Comparison of reactivity and epitope recognition between sera from American and Italian patients with oral pemphigoid.

abstract：:Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) has been used as a prophylactic and therapeutic option to avoid and treat rejection after heart transplantation (HTx). Tolerance-inducing effects of ECP such as up-regulation of regulatory T cells (T(regs)) are known, but specific effects of ECP on regulatory T cell (T(reg)) subsets ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dieterlen MT,Bittner HB,Pierzchalski A,Dhein S,Mohr FW,Barten MJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both MRL-lpr/lpr (lpr) and BXSB mice fall victim to autoimmune disease as a function of age. To combine their properties, brother-sister mating of (female lpr x male BXSB)F1 mice was done. Mice for mating were selected according to indicators of early onset of glomerulonephritis and subsequent early death (i.e., EOD)....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Honda S,Nemoto K,Mae T,Kinjoh K,Kyogoku M,Kawamura H,Miyazawa S,Weerashinghe A,Watanabe H,Narita J,Koya T,Arakawa M,Abo T

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Previous studies have shown that the efficiency of phagocytosis is a function of cell cycle and that phagocytosis promotes cell cycle progression. Because phagocytosis is dependent on cellular receptors we hypothesized that Fcgamma receptors (FcgammaR) and complement receptors (CR) expression varied with cell cycle. C...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo Y,Cook E,Fries BC,Casadevall A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody levels specific for capsular polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and to tetanus toxoid (TT), were measured in serum samples of 750 age-stratified subjects from the UK. The study subjects comprised healthy adult volunteers and hospitalized children undergoing ele...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hazlewood M,Nusrat R,Kumararatne DS,Goodall M,Raykundalia C,Wang DG,Joyce HJ,Milford-Ward A,Forte M,Pahor A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) distribution obtained after fractionation of thirty sera of patients with gastrointestinal tumours by gel filtration in Sephadex G200 was compared with that resulting from extraction of the sera with perchloric acid. In all cases gel filtration yielded a fraction of free CEA and in t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kapsopoulou-Dominos K,Anderer FA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy (IgAN), the most common form of glomerulonephritis, is characterized by normal to elevated levels of serum IgA. In order to understand the molecular mechanism(s) involved in the production of IgA in IgAN, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from these patients were analysed in this study. IL-10, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Baskin B,Pettersson E,Rekola S,Smith CI,Islam KB

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the immunological studies on three transplantable lymphoma lines that developed when CAF1 mice were injected with busulfan and chloramphenicol. The lymphoma cells displayed Thy-1.2, brain associated antigen, and H-2d alloantigen. They were negative for surface IgM and Ia antigens. Expression of T cell differ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bhoopalam N,Price K,Norgello H,Barone-Varelas J,Fried W

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smokers exhibit airway inflammation and increased number of alveolar macrophages (AM), but not all develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We hypothesized that AMs in COPD patients have an altered functional capacity mirrored in a different phenotype. Sixteen steroid-naive COPD patients [forced expirator...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Löfdahl JM,Wahlström J,Sköld CM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effector arm of the mucosal immune system comprises lymphocytes scattered at intraepithelial and lamina propria levels. Intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) are a large population of oligoclonal resting cells which exhibit phenotypic and functional characteristics of cytolytic T cells when activated. Several mechanis...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ciccocioppo R,Di Sabatino A,Parroni R,D'alò S,Pistoia MA,Doglioni C,Cifone MG,Corazza GR

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked platelet/immunodeficiency disease. The affected gene encodes WASP, a multidomain protein that regulates cytoskeletal assembly in blood cells. Patients have recurring infections, and their lymphocytes exhibit deficient proliferative responses in vitro. We report an evaluati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Park JY,Kob M,Prodeus AP,Rosen FS,Shcherbina A,Remold-O'Donnell E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the airways. Increased levels of T cells are found in the lungs after the induction of an allergic-like inflammation in rats, and flow cytometry studies have shown that these levels are reduced in CD26-deficient rats. However, the precise anatomical sites where these ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schade J,Schmiedl A,Kehlen A,Veres TZ,Stephan M,Pabst R,von Hörsten S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercuric chloride (HgCl2)-induced autoimmunity in Brown Norway (BN) rats is a highly polarized polyclonal Th2-driven autoimmune response with increased IgE production, lymphoproliferation, vasculitis and proteinuria. The increase in serum IgE concentration is clearly measurable by day 4 after the first HgCl2 injection...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Macphee IA,Turner DR,Yagita H,Oliveira DB

