Mannose-binding lectin is present in human semen and modulates cellular adhesion of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in vitro.

abstract：:The human body is populated by a large number of microorganisms and exist in symbiosis with these immensely diverse communities, which are suggested to influence health and disease. The microbiota plays an essential role in the maturation and function of the immune system. The prevalence of atopic diseases has increas...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nibbering B,Ubags NDJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress known to stimulate sympathetic activity, as well as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), produces a significant increase in adrenomedullin (AdM) levels, suggesting a regulatory or protective role for AdM in countering HPA activation that follows a variety of stressors. Stressors can modulate the secre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yildirim NC,Yurekli M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the role of three mouse distinct non-H-2 genes (Bcg, Tbc-1, xid) in several phenomena of antituberculosis immunity and resistance. On the basis of median survival time (MST) of mice following infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, Bcg gene did not control resistance to the lethal dos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nikonenko BV,Apt AS,Mezhlumova MB,Avdienko VG,Yeremeev VV,Moroz AM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon (IFN)-gamma exert detrimental effects in organ-specific autoimmune disease, while both destructive and protective roles have been demonstrated for interleukin (IL)-10, IL-4 and IL-5. We examined the production of these cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nielsen CH,Hegedüs L,Rieneck K,Moeller AC,Leslie RG,Bendtzen K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small molecule metabolites that are produced or altered by host-associated microbial communities are emerging as significant immune response modifiers. However, there is a key gap in our knowledge of how oral microbial metabolites affect the immune response. Here, we examined the effects of metabolites from five bacte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Whiteson K,Agrawal S,Agrawal A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of apoptosis, particularly in the Fas/Fas ligand (FasL) pathway, is considered to be involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Recently, a soluble decoy receptor, termed decoy receptor 3 (DcR3), that binds FasL and inhibits FasL-induced apoptosis, has...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Otsuki T,Tomokuni A,Sakaguchi H,Aikoh T,Matsuki T,Isozaki Y,Hyodoh F,Ueki H,Kusaka M,Kita S,Ueki A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy has, besides the beneficial effects, several adverse effects. Suppression of the immune system is one of the most important problems. Infections caused by encapsulated bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae are responsible for a major part of infectious problems during and after treatment. The splenic mar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zandvoort A,Lodewijk ME,Klok PA,Breukels MA,Rijkers GT,Timens W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) CD25(+) regulatory T cells produce the anti-inflammatory cytokines transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta or interleukin (IL)-10. Regulatory T cells have been recognized to suppress autoimmunity and promote self-tolerance. These cells may also facilitate pathogen persistence by down-regulating the host defence r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mason CM,Porretta E,Zhang P,Nelson S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cells in normal human Peyer's patches and in primary B cell lymphomas of the stomach have been characterized in terms of their cellular morphology and their reactivity with a panel of monoclonal antibodies. A population of B cells is present in normal and malignant gut-associated lymphoid tissue which is composed of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Spencer J,Finn T,Pulford KA,Mason DY,Isaacson PG

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural characteristics of autologous red blood cell (ARBC) receptors on human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) were examined. Tunicamycin, which is known to be a blocker of the protein glycosylation of N-glycosidic type glycoprotein, significantly inhibited the production...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hyodo S,Kishi T,Kashiwa H,Kittaka E,Suzawa T,Tanaka Y,Sakano T,Usui T

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been proposed that theophylline activates T suppressor systems in vivo and this evidence is further supported by the ability of the drug to attenuate the allograft rejection in humans and in experimental animals. In this study the acute effects of aminophylline on human peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pardi R,Zocchi MR,Ferrero E,Ciboddo GF,Inverardi L,Rugarli C

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on studies in animal models, viral infections, in particular by enteroviruses, can accelerate or halt type 1 diabetes (T1D) development. Among factors that determine the outcome are the degree of viral replication in the target organ (viral titres), the tropism of the virus for beta cells, and the precise time-p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Filippi CM,von Herrath MG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful T cell activation via the T cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex requires at least one contact-dependent second signal delivered by costimulatory molecules, including the B7/BB1 molecule, that are present on antigen-presenting cells (APC). SLE is characterized by multiple complex lymphocyte abnormalities of unde...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sfikakis PP,Oglesby R,Sfikakis P,Tsokos GC

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymph nodes of mice overloaded with mycobacterial products, either by the injection of whole or ultrasonicated organisms, or as a consequence of severe infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans, contain phagocytic cells which cause spontaneous transformation of the lymph node cells in a low volume, high cell density c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rook GA

