Short-term simvastatin treatment has no effect on plasma cytokine response in a human in vivo model of low-grade inflammation.

abstract：:The effects of cyclophosphamide an antinuclear antibody levels, immune complex deposition in renal glomeruli, glomerular cell proliferation and glomerulosclerosis in the (NZB x NZW)F1 hybrid mouse have been investigated in order to better understand the mechanism of action of this drug on nephritis. Five groups of mic...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hurd ER,Ziff M

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrated that NK resistant Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) carrying human lymphoblastoid cell lines become sensitive to NK cell-mediated destruction following induction of the viral cycle by superinfection with the P3HR-1 substrain of EBV or chemicals. In the present report we analysed the cellular membr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Blazar BA,Fitzgerald J,Sutton L,Strome M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjuvant arthritis in Lewis rats is a model of T cell-mediated autoimmune arthritis resembling human rheumatoid arthritis. A nonapeptide from the 65-kD heat-shock protein of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, amino acid sequence 180-188, has been described to carry the dominant immunogenic epitope(s) for both arthritis-protecti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yang XD,Gasser J,Feige U

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven per cent of atopic patients initially presenting with infantile eczema or hay fever were defective for yeast opsonization and 18% had low levels of C2; these deficiencies were mutually exclusive, suggesting that they are primary. Both defects were associated with each of four different atopic syndromes, s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Turner MW,Mowbray JF,Harvey BA,Brostoff J,Wells RS,Soothill JF

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the interaction of two different forms of immune glomerular damage occurring simultaneously: anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody fixation and immune elimination of bovine serum albumin (BSA). 125I-radiolabelled BSA anti-BSA immune complexes, formed in response to a single small intravenous dose...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Trevillian P,Cameron JS

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scaffold protein caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 11 (CARD11) is implicated in the regulation of inflammation and autoimmunity. The present study aimed to explore the role of CARD11 in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Mice with collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) were treated with either CA...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang H,Zhao J,Zhang H,Huang Y,Wang S,Tu Q,Yang N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the role of the T cell-mediated autoimmune reaction in type 1 diabetes (T1D) is conclusive, studies including data from human circulating CD4(+) and CD8(+) lymphocytes subsets during the disease onset and posterior development are scarce. Further, chemokines and chemokine receptors are key players in the migr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hedman M,Faresjö M,Axelsson S,Ludvigsson J,Casas R

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive immunotherapy with in vitro expanded antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) may be an effective approach to prevent, or even treat, Aspergillus (Asp) infections. Such lines can be generated using monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DC) as antigen-presenting cells (APC) but requires a relatively high vo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhu F,Ramadan G,Davies B,Margolis DA,Keever-Taylor CA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the increase in C3 and C4 levels in jejunal perfusates of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) results from local intestinal synthesis of complement. The present study evaluated the expression of these complement genes in inflamed tissues from patients with CD. Surgically resected specimens fr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Laufer J,Oren R,Goldberg I,Horwitz A,Kopolovic J,Chowers Y,Passwell JH

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Humoral antibodies to tumour associated membrane antigens of cultured human breast cancer cell lines were studied using the immune adherence (IA) test. Sera from 353 post-operative breast cancer patients and from twenty-five patients immunized by allogeneic breast cancer cells were tested against the MDA-MB-436 cell l...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Higuchi M,Robinson DS,Cailleau R,Irie RF,Morton DL

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies directed against the Sm proteins of the spliceosome complex are found in approximately 25% of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients sera. To determine which regions of the Sm D polypeptide are involved in the lupus autoimmune response, binding to overlapping octapeptides of Sm D has been evaluated...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： James JA,Mamula MJ,Harley JB

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Booster immunization of normal individuals with soluble tetanus toxoid (TT) produced significant levels of plasma anti-tetanus IgG and IgM detectable by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Similar changes in circulating anti-TT antibody were found in mice following primary immunization. There was. however, n...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ershler WB,Moore AL,Hacker MP

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants respond to antigen by making antibody that is generally of low affinity for antigen. Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes, and selection of cells expressing mutations with improved affinity for antigen, are the molecular and cellular processes underlying the maturation of antibody affinity. We have re...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ridings J,Dinan L,Williams R,Roberton D,Zola H

