Introduction: knowledge is survival-the mission of the immune system and its stochastic simulations.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recent studies have revealed the presence of zinc and the expression of zinc transporter (ZnT) family members in most endocrine cell types. It was demonstrated that ZnT family plays an important role in the synthesis and secretion of many hormones. Moreover, recently ZnT8 was described as a newly islet aut...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bossowski A,Stożek K,Rydzewska M,Niklińska W,Gąsowska M,Polnik D,Szalecki M,Mikłosz A,Chabowski A,Reszeć J

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NZB (H-2d) mice are well known for the production of IgM autoantibodies to ssDNA. However, an F1 cross between NZB and either NZW or SWR mice is required to produce IgG nephritogenic antibodies to dsDNA and glomerulonephritis. The contribution of parental class II loci in the hybrid mice is clearly important to the de...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Cawley D,Chiang BL,Ansari A,Gershwin ME

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that lymphoid cells from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) mice with established disease migrate aberrantly. This study evaluates the abnormal lymphocyte migration patterns found in MRL-lpr/lpr (MRL/l) mice in relation to age, disease manifestations and the expression of lymphocyte homing ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Schrieber L,Manolios N,Cohen MG,Paull SA,Guiffre AK,Hopper KE

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is a rare and acquired autoimmune subepidermal bullous disease of skin and mucosa. EBA includes various distinct clinical manifestations resembling genetic dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB), Bullous pemphigus, Brunsting-Perry pemphigoid, or cicatricial pemphigoid. These patie...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Chen M,Kim GH,Prakash L,Woodley DT

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible immunosuppressive action of antithyroid drugs in vivo has been assessed using Buffalo (Buf) strain rats with thyroiditis produced by neonatal thymectomy; this model shares many features with spontaneous thyroiditis in man. Both propylthiouracil and methimazole significantly reduced the severity of thyroid...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Cohen SB,Weetman AP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is a systemic vasculitis characterized by IgA-containing deposits in the skin, joints, gastrointestinal mucosa and glomeruli. HSP is much rarer in adults than in children. Among a number of other pathogenic factors, Helicobacter pylori (Hp) has recently been implicated in the ga...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Novák J,Szekanecz Z,Sebesi J,Takáts A,Demeter P,Bene L,Sipka S,Csiki Z

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell receptor (BcR) signaling requires a tight regulation of several protein tyrosine kinases and phosphatases, and associated co-receptors. Mounting evidence indicates that abnormal BcR signaling, such as occurs in SHP-1 and Lyn-deficient mice, results in production of pathogenic autoantibodies and lupus-like glome...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Huck S,Le Corre R,Youinou P,Zouali M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study is to characterise the functionally relevant minor lymphocyte subpopulations in whole blood of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and their potential utility as biomarkers for treatment follow up. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Peripheral blood from 40 healthy donors (HD) and 66 MS patients [...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Teniente-Serra A,Grau-López L,Mansilla MJ,Fernández-Sanmartín M,Ester Condins A,Ramo-Tello C,Martínez-Cáceres E

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous insulin treatment of young diabetes prone BB rats has been shown previously to suppress the development of autoimmune diabetes. In this study the hypothesis was tested that exogenous insulin may deviate the autoimmune process by acting on the Th1/Th2 cytokine balance in the pancreas. BB rats were implante...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kolb H,Wörz-Pagenstert U,Kleemann R,Rothe H,Rowsell P,Rastegar S,Scott FW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Polymorphisms in the upstream regulatory region of the HLA class II DQA1 gene are currently defined by 10 different alleles. Two of them carrying a Y-box mutation are associated with susceptibility to oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (OA-JIA). We investigated allele-dependent differences in HLA-DQA1 gene e...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Haas JP,Metzler M,Frank C,Haefner R,Wassmuth R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (mAb) produced against native human thyroid peroxidase (TPO) are powerful tools for analyzing the autoantibody (Aab) epitopes on TPO. Binding sites of thirteen mAbs cover all or most antigenic regions on TPO. We determined the competition between Aabs from 75 AITD patients and 13 mAbs in b...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Czarnocka B,Pastuszko D,Carayon P,Ruf J,Gardas A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies directed towards identifying epitopes on type II collagen (CII) important in collagen induced arthritis (CIA) in mice have focused primarily on responses mounted in susceptible H-2q strains. However, the nature of T and B cell responses against CII in susceptible H-2r strains remains ill-defined. In a...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Nabozny GH,Griffiths MM,Harper DS,Luthra HS,David CS

