Chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae infection may promote coronary artery disease in humans through enhancing secretion of interleukin-4.

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：:The aim of this study was to analyse and characterize immunoglobulins in CIC and serum from patients with anti-cardiolipin antibodies. CIC from five patients were isolated by gradient centrifugation and gel filtration. The distribution between serum and CIC of immunoglobulin reactivity against different phospholipids ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Arfors L,Lefvert AK

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the hypothesis that pregnant female baboons exhibit increased levels of various inflammatory mediators in serum resulting from ligature-induced periodontitis, and that these profiles would relate to periodontal disease severity/extent in the animals. The animals were sampled at baseline (B), mid-preg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ebersole JL,Steffen MJ,Holt SC,Kesavalu L,Chu L,Cappelli D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The programmed death-1 (PD-1) receptor ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, are co-stimulatory molecules that contribute to the negative regulation of T lymphocyte activation. It is still unclear whether there is correlation between PD-L1 or PD-L2 and tumour-infiltrating dendritic cells (TIDCs) in cutaneous squamous cell carcino...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jiao Q,Liu C,Li W,Li W,Fang F,Qian Q,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil recruitment and survival are important control points in the development and resolution of inflammatory processes. 15-epi-lipoxin (LX)A interaction with formyl peptide receptor 2 (FPR2)/ALX receptor is suggested to enhance anti-inflammatory neutrophil functions and mediate resolution of airway inflammation....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Planagumà A,Domenech T,Jover I,Ramos I,Sentellas S,Malhotra R,Miralpeix M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte subpopulations in patients with cervical carcinoma were studied before and after radiotherapy. T lymphocytes were recognized by their ability to form spontaneous rosettes with sheep erythrocytes (E rosettes). Two surface marker characteristics were used to detect B lymphocytes: receptors for activated compl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rand RJ,Jenkins DM,Bulmer R

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated levels of IgA containing circulating immune complexes (IgA-CIC) and IgG containing (IgG-) CIC were detected in patients with obstructive jaundice due to biliary tract stones and/or tumour of biliary tract or pancreas. Levels of serum IgA were also elevated, and correlated with the levels of IgA-CIC. The level...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ohshio G,Furukawa F,Sekita K,Manabe T,Tobe T,Hamashima Y

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to the major phenolic glycolipid purified from Mycobacterium leprae have been demonstrated previously in sera of leprosy but not tuberculosis patients using an ELISA. The major antigenic determinants on this molecule were investigated using antisera raised in rabbits to the purified glycolipid and with a po...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brett SJ,Payne SN,Draper P,Gigg R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the T cell cytokine profile during age-dependent maturation of the immune response, we evaluated the cytokine expression of CD4+ and CD8+ circulating cells by flow cytometric single-cell analysis after non-specific stimulation in vitro in different age groups of normal individuals, from cord bl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Krampera M,Vinante F,Tavecchia L,Morosato L,Chilosi M,Romagnani S,Zanolin ME,Pizzolo G

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic, remittent, erosive arthritis was produced in rats by a single intraperitoneal injection of an aqueous suspension of cell wall fragments isolated from group A streptococci. Arthritis could be induced in rats which had been immunologically compromised by neonatal thymectomy. Delayed hypersensitivity to cell wal...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hunter N,Anderle SK,Brown RR,Dalldorf FG,Clark RL,Cromartie WJ,Schwab JH

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infection with virulent Mycobacterium avium in C57Bl/6 (B6) mice leads to severe lymphocyte depletion in secondary lymphoid organs. In this study, we found an up-regulation of caspase-8 activity in spleen cell extracts from M. avium 25291-infected B6 mice compared to non-infected mice. The activation of t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Borges M,Rosa GT,Appelberg R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is an immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease that mainly affects the skin barrier. Treatment for psoriasis mainly includes conventional immunosuppressive drugs. However, long-term treatment with global immunosuppressive agents may cause a variety of side effects, including nephrotoxicity and infections. K...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Liu C,Liu H,Lu C,Deng J,Yan Y,Chen H,Wang Y,Liang CL,Wei J,Han L,Dai Z

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and natural killer (NK) cells have a key role in host defence against infectious pathogens, but their response to bacteria is not well characterized. Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae is a major cause of respiratory tract infection including otitis media, sinusitis, tonsillitis and chro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： King PT,Ngui J,Farmer MW,Hutchinson P,Holmes PW,Holdsworth SR

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune repopulation, despite virological failure, often occurs in children under highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). The aim of this study was to analyse the characteristics of immune repopulation and activation in children with and without virological response to HAART. Fourteen human immunodeficiency viru...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Anselmi A,Vendrame D,Rampon O,Giaquinto C,Zanchetta M,De Rossi A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that the LAD-4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed against a fibronectin receptor (FNR) on RL-male-1 T lymphoma cells in BALB/c mice partially inhibited their migration to the liver. In the present study, we examined the mechanism by which another anti-FNR mAb, LAD-1, exerts its antitumourig...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ito M,Omoto S,Kato Y,Hayashi T,Mori N,Fujii YR

