Quantification and molecular characterization of regulatory T cells in connective tissue diseases.

abstract：:Using a novel cytofluorometric method of cellular antigen quantification, we examined peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for quantitative modification of class II human leucocyte antigen (HLA) molecules expressed on the surface. Class II HLA molecules were ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Eliaou JF,Andary M,Favier F,Carayon P,Poncelet P,Sany J,Brochier J,Clot J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonuclease1 (DNase1) is involved in chromatin degradation of apoptotic cells. Its deficiency results in accumulation of self-DNA, which in turn may induce inflammation and autoimmunity. We assessed for the first time serum DNase1-activity in a large consecutive cohort of treatment-naïve patients with autoimmune...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Gatselis NK,Vakrakou AG,Zachou K,Androutsakos T,Azariadis K,Hatzis G,Manoussakis MN,Dalekos GN

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA is a nuclear molecule that has both an intracellular and extracellular role. Inside the cell, it is the essential molecule of heredity while outside the cell it can have immunological activity, both alone and in the context of immune complexes. Furthermore, extracellular DNA has information content that can be min...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pisetsky DS,Fairhurst AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune diabetes is an organ specific and multifactorial disorder with a classical onset as insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and with another form of onset as latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), which has a slower onset and a later progress to insulin dependency as a result of the beta cells dest...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Caputo M,Cerrone GE,López AP,Villalba A,Krochik GA,Cédola FN,Targovnik HM,Frechtel GD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CCR5 and its ligands play important roles in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A deletion of 32 bp in its gene leads to the production of a non-functional receptor. Although a protective effect of CCR5 Delta32 for the development of RA has been suggested, future study is required to est...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Martens HA,Kallenberg CG,Bijl M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a pleiotrophic proinflammatory cytokine that augments adaptive immunity by linking it to innate immunity. Experimental autoimmune gastritis is an animal model of human autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anaemia. We have previously shown that GM-CSF is expre...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Alderuccio F,Biondo M,Toh BH

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial antigens were purified from rat liver and characterized by immunoblotting. Sera from 19 well defined patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) reacted with two mitochondrial polypeptides of 68 Kd and 45 Kd. Antibodies to these antigens were not detected in any of the sera of patients with cirrhosis o...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zurgil N,Konikoff F,Bakimer R,Slor H,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is the result of the autoimmune response against pancreatic insulin producing beta cells. This autoimmune response begins months or even years before the first presentation of signs and symptoms of hyperglycemia and at the time of clinical diagnosis near 30% of beta-cell mass still rema...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Couri CE,Voltarelli JC

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine whether the expression of 17.109, 6B6.6 and 4C9 rheumatoid factor (RF) idiotypes is predictive of the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and whether the RF response is idiotypically restricted in an inbred population of Pima Indians who have a genetic predisposition for the...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Davidson A,Keiser HD,del Puente A,Bennett PH,Schrohenloher R,Koopman WJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thalidomide is used in cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) refractory to conventional therapies. Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is the most severe side effect, but the incidence of PN and its relation to thalidomide dose are still unclear. OBJECTIVE:To prospectively evaluate the efficacy as well as the occurren...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Briani C,Zara G,Rondinone R,Iaccarino L,Ruggero S,Toffanin E,Ermani M,Ghirardello A,Zampieri S,Sarzi-Puttini P,Doria A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with chronic ITP relapsed after conventional therapy but following an infusion with low dose anti D (Rho) immunoglobulin, she entered a remission which has now lasted 10 months. This is difficult to explain on the basis of long term macrophage Fc receptor blockade and suggests an alternative mechanism of act...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Smith NA,Chakraverty RK,Obeid D,Boughton BJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we showed that the Ly6G(-)CD11b(+) blood monocytes residing in naïve mice are intrinsically immunosuppressive and that loss of this suppressive function may contribute to the development of autoimmunity in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a murine model of human multiple sclerosis....

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Slaney CY,Toker A,Fraser JD,Harper JL,Bäckström BT

