Role of Sug1, a 19S proteasome ATPase, in the transcription of MHC I and the atypical MHC II molecules, HLA-DM and HLA-DO.

abstract：:Herein, we summarize the steps of a common scientific path taken by the two Guest Editors, an Anesthesiologist (EA) and an Immunologist (AS), and started 25 years ago at the National Cancer Institute in Rome. When in 1980 WHO codified the usage of opioids for cancer pain relief, it was matter of debate whether only di...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Santoni A,Arcuri E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of melphalan (L-PAM; L-phenylalanine mustard) administration on natural killer (NK) and natural cytotoxic (NC) activities of spleen cells from normal noninoculated BALB/c mice and mice bearing large MOPC-315 plasmacytoma tumors was investigated. Injection of L-PAM (7.5 or 15.0 mg/kg) had no effect on NK and...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Nahas F,Ophir R,Ben-Efraim S

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of inhibition of basic peptide-induced rat mast cell secretion are reported. Pretreatment of rat peritoneal mast cells with Vibrio comma neuraminidase, an enzyme which cleaves sialic acid from oligosaccharides, led to inhibition of 5-hydroxytryptamine release induced by the basic peptides polylysine, cortico...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Coleman JW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction characteristics of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) after footpad immunization were studied. Primary CTL were generated in the regional lymph nodes of C57Bl/6 mice by footpad injection with 10(7) irradiated (2000 rad) spleen cells from MHC class I muta...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Azhipa OYa,Brondz BD

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously shown that normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells produce a soluble factor(s) that causes selective inhibition of collagen production by cultured human diploid fibroblasts, and that stimulation of the mononuclear cells by appropriate mitogens greatly enhances its production. Because of ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Jimenez SA,Rosenbloom J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than two decades, chloroquine (CQ) was largely and deliberately used as first choice drug for malaria treatment. However, worldwide increasing cases of resistant strains of Plasmodium have hampered its use. Nevertheless, CQ has recently been tested as adjunct therapy in several inflammatory situations, such a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Thomé R,Lopes SC,Costa FT,Verinaud L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmunity in disease is driven by autoantigen. Cell surface molecules may stimulate autoreactive T-helpers if class II MHC is expressed; special factors may predispose to the ease of class II induction. Soluble autoantigens may be focused by primed B cells and processed for presentation to T cells. Autoantigenicity...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Roitt IM,Cooke A

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether apoptotic thymocytes can be identified by altered packing of lipids in their plasma membranes, thymocytes were isolated from mice injected with hydrocortisone and stained with merocyanine 540 (MC540), a fluorescent probe sensitive to lipid packing. At 9-10 h after injection, a subpopulation of H2-Klo c...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Schlegel RA,Stevens M,Lumley-Sapanski K,Williamson P

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural levels of goat antiphosphorylethanolamine (anti-PE) antibodies decreased after injection of purified human C-reactive protein (CRP). The concentration of anti-CRP antibodies followed a continuous increment from non-detectable levels to a plateau at 80 days after first injection. ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Coll JM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysticercosis caused by Taenia solium is a very common disease in developing countries that seriously affects human health. Diagnosis can only be confirmed with the aid of computerized tomography or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) creating obvious difficulties for epidemiological studies. Reliable immunoassays employ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hernández M,Beltrán C,García E,Fragoso G,Gevorkian G,Fleury A,Parkhouse M,Harrison L,Sotelo J,Sciutto E

更新日期：2000-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:African swine fever (ASF) virus has been reported to infect cells of the monocyte family, probably macrophage-like cells, but there is variation in the apparent susceptibility of these cells. We have demonstrated that the phenotype and activity of porcine monocytic cells varies between different isolations and also up...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： McCullough KC,Schaffner R,Fraefel W,Kihm U

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-surface 5'-nucleotidase was assayed by incubating intact cells with 5' [3H]AMP in iso-osmotic buffer and measuring [3H]adenosine production. The activity of cell surface 5'-nucleotidase in small resting lymphocytes and in cells of the B cell line BCL1 was 5.7 and 1.1 nmol/min/mg protein respectively at 37 degrees...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hauschildt S,Bessler WG

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that the capacity of highly malignant B16BL6 murine melanoma cells to induce cell death in naive syngeneic lymphocytes stems from the absence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I glycoproteins in these melanoma cells. Our present study provides evidence that the above-mentioned...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kellman-Pressman S,Fishman D,Tsory S,Segal S

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease is an autoimmune systemic disorder. In Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, inflammatory disorders occur in multiple organs containing melanocytes, including uvea (resulting in acute bilateral panuveitis), skin (resulting in vitiligo and alopecia), central nervous system (resulting in meningitis)...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Yamada K,Senju S,Shinohara T,Nakatsura T,Murata Y,Ishihara M,Nakamura S,Ohno S,Negi A,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement factor I (CFI) deficiency is typically associated to recurrent infections with encapsulated microorganisms and, less commonly, to autoimmunity. We report a 53-years old male who, in a routine control for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, presented a flat beta-2 fraction at the capillary protein electropher...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Franco-Jarava C,Colobran R,Mestre-Torres J,Vargas V,Pujol-Borrell R,Hernández-González M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been significant progress in the field of heart transplantation over the last 45 years. Although the role of adaptive immunity in heart allograft rejection has been extensively studied for decades, there is increasing evidence that suggests that the innate immune system also contributes to the development of...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Lv Q,Li C,Mo Y,He L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of T cell precursors from the thymus and the bone marrow to the pool of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocvtes (IELs) has been studied in a system using donor cells from enhanced-green fluorescent protein (EGFP+ ) transgenic mice a doptively transferred into EGFP- recipient mice. Consistent with previ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Bagriacik EU,Okabe M,Klein JR

