A gp120 HIV peptide with high similarity to HLA class II beta chains enhances PPD-specific and autoreactive T cell activation.

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new disease which has spread rapidly and widely. We wished to know whether evaluation of in vitro cytokine production could contribute to improved understanding of disease pathogenesis and to better patient management. Numbers of unstimulated and mitogen-stimulated cytokin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jones BM,Ma ES,Peiris JS,Wong PC,Ho JC,Lam B,Lai KN,Tsang KW

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate activation of the immune system and effective targeting of tumour cells are the primary hurdles to be overcome for cancer immunotherapy to be successful and applicable to a wide range of tumour types. Our studies have examined the ability of bacterial-stimulated dendritic cells (DCs), loaded with tumour-as...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shilling DA,Smith MJ,Tyther R,Sheehan D,England K,Kavanagh EG,Redmond HP,Shanahan F,O'Mahony L

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to determine whether or not IL-18, formerly called IFN-gamma-inducing factor, is involved in the pathogeneses of allergic disorders. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were obtained from patients with allergic bronchial asthma (BA), patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) and controls who ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： El-Mezzein RE,Matsumoto T,Nomiyama H,Miike T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocyte and macrophage dysfunction may be important for both immunopathogenesis and clinical manifestations in subgroups of patients with primary hypogammaglobulinaemia. In the present study we examined the ability to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in isolated monocytes from these patients by two different me...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Aukrust P,Müller F,Frøland SS

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that shared idiotypes may be present on antibodies of different specificities was explored using sera from 13 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Eleven sera had anti-DNA and seven carried the 16/6 idiotype (ID). Two of the sera with 16/6 ID also had lymphocytotoxic antibodies, the activity of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lydyard PM,Isenberg D,de Sousa B,Mackenzie L,Cooke A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody reactivity against the 'mitochondrial M2 antigen' was determined in sera from 10 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), using Western blotting after SDS-PAGE separation of rat liver mitochondria (RLM) and plasma membrane proteins. The molecular weights of the major M2 antigens in rat liver mitochondri...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sundin U,Sundqvist KG

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial cellular tests are used to diagnose Lyme borreliosis (LB), but studies on their clinical validation are lacking. This study evaluated the utility of an in-house and a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot (ELISpot) assay for the diagnosis of Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB). Prospectively, peripheral blood...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van Gorkom T,Voet W,Sankatsing SUC,Nijhuis CDM,Ter Haak E,Kremer K,Thijsen SFT

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high incidence of infections characteristic of impaired cell-mediated immunity in patients with hairy cell leukemia led us to study T lymphocyte function in sixteen patients with the lymphocyte transformation test. All patients showed imparied responses to mitogens, attributable to one or more of the following cau...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sabbe LJ,Meijer CJ,Jansen J

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a multi-factorial disease caused by the interaction of both genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. Bacterial infection has been investigated most intensively, both epidemiologically and experimentally, as a prime environmental aetiology in PBC. The association of recurr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tanaka A,Leung PSC,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune diseases are either tissue-specific like multiple sclerosis (MS) or multisystemic like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), although clinically both exhibit common features. To gain insight into the properties of the genes involved in each disease we have investigated the gene expression signature of periphe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mandel M,Gurevich M,Pauzner R,Kaminski N,Achiron A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of cationic proteins with IgG, IgA and IgM were investigated by solid phase radioimmunoassay. All these immunoglobulins showed avid binding, IgM giving the strongest reaction, followed by IgA and then IgG. Fc fragments of IgG gave binding, but F(ab')2 fragments from the three main Ig classes did not, s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pambakian S,Poston RN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune Addison's disease (AAD), or primary adrenocortical insufficiency, is a classical organ-specific autoimmune disease with 160 years of history. AAD is remarkably homogeneous with one major dominant self-antigen, the cytochrome P450 21-hydroxylase enzyme, which is targeted by both autoantibodies and autoreacti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hellesen A,Bratland E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enormous progress has been made during the last 25 years in our understanding of the aetiopathogenesis of the anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV). This has led to improvements in early diagnosis, treatment and secondary prevention of these diseases. Nevertheless, there are sti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The era prior to 1990 was a time of careful observation of disease presentation, course, outcomes and meticulous pathology studies. These mainly single-centre studies introduced new life-saving therapies for drugs still used effectively today. In the 1970-1980s, cyclophosphamide (CyP) added to glucocorticosteroids (GC...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman GS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study T-cell function related to the production of autoimmune nephropathy, we immunized random-bred mice, homozygous athymic nude (nu/nu) mice and heterozygous hairy (nu/+) mice with human glomeruli contained in Freund's complete adjuvant. The random-bred and heterozygous hairy mice developed circulating a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bolton WK,Benton FR,Lobo PI

