Abstract:
:The extent to which symptomatic improvement in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with intravenous methylprednisolone depends on immunological actions of corticosteroids is unknown. In this study the effect of methylprednisolone on circulating T and B cell function has been assessed in vitro and in vivo. Low molar concentrations of methylprednisolone increased pokeweed mitogen-stimulated IgG synthesis by unfractionated lymphocytes in 20 patients with multiple sclerosis and 15 controls. Treatment with methylprednisolone was associated with increased IgG synthesis in a further cohort of 26 affected individuals although dose responsiveness to methylprednisolone was uninfluenced in these patients. Sequential concanavalin A-pokeweed mitogen-induced IgG synthesis by mononuclear cells was also stimulated by methylprednisolone. Phenotypic analysis of paired samples from 12 patients with multiple sclerosis, taken before and after treatment showed no alteration in CD4 or CD8 cells, their suppressor inducer or suppressor subpopulations or activated lymphocytes.
journal_name
J Neuroimmunoljournal_title
Journal of neuroimmunologyauthors
Kirk P,Compston Adoi
10.1016/0165-5728(90)90114-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-01-01 00:00:00pages
1-8issue
1eissn
0165-5728issn
1872-8421pii
0165-5728(90)90114-3journal_volume
26pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2011.04.003
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Immunological responses to protect against excessive inflammation can be regulated by the central nervous system through the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway wherein acetylcholine released from vagus nerves can inhibit inflammatory cytokines. Although a role for the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7 nAChR) ...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2011.08.007
更新日期:2011-10-28 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2018.04.006
更新日期:2018-07-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00163-x
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this study we evaluated the percentages of CD3(-)CD56(bright), CD3(-)CD56(dim), CD3(-)CD56(bright)perforin(+) and CD3(-)CD56(dim)perforin(+) Natural Killer (NK) cells in peripheral blood from untreated secondary progressive (SP) and primary progressive (PP) multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and age and sex matched h...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.10.004
更新日期:2013-12-15 00:00:00
abstract::Growing evidence suggests a role for brain-gut-microbiota axis in affective disorders including major depression and bipolar disorder (BD). Herein, we aim to explore, by employing germ-free (GF) mice, the effect of the indigenous microbiota in the development of mania-like behavior. Conventional and GF mice were evalu...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2020.577292
更新日期:2020-06-16 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00075-1
更新日期:1997-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) infection is a well-characterized model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Previous research has shown that chronic restraint stress (RS) during early TMEV infection exacerbates behavioral signs of the disease. The present data suggest that RS-induced increases in CNS inflammat...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.01.015
更新日期:2010-03-30 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2015.05.009
更新日期:2015-07-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2008.12.006
更新日期:2009-03-31 00:00:00
abstract::We have recently demonstrated that ConA-induced suppressor cell function is defective in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). To assess whether this defect plays a role in disease activity and its reversal is important in recovery, we studied modifications of ConA-induced suppressor cell function ...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00266-5
更新日期:1999-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Immunoelectron microscopical techniques have been used to study class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) expression by cells in the spinal cords of Biozzi AB/H mice with chronic relapsing experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. Throughout the course of disease both astrocytes and endothelia failed to express s...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0165-5728(91)90032-3
更新日期:1991-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2007.11.002
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The perpetuation of the inflammatory process in multiple sclerosis (MS) may arise from the failure to eliminate potentially pathogenic autoreactive lymphocytes by programmed cell death (apoptosis). Such impairment may be caused by multiple abnormalities of apoptosis regulatory proteins. In this study, we investigated ...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(01)00389-7
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0165-5728(95)00009-q
更新日期:1995-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(02)00355-7
更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::To test the hypothesis of an altered central nervous system influence upon the immune system of Down's syndrome (DS) patients and in order to establish a peripheral biological marker of neuroimmune deficit, we have studied the characteristics of the beta 2-adrenergic receptor (B2AR) system in peripheral blood monocyte...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0165-5728(92)90012-a
更新日期:1992-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Transient global cerebral ischemia elicits a nearly total neuronal cell death in the hippocampal CA1 sector, accompanied by a marked microglial and astroglial proliferation. The molecular mechanisms regulating the postischemic glial reaction in the primate brain remain obscure. Here we present in situ evidence that pr...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2008.07.016
更新日期:2008-12-15 00:00:00
abstract::We previously reported that interleukin-4 (IL-4) inhibited proliferation of a human astrocytic cell line derived from non-neoplastic adult cortex. To determine whether this effect was receptor-associated and/or limited to only non-neoplastic astrocytes, we examined IL-4 responsiveness and receptor expression in human ...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0165-5728(95)00055-7
更新日期:1995-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2006.12.007
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(00)00352-0
更新日期:2000-10-02 00:00:00
abstract::Active immunization with myelin basic protein (MBP) induces experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in a variety of animal species, including rats and mice. We have previously described the ability of the newly described mouse lambda (lambda) variable (V) region V lambda x, to confer MBP reactivity to an Ab. In ...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(96)00072-0
更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Differences in the regulation of surface molecule expression and functional activity of microglia, the resident immune effector elements of the central nervous system (CNS), might give important insights into understanding the predilection sites of some diseases within the CNS. Therefore, canine microglial cells in re...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.07.017
更新日期:2010-10-08 00:00:00
abstract::The capacity of three different human glioblastoma cell lines to activate human T cells was analysed by measuring major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen expression, monokine secretion and lectin, mAb OKT3 and antigen-driven T cell proliferation. All glioblastoma cells tested were able to induce PHA and concana...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0165-5728(92)90191-m
更新日期:1992-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The in vivo relationship of interleukin-2 (IL-2) to the local humoral immune response within the central nervous system (CNS) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is hitherto largely unknown. Intrathecal levels of IL-2 and soluble IL-2 receptors (sIL-2R) were correlated to the local CNS synthesis of immunoglobulin...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0165-5728(91)90070-n
更新日期:1991-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Psychological and physical stress can alter the immune system in both humans and animals. We have reported that mice subjected to chronic 12-h daily physical restraint for 2 days showed dramatic apoptosis in splenocytes. To identify genes that contribute to the splenocyte apoptosis, we compare gene expression in the s...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2006.05.004
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0165-5728(99)00276-3
更新日期:2000-06-26 00:00:00
abstract::In the present study, we investigated the B-cell translocation gene 1 (BTG1) as a candidate for multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility. BTG1 is a member of a family of genes involved in the apoptotic process. We genotyped two SNPs of the BTG1 gene (rs731652 and rs12694) in 550 MS patients and 548 controls. For SNP rs7...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2009.05.010
更新日期:2009-08-18 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0165-5728(81)90024-2
更新日期:1981-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The role of cell surface tyrosine kinase collagen-activated receptors known as discoidin domain receptors (DDRs) is unknown in neurodegenerative diseases. We detect up-regulation in DDRs level in post-mortem Alzheimer and Parkinson brains. Lentiviral shRNA knockdown of DDR1 and DDR2 reduces the levels of α-synuclein, ...
journal_title:Journal of neuroimmunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2017.07.009
更新日期:2017-10-15 00:00:00