Human double-negative (CD4-CD8-) T cells bearing alpha beta T cell receptor possess both helper and cytotoxic activities.

abstract：:The controlled induction of haemoxygenase-1 (HO-1), an enzyme that catabolizes haem, has been shown to reduce haem, preventing pathologies associated with haem toxicity. The hemoglobin genotype HbAS confers reduced susceptibility to severe complications of malaria by a mechanism that is not well understood. Using a lo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ademolue TW,Amodu OK,Awandare GA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite antigens released from Trypanosoma cruzi-infected cells were adsorbed to infected and uninfected mammalian cells thus rendering them susceptible to immune lysis by antibody and cell-mediated immunity directed against the parasite. BALB/c mice infected with T. cruzi for 15 days developed cytotoxic T lymphocyte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ribeiro Dos Santos R,Hudson L

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells were enriched from adenoids of children with otitis media with effusion (OME) by density gradient centrifugation and culture techniques. An enrichment of 40-140-fold was obtained for dendritic cells. These cells were identified using morphology, enzyme cytochemistry, immunocytochemistry and functional ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van Nieuwkerk EB,van der Baan S,Richters CD,Kamperdijk EW

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:Cattle, infected with Fasciola hepatica metacercariae, produce antibodies against the outer glycocalyx of freshly excysted juvenile F. hepatica. Using 51Cr-release and viability assays such antibodies in the presence or absence of bovine complement did not cause discernible damage to the parasite. The presence of exce...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duffus WP,Franks D

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) maintained on drug regimens were studied monthly for 6-10 months. Disease activity was assessed and levels of anti-RA associated nuclear antigen (RANA) and immune complexes were determined. Anti-RANA generally paralleled disease activity in 64% of cases. Immune comp...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alspaugh MA,Rosenstock D,Biundo JJ,Gupta RC

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that high levels of IL-6/sIL-6R complexes are present in sera of patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (s-JIA) and that the amount of IL-6 estimated in the IL-6/sIL-6R complexes is markedly higher than that measured by the B9 assay. Here, we show that two additional bioassays,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pignatti P,Ciapponi L,Galle P,Hansen MB,Massa M,Meazza C,Paonessa G,Novick D,Ciliberto G,Martini A,De Benedetti F

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assessment of both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to Salmonella typhi antigens in patients with acute typhoid infection, TAB inoculated subjects and in healthy controls is reported. Cell-mediated immunity as assessed by the leucocyte migration inhibition test (LMI), and developed in all cases with typho...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dham SK,Thompson RA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As Q fever is associated with an inflammatory syndrome, we determined circulating levels of inflammatory cytokines, cytokine antagonists, and activation markers of leucocytes in patients with acute Q fever and Q fever endocarditis. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and IL-6, but not IL-1beta, were markedly increased compar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Capo C,Amirayan N,Ghigo E,Raoult D,Mege J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of systemic infection with Candida albicans with a combination of an antifungal agent (i.e. fluconazole) and a thymus-derived immunostimulant (i.e. thymosin alpha 1 (T alpha 1)) in mice immunosuppressed by morphine treatments was investigated. In normal mice, fluconazole given after infection with 10(6) C. a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： di Francesco P,Gaziano R,Casalinuovo IA,Belogi L,Palamara AT,Favalli C,Garaci E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement activation with formation of biologically potent mediators like C5a and the terminal C5b-9 complex (TCC) contributes essentially to development of inflammation and tissue damage in a number of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. A particular role for complement in the ischaemia/reperfusion injury of the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harboe M,Ulvund G,Vien L,Fung M,Mollnes TE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune parameters were compared in four groups of Ugandan subjects: HIV-and HIV+ adult patients with active pulmonary TB (HIV- PTB n = 38; HIV+ PTB n = 28), patients with HIV infection only (n = 26) and PPD+ healthy controls (n = 25). Compared with healthy controls, CD4 and CD8 T cells from patients with HIV and/or PT...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hertoghe T,Wajja A,Ntambi L,Okwera A,Aziz MA,Hirsch C,Johnson J,Toossi Z,Mugerwa R,Mugyenyi P,Colebunders R,Ellner J,Vanham G

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro monoclonal immunoglobulin (mIg) production of cultured tumour cells--prepared from the bone marrow (BM) or from the peripheral blood (PB) of 40 multiple myeloma (MM) patients, 16 patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and two patients with M. Waldenström--was measured with an enzyme-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Peest D,Gasch S,Thiele C,Bartels B,Brunkhorst U,Dallmann I,Hoffmann M,Schedel I,Deicher H

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-EBV T cell response was studied in a severe combined immunodeficiency patient (PS) who received two transplants of fetal liver cells. His peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were incubated with EBV and cultured during 15 days. Eleven colonies were derived from the T lymphocytes causing the regression of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Plotnicky H,Touraine JL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullous pemphigoid is a blistering skin disease characterized by autoantibodies against the NC16a domain of bullous pemphigoid 180. This study was performed to characterize and map the fine specificity of T cell responses to NC16a. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from a total of 28 bullous pemphigoid patient...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pickford WJ,Gudi V,Haggart AM,Lewis BJ,Herriot R,Barker RN,Ormerod AD