更新日期：1978-09-01 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：:Atopic disorders are caused by disregulated activation of T helper 2 (Th2) cells that produce IL-4 and IL-5. Because the presence of IL-4 potently augments the differentiation of naive T cells into Th2 cells, it is important to seek the cell population which provides IL-4 for naive T cells. Recently, a unique subpopul...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Oishi Y,Sakamoto A,Kurasawa K,Nakajima H,Nakao A,Nakagawa N,Tanabe E,Saito Y,Iwamoto I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-5 is a major factor inducing differentiation of B lymphocytes into immunoglobulin-producing cells as well as a main regulator of eosinophils. Recently, we have shown that peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients with alveolar echinococcosis (AE) express IL-5 mRNA after stimulation with crude Echinoco...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jenne L,Kilwinski J,Scheffold W,Kern P

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XLA bone marrow samples were shown to contain B cells expressing IgM, and pre-B cells that express the mu-surrogate light chain (mu psiLC) complex, albeit at a reduced frequency to that found in normal bone marrow. Antibody ligation of mu heavy chain on these cells and an XLA B cell line did not induce a Ca2+ flux, wh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Genevier HC,Callard RE

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of lymphocytes to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (EC) was quantitated by measuring adhesion of 51Cr labelled lymphocytes to endothelial cell monolayers and rosette formation between lymphocytes and EC in suspension. Mitogen stimulated human peripheral blood mononuclear cell culture supernatants and mix...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yu CL,Haskard DO,Cavender D,Johnson AR,Ziff M

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies characteristic for anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are anti-β2 -glycoprotein I (β2 GPI) antibodies and anti-DNA antibodies, respectively, and almost half of APS cases occur in SLE. Anti-β2 GPI antibodies are recognized to play a pivotal role in inducing a prothrom...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Virachith S,Saito M,Watanabe Y,Inoue K,Hoshi O,Kubota T

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence points to autophagy as an essential component in the immune response to tuberculosis. Autophagy is a direct mechanism of killing intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis and also acts as a modulator of proinflammatory cytokine secretion. In addition, autophagy plays a key role in antigen pro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ní Cheallaigh C,Keane J,Lavelle EC,Hope JC,Harris J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family and associated signalling pathways provides a key molecular basis for our understanding of the relationship between exposure to microbial products and susceptibility to immune-mediated disorders. Indeed, ligation of TLR controls innate and adaptive immune respons...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goldman M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the immune response following primary human hookworm infection, an adult volunteer was infected with 50 L3 larvae of Necator americanus, reinfected 27 months later and followed for a further 6 months. Clinical signs, blood picture, ex-vivo peripheral blood cytokine production (IFN-gamma, IL-5, IL-13, I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wright V,Bickle Q

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently markers of endothelial cell activation or injury gained increasing interest as serological parameters of disease activation in vasculitides. Among these, soluble serum thrombomodulin, ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and E-selectin are of particular interest. However, only thrombomodulin showed the expected close correlation. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Boehme MW,Raeth U,Scherbaum WA,Galle PR,Stremmel W

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopsy specimens from patients with treated or untreated polymyositis and muscular dystrophy controls were examined by indirect immunoperoxidase staining with a panel of monoclonal antibodies to human leucocyte antigens. In untreated polymyositis, helper/inducer T cells were the predominant T cell subset. In treated c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rowe D,Isenberg DA,Beverley PC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the effects of local anaesthetics, which are proposed to affect the plasma membrane, on human natural killer (NK) cells. Human NK cell activity was inhibited by lidocaine and procaine in a dose-dependent manner. Procaine inhibited not only NK cytolysis but also the binding of NK cells to target cells when ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takagi S,Kitagawa S,Oshimi K,Takaku F,Miura Y

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at increased risk of coeliac disease (CD), autoimmune thyroiditis and autoimmune gastritis, but the absolute risks are unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of autoantibodies to tissue transglutaminase (TGA), thyroid peroxidase (TPOA) and gastric H+...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kozhakhmetova A,Wyatt RC,Caygill C,Williams C,Long AE,Chandler K,Aitken RJ,Wenzlau JM,Davidson HW,Gillespie KM,Williams AJK

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) is predominantly due to destruction of pulmonary tissue. The host immune response may, in part, play a pathogenic role in pulmonary destruction in these patients. To further understand host immune response in CF, we examined the state of activation of peripheral blood mo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jones MM,Seilheimer DK,Pier GB,Rossen RD

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement C6 has a common charge polymorphism designated A and B with gene frequencies of 0.65 and 0.35. The probable molecular basis for this is a Glu (C6A) for Ala (C6B) substitution at amino acid position 98, and is detected by digestion with the restriction enzyme Dde I of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplif...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fernie BA,Hobart MJ,Delbridge G,Potter PC,Orren A,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00