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of impressive results in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic B cell leukemia (B-ALL) with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, the clinical outcome of some hematological cancers like follicular lymphoma (FL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has not been very promising likely due to immunosuppressiv...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Fallah-Mehrjardi K,Mirzaei HR,Masoumi E,Jafarzadeh L,Rostamian H,Khakpoor-Koosheh M,Alishah K,Noorbakhsh F,Hadjati J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell specific, B cell specific and Ia specific polyclonal antisera, as well as monoclonal antibodies, were employed to characterize cells involved in regulation of T cells, proliferating upon stimulation with concanavalin A or phytohaemagglutinin. Evidence for Ia+ accessory cells was obtained and the constellation o...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ponsard DC,Chou CT,Cinader B,Dubiski S

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosslinking of the B-cell receptor (BCR) for antigen to low-affinity receptors for IgG (Fc gamma RII) inhibits B-cell activation induced by BCR aggregation. The cell-triggering properties of the BCR depend on tyrosine-containing activation motifs (TAM), in the intracytoplasmic domain of its Ig alpha and Ig beta subun...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Daëron M,Malbec O,Latour S,Espinosa E,Pina P,Fridman WH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least three B cell subsets, B-1a (Ly-1B), B-1b and B-2, are present in the mouse periphery. B-1a and B1-b cells represent a small population in the adult spleen and are abundant in the peritonial and pleural cavities. It has been demonstrated in our laboratory that B-1b cells spontaneously proliferated in stationar...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ferreira KS,Almeida SR,Ribeiro CH,Mariano M,Lopes JD

更新日期：2003-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodeficiencies can lead to alterations of the gut microbiome that render it pathogenic and capable of transmitting disease to naïve hosts. Here, we review the role of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 5, the innate receptor for bacterial flagellin, in immune responses to the normal gut microbiota with a focus its role on a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Leifer CA,McConkey C,Li S,Chassaing B,Gewirtz AT,Ley RE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental infection of macaques with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) has provided strong evidence that it may be possible to develop a vaccine against AIDS. Live attenuated SIV vaccines have been found to confer the most potent protection against challenge with a variety of pathogenic viruses. This article ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Almond N,Stott J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T cell receptor of gamma delta is normally expressed on a small percentage of peripheral lymphocytes. Although the role of gamma delta T cells in the physiologic immune response is still unknown, there is accumulating evidence that gamma delta T cells may participate in the immune response to mycobacterial and oth...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ho M,Webster HK,Tongtawe P,Pattanapanyasat K,Weidanz WP

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recent findings indicate that mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMC) express RNA encoding interleukin-4 (IL-4) and secrete detectable amounts of IL-4 in response to cross-linking of Fc epsilon RI receptors, Fc gamma R receptors, or to ionomycin. We investigated the desensitization of BMMC from the view po...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Nakamura M,MacGlashan D Jr

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have dealt with occurrence of dendritic cells in various nonlymphoid organs such as kidney, liver or heart, whereas lymphocyte patterns in these organs have not been analyzed in detail. In the present study, leukocytes were quantified as cells/mm2 in the perivascular, interstitial and parenchymal tiss...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Holzinger C,Zuckermann A,Reinwald C,Imhof M,Schöllhammer A,Kramer G,Wolner E,Steiner G

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen presenting cells, well equipped to initiate an immune response. For effective induction of an immune response, DC should migrate from the periphery to the lymph node to present the antigen to T lymphocytes. Currently, tumor-antigen loaded DCs are used in clinical vaccinat...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Eggert AA,van der Voort R,Torensma R,Moulin V,Boerman OC,Oyen WJ,Punt CJ,Diepstra H,de Boer AJ,Figdor CG,Adema GJ

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Small soluble IgG aggregates of defined size were prepared from pooled human IgG by gel filtration chromatography, and examined by analytical ultracentrifugation. Three such fractions, dimer-rich, trimer-rich and 25S aggregate were used to inhibit IgG monomer binding in a study of the influence of aggregation in the b...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ratcliffe A,Stanworth DR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroplacental blood lymphocytes (RPL) obtained from women without complications at the term delivery were studied for proliferative response to mitogens and surface phenotype and were compared with autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL). Proliferation of RPL induced by phytohemagglutinin (PHA) was significantl...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Yoshida M,Kanzaki H,Tokushige M,Sato S,Wang HS,Uchida A,Kasakura S,Mori T

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-33 is an IL-1 family cytokine which signals via its T1/ST2 receptor, and acts as a key regulator of inflammation. This study aims to measure the expression of soluble ST2 (sST2) and IL-33 in endometriosis. We investigated thirty women with laparoscopic and histopathological confirmed endometriosis and 20 c...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Mbarik M,Kaabachi W,Henidi B,Sassi FH,Hamzaoui K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00