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:CD4 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) was able to inhibit T cell proliferation induced in an autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (AMLR). The effect of CD4 MoAb on cellular proliferation appears to be directly exerted on CD4+ T lymphocytes, and to be due to inhibition of a post-activation event, since the CD4+ T cell prolife...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sakane T,Takada S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that multiple sclerosis (MS) is mediated by autoreactive T cells and that myelin basic protein (MBP) is one of the target autoantigens. The T-cell response to MBP has been analysed extensively, largely through the use of T-cell lines (TCL) and T-cell clones (TCC), and to date, three immunodomi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mazza G,Ponsford M,Lowrey P,Campbell MJ,Zajicek J,Wraith DC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ox-LDL is thought to play a major role in atherogenesis. The mechanisms mediating the deleterious influences of Ox-LDL include foam cell formation and cell cytotoxicity. The production of anti-Ox-LDL antibodies results in the formation of immune complexes which are taken up at enhanced rate by macrophages, leading to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： George J,Blank M,Hojnik M,Bar-Meir E,Koike T,Matsuura E,Lorber M,Aviram M,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 IFN is thought to be implicated in the autoimmune process of SLE. Plasmacytoid dendric cells (DC), which are natural IFN-alpha producing cells, play a pivotal epipathogenic role in SLE. The present study was undertaken to investigate the phenotypic characteristics of peripheral blood DC in SLE patients in compa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Migita K,Miyashita T,Maeda Y,Kimura H,Nakamura M,Yatsuhashi H,Ishibashi H,Eguchi K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal IgM smooth muscle antibody secreted by a hybrid (MMI-1) of mouse plasmacytoma NS-1 with spleen cells from mouse immunized with Treponema pallidum was detected by indirect immunofluorescence tests on frozen tissue sections and on acetone fixed monolayers of rat and human fibroblasts. The antibody did not r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Strugnell RA,Underwood JR,Clarke FM,Pedersen JS,Chalmers PJ,Faine S,Toh BH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mononuclear leucocytes (MNL) or the adherent fraction (monocytes) produced tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) (by ELISA) in culture when stimulated with killed Staphylococcus aureus. The bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloid, tetrandrine inhibited the capacity of MNL and monocytes to produce TNF-alpha at a concen...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ferrante A,Seow WK,Rowan-Kelly B,Thong YH

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic histaminergic acquired angioedema (IH-AAE) is a common cause of recurrent angioedema without wheals. It is a mast cell-mediated disease thought to belong to the same clinical entity as chronic urticaria (CU). The objective of this study was to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of IH-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Faisant C,Boccon-Gibod I,Mansard C,Dumestre Perard C,Pralong P,Chatain C,Deroux A,Bouillet L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ lymphocytes are a primary target of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and CD4 counts are one of the factors used to measure disease progression in HIV-positive individuals. CD4 counts vary in uninfected individuals and across populations due to a variety of demographic, environmental, immunological and gene...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mair C,Hawes SE,Agne HD,Sow PS,N'doye I,Manhart LE,Fu PL,Gottlieb GS,Kiviat NB

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty sera which gave ring-like nuclear staining in immunofluorescence on rat liver tissue sections were characterized. Using immunoprecipitation and Western blotting we showed that 10 of the sera contained antibodies to 200 kD polypeptide(s) of nuclear envelope. Clinical and biological data were available for nine of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lassoued K,Guilly MN,Andre C,Paintrand M,Dhumeaux D,Danon F,Brouet JC,Courvalin JC

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal T cells bearing receptors for the Fc portion of IgG that were incubated in anti-RNP or anti-DNA at the time of activation with phytohaemagglutinin showed different effects on this activation as determined by flow cytometric analysis of acridine orange stained cells. Incubation in anti-RNP caused an arrest in th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alarcón-Segovia D,Llorente L

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respective roles of thymus-derived and bone marrow-derived lymphocytes in the immune response to DNA was investigated in mice reconstituted with various cell populations using cell transfers. A helper effect of thymus-derived cells in the immune response to DNA was suggested by experiments performed in athymic nud...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fournié GJ,Lambert PH,Bankhurst AD,Miescher PA

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we have observed that the CD4+ T cell response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to soluble antigens is the first to be lost in the course of HIV-1 infection followed by the loss of response to HLA alloantigens. In this study we compared serum neopterin concentrations of individuals with early stag...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fuchs D,Shearer GM,Boswell RN,Clerici M,Reibnegger G,Werner ER,Zajac RA,Wachter H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive skin reactions to PPD in guinea-pigs immunized with Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) were reversed after treatment with 10 mg/kg/day nifurtimox for 12 days. The in vitro migration of peripheral blood leucocytes from FCA-immunized guinea-pigs was inhibited with PPD, but it returned to normal values after nifur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lelchuk R,Cardoni RL,Levis S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that CD30 and CD26 are surface molecules expressed on activated Th2 and Th1 cells, respectively. We examined plasma levels of soluble CD26 (sCD26) and sCD30 in patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) when their eruptions were aggravated and in non-atopic healthy controls, and then analysed the possible co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Katoh N,Hirano S,Suehiro M,Ikenaga K,Yamashita T,Sugawara N,Yasuno H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) administration in vivo has been shown to improve the defence mechanisms against infection by different microbes. Here we evaluated a possible protective role of this molecule in a mouse model of mycobacterial infection. The administration of recombinant G-CSF promoted an e...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gonçalves AS,Appelberg R

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00