Whole blood stimulation with Toll-like receptor (TLR)-7/8 and TLR-9 agonists induces interleukin-12p40 expression in plasmacytoid dendritic cells in rhesus macaques but not in humans.

abstract：:This study presents data on more than 300 RA and allergic patients analysed for their serum levels of anti-immunoglobulin isotype autoantibodies and IgE. We observed high levels of IgE in sera of RA and allergic patients. Interestingly, we measured significantly higher specific IgE levels against Alternaria but not ag...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Millauer N,Zuercher AW,Miescher SM,Gerber HA,Seitz M,Stadler BM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease and has served as a model of certain ocular inflammatory conditions in man. The present study was aimed at separating the effects of MHC and non-MHC genes on the development of EAU in the rat. EAU-susceptible LEW (RT1l), EAU-resistant WKAH (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hirose S,Ogasawara K,Natori T,Sasamoto Y,Ohno S,Matsuda H,Onoé K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunofluorescence forty-nine sera giving striational staining of skeletal and cardiac muscle have been tested on glycerinated myofibrils. By comparing immunofluorescence and phase contrast it has been found that these antibodies are rather heterogeneous but at least three different staining patterns can be iden...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Peers J,McDonald BL,Dawkins RL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small molecule metabolites that are produced or altered by host-associated microbial communities are emerging as significant immune response modifiers. However, there is a key gap in our knowledge of how oral microbial metabolites affect the immune response. Here, we examined the effects of metabolites from five bacte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Whiteson K,Agrawal S,Agrawal A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral T lymphocytes from asymptomatic HBsAg carriers and hepatitis B (HB) immune (naturally acquired or vaccine induced) donors were induced into interleukin-2 (IL-2) secretion by plasma-derived HBsAg and the translational products of the S- and pre-S2+S gene of HB virus (HBV) in vitro. Biphasic time courses of I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sylvan SP,Hekkström UB

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of some class 1 acute-phase proteins (APP), including C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid A (SAA) protein is completely blocked by the IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra), whereas the production of fibrinogen, a class 2 APP, is increased by IL-1Ra in hepatoma cells, but this has never been tested in...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gabay C,Genin B,Mentha G,Iynedjian PB,Roux-Lombard P,Guerne PA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pulmonary sarcoidosis, the typical T helper 1-mediated immune response in the lungs has been proposed to be co-ordinated by regulatory T cells; however, their exact role needs to be clarified. We used real-time polymerase chain reaction to study genes involved in regulatory T cell functions in CD4+ T cells isolated...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Idali F,Wahlström J,Müller-Suur C,Eklund A,Grunewald J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell death and the release of chromatin have been demonstrated to activate the immune system producing autoantibodies against nuclear antigens in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Apoptosis, necrosis, necroptosis, secondary necrosis, autophagy and the clearance of dying cells by phagocytosis are proces...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fenton K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation of intracellular cAMP levels has been shown previously to inhibit cytokine secretion by various cell types in vitro. Since salmeterol is a beta 2-agonist which activates adenylate cyclase, its ability to inhibit cytokine production was evaluated. Though salmeterol, and the related drug albuterol, did not inh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sekut L,Champion BR,Page K,Menius JA Jr,Connolly KM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages separated from lavage samples obtained from lungs removed at transplantation from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and other lung diseases, have been compared with circulating monocytes from the same patients for their ability to stimulate allogeneic normal circulating lymphocytes and to present antigen ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Knight RA,Kollnberger S,Madden B,Yacoub M,Hodson ME

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically significant levels of IL-2 activity were produced by isolated lamina propria mononuclear cells (LPMC) from normal intestine (n = 12), cancer-bearing colons (n = 35) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affected tissue (n = 12). The levels of IL-2 produced were similar for all three sources of LPMC (normal...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pullman WE,Doe WF

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between the duration of bacterial infection and circulating immune complexes (CIC) level was evaluated using the C1q binding assay in a group of patients with well defined clinical sepsis. Fifty-four patients with endocarditis and 35 with post-open heart surgery mediastinitis were prospectively studied ov...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pocidalo MA,Gibert C,Verroust P,Geniteau M,Adam C,Madec Y,Gaudebout C,Morel-Maroger L

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a group of autoimmune diseases, including granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). It is not known why ANCA develop, but it has been shown that they participate in pathogenesis by activating polymorphonuclear n...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ohlsson SM,Pettersson Å,Ohlsson S,Selga D,Bengtsson AA,Segelmark M,Hellmark T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinochoroiditis caused by Toxoplasma gondii infection results in inflammation and necrosis of the retina. We have used human retinal pigment epithelial cultures (HRPE) as an in vitro model to investigate the role of TGF-beta in T. gondii-induced retinochoroiditis. RT-PCR analyses showed enhanced steady state levels ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nagineni CN,Detrick B,Hooks JJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) participates in intracellular signalling cascades that mediate inflammatory responses. Therefore, the JNK signalling may be involved in gastric injury and inhibition of this pathway may form the basis of a new strategy for the treatment of gastric injury. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mitsuyama K,Tsuruta O,Matsui Y,Harada K,Tomiyasu N,Suzuki A,Takaki K,Masuda J,Handa K,Satoh Y,Bennett BL,Toyonaga A,Sata M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both viral effect and immune-mediated mechanism are involved in the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection. In this study, we showed that in SARS patient sera there were autoantibodies (autoAbs) that reacted with A549 cells, the type-2 pneumocytes, and that these ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lin YS,Lin CF,Fang YT,Kuo YM,Liao PC,Yeh TM,Hwa KY,Shieh CC,Yen JH,Wang HJ,Su IJ,Lei HY

