The expression and regulation of class II antigens in normal and inflammatory bowel disease peripheral blood monocytes and intestinal epithelium.

abstract：:Natural Abs and autoantibodies bind antigens displayed by ischemia-conditioned tissues, followed by complement activation and enhanced tissue injury during reperfusion. Anti-ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Ab is associated with lung disease in patients with autoimmune disease but it is not known whether these abs contribute t...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Keith MP,Moratz C,Egan R,Zacharia A,Greidinger EL,Hoffman RW,Tsokos GC

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Numerous groups have now validated high-throughput approaches to autoantibody profiling in a variety of systems. Recently, we have used autoantigen microarray technology to identify distinct autoantibody profiles in H-2 congenic MRL/lpr mice (Sekine et al., manuscript in preparation), and we are expanding this platfor...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Graham KL,Robinson WH,Steinman L,Utz PJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease associated with a striking increase in the risk of premature cardiovascular (CV) complications due to accelerated atherosclerosis. Traditional CV risk factors seem to be less important predictors of CV events than the presence of active SLE. Immune dysregulation characte...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kaplan MJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the spontaneous elevation of the transcription of heat shock protein (hsp 70) gene in kidney lymphoid cells of lupus-prone mice (MRL-lpr/lpr) is shown by Northern blot and nuclear run on transcription assay. By quantification analysis of hsp 70 gene transcription, more than ten times of the enhan...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Deguchi Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There have been few reports on the association of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antigen (ANCA)-associated systemic vasculitides. METHODS:Here we present four cases of RA overlapping with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and Churg-Strauss syndrome (CS...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Szilasi M,Mátyus J,File I,Szücs G,Rákóczi E,Pfliegler G,Szabó Z,Végh E,Szekanecz Z

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in available biological data pertaining to autoimmunity research. This includes a tremendous quantity of sequence data (biological structures, genetic and physical maps, pathways, etc.) generated by genome and proteome projects plus extensive clinical and epidemiological...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Petrovsky N,Brusic V

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concordance rate of Graves' disease in pairs of identical twins of 30 to 60% points to the influence of environmental factors, and infections have often been incriminated in the pathogenesis. More than 15 years ago we demonstrated an increased frequency of antibodies to Yersinia enterocolitica (Y. ent.) serotype 3...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bech K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:The human immune system evolved a multi-layered control mechanism to eliminate self-reactive cells. Of these so-called tolerance induction mechanisms, lymphocytes T education in the thymus gland represents the very first one. This complicated process is not fully understood and quantitative models able to he...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Castiglione F,Santoni D,Rapin N

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that Ro/SSA autoantigen is heterogeneous. There are two isoform families; the 60 kD forms (Ro60) and the 52 kD forms (Ro52). Recently we have found that autoantibodies to the Ro/SSA proteins are conformation dependent. Anti-Ro60 antibodies are mainly directed to the native protein and convers...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Igarashi T,Itoh Y,Fukunaga Y,Yamamoto M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the clinical features of AIHA/ES patients with clonal Ig/TCR gene rearrangement. METHODS:Ig/TCR gene rearrangements were measured by BIOMED-2 PCR. 44 primary AIHA/ES patients were enrolled in the study. Clinical characteristics were analyzed and compared between patients with and without clona...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zhu H,Zhao M,Cao Z,Yang J,Li Y,Xing L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1950s, the discovery of autoantibodies produced by B cells seemed to provide a compelling mechanism underlying autoimmune diseases. The discovery of T regulatory cells and other T helper cell subsets shifted the field back towards a T cell central view. The success of rituxan, a chimeric mAb targeting CD20 on B...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Luu VP,Vazquez MI,Zlotnik A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue transglutaminase (tTg) has been identified as an autoantigen in coeliac disease (CD). There is a marked homology between different forms of transglutaminase, such as tTg and coagulation factor XIII. We compared titres of both IgA- and IgG-antibodies against these two antigens in 20 CD patients, 20 endomysial an...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sjöber K,Eriksson S,Tenngart B,Roth EB,Leffler H,Stenberg P