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine (10(-3)-10(-8) M) inhibits PHA-induced proliferation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes (HPBL). Inhibition is detected at low concentrations of PHA but is rarely observed at high PHA concentrations. The histamine type II (H2) receptor agonists dimaprit, impromidine and 4-methylhistamine (4MH) inhibit HPBL...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Badger AM,Young J,Poste G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination against meningococcal serogroup B is recommended for patients with a complement deficiency; however, although immunogenicity in this patient group has been shown, efficacy has not yet been established. In this study, we collected serum from children with a complement deficiency in the alternative pathway o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van den Broek B,van Els CACM,Kuipers B,van Aerde K,Henriet SS,de Groot R,de Jonge MI,Langereis JD,van der Flier M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present standard of care for B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma includes the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab. Although combination treatments with chemotherapy and rituximab improved the duration of remissions and overall survival in indolent B cell lymphoma, the disease is essentially incurable. Thus, new ther...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Manzur S,Cohen S,Haimovich J,Hollander N

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antilactoferrin antibodies have been reported in patients with several autoimmune disorders, including primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis and autoimmune cholangitis. We investigated the prevalence and the clinical significance of such autoreactivity in patients with autoimmune and viral chronic liver dise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Muratori L,Muratori P,Zauli D,Grassi A,Pappas G,Rodrigo L,Cassani F,Lenzi M,Bianchi FB

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune T cell responses directed against insulin-producing β cells are central to the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Detection of such responses is therefore critical to provide novel biomarkers for T1D 'immune staging' and to understand the mechanisms underlying the disease. While different T cell assays ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mallone R,Mannering SI,Brooks-Worrell BM,Durinovic-Belló I,Cilio CM,Wong FS,Schloot NC,T-Cell Workshop Committee, Immunology of Diabetes Society.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of human natural killer (NK) cells is associated with the cleavage of CD16 from the cell surface, a process mediated by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). In this report, we examined whether inhibition of MMPs would lead to improved NK cell antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) function. Using...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhou Q,Gil-Krzewska A,Peruzzi G,Borrego F

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of evaluating cell changes possibly induced by labelling lymphocytes with 99m-technetium (99mTc), several rosette tests and stimulation assays with mitogens have been carried out before and after radiolabelling. The results presented here show that (i) as the rosette tests are not modified statistically, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Doly A,Finat-Duclos F,Doly M,Veyre A,Plagne R,Meyniel G

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Features of tissue damage in invasive amoebiasis, in particular polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) degranulation and vasculitis, bear resemblance to that seen in Wegener's granulomatosis, the latter being associated with the presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). We therefore tested sera from patie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pudifin DJ,Duursma J,Gathiram V,Jackson TF

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement receptor 2 (CR2, CD21), the receptor for both the C3d,g portion of human complement component C3 and the Epstein-Barr virus, has been recently described on peripheral T cells. By using dual stain flow cytometric analysis, we have also observed that a peripheral T lymphocyte subpopulation of normal healthy d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Levy E,Ambrus J,Kahl L,Molina H,Tung K,Holers VM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of arginyl to citrullyl residues (citrullination) is essential for the formation of the epitopes recognized by rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-associated autoantibodies to citrullinated proteins (ACPA). ACPA are secreted by plasma cells of the rheumatoid synovial tissue where their major target, citrullinated fib...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duplan V,Foulquier C,Clavel C,Al Badine R,Serre G,Saoudi A,Sebbag M

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Tuberculosis (TB) is usually more severe in HIV-infected patients, and the immune derangement found in co-infected patients may differ from that in each isolated disease. Following mitogen stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), interferon (IFN)-gamma and tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha production...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Castro Cunha RM,Kallas EG,Rodrigues DS,Nascimento Burattini M,Salomao R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has earlier been reported that the human monoclonal antibody (MoAb 33G2) and polyclonal antibodies reactive with Pf332 may interfere in vitro with the erythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium falciparum at two potential target sites for protective antibodies, indicating that the antigen may constitute an important target f...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Iqbal J,Perlmann P,Greenwood BM,Berzins K

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) have emerged as promising cell therapies for multiple conditions based on demonstrations of their potent immunomodulatory and regenerative capacities in models of inflammatory disease. Understanding the effects of MSC on T cells has dominated the majority of work carried out in this fie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carty F,Mahon BP,English K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with late-onset bypogammaglobulinaemia have normal numbers of B cells. In addition, some of these patients have been shown to have circulating T cells which suppress immunolobulin production in vitro. From our present studies on a large series of patients it appears that these two findings distinguish tw...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Platts-Mills TA,De Gast GC,Webster AD,Asherson GL,Wilkins SR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) was observed by direct immunofluorescence microscopy in epithelial cell nuclei in forty-four biopsies from thirty-three patients. The tissue containing the ANA was macroscopically normal in twenty-seven patients. The thirty-three patients with in vivo biopsy ANA included twenty-thre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wells JV,Webb J,Van Deventer M,Fry B,Pollard KM,Raftos J,Monk W,Nelson DS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integral membrane proteins (IMP) represent a serologically distinct class of mycobacterial antigens which are potent stimulators of human T cells (Mehrotra et al., Clin Exp Immunol 1995; 102:626). The range of IMP from Mycobacterium fortuitum was resolved by continuous elution SDS-PAGE to recover 31 discrete fractions...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mehrotra J,Mittal A,Dhindsa MS,Sinha S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00