An approach to the routine estimation of circulating carcinoembryonic antigen immune complexes in patients with carcinomata of the gastrointestinal tract.

abstract：:By using OKT monoclonal antibodies; OKT3(pan T), OKT4(inducer/helper), OKT8 (suppressor/cytotoxic) and OKIa1, T lymphocyte subsets were examined in lymphocytes of patients with tuberculosis both before and after in vitro stimulation with purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD). In freshly obtained lymphocytes ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shiratsuchi H,Tsuyuguchi I

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B (HB) vaccine is very promising for the prevention of HB infection. There exist, however, some non-responders to current vaccination trials. In this study, taurine, parotin and lithium were selected as adjuvants which can be administered orally. The mechanisms of these three materials as adjuvants and their...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kuriyama S,Tsujii T,Ishizaka S,Kikuchi E,Kinoshita K,Nishimura K,Kitagami K,Yoshikawa M,Matsumoto M

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The controlled induction of haemoxygenase-1 (HO-1), an enzyme that catabolizes haem, has been shown to reduce haem, preventing pathologies associated with haem toxicity. The hemoglobin genotype HbAS confers reduced susceptibility to severe complications of malaria by a mechanism that is not well understood. Using a lo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ademolue TW,Amodu OK,Awandare GA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human antibodies to the repeat regions of the Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stage antigen Pf155/RESA interfere with parasite growth in vitro, but the significance in this respect of antibodies to non-repetitive epitopes is less clear. In this study the levels of antibodies to a non-repetitive part of Pf155/RESA ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Siddique AB,Ahlborg N,Warsame M,Perlmann P,Berzins K

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation of clinical and laboratory findings at the time clinical presentation to subsequent survival was investigated in 204 patients with macroglobulinaemia. It was found that the ten following clinical and laboratory parameters were of prognostic significance and a further twelve were not. The best prognoses we...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carter P,Koval JJ,Hobbs JR

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of methotrexate (MTX) in autoimmune diseases (AID) is unclear. A pro-apoptotic effect has been demonstrated in mitogen-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), but studies employing conventional antigens have disputed a pro-apoptotic effect. CD4+ T helper (Th) cells play a signific...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nielsen CH,Albertsen L,Bendtzen K,Baslund B

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons play an important, but incompletely understood role in HIV-related disease. We investigated the effect of HAART on plasma levels of IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma, neopterin and interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) in 41 HIV-infected patients during 78 weeks of therapy. At baseline HIV-infected patients had raise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stylianou E,Aukrust P,Bendtzen K,Müller F,Frøland SS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant rabbit fibroma virus (MV) directly suppresses generation of antibody responses and mitogen induced T and B lymphocyte proliferation. We investigated whether this phenomenon required expression of the complete viral genome. Phosphonoacetic acid (PAA) inhibits poxvirus specific DNA polymerases. Adding PAA to c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Strayer DS,Skaletsky E,Leibowitz JL

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG and IgA subclass distribution of specific antibodies as well as the distribution of total and specific IgE in 15 patients with schistosomiasis was determined in consecutive samples before and after initiation of treatment. An adult worm antigen preparation and a soluble egg antigen preparation were used as ant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Evengård B,Hammarström L,Smith CI,Johansson SG,Linder E

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phenotypic and functional analysis of the circulating natural killer (NK) cell population was carried out in a series of patients with hairy cell leukaemia (HCL). The overall mean NK activity of both the mononuclear and T cell fractions was reduced compared to that of normal controls (466 lytic units (lu) v 573 lu a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Foa R,Lauria F,Lusso P,Raspadori D,Fierro MT,Tazzari PL,Caudana L,Matera L

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to define the optimal conditions for detection of microbial antigens in urine, urinary HBsAg excreted during hepatitis B was chosen as a model. Using commercial kits, which mainly involve anti-discontinuous epitopes, we found urinary HBsAg in only 50% of patients with HBsAg in their sera. In contrast, with an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Badur S,Grangeot-Keros L,Pillot J

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies (ANCA) on neutrophil activation was studied by pre-incubating neutrophils with IgG and F(ab')2 prepared from ANCA patients with Wegener's granulomatosis or microscopic polyarteritis. We measured the generation of inositol triphosphate (IP3) (a product of hydrolysi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lai KN,Lockwood CM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed CD4+, tetanus antigen-specific T cell clones that proliferate in the presence of tetanus antigen and autologous irradiated peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL) as antigen-presenting cells (APC). There have been several reports that T cells can present antigen themselves. We have used tetanus antigen-spe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chirmule N,Kalyanaraman VS,Slade H,Oyaizu N,Pahwa S

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated immunohistologically using cryostat sections that the lectins PHA and Con A bind to human placentae. Both lectins stain trophoblastic basement membrane (TBM), perivascular tissue and stroma. No staining of trophoblasts was observed. It has been shown by blocking experiments that the lectin bin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Johnson PM,Faulk WP

