Fas deficiency in mice with the Balb/c background induces blepharitis with allergic inflammation and hyper-IgE production in conjunction with severe autoimmune disease.

abstract：:After a 3 week course (approximately), during which there is marked lymphoid hyperplasia, Trypanosoma musculi infections in young-adult mice are cured by an immune mechanism involving antibodies of the IgG2a isotype. Both the lymphoid hyperplasia and IgG2a antibody response are T-cell-dependent events and both process...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Utsuyama M,Albright JW,Holmes KL,Hirokawa K,Albright JF

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the bacterial superantigens bind to both TCR beta-chain and, with moderate affinity, to MHC class II molecules. Class II-bearing cells bind the superantigen and present the superantigen to T cells expressing certain TCR beta-chain variable region alleles. We have observed that the superanti...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Rogers TJ,Guan L,Zhang L

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the HLA-DRB1, -B3, and -B5 gene products in the recognition of Dermatophagoides spp. (house dust mite) by helper T cells isolated from an atopic individual (HLA-DRw12, DR7; DRw52b) with perennial rhinitis was investigated. Using a panel of histocompatible and histoincompatible accessory cells, the ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： O'Hehir RE,Mach B,Berte C,Greenlaw R,Tiercy JM,Bal V,Lechler RI,Trowsdale J,Lamb JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During brain development, the generation of neurons and glial cells is rigorously regulated by diverse mechanisms including the immune system. Dysfunction of the developing system results in the onset of neurodevelopmental disorders and psychological disorders. Recent studies have demonstrated that the immune system i...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Tanabe S,Yamashita T

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:CD9 is a member of the tetraspanin superfamily which is characterized by four transmembrane (TM) domains and associates with other surface molecules. This tetraspanin was recently found to be expressed on mature T cells. Here, we investigated which molecules associate with CD9 on T cells and which CD9 domains are requ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Toyo-oka K,Yashiro-Ohtani Y,Park CS,Tai XG,Miyake K,Hamaoka T,Fujiwara H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid DNA vectors have been constructed with minigenes encoding a single cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitope from either the M2 protein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or from the nucleoprotein of measles virus (MV) with or without a signal sequence (also called secretory or leader sequence). Following intrade...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Hsu SC,Obeid OE,Collins M,Iqbal M,Chargelegue D,Steward MW

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte homing to lymph nodes is regulated by transient but specific interactions between lymphocytes and high endothelial venules (HEVs), the initial phase of which is mainly governed by the leukocyte adhesion molecule L-selectin, which recognizes sulfated and sialylated O-linked oligosaccharides displayed on sial...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Kanda H,Tanaka T,Matsumoto M,Umemoto E,Ebisuno Y,Kinoshita M,Noda M,Kannagi R,Hirata T,Murai T,Fukuda M,Miyasaka M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the occurrence of CD45RA+ adult mouse thymocytes is strain-dependent, e.g. constituting approximately 0.6% in C57BL/Icrf and approximately 2.5% in BALB/c (Huby, R. and Goff, L., 1992. Eur. J. Immunol. 22:1659). Here we show that irrespective of strain, the thymus contains approximately 0....

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Goff LK,Huby RD

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of alphaEbeta7 expression on T cells by transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta is thought to be important for intestinal intraepithelial T lymphocyte (IEL) entry into the epithelial compartment. However, there has been no in vivo evidence that up-regulation of alphaEbeta7 expression on T cells by TGF-beta is ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Suzuki R,Nakao A,Kanamaru Y,Okumura K,Ogawa H,Ra C

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human neoplastic B cell line SSK41 that expresses IgM on its surface switches spontaneously to IgG-producing cells. The SSK41 line contains a single immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus, the constant region (C) genes of which retain the germline configuration. The IgG-producing SSK41 line was purified by sorting, and sh...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Sideras P,Mizuta TR,Kanamori H,Suzuki N,Okamoto M,Kuze K,Ohno H,Doi S,Fukuhara S,Hassan MS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The M54 transgenic mouse line, which carries the 17.2.25 Ig mu heavy chain gene, rearranges Ig heavy chains and expresses both transgenic and endogenous mu. B cell lineage development is selectively impaired in these mice and cells that simultaneously express transgenic and endogenous mu ('double-producers') are commo...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lam KP,Herzenberg LA,Stall AM

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD100/Sema4D belongs to the semaphorin family, factors known to act as repulsive cues for axons during neuronal development. Mouse CD100 plays a crucial role in both humoral and cellular immunity through ligation of the lymphocyte receptor, CD72. It remains controversial, however, whether human CD100 can function thro...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ishida I,Kumanogoh A,Suzuki K,Akahani S,Noda K,Kikutani H

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ig heavy chain (IgH) locus is controlled by multiple regulatory sequences mapping both within the IgH transcription unit (E mu) and downstream (3') of IgH coding sequences (hs3a, hs1,2, hs3b and hs4). Enhancer knockout studies in mice have implicated E mu in the control of IgH variable region gene assembly, but si...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Shi X,Eckhardt LA

