Induction of β-defensins by l-isoleucine as novel immunotherapy in experimental murine tuberculosis.

abstract：:Clustering activity for neutrophil granulocytes was generated in pooled normal human serum (NHS) by incubation of the serum with preformed IgG aggregates, but not in heat-treated NHS (56 degrees C, 30 min), indicating that the function was complement-dependent. Judging from results of experiments with complement-defic...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sturfelt G,Jonsson H,Hellmer G,Sjöholm AG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an autoimmune hepatitis model of A/J mice which was prepared with immunization by syngeneic crude liver proteins, various influences of neonatal thymectomy were studied by observations of histological liver changes, autoantibody to liver-specific membrane lipoprotein (LSP), delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Watanabe Y,Kawakami H,Kawamoto H,Ikemoto Y,Masuda K,Takezaki E,Nakanishi T,Kajiyama G,Takeno H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell lines (MOLT-4 and SOMMER-T) were injected into rabbits and monkeys (stumptail and squirrel monkeys). Rabbit anti-MOLT serum was absorbed with human liver and cultured B cells. Absorbed anti-MOLT serum was cytotoxic to lymphocytes of baboons and stumptail monkeys. Rabbit anti-MOLT and SOMMER-T sera after a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takada A,Babbitt H,Hayata I,Takada Y

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural Killer (NK) cell activity against K562 target cells was measured in 21 female patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (primary SS) and in 20 female normal controls matched for age. The in vitro effect of alpha-interferon (IF) and interleukin 2 (IL-2) on NK cell activity was examined and the percentage of larg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pedersen BK,Oxholm P,Manthorpe R,Andersen V

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of T cells in the pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not yet certain, although varying reports have shown increases in T helper 1 (Th1) and/or Th2 cytokines in peripheral blood and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). No studies have examined cytokine production by intraepithelial T c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hodge G,Nairn J,Holmes M,Reynolds PN,Hodge S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell mediated immunity (CMI) to hepatitis B viral antigens was studied in BALB/mice after immunization with purified hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), or core antigen (HBcAg), with adjuvants. The two in vitro assays for cell-mediated immunity (CMI), utilizing lymph node cells, were release of interferon after expos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： De Moerloose PA,Frazer IH,Sewell WA,Collins EJ,Mackay IR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that monocytes may play an active role in thrombogenesis, since they may express on their surface tissue factor, the major initiator of the clotting cascade. The results of this investigation demonstrate beta-2-glycoprotein I (beta2-GPI) mRNA expression by human peripheral blood monocytes, indicating ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Conti F,Sorice M,Circella A,Alessandri C,Pittoni V,Caronti B,Calderaro C,Griggi T,Misasi R,Valesini G

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:Summary Herpes simplex virus (HSV) represents a smart pathogen, which displays both lytic and latent modes of interaction with its natural human host. In order to be optimally equipped for immune evasion and to reply to any attacks of the host during reactivation, HSV has developed a multitude of cleverly devised defe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Novak N,Peng WM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the increase in C3 and C4 levels in jejunal perfusates of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) results from local intestinal synthesis of complement. The present study evaluated the expression of these complement genes in inflamed tissues from patients with CD. Surgically resected specimens fr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Laufer J,Oren R,Goldberg I,Horwitz A,Kopolovic J,Chowers Y,Passwell JH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) remains the only available and most widely administered vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), yet it fails to protect vaccinated individuals either from primary infection or reactivation of latent tuberculosis (TB). Despite BCG's variable efficacy against TB, the fact remains...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Siddiqui KF,Amir M,Khan N,Rama Krishna G,Sheikh JA,Rajagopal K,Agrewala JN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that peripheral blood monocytes from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a defect in stimulating autologous and allogeneic T lymphocytes. This defect was found to correlate with disease activity. In this report we demonstrate that prothymosin alpha (ProT alpha), a rat thymus fracti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Reclos GJ,Baxevanis CN,Sfagos C,Papageorgiou C,Tsokos GC,Papamichail M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that the peanut agglutinin (PNA) receptor and/or its co-ordinate structures on the surface of leukaemia cells might be recognized by lectin free crude interleukin-2 (IL-2) activated human peripheral blood lymphocytes (LAK) was investigated. Analysis was undertaken of the correlation between the sensiti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gotoh YI,Minegishi M,Yamaguchi Y,Konno T,Tada K

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty sera reacting by IFL technique in titres greater than or equal to 100 with smooth muscle fibres of rat stomach, rat renal glomeruli, and with the membrane region of thyroid cells were randomly chosen among sera sent in for routine testing of tissue antibodies. All sera but one were found to be derived from pati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lidman K,Biberfeld G,Fagraeus A,Norberg R,Torstensson R,Utter G,Carlsson L,Luca J,Lindberg U

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is associated with depression of T cell-dependent immune reactivity with proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, playing an important role. Recent investigations describe an association between these immunological alterations and disturbances of the endocrine system, related most ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hildebrand F,Pape HC,Harwood P,Wittwer T,Krettek C,van Griensven M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human IgD myeloma proteins are shown to have a high carbohydrate content (9-18%) and to exhibit the same heterogeneity in carbohydrate content and composition as myeloma protein of the other immunoglobulin classes. All IgD proteins studied contain N-acetylgalactosamine which is contained in a carbohydrate moiety attac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jefferis R,Butwell AJ,Clamp JR