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report the presence on Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines on platelets and on fibroblasts of an HLA-B27-associated cell surface complex (antigenically related to some antigens of Klebsiella K43 and K21) which is identical to or cross-reactive with the determinant present on the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alexander K,Edwards C,Misko IS,Geczy AF,Bashir HV,Edmonds JP

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of efflux of calcium mobilized from intracellular stores following activation of human neutrophils with the synthetic chemotactic tripeptide, fMLP (1 microM), as well as that of the subsequent store-operated influx of this cation, has been measured by radiometric procedures using 45Ca. These procedures en...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Anderson R,Goolam Mahomed A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb), a diagnostic hallmark of HT, is principally of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype, and it appears to be a response to thyroid injury. The aim of our study was to evaluate the distribution of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xie LD,Gao Y,Li MR,Lu GZ,Guo XH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retrovirus-3 (ERV-3) is an endogenous retrovirus encoding an open reading frame for an envelope protein expressed in placenta. In this study we also found high levels of expression in fetal heart, with peak expression occurring between 11 and 17 weeks of gestation. Antibodies to a peptide corresponding to a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Li JM,Fan WS,Horsfall AC,Anderson AC,Rigby S,Larsson E,Venables PJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:Anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-Id Abs) are involved in the regulation of a number of immune responses including the IgE antibody production. In atopic patients, the increased synthesis of IgE antibodies could be related to a defective production of regulatory anti-Id Abs. In the present study, we first developed a se...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hébert J,Bernier D,Mourad W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo studies in rats demonstrated that the binding of a highly cationic antigen (cationized human IgG, pI greater than 9.5) to glomerular polyanion could be significantly reduced by prior application of a small polycation, protamine sulfate. The degree of inhibition was dose dependent and the highest dose used, 4 m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Oite T,Shimizu F,Batsford SR,Vogt A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele variants in the L-carnitine (LCAR) transporters OCTN1 (SLC22A4, 1672 C --> T) and OCTN2 (SLC22A5, -207 G --> C) have been implicated in susceptibility to Crohn's disease (CD). LCAR is consumed in the diet and transported actively from the intestinal lumen via the organic cation transporter OCTN2. While recogniz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fortin G,Yurchenko K,Collette C,Rubio M,Villani AC,Bitton A,Sarfati M,Franchimont D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody responses in immunoglobulin G1, G2, G3, G4, A (IgA1) and M isotypes were studied in 10 patients with an acute influenza A and in another 10 patients with a parainfluenza type 1 virus infection using radioimmunoassay with standardized monoclonal anti-immunoglobulins. A four-fold or greater increase of antibody...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Julkunen I,Hovi T,Seppälä I,Mäkelä O

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of neutrophils to adjuvant arthritis (AA) by in vivo depletion of peripheral blood neutrophils. Specific anti-neutrophil MoAb, RP3 (10 mg), or a control antibody was given twice daily on days 8-11 after injection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in inbred male Sprag...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Santos LL,Morand EF,Hutchinson P,Boyce NW,Holdsworth SR

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As Q fever is associated with an inflammatory syndrome, we determined circulating levels of inflammatory cytokines, cytokine antagonists, and activation markers of leucocytes in patients with acute Q fever and Q fever endocarditis. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and IL-6, but not IL-1beta, were markedly increased compar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Capo C,Amirayan N,Ghigo E,Raoult D,Mege J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the significance of circulating adhesion molecules associated with leucocyte-endothelial cell interaction in Kawasaki disease (KD), serum levels of soluble E-, P-, L-selectin (sE-, sP-, sL-selectin), and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) were measured in 16 patients with KD, eight with other fe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takeshita S,Dobashi H,Nakatani K,Koike Y,Tsujimoto H,Hirayama K,Kawamura Y,Mori K,Sekine I,Yoshioka S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to nuclear structures are a hallmark of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), including autoantibodies to nuclear protein high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1). HMGB1 consists of three separate domains: box A, box B and an acidic tail. Recombinant box A acts as a competitive antagonist for HMGB1 and might be ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schaper F,de Leeuw K,Horst G,Maas F,Bootsma H,Heeringa P,Limburg PC,Westra J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a system for studying the interaction of human, single donor platelets and aggregated human IgG adherent to erythrocyte stroma (ES/Agg IgG) and report the role of monomeric IgG and C1q in this interaction. Monomeric IgG inhibits platelet aggregation by the ES/Agg IgG and acts on the platelet surface. Compl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vollertsen RS,McDuffie FC,Bowie EJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00