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we describe a monoclonal antibody, JR9-318, which was obtained from a wild-derived mouse immunized with the M14T cell line (CD3+CD4-CD8-) in order to describe antigenic molecules expressed during T cell differentiation. This mAb precipitated a protein from the M14T cell line or subclones that migrates li...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Roland J,Cazenave PA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the B cell response to Mycobacterium leprae in leprosy patients and healthy controls. A comparison of Western-blotted proteins separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and probed with pooled sera from LL and BT patients revealed distinct antigen recognition patterns for the two classificat...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mahon AC,Gebre N,Nurlign A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide motifs of two HLA molecules, B8 and DR3(17), which are associated with autoimmune diseases including myasthenia gravis, were determined from natural peptide pools using Edman degradation. The majority of HLA-B8 ligands are nonamers preferentially terminated by leucine. As a characteristic feature of the HL...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Malcherek G,Falk K,Rötzschke O,Rammensee HG,Stevanović S,Gnau V,Jung G,Melms A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)] and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) are important regulators of autoimmunity. The effect of the VDR on the ability of mice to fight a primary or secondary infection has not been determined. Young and old VDR knockout (KO) mice were able to clear both primary and secondary infe...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bruce D,Whitcomb JP,August A,McDowell MA,Cantorna MT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA class II molecules present superantigens more efficiently than their murine counterpart. Therefore, transgenic mice expressing HLA-DQ8 with and without CD28 were used to address the role of CD28 in staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB)-driven immune responses. SEB-induced in vitro proliferation of naive DQ8.CD28(-/-)...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Rajagopalan G,Smart MK,Marietta EV,David CS

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human sera contained 10-60 ng/ml of soluble membrane cofactor protein (MCP, CD46) whereas sera of > 50% of the cancer patients contained > 60 ng/ml. MCP purified by immunoaffinity chromatography from both normal and cancer patients' sera consisted of three bands of 56, 47 and 29 kDa on SDS-PAGE/immunoblotting. ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Seya T,Hara T,Iwata K,Kuriyama S,Hasegawa T,Nagase Y,Miyagawa S,Matsumoto M,Hatanaka M,Atkinson JP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenic analyses have identified structural motifs important for TCR-mediated signaling in the antigen-binding chains, CD3 and zeta subunits of the TCR complex. In this study, we altered selected residues in the transmembrane and extracellular constant regions of the TCR beta chain and expressed the mutants in a T h...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Fuller-Espie S,Hoffman Towler P,Wiest DL,Tietjen I,Spain LM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major B cell subpopulations were identified in the IgD- compartment of tonsils and subsequently isolated. They displayed the following phenotypes: CD10+CD38+CD44- (CD38+ B cells) and CD10-CD38-CD44+ (CD38- B cells). Of the CD38- B cells, 70% also expressed CD24 and CD39, whereas CD77 was specifically distributed o...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lagresle C,Bella C,Defrance T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) 139-151 is an immunodominant peptide that induces experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in H-2(s) SJL/J mice. While PLP 139-151-specific TCR transgenic (tg) 4E3 mice develop fulminant spontaneous disease on the susceptible SJL/J background, spontaneous EAE is dramatically red...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Illés Z,Waldner H,Reddy J,Anderson AC,Sobel RA,Kuchroo VK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small proportion of the sIg+ B lymphocytes in peripheral lymphoid organs [22% in spleen and 6% in lymph node (LN)] in rat carries the Thy-1 antigen. These Thy-1+ B cells represent newly formed bone marrow (BM) derived (or immature) B cells. In this study we investigated the kinetic behavior of Thy-1+ and Thy-1- B ce...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Deenen GJ,Kroese FG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas/APO-1 is a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF)/nerve growth factor receptor family. This cell surface protein, when associated with the Fas/APO-1 ligand or specific mAb, elicits an apoptotic response in susceptible cells via an oligomerization of its intracellular domains, termed the'death domains'. We have ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Fadeel B,Lindberg J,Achour A,Chiodi F

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of IgE FcR (Fc epsilon R)-positive and -negative B cells was examined in normal adult mice. Using three-color flow cytometry, the expression of the Fc epsilon R was analyzed on various B-cell subsets present in the peritoneum and spleen. The results demonstrate that in the peritoneal cavity, the Fc ep...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Waldschmidt TJ,Kroese FG,Tygrett LT,Conrad DH,Lynch RG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At birth, virtually all peripheral CD8(+) T cells express the CD28 co-stimulatory molecule, but healthy human adults accumulate CD28(-)CD8(+) T cells that often express the CD57 marker. While these CD28(-) subpopulations are known to exert effector-type functions, the generation, maintenance and regulation of CD28(-) ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Labalette M,Leteurtre E,Thumerelle C,Grutzmacher C,Tourvieille B,Dessaint JP

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epitope spreading has been best characterized as an exacerbating factor in CD4(+) T cell-dependent autoimmune disease models and is believed to occur via presentation of antigens liberated by tissue destruction initiated by CD4(+) T cells specific for a primary epitope. The growing evidence that exogenous antigens can...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Markiewicz MA,Fallarino F,Ashikari A,Gajewski TF

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulitis develops in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice as a multicentric and asynchronous process. In an effort to understand how this T cell mediated process expands within each islet and propagates between the islets of the same pancreas, we have analyzed the junctional diversity of TCR V beta 6 and V beta 8.2 transcri...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Sarukhan A,Bedossa P,Garchon HJ,Bach JF,Carnaud C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel system to study the effects of co-cross-linking CD23/FceRII and sIg on murine B lymphocytes utilizes a highly multivalent form of anti-Ig prepared by covalently linking anti-Ig antibodies to a DNP-dextran backbone. CD23-sIg co-cross-linking is accomplished by the addition of DNP-specific monoclonal IgE. Previo...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Campbell KA,Studer EJ,Kilmon MA,Lees A,Finkelman F,Conrad DH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intradermal inoculation of plasmids expressing antigens that contain MHC class I-restricted epitopes leads to the induction of specific CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). The role of in situ transfected antigen-presenting cells (APC) in the priming of specific CTL subsequent to intradermal DNA immunization was inve...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bot A,Stan AC,Inaba K,Steinman R,Bona C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00