CTLs' repertoire shaping in the thymus: a Monte Carlo simulation.

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：: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：:Agalactosyl IgG (Gal(0) is a glycoform lacking terminal galactose from the oligosaccharides situated on the Fc. The percentage of circulating IgG that is Gal(0) is increased in a a number of autoimmune diseases, and in certain chronic infections associated with autoantibody production. However it is not known whether ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pilkington C,Yeung E,Isenberg D,Lefvert AK,Rook GA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flow cytometry-based phagocytosis assay was developed and utilized to measure the LE cell phenomenon at the single cell level in vitro. Since the lupus erythematosus (LE) cell phenomenon is a special form of necro-phagocytosis in the presence of anti-dsDNA antibodies, dead substrate cells or chicken erythrocytes nuc...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Böhm I

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:The cytokine profile and occurrence of apoptosis during experimental melanin-protein induced uveitis (EMIU) were investigated and compared with that of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU). EMIU or EAU was induced in Lewis rats. Eyes were collected at different time points after immunization. Cytokine mRNA expr...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Li Q,Sun B,Matteson DM,O'Brien TP,Chan CC

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:We have used the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique to assess the expression of cytokine genes in various T cell subsets of autoimmune-prone mice. Our study confirmed the previously described features in lpr mice that IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, and TNF-beta were transcribed by various T cell...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mori K,Kobayashi S,Inobe M,Jia WY,Tamakoshi M,Miyazaki T,Uede T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet-infiltrating lymphocytes of individual male and female non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice were examined with the purpose of determining the differences that lead to a predominance of diabetes in female versus males NOD mice. When normalized for the amount of islet lymphocytes recovered, the infiltrating lymphocytes o...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Young EF,Hess PR,Arnold LW,Tisch R,Frelinger JA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is postulated to be a target autoantigen in multiple sclerosis (MS). Here we investigated the encephalitogenicity of an immunodominant epitope of MOG, peptide 35-55, in various strains of mice. An MS-like disease was induced in NOD/Lt mice (H-2g7) and C57BL/6 mice (H-2b) by a ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Slavin A,Ewing C,Liu J,Ichikawa M,Slavin J,Bernard CC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pemphigus vulgaris is a potentially fatal autoimmune mucocutaneous disease associated with production of IgG autoantibodies to desmoglein 3, a 130 kDa epidermal protein. To further characterize the epitope(s) of pemphigus vulgaris antigen we established two human-human hybridoma by fusion of the peripheral blood monon...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bhol KC,Ahmed AR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid lymphocyte RNA from a Hashimoto patient exhibiting high titre serum IgG autoantibodies against thyroglobulin (Tg) has been used to construct a Fab library in phage lambda. Screening of this library with radioiodinated Tg has permitted the cloning of an anti-Tg antibody (MH52) with an affinity of 4.5 x 10(9) mo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hexham JM,Furmaniak J,Pegg C,Burton DR,Smith BR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system involves both the innate and the adaptive immune systems and has important roles in the pathogenesis of SLE. Complement deficiencies within the classical pathway (C1q, C4 and C2) of activation predispose for development of the autoimmune disease SLE. The association between complement deficiencie...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Truedsson L,Bengtsson AA,Sturfelt G

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Immune profiling of non-obese diabetic (NOD) is a widely employed tool to assess the mechanisms of inflammatory insulitis. Our analysis of the female NOD colony revealed similar distribution of lymphoid lineages to wild type mice, and at various ages of prediabetic and diabetic mice. The profiles of mesenteric and pan...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kaminitz A,Mizrahi K,Askenasy N

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：: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：: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：:TGF-beta1 is a pleiotropic cytokine, which prevents inappropriate autoimmune responses and balances the requirements of proper immune cell levels during pathologic states that trigger the immune response. We assessed the serum levels of TGF-beta1 and determined the relationship between TGF-beta1 and clinical parameter...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mieliauskaite D,Venalis P,Dumalakiene I,Venalis A,Distler J

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Atherosclerosis is initiated by cholesterol entry into arteries that triggers chronic immune-inflammatory lesions in the vessels. Early lesions are clinically insignificant but advanced complex lesions and vulnerable rupture prone lesions impact on quality of life and can be life threatening. Rupture of vulnerable ath...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kyaw T,Tipping P,Bobik A,Toh BH

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous human Cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs) associated with 'phase I' drug metabolism have been identified. Among them, CYP2D6 is thought to be the major target autoantigen to anti-liver kidney microsome (LKM)-1 autoantibody, a characteristic feature of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) type II. In this study, we were able...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Miyakawa H,Kitazawa E,Kikuchi K,Fujikawa H,Kawaguchi N,Abe K,Matsushita M,Matsushima H,Igarashi T,Hankins RW,Kako M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Increased prevalence of atherosclerosis may explain part of this enhanced risk, but SLE related CVD can also result from other mechanisms. Vascular events may be the result of several pathophysiologic ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Gustafsson JT,Svenungsson E

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune-prone NZB x NZW F1 (B/W F1) mice produce a high titer of anti-DNA antibodies, In vivo and in vitro studies showed that in the early life of these mice, the immunoglobulin isotype of these antibodies almost exclusively belongs to IgM class, however, IgG anti-DNA antibodies begin to develop when the mice are ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Okada T,Abe M,Takiura F,Hirose S,Shirai T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On different tissue sections, binding of gliadin to reticular matrix components was observed which was Ca2+-dependent, inhibited by Cu2+ and Zn2+ ions, by putrescine, and by preincubation with antibodies against tissue transglutaminase (tTG) suggesting that binding of gliadin is mediated by tTG. tTG was able to bind t...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Uhlig H,Osman AA,Tanev ID,Viehweg J,Mothes T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the frequency of occurrence of autoantibodies against beta1-adrenoceptors in patients with hepatitis virus myocarditis (HVM) and its possible correlation with clinical characteristics. A total of 103 patients with viral myocarditis were divided into a positive group (HVM group, n=2...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Wang ZH,Liao YH,Fu M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported a patient who gave birth to 3 children with transient neonatal hypothyroidism. She had 3 different antibodies (Ab) to the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) in her serum, viz., TSH binding-inhibiting (TBIAb), thyroid-stimulating (TSAb) and an additional stimulating Ab (SAb). The SAb differed from TSAb in that its...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zakarija M,De Forteza R,McKenzie JM,Ghandur-Mnaymneh L

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess muscle strength in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) using neuromuscular scales and isokinetic testing. METHODS:Muscle function was evaluated in 27 IIM patients being followed at the Rheumatology Unit of the University of Pisa using: (i) a modified version of the grading system...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Neri R,Mosca M,Stampacchia G,Vesprini E,Tavoni A,d'Ascanio A,Bombardieri S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with severe Evans syndrome received an allo-BMT from his HLA-identical sister on November, 2000. Full marrow and blood donor chimerism were achieved only after 5 donor lymphocyte infusions (DLI), and coincided with complete clinical remission and disappearence of auto-antibodies. Five years later, hemolytic ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Marmont AM,Gualandi F,Occhini D,Morandi F,Ferretti E,Pezzolo A,Strada P,Ravetti JL,Pistoia V,Falanga A,Bacigalupo A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A minor subset of murine MHC class I-restricted T cells which express both the alphabeta form of the T cell receptor and a NK lineage marker, termed NKT cells, is capable of secreting significant amounts of Interleukin-4 and Interferon-y upon activation. As such NKT cells may play a role in development of Th1 and Th2 ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Frey AB,Rao TD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00