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:We have previously derived and identified a highly avid monoclonal IgM rheumatoid factor (mRF), C6, from unstimulated rheumatoid synovial cells (RSC). At the time, the closet VH germline gene, VH26, demonstrated only 88% homology with C6. To identify the germline counterpart of C6, genomic DNA from the same rheumatoid...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Wong A,Tait R,Kenny T,Gorin F,Robbins D

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Augmented and prolonged expression of CD40 ligand (CD40L) was recently reported in lymphoid cells from human lupus patients, suggesting that CD40/CD40L pathway was involved in the pathogenesis of systemic autoimmune diseases. This study was thus designed to study the expression of CD40 and CD40L among cell populations...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Liu MF,Chao SC,Wang CR,Lei HY

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Anti-M2 of anti-mitochondrial antibody (AMA) is a serological marker of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). Anti-pyruvate dehydrogenase complex-E2 (anti-PDC-E2) is recognized as the most frequently occurring anti-M2, and a routine laboratory test for this antibody has already been established. However, it is also known t...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Miyakawa H,Abe K,Kitazawa E,Kikuchi K,Fujikawa H,Matsushita M,Kawaguchi N,Kako M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-adressin binding is a critical step in lymphocte attachment to target tissues. The mucosal recognition systems (alpha E beta 7, alpha 4 beta 7, MADcam-1) have been implicated in the autoimmune process in rheumatoid arthritis. We developed a model for in vivo study of radio-labelled lymphocyte circulation and ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Jorgensen C,Couret I,Canovas F,Bologna C,Brochier J,Reme T,Sany J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 1beta (IL-1) is cytotoxic to rat pancreatic beta-cells in vitro, and increased expression of IL-1 mRNA is found in the islets of Langerhans during development of diabetes in BB/Wor/Mol-BB2 (BB-DP) rats and NOD mice. It has been proposed that IL-1 induces a race between protective and deleterious proteins i...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Christensen UB,Larsen PM,Fey SJ,Andersen HU,Nawrocki A,Sparre T,Mandrup-Poulsen T,Nerup J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of interleukin-6 (IL-6)-174G > C (rs1800795) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) with the risk of acquiring rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a relevant issue because of conflicting and consensus lacking reports published in literature. We investigated IL-6-174G > C promoter polymorphism in 34 RA patients,...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Dar SA,Haque S,Mandal RK,Singh T,Wahid M,Jawed A,Panda AK,Akhter N,Lohani M,Areeshi MY,Rai G,Datt S,Bhattacharya SN,Ramachandran VG,Das S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by pancreatic beta cell destruction involving auto-reactive T-cells, pro-inflammatory cytokines, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and loss of insulin. Monozygotic twin studies show a 20-60% concordance with T1D indicating there may be an environmental component...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bekris LM,Shephard C,Peterson M,Hoehna J,Van Yserloo B,Rutledge E,Farin F,Kavanagh TJ,Lernmark A

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：: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：:The functional and phenotypic characteristics of lymphocytes separated from myasthenic thymoma (Th-L) were compared with those of lymphocytes separated from non-thymomatous thymus associated with thymoma (NTh-L) of the same patients and NTh-L of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients without thymoma. We examined whether Th-L...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Takahashi K,Saito S,Monden Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental myasthenia gravis (EMG) was elicited in female AO rats, 8-12 weeks of age, by injection of 100 micrograms/rat Torpedo marmorata acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-protein incorporated in CFA. Bordetella pertussis, 24 x 10(9) microorganisms, rat, was injected simultaneously as additional adjuvant. Rats were sac...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Damjanović M,Vidić-Danković B,Kosec D,Isaković K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of research have provided strong evidence for a reciprocal relationship between the immune system and hormones of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis. Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), in particular, has been shown to have a variety of immune-regulating cytokine-like activities that can influence th...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Klein JR

更新日期：2003-09-01 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