Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis: where to go?

abstract：:The family of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) initiates innate immune responses, and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) was considered to be an important player in the initiation and progression of atherosclerotic disease. The aim of the study was to investigate the expression of TLR4 on peripheral-blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Geng HL,Lu HQ,Zhang LZ,Zhang H,Zhou L,Wang H,Zhong RQ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha 1-Microglobulin (alpha 1-m) was purified by column chromatography from a supernatant fluid of cultured T and B lymphocytes stimulated with mitogens. This protein had a molecular weight of 33,000 as determined by sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, migrated in the alpha 1-region on i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Itoh Y,Kin K,Kasahara T,Sakurabayashi I,Kawai T,Shiori-Nakano K,Takagi K

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) recipients are immunosuppressed and are at risk for contracting severe infections. Recently, adoptive transfer of immunity against hepatitis B virus (HBV) was documented in BMT recipients receiving bone marrow from 'naturally' HBV-infected individuals who recovered spontaneously, or t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ilan Y,Nagler A,Shouval D,Ackerstein A,Or R,Kapelushnik J,Adler R,Slavin S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children receiving anti-leukaemic therapy often become susceptible to severe herpesvirus infection. To investigate specific immunity to herpes simplex virus (HSV) in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), in first remission and receiving maintenance chemotherapy, we measured their HSV specific T responder ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tellez PA,Odom L,Hayward AR

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A is a multi-functional cytokine with a potent stimulation on erythroid cell differentiation in the bone marrow. The actions of activin A are determined by a balance of the levels of activin A and its inhibitor, follistatin (FS). However, the regulation of its actions in the bone marrow has been unclear. Here ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Abe M,Shintani Y,Eto Y,Harada K,Fujinaka Y,Kosaka M,Matsumoto T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3b-coated immune complexes adhere to the complement receptor 1 (CR1, CD35) on human erythrocytes. This multi-valent binding might be favoured by the known clustering of CR1 and by the multiple C3b-binding sites on each CR1. The size of the CR1 clusters correlates directly with the number of CR1/erythrocytes, and the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Madi N,Paccaud JP,Steiger G,Schifferli JA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyspecific IgG given intravenously at high doses (IVIG) is used for immunomodulatory therapy in autoimmune diseases such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and myasthenia gravis. It is assumed that the clinical effect is brought about in part by a modulation of mononuclear phagocyte function, in particular by an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jungi TW,Brcic M,Kuhnert P,Spycher MO,Li F,Nydegger UE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and up-regulation of cell adhesion molecules on a human colonic epithelial cell line HT-29, and the peripheral blood T lymphocyte proliferation responses to bacterial superantigens presented by this cell line were investigated, compared with peripheral blood monocytes. In HT-29 cells, there was constitu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Liu ZX,Sugawara S,Hiwatashi N,Noguchi M,Rikiishi H,Kumagai K,Toyota T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the name given to a clinically heterogeneous group of hypogammaglobulinaemic immunodeficiency states. Bronchiectasis is a feature of this disease and is believed to be the result of recurrent bacterial infection affecting the respiratory tract. Bronchiectasis is also a featur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sansom ME,Ferry BL,Sherrell ZP,Chapel HM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described to assess antigenic cross-reactivity between soluble immune complexes precipitated from sera with polyethylene glycol. The precipitated complex from one serum was dissociated in acid and used to coat a plastic cup. Radioiodinated complexes from another serum were dissociated in the cup, neutraliz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dambuyant C,Burton-Kee J,Mowbray JF

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immune response to the 10-kD M. tuberculosis protein was studied by a competition ELISA using monoclonal antibody (MoAb) SA-12. Twenty-five per cent of the sera from 20 patients with tuberculosis and none from 21 control subjects inhibited binding of SA-12 to the 10-kD antigen. To characterize the antigenic ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Verbon A,Hartskeerl RA,Kolk AH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (ECs) are a target in inflammation, and the death of EC is regulated by various factors. Although intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) preparations are known to be beneficial therapeutic agents for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and systemic inflammatory disorders, their mechanism of action have n...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nakatani K,Takeshita S,Tsujimoto H,Sekine I

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A not only stimulates the synthesis and release of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone, but exerts various effects on haematopoietic cells, embryos, and fibroblasts. In the present study we have examined effects of activin A on IgE synthesis and cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yamashita N,Nakajima T,Takahashi H,Kaneoka H,Mizushima Y,Sakane T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in experimental animals suggest that antibody responses to certain polysaccharide antigens may be restricted in IgG subclass distribution. To determine if human antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides are similarly restricted we measured the IgG subclass specific response to immunization with purified polyv...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barrett DJ,Ayoub EM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum specimens from 66 HIV-1-infected subjects were tested by ELISA for the presence of IgA antibodies to HIV-1: 44 samples were found positive and 37 were confirmed by immunoblot. In these subjects, the presence of anti-HIV IgA antibodies was studied in relation to the total count of circulating CD4+ lymphocytes and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Quesnel A,Pozzetto B,Moja P,Grattard F,Lucht FR,Touraine JL,Gaudin OG,Genin C