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparently high frequency of Graves' disease encountered in New Orleans, Louisiana, prompted an investigation for a possible infectious agent that might be triggering the disease in genetically susceptible individuals. We studied 40 patients with Graves' disease, and compared them to the following groups of control...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Jaspan JB,Luo H,Ahmed B,Tenenbaum S,Voss T,Sander DM,Bollinger K,Baquet T,Garry RF

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the expression patterns of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) variants in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and examine their clinical implications, we isolated PBMCs from healthy controls (HC, n = 33) and patients with AS (n = 62), and meas...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kim JY,Yoon HK,Song ST,Park SR,Shim SC

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Autoimmune diseases, such as celiac disease (CD) and diabetes mellitus type 1, tend to co-occur within the same patient. The prevalence of CD in diabetic children is higher than in the general population, and is estimated to be 0.6-16.4%. The diagnosis of CD is based on histopathological examination and se...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Lewandowska K,Ciepiela O,Szypowska A,Wyhowski J,Głodkowska-Mrówka E,Popko K,Ostafin M,Pyrżak B,Demkow U

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the dysfunction of T cells, B cells, and dendritic cells and by the production of antinuclear autoantibodies. This editorial provides a synopsis of newly discovered genetic factors and signaling pathways in lupus pathogenesis that ar...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Perl A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non obese diabetic (NOD) mice spontaneously develop thyroiditis in addition to diabetes. Mononuclear cells begin to infiltrate the thyroid of these animals in the first month of life. The expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II (Ia) antigens by cells in the thyroid from NOD mice of various ages w...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Margolese H,O'Keefe C,Chung F,Ertug F,Wall JR,Bernard NF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies against the beta-cell M(r) 64,000 protein (p64), recently identified as an isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), are prevalent in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Dog islets were found to represent an abundant source of native p64 allowing the study of antigen-antibody i...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bärmeier H,Ahlmén J,Landin-Olsson M,Rajotte RV,Sundkvist G,Warnock G,Lernmark A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosuppression is the mainstay of treatment for myasthenia gravis (MG). In this paper, we review the mechanisms of action and clinical application of corticosteroids and different classes of immunosuppressive drugs that are currently used in MG patients, and present the results of their use in more than 1000 patien...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sanders DB,Evoli A

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：: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：:We report in this paper on obvious fibrotic lesions in the liver of mice undergoing specified graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR). B6 CD8+ splenocytes were transferred into (bm 12 x bm 1)F1 mice to induce GVHR. Recipient mice had been thymectomized and administrated with anti-CD8 monoclonal antibody (mAb) to deplete CD8...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Inada S,Suzuki K,Kimura T,Hayashi A,Narita T,Yui R,Asakura H,Fujiwara M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of tyrosine phosphorylation was performed on peripheral blood lymphocytes from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and from healthy donors. Freshly isolated SLE lymphocytes presented an elevated tyrosine phosphorylation level when compared to healthy donors lymphocytes (p = 0.005). Among al...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Matache C,Stefanescu M,Onu A,Szegli G,Barel M,Tanaseanu S,Matei I,Bouillie S,Frade R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a myocardial disease characterized by progressive depression of myocardial contractile function and by ventricular dilatation. Abnormalities of the cellular and humoral immune system are present in patients with myocarditis and DCM. Various circulating cardiac autoantibodies have been d...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Felix SB,Staudt A,Friedrich GB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of the immunosuppressive effect of antithyroid drugs has been a subject of controversy. It has been claimed that these agents exert a direct effect on the immune system, although we and others have suggested that the drugs affect the thyroid cells primarily with consequent reduced thyrocyte-immunocyte signa...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Aguayo J,Michaud P,Iitaka M,Degroot LJ,Row VV,Volpé R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust and precise enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with proven sensitivity and specificity has been employed to detect human antibodies (allogenic/autogenic) to human acetylcholinesterase (AChE). The sensitivity of the method has been established using mouse monoclonal antibodies (0.8 ng/ml) and uniquely, ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Geen J,Howells RC,Ludgate M,Hullin DA,Hogg SI

更新日期：2004-12-01 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