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we aimed to explore the effects of imatinib on the proliferation of rheumatoid arthritis synovial cell (RA-FLS) and inflammatory responses by regulating CSF1R. Differential genes were screened via microarray analysis, followed by being analysed through the weighted co-expression network (WGCNA) network,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hu X,Tang J,Hu X,Bao P,Pan J,Ou Y,Deng W,Liang Y

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) were investigated for their ability to produce neopterin, a biochemical marker for an activated immune system. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), IL-1 alpha, IL-2, IL-6, tumour necrosis factor-alpha, granulocyte/macrophage colony stimulating factor, phytohaemagglutinin and con...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Andert SE,Griesmacher A,Zuckermann A,Müller MM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is an innate immune molecule present in blood and some mucosal tissues, which can influence microbial attachment and inflammatory responses of host cells during infection. In this study MBL was found to be present at a low concentration in semen samples in the range 1.2-24.9 ng/ml. Co-incu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wing JB,Jack DL,Lee ME,Pacey AA,Kinghorn GR,Read RC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation with thymosin fraction 5, (TMS F5 at 300 micrograms/ml) a partially purified thymic factor, reduced the steroid binding activity of human infant thymocytes from 9.6 +/- 2.1 fmole/ml to 5.0 +/- 2.0 fmole/ml. The glucocorticoid receptor activity in normal infant thymocytes was found to be 2,146 +/- 726 (s.d.)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ma DD,Ho AH,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although both envelope glycoproteins of the hepatitis C virus, E1 and E2/NS1, show a high degree of sequence variation, the E1 protein includes a well conserved domain, which may be functionally important. We have analysed the human B cell response to a peptide fragment from amino acid residues 314-330 (EP3) covering ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Siemoneit K,Cardoso Mda S,Koerner K,Wölpl A,Kubanek B

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs can develop systemic lupus erythematosus syndromes that are clinically similar to those seen in humans. In contrast, previous observations suggest differences in their autoantibody reactivity patterns against histones and DNA which are components of the nucleosome in chromatin. The objective of this study was to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Monestier M,Novick KE,Karam ET,Chabanne L,Monier JC,Rigal D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a flow cytometric technique which allows direct identification of proliferating cells within mixed cell populations, we have previously described that soluble extracts obtained from Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. avium represent strong stimuli for human gammadelta+ T cells. In the present study, we demonstr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Batoni G,Esin S,Harris RA,Källenius G,Svenson SB,Andersson R,Campa M,Wigzell H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify the epitopes recognized by antibodies to the asialoglycoprotein receptor, a specific hepatocyte protein, from sera of patients with autoimmune hepatitis. An ELISA test was used to detect anti-asialoglycoprotein receptor antibodies in the sera of patients with autoimmune hepatitis....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hajoui O,Martin S,Alvarez F

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an obligate pathogen that causes pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, pharyngitis and asthma in humans. It is well recognized that membrane lipoproteins are immunostimulants exerting as lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory responses upon M. pneumoniae ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo H,He J,Qin L,Chen Y,Chen L,Li R,Zeng Y,Zhu C,You X,Wu Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 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 cytokine whose multiple functions have yet to be fully determined. In this study, the role of proinflammatory cytokines in regulatory control of activin A production was shown in synoviocytes and chondrocytes. Additional facets of functional inflammation-related activities of activin A were also determi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yu EW,Dolter KE,Shao LE,Yu J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antilactoferrin antibodies have been reported in patients with several autoimmune disorders, including primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis and autoimmune cholangitis. We investigated the prevalence and the clinical significance of such autoreactivity in patients with autoimmune and viral chronic liver dise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Muratori L,Muratori P,Zauli D,Grassi A,Pappas G,Rodrigo L,Cassani F,Lenzi M,Bianchi FB

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diesel exhaust particles (DEP) are known to modulate the production of cytokines associated with acute and chronic respiratory symptoms and allergic respiratory disease. Tolerance is an important mechanism through which the immune system can maintain nonresponsiveness to common environmental antigens. We examined the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pacheco KA,Tarkowski M,Sterritt C,Negri J,Rosenwasser LJ,Borish L

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of cytokine mRNA species was determined in liver biopsies from six normal subjects, 18 patients with PBC and 14 patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive CHB using a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. cDNA, obtained by reverse transcription using oligo d(T) pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shindo M,Mullin GE,Braun-Elwert L,Bergasa NV,Jones EA,James SP

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-42, an autoantibody found in the sera of some patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, was isolated from sera of seven different patients. By binding of the autoantibodies to cell bound C42, the autoantibodies were purified to homogeneity and radiolabelled with 125I. Purified preparations of 125I-F-42 were bound ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Daha MR,Hazevoet HM,van Es LA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal anti-dermatan sulphate antibodies were produced with hybridization after immunizing BALB/c mice with dermatan sulphate (DS). These antibodies were tested for cross-reactivity to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) and heat-denatured DNA (ssDNA). Five clones had binding activity to DS, dsDNA and ssDNA in enzyme-link...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ohnishi K,Sagawa A,Nakabayashi T,Ohmoto A,Megumi,Yoshikawa M,Watanabe I,Mukai M,Yasuda I,Nakagawa S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00