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:In sarcoidosis, a T helper 1 (Th1) response is an essential event and the up-regulation of interleukin-12 (IL-12) has been detected in affected disease sites. In order to investigate the clinical usefulness of circulating IL-12, we measured the serum concentrations of IL-12 by ELISA and performed immunohistochemistry ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shigehara K,Shijubo N,Ohmichi M,Kamiguchi K,Takahashi R,Morita-Ichimura S,Ohchi T,Tatsuno T,Hiraga Y,Abe S,Sato N

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble form of CD23 (sCD23) was found in the urine from 12 normal individuals but was not present in 20 normal sera, suggesting that sCD23 produced by cells in tissues is eliminated in the urine. The sCD23 from urine differed in physicochemical properties from the sCD23 found in supernates from B-lymphoblastoid cel...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ling NR,Stevenson FK,Brown B

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and prostaglandins (PG) regulate the cell-mediated immune response, so it has been proposed that they affect the progression of pulmonary tuberculosis. Here we report that the administration of soluble betaglycan, a potent TGF-beta antagonist, and niflumic acid, a PG synthesi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hernández-Pando R,Orozco-Esteves H,Maldonado HA,Aguilar-León D,Vilchis-Landeros MM,Mata-Espinosa DA,Mendoza V,López-Casillas F

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to quantify soluble IL-2 receptor (sIL-2R) levels in sera of 57 chronic plaque psoriasis patients and correlate these measurements with disease activity and the number of IL-2R-positive (CD25+) lymphocytes in lesional biopsies of 11 cyclosporin A (CsA) and 13 psoralen plus ultraviolet radiation (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duncan JI,Horrocks C,Ormerod AD,Powles AV,Whiting PH,Fry L,Thomson AW

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil activation is thought to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of sepsis. During activation, neutrophils adhere to and migrate through the endothelium. Therefore, the amount of circulating neutrophils does not adequately reflect the total amount of neutrophils that are involved in the pathophysiologic pro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Muller Kobold AC,Zijlstra JG,Koene HR,de Haas M,Kallenberg CG,Tervaert JW

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are associated with inflammation resulting from monocyte activation. We sought for differences in the production of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines by monocytes from patients with ACS. C-reactive protein (CRP) and neopterin were measured in 22 patients with acute coronary syndromes,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van Haelst PL,Tervaert JW,Bijzet J,Baljé-Volkers C,May JF,Langeveld B,Gans RO

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：: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：:A T helper (Th) 1 immune response is important for host defense against tuberculosis. The multidrug resistance protein (Mrp) 1 is constitutively present at low levels on Th2 lymphocytes, and is expressed on Th1 lymphocytes upon activation. To determine the role of Mrp1 in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, Mrp1 deficie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Verbon A,Leemans JC,Weijer S,Florquin S,Van Der Poll T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An expanded T cell subpopulation (CD8+ Leu-7+) has previously been reported in the peripheral blood of patients with Crohn's disease. This subpopulation of T cells was associated with a 'covert suppressor' function, particularly in patients with mild/early Crohn's disease, suppressing immunoglobulin production in vitr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Deem RL,Targan SR,Niederlehner A,Shanahan F

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both viral effect and immune-mediated mechanism are involved in the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection. In this study, we showed that in SARS patient sera there were autoantibodies (autoAbs) that reacted with A549 cells, the type-2 pneumocytes, and that these ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lin YS,Lin CF,Fang YT,Kuo YM,Liao PC,Yeh TM,Hwa KY,Shieh CC,Yen JH,Wang HJ,Su IJ,Lei HY

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal infection of mice with mycobacteria induces the persistent mobilization of neutrophils to the infected peritoneal cavities. The recruitment of the neutrophils was mediated by the immune system since it was enhanced by immunization and reduced in T cell-deficient nude and SCID mice. Anti-mitotic treatme...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Appelberg R

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Hartley guinea-pigs were immunized with N-phthaloylated ox insulin (96% NA1,NB1,NB29-triphthaloyl ox insulin) using H. pertussis as adjuvant. Haptenic antibody, which was found in antisera taken 20 days after secondary immunization, was assessed for cross-reaction with a series of N-acylated ox insulins. Cross-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hollins PJ,Nathan MM

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of IL-6 on the development of autoimmune diseases (primary biliary cirrhosis, Sjögren's syndrome) employing murine graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) model with MHC class II disparity. For this purpose, we used IL-6 transgenic (B6.6) mice in which a high level of IL-6 was detected. C57Bl/6 (B6) s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kimura T,Suzuki K,Inada S,Hayashi A,Saito H,Miyai T,Ohsugi Y,Matsuzaki Y,Tanaka N,Osuga T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00