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cell adoptive transfer is a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy; however, its development has been hindered by the lack of efficient methods to produce large numbers of functional NK cells. In this study, we engineered the leukaemia cell line K562 to express CD137 ligand (CD137L) and membra...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang X,Lee DA,Wang Y,Wang L,Yao Y,Lin Z,Cheng J,Zhu S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential diagnosis of cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) and severe atopic dermatitis (AD) is often difficult because of the similarity in their skin manifestations. However, such differentiation is extremely important because of the differences in remedy and prognosis. The aim of this study was to investigate new, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hanafusa T,Matsui S,Murota H,Tani M,Igawa K,Katayama I

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the complement system and tissue factor (TF), a key initiating component of coagulation, are activated in sepsis, and cross-talk occurs between the complement and coagulation systems. C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) can act as a regulator in both systems. Our aim in this study was to examine this cross-talk by investigatin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Landsem A,Nielsen EW,Fure H,Christiansen D,Ludviksen JK,Lambris JD,Østerud B,Mollnes TE,Brekke OL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils have the shortest half-life among circulating leucocytes and rapidly undergo apoptosis in vitro. The homologous Bcl-2 and Bax proteins have opposing effects, with Bcl-2 extending cellular survival and Bax promoting cell death following an apoptotic stimulus. We determined Bcl-2 to Bax expression ratios in ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Der Vliet HJ,Wever PC,Van Diepen FN,Yong SL,Ten Berge IJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated numbers of peripheral T cells expressing the activation associated antigen T9 are found in patients with active Crohn's disease. Expression of T9 is found to be correlated to the activity of the disease. However the presence of activated peripheral T cells is not restricted to Crohn's disease, but could also ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Raedler A,Fraenkel S,Klose G,Thiele HG

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental autoimmune hepatitis (EAH) is an animal model for autoimmune hepatitis. The disease is T cell-mediated and runs a subacute course, with maximal disease activity around week four after disease induction and a slow ensuing recovery. The aim of the present study was to investigate the immunoregulatory mechan...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lohse AW,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:A method is described to assess antigenic cross-reactivity between soluble immune complexes precipitated from sera with polyethylene glycol. The precipitated complex from one serum was dissociated in acid and used to coat a plastic cup. Radioiodinated complexes from another serum were dissociated in the cup, neutraliz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dambuyant C,Burton-Kee J,Mowbray JF

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant rabbit fibroma virus (MV) directly suppresses generation of antibody responses and mitogen induced T and B lymphocyte proliferation. We investigated whether this phenomenon required expression of the complete viral genome. Phosphonoacetic acid (PAA) inhibits poxvirus specific DNA polymerases. Adding PAA to c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Strayer DS,Skaletsky E,Leibowitz JL

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary The interaction between stroma and blood cells in the human spleen has received little attention, despite their well-defined roles during blood cell development in bone marrow. We have reported previously that human spleen-derived fibroblasts display a differentiated myofibroblast phenotype and constitutively ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Briard D,Azzarone B,Brouty-Boyé D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frozen sections of control and coeliac jejunal mucosa were examined for HLA-DR staining. In general the staining pattern in the controls and treated coeliac patients was a patchy subapical pattern on villous tips. Untreated coeliac patients gave a different pattern with staining extending to the crypt enterocytes. Glu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ciclitira PJ,Nelufer JM,Ellis HJ,Evans DJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor H and the FHL-1/reconectin protein are two human plasma proteins that act as important regulators of the alternative complement pathway. Each protein is encoded by a unique transcript, but both mRNAs are derived from the factor H gene by means of alternative processing. In order to address potential functional ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Friese MA,Hellwage J,Jokiranta TS,Meri S,Müller-Quernheim HJ,Peter HH,Eibel H,Zipfel PF

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele variants in the L-carnitine (LCAR) transporters OCTN1 (SLC22A4, 1672 C --> T) and OCTN2 (SLC22A5, -207 G --> C) have been implicated in susceptibility to Crohn's disease (CD). LCAR is consumed in the diet and transported actively from the intestinal lumen via the organic cation transporter OCTN2. While recogniz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fortin G,Yurchenko K,Collette C,Rubio M,Villani AC,Bitton A,Sarfati M,Franchimont D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA haplotype A 10,B18 has been associated with hereditary deficiency of the second component of complement(C2). In an effort to detect individuals homozygous for C2 deficiency, a thorough audit of HLA serotyping results in 3,100 individuals was performed, and a single patient homozygous for the A10, B18 haplotype...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zeitz HJ,Gewurz A,Jonasson O,Geis WP,Gewurz H

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CBA/KlJms-lprcg/lprcg mice with a novel mutation producing systemic lymphoproliferation were investigated for their serological and histological characteristics. The mutant mice showed elevated levels of serum immunoglobulin, C1q-binding immune complexes and antibodies to nuclear antigens such as dsDNA and ssDNA and p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kimura M,Mohri H,Shimada K,Wakabayashi T,Kanai Y,Matsuzawa A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00