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum cytokine levels and peripheral T cell subpopulations of HIV-1-infected patients before, during and after active visceral leishmaniasis (VL) were analysed and compared with appropriate controls. At VL diagnosis, co-infected patients showed higher serum levels of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) than matched HIV-1 con...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Medrano FJ,Rey C,Leal M,Cañavate C,Rubio A,Sánchez-Quijano A,Alvar J,Lissen E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranous nephropathy (MN), the leading cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults, is characterized by the deposition of subepithelial immune deposits that consist mainly of immunoglobulin (Ig)G and complement. Most of the cases are primary or idiopathic (iMN), while only approximately 25% of the cases are secondary to s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sinico RA,Mezzina N,Trezzi B,Ghiggeri GM,Radice A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of circulating T lymphocytes (ET-RFC) and a sub-population of T lymphocytes (EE-RFC) were monitored in the blood of seventy-one cadaver renal allograft recipients for the first 2 months after transplantation. In patients with uneventful post-operative courses, the incidence of both ET-RFC and EE-RFC fell...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kelly GE,Sheil AG

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been developed for separating eosinophils from other types of leucocyte in normal individuals. Erythrocytes are sedimented with dextran, and mononuclear cells are removed on an isotonic density gradient of ficoll and sodium diatrizoate. The eosinophils and neutrophils are then washed and sedimented onto p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tai PC,Spry CJ

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An injection of human renal tubular fraction, Fx1A, with Freund's complete adjuvant in rats induces Heymann nephritis (HN) with clinical and morphological features similar to rat Fx1A-induced HN. The present study was undertaken to characterize antibody specificities and the corresponding antigen involved in human Fx1...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Natori Y,Hayakawa I,Shibata S

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of circulating anti-La(SS-B) antibody to the hypergammaglobulinaemia seen in primary Sjögren's syndrome is unknown. In this study levels of anti-La(SS-B) antibody directed against three immunodominant epitopes of the anti-La(SS-B) autoantigen were measured by ELISA in 84 anti-La(SS-B)+ sera using puri...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gordon TP,Greer M,Reynolds P,Guidolin A,McNeilage LJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a chronic dermal complication that occurs usually after recovery from visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The disease manifests into macular, papular and/or nodular clinical types with mono- or polymorphic presentations. Here, we investigated differences in immunological response...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kaushal H,Bras-Gonçalves R,Avishek K,Kumar Deep D,Petitdidier E,Lemesre JL,Papierok G,Kumar S,Ramesh V,Salotra P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study which included 16 patients with inflammatory or non-inflammatory arthropathies, human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating activity was detected in synovial fluid. This was attributable to the presence of colony-stimulating factor(s) (CSF), as a direct action on human bone marrow progenitor cells wa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Williamson DJ,Begley CG,Vadas MA,Metcalf D

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of polyclonal and monoclonal anti-human IgE sera reacted with a panel of 11 selected IgA and IgM producing B lymphoblastoid cell lines (BLCLs) in cytoplasmic fluorescence, ELISA and immunoprecipitation assays. The reactions were discordant between the BLCLs and the individual antisera. The panel of 11 BLCLs w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hendriks RW,Thompson A,Kraakman ME,Drayer AL,Schuurman RK

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described which can be used to quantitate class II MHC antigens (HLA-DR) expressed by cells within tissue sections. A mouse anti-human HLA-DR monoclonal antibody is directly conjugated to the fungal enzyme glucose oxidase. The enzyme, in the presence of its substrate can be used to reduce tetrazolium salts...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Collings LA,Tidman N,Poulter LW

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood natural killer (NK) activity was analysed from 32 asthma patients and 13 control donors. Male patients and female patients with atopic asthma had significantly stronger NK activity against the leukaemic cell line K-562. Fractionation of patient mononuclear cells by discontinuous density gradient centr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Timonen T,Stenius-Aarniala B

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:In this paper, we report the presence on Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines on platelets and on fibroblasts of an HLA-B27-associated cell surface complex (antigenically related to some antigens of Klebsiella K43 and K21) which is identical to or cross-reactive with the determinant present on the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alexander K,Edwards C,Misko IS,Geczy AF,Bashir HV,Edmonds JP

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal candidiasis is one of the first opportunistic diseases in HIV-infected subjects. In order to understand the relationship between this disease and immunodeficiency to chemically defined, immunodominant Candida antigens, a mannoprotein fraction from C. albicans cell wall (GMP) was used to analyse proliferative a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Quinti I,Palma C,Guerra EC,Gomez MJ,Mezzaroma I,Aiuti F,Cassone A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of IL-12 in host resistance to Cryptococcus neoformans using a murine model of pulmonary and disseminated infection. In this model, mice were infected intratracheally with viable yeast cells. Mice untreated with IL-12 allowed an uncontrolled multiplication of yeast cells in the lung with infiltrat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kawakami K,Tohyama M,Xie Q,Saito A

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody titres to whole ovary, theca cells, granulosa cells and endometrium were determined by passive haemagglutination and immunofluorescence assays in sera and in cervical and vaginal secretions from 13 patients with endometriosis. Antibody titres to endometrium (mean log2 +/- s.e.m., 7.08 +/- 0.80; P less than 0....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mathur S,Peress MR,Williamson HO,Youmans CD,Maney SA,Garvin AJ,Rust PF,Fudenberg HH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00