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：:Two models of murine graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) were studied with respect to autoantibody production and development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) like disease. One model was induced by injection of (B10.A(4R) x B10.A(2R]F1 mice with parental (B10.A(4R] spleen and lymph node cells (groups I GVHD), the ot...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van Dam AP,Meilof JF,van den Brink HG,Smeenk RJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of inflammatory cytokines in a mouse model of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection mimicking diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB), and determined the effects of clarithromycin therapy on the production of these cytokines. The concentrations of IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, interferon-gamma (IFN-ga...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yanagihara K,Tomono K,Kuroki M,Kaneko Y,Sawai T,Ohno H,Miyazaki Y,Higashiyama Y,Maesaki S,Kadota J,Kohno S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to evaluate the role of CDKN1A in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Related gene expression data screened from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) were processed with network analysis. Protein-protein interaction was analysed through string database. Quantitative reverse transcription-polymer...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gang X,Xu H,Si L,Zhu X,Yu T,Jiang Z,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble form of CD23 (sCD23) was found in the urine from 12 normal individuals but was not present in 20 normal sera, suggesting that sCD23 produced by cells in tissues is eliminated in the urine. The sCD23 from urine differed in physicochemical properties from the sCD23 found in supernates from B-lymphoblastoid cel...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ling NR,Stevenson FK,Brown B

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytohaemagglutinin-induced lymphocyte transformation of four healthy adults and a child with kwashiorkor was performed in the presence of plasma from nineteen patients with protein energy malnutrition and a nutritionally normal child. Marked inhibition occurred in the presence of plasma from six patients who subseque...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Heyworth B,Moore DL,Brown J

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A positive Mitsuda skin test for delayed type hypersensitivity to Mycobacterium leprae is associated with a high level of protection against lepromatous leprosy, while the value of tuberculin sensitivity in leprosy is less pronounced. Cutaneous lymphocytes, isolated from the Mitsuda reaction of a PPD-positive individu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Roberts PP,Dockrell HM,McAdam KP

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uveitis (intraocular inflammation) is a leading cause of loss of vision. Although its aetiology is largely speculative, it is thought to arise from complex genetic-environmental interactions that break immune tolerance to generate eye-specific autoreactive T cells. Experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU), induced by imm...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brown BR,Lee EJ,Snow PE,Vance EE,Iwakura Y,Ohno N,Miura N,Lin X,Brown GD,Wells CA,Smith JR,Caspi RR,Rosenzweig HL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) have been postulated to contribute to the development of secondary complications in diabetes mellitus. In this study, CIC were measured in control rats and both insulin deficient and insulin treated streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. CIC were more prevalent in both groups of diabe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Abrass CK

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has always been known that anti-tissue transglutaminase 2 (anti-TG2) antibodies are produced in the small intestine. Their serum titres correlate with mucosal damage degree and decrease on a gluten-free diet (GFD). We aimed to correlate intestinal anti-TG2 antibodies levels with degree of mucosal damage and GFD dur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tosco A,Auricchio R,Aitoro R,Ponticelli D,Primario M,Miele E,Rotondi Aufiero V,Discepolo V,Greco L,Troncone R,Maglio M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that autoantibody formation occurs as a consequence of a depression of function of certain thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells). We have examined cell-mediated immunity, a T-cell function, in infectious mononucleosis, a condition in which autoantibodies are known to develop. We have shown some e...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Russell AS,Percy JS,Grace M

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commensal enteric bacteria stimulate innate immune cells and increase numbers of lamina propria and mesenteric lymph node (MLN) T and B lymphocytes. However, the influence of luminal bacteria on acquired immune function is not understood fully. We investigated the effects of intestinal bacterial colonization on T cell...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Walton KL,Galanko JA,Balfour Sartor R,Fisher NC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels and liver expression of CCL2 are increased in patients with alcoholic hepatitis (AH). In an experimental model of alcoholic liver disease (ALD), CCL2 was implicated in proinflammatory cytokines activation and hepatic lipid metabolism, but its role in human disease is currently unknown. In a large cohort o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Degré D,Lemmers A,Gustot T,Ouziel R,Trépo E,Demetter P,Verset L,Quertinmont E,Vercruysse V,Le Moine O,Devière J,Moreno C

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of autoimmune processes and introduction of new autoantigens involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) can be helpful in the design of new drugs to prevent unresponsiveness and side effects in patients. To find significant changes, we evaluated the autoantibody repertoires in newly diagnos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pazhouhandeh M,Sahraian MA,Siadat SD,Fateh A,Vaziri F,Tabrizi F,Ajorloo F,Arshadi AK,Fatemi E,Piri Gavgani S,Mahboudi F,Rahimi Jamnani F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) is a major autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). This was initially identified as a 64-65 kD molecule according to migration in gels after immunoprecipitation from pancreatic islets. We studied the antigenicity of two different radiolabelled preparations of GAD, d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rowley MJ,Chen QY,Teoh KL,Zimmet PZ,Tuomi T,Knowles WJ,Mackay IR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00