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the cell-surface expression of activation markers on B- and T-cells was done to compare patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and healthy non-myasthenic controls. Marker expression was determined by immunostaining of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) isolated from MG patients and from controls. T...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Ragheb S,Bealmear B,Lisak R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that mice infected with mouse hepatitis virus A59 develop autoantibodies (autoAb) to liver and kidney fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). Because it has been proposed that the immune system is stimulated by alarm signals called damage-associated molecular patterns or alarmins, we investigated the partic...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Duhalde-Vega M,Retegui LA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), celiac disease (CD) and autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) are autoimmune conditions relatively common in paediatric age and frequently occur in association in the same subject. This event is not by chance and requires an explanation. Here, we studied the distribution of HLA-DQ αβ hetero...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Larizza D,Calcaterra V,Klersy C,Badulli C,Caramagna C,Ricci A,Brambilla P,Salvaneschi L,Martinetti M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of maternal systemic autoimmune diseases on pregnancy outcome is not unequivocally defined. We analysed the pregnancy outcome of 221 pregnancies from 181 autoimmune patients, consecutively followed in a single Italian reference centre from 2001 to 2009. All patients were prospectively followed with monthly ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Canti V,Castiglioni MT,Rosa S,Franchini S,Sabbadini MG,Manfredi AA,Rovere-Querini P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Serum C-X-C motif chemokine 10 (CXCL10) levels have been shown to be elevated in autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD). This study sought to determine whether newly diagnosed AITD patients with neuromuscular findings had higher levels of CXCL10 than those without neuromuscular manifestations. DESIGN:A total of ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Cakir M,Levendoglu F,Kiyici A,Coskun Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic tissue expresses a very low level of MHC molecules, and these few appear only late in ontogeny. Possibly related are deficiencies in the expression of TAP molecules and also the fetus' need to avoid maternal immunologic rejection. However, the fetus may overcome the lack of Ag-presenting molecules when threa...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Lee MS,Sarvetnick N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NZW "x" BXSB F1 mice develop SLE that is associated with an anti-phospholipid syndrome characterized by anti-cardiolipin antibodies, thrombocytopenia and small coronary artery thrombosis. This syndrome is immune mediated and, dependent, on CD4+T cells. To determine whether disease in these mice can be treated with blo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Akkerman A,Huang W,Wang X,Ramanujam M,Schiffer L,Madaio M,Factor SM,Davidson A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes and pineal glands from 10 monkeys immunized with S-antigen were studied using routine histopathological and immunohistochemical techniques. Seven out of 10 animals developed uveitis between 19 and 33 days after the initial immunization. Histopathology of the eyes harvested 70 days after immunization showed mo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Fujino Y,Li Q,Chung H,Hikita N,Nussenblatt RB,Gery I,Chan CC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart block (CHB), a life-threatening manifestation of neonatal lupus, offers aunique opportunity to study the effect or arm of immunity and define the pathogenicity of an autoantibody in mediating tissue injury. This review focuses on our recent in vitro model which supports a cascade from antibody insult ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Buyon JP,Clancy RM

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blockade of the complement cascade at the C5a/C5a receptor (C5aR)-axis is believed to be an attractive treatment avenue in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the effects of such interventions during the early phases of arthritis remain to be clarified. In this study we use the murine delayed-type hypersensitivity art...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Atkinson SM,Nansen A,Usher PA,Sondergaard BC,Mackay CR,Friedrichsen B,Chang CC,Tang R,Skov S,Haase C,Hornum L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ T cells play a crucial role in the development of lupus in MRL-lpr/lpr mice: incomplete deletion/silencing of self-reactive CD4+ T cells leads to T cell activation, which causes both polyclonal B cell activation and T cell infiltration of multiple organs. Furthermore, anti-CD4 antibody therapy ameliorates disease...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Duan JM,Fagard R,Madaio MP

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allograft inflammatory factor-1 (AIF-1) is a 17 kDa interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) inducible Ca(2+)-binding EF-hand protein that is encoded within the HLA class III genomic region. Three proteins including ionized Ca(2+)-binding adaptor 1, microglia response factor-1, and daintain are identical with AIF-1. The expre...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Liu G,Ma H,Jiang L,Zhao Y

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid lymphocyte RNA from a Hashimoto patient with high serum levels of autoantibodies to thyroid peroxidase (TPO) was used to construct a phage display antibody library in the phagemid vector pComb3. The library (100,000cfu) encoded IgG1 heavy chains together with kappa light chains. Selection of the phages display...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hexham JM,Partridge LJ,Furmaniak J,Petersen VB,Colls JC,Pegg C,Rees Smith B,Burton DR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterile alpha motif and histidine-aspartic acid domain-containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) is a deoxynucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) hydrolase that plays an important role in the homeostatic balance of cellular dNTPs. Its emerging role as an effector of innate immunity is affirmed by mutations in the SAMHD1 gene that cause t...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mauney CH,Hollis T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocarditis, often initiated by viral infection, may progress to autoimmune inflammatory heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Although cardiac myosin is a dominant autoantigen in animal models of myocarditis and is released from the heart during viral myocarditis, the characterization, role and sig...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mascaro-Blanco A,Alvarez K,Yu X,Lindenfeld J,Olansky L,Lyons T,Duvall D,Heuser JS,Gosmanova A,Rubenstein CJ,Cooper LT,Kem DC,Cunningham MW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) accumulation in the retrobulbar space of patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) has been documented in a number of immunohistochemical studies. In order to gain further insight into possible immunopathogenic mechanisms, the influence of humoral immunity on retrobulbar fibroblasts...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kahaly G,Stover C,Otto E,Beyer J,Schuler M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLA) were discovered during the course of Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) caused by Rickettsia conorii and characterized by endothelial cell (EC) damage resulting from this organism's tropism for EC. In two MSF patients, two types of aPLA were identified: antiphosphatidylethanolamine an...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sotto A,Bérard M,Bessis D,Porneuf M,Jourdan J,Boffa MC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate changes in TSH receptor antibody after surgery in Graves' disease and its relationship with the degree of lymphocytic infiltration, serial serum levels of TSH receptor antibody were measured before and after the subtotal thyroidectomy in 50 patients with Graves' disease. In 22 (44%) out of 50 patients, thy...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Cho BY,Oh SK,Shong YK,Kim SE,Yoo HY,Lee HK,Koh CS,Min HK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00