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an idiopathic systemic autoimmune disease. It is characterized by a triad of hallmarks: immune dysfunction, fibrosis and vasculopathy. Immune dysfunction in SSc is characterized by the activation and recruitment of immune cells and the production of autoantibodies and cytokines. How immune ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brown M,O'Reilly S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) promotes CD4(+) T-cell proliferation both directly and indirectly through dendritic cell (DC) activation. Although human TSLP-activated DCs induce CD8(+) T-cell proliferation, it is not clear whether TSLP acts directly on CD8(+) T cells. In this study, we show that human CD8(+...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Akamatsu T,Watanabe N,Kido M,Saga K,Tanaka J,Kuzushima K,Nishio A,Chiba T

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to test a published claim that the inclusion of Mycobacterium leprae antigens with a tuberculin skin test reagent can suppress delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to tuberculin in both paucibacillary and multibacillary leprosy cases, 109 leprosy cases and 104 non-leprosy controls were skin-tested simultaneous...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fine PE,Gruer PJ,Maine N,Ponnighaus JM,Rees RJ,Stanford JL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of human T cell subsets, CD4+ or CD8+ T cells, to produce tumour necrosis factors (TNF-alpha and TNF-beta) upon stimulation with toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) and the requirement for MHC class II molecules on accessory cells (AC) in the response were investigated. The capacity of CD4+ T cells was ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Akatsuka H,Imanishi K,Inada K,Yamashita H,Yoshida M,Uchiyama T

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF-1 plays an important role in female reproduction and normal embryo development. To understand further CSF-1 function in normal and, especially, in compromised pregnancy, we studied the pattern of its mRNA expression as well as expression of its receptor (c-fms) in the uteroplacental units of mice with induced (cyc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gorivodsky M,Torchinsky A,Shepshelovich J,Savion S,Fein A,Carp H,Toder V

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb), a diagnostic hallmark of HT, is principally of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype, and it appears to be a response to thyroid injury. The aim of our study was to evaluate the distribution of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xie LD,Gao Y,Li MR,Lu GZ,Guo XH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of B cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) to produce and secrete immunoglobulin following mitogen stimulation was investigated using sensitive radioimmunoassays for mu, gamma, alpha, kappa, and lambda immunoglobulin chains. Lymphocytes from seven of the 11 patients studied secreted...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Johnstone AP,Jensenius JC,Millard RE,Hudson L

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graves' disease (GD) is characterized by the presence of autoantibodies against the TSH-receptor (TSH-R) which are pathogenic and, upon binding to the receptor, trigger intracellular signal transduction. The autoantibodies are oligoclonal and as they are responsible for disease activity, their characterization would l...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Der Heijden JH,De Bruin TW,Glaudemans KA,De Kruif J,Banga JP,Logtenberg T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An original representative of histamine-containing peptidomimetics L-glutamyl-histamine (L-Glu-Hist) was synthesized and characterized as a cytokine mimic leading to cellular responses of improved specificity. The energy-minimized 3-D conformations of L-Glu-Hist derived from its chemical structure resulted in stabiliz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Babizhayev MA,Semiletov YA,Lul'kin YA,Sakina NL,Savel'yeva EL,Alimbarova LM,Barinskii IP

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments to evaluate the effect of the level and duration of endotoxaemia on the meningeal inflammatory response were performed in order to determine if systemic inflammation alters meningitis. Rabbits received either saline or Escherichia coli O111:B4 lipopolysacharide (LPS) intravenously at various doses (1, 3 or...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： O'Reilly T,Ostergaard C,Vaxelaire J,Zak O

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the usefulness of a fast (48-h) limiting dilution assay (LDA) for the enumeration of human alloreactive helper T lymphocytes (HTL) in the peripheral blood, in relation to histologically defined rejection grades after heart transplantation. HTL frequencies (HTLf) in pretransplant samples varied from patient...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vaessen LM,Daane CR,Maat AP,Balk AH,Claas FH,Weimar W

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to normal children, pre-natally infected infants had significantly elevated IgM concentrations throughout the first year of life and elevated IgA levels for the first 6 months. In contrast, IgG levels dropped significantly below normal at 3 months post-partum. Infants born without overt disease but with eleva...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： McMurray DN,Rey H

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression of one or more parameters of cellular and/or humoral immune responses was found in 60% of general hospital patients treated with phenytoin and 47% of patients treated with carbamazepine. Phenytoin-treated patients failed to manifest delayed hypersensitivity (DHS) reactions to common antigens, and to make an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sorrell TC,Forbes IJ

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte transformation test has often been used as an in vitro test for nickel allergy. We have previously demonstrated the presence of nickel-reactive T cells in individuals with no history of allergic disease and with a negative patch test towards NiSO4. In this study, we show that this proliferative response was...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lisby S,Hansen LH,Menn T,Baadsgaard O

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00