technologies to maintain intestinal epithelial cells (...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nakamura T

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:TCR engagement in the thymus results in both survival and elimination signals for developing thymocytes. To examine whether both signals can be provided by the same cell type, we investigated the ability of a thymic epithelial cell (TEC) line 427.1, previously shown to allow positive selection in the thymus, to induce...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Vukmanović S,Jameson SC,Bevan MJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intradermal inoculation of plasmids expressing antigens that contain MHC class I-restricted epitopes leads to the induction of specific CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). The role of in situ transfected antigen-presenting cells (APC) in the priming of specific CTL subsequent to intradermal DNA immunization was inve...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bot A,Stan AC,Inaba K,Steinman R,Bona C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature dendritic cell (DC) is considered to be the most potent antigen-presenting cell. Regulation of the DC, particularly its survival, is therefore critical. Mature DC are markedly more sensitive to HLA-DR-mediated apoptosis than immature DC. To further characterize this key survival difference, we compared the ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bertho N,Blancheteau VM,Setterblad N,Laupeze B,Lord JM,Drénou B,Amiot L,Charron DJ,Fauchet R,Mooney N

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00