Superantigens: their role in infectious diseases.

abstract：:Competitive binding to polystyrene-bound antigens showed that human rye Group I (rye I)-specific IgG recognize the same three distinct epitopes of rye I as three monoclonal antibodies directed against the same antigens. Anti-idiotypic antibodies against one of the monoclonal antibodies (290A-167) inhibit completely th...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mourad W,Hébert J

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of immune tolerance is the most common consequence of protein feeding, i.e., "oral tolerance". In this study we investigated the genetic basis of oral tolerance using various kinds of recombinant and congenic mice, and the cells involved in the development of this phenomenon in mice. The footpad swelling...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Ishii N,Moriguchi N,Sugita Y,Nakajima H,Tanaka S,Aoki I

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different studies described the antibacterial properties of Lavandula angustifolia (Mill.) essential oil and its anti-inflammatory effects. Besides, no data exist on its ability to activate human macrophages during the innate response against Staphylococcus aureus. The discovery of promising regulators of macrophage-m...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Giovannini D,Gismondi A,Basso A,Canuti L,Braglia R,Canini A,Mariani F,Cappelli G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromelain has been reported to have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. However, the anti-inflammatory mechanism of bromelain is unclear. Therefore, we investigated the effect of bromelain on cytokine production from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and mo...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Huang JR,Wu CC,Hou RC,Jeng KC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial superantigen Staphylococcal enterotoxin-A (SEA), produced by some strains of Staphylococcus aureus, causes proliferation of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes and cytokine production in vivo. SEA has been shown to be highly efficient for antibody-targeted superantegen immunotherapy for different tumor models. A can...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mondal TK,Bhatta D,Biswas S,Pal P

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the main mediators for mouse anaphylactic shock, the suppression of active anaphylactic shock by cyproheptadine, an antagonist of histamine/serotonin, and CV-6209, an antagonist of platelet-activating factor (PAF), was systematically evaluated using various mouse strains. The suppression was quite heterog...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kimura S,Watanabe A,Nagata M,Niinomi Y,Harada M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This preliminary study examined the effects of immunization with Bacteroides macacae, the monkey equivalent of the human species of B. gingivalis on ligature-induced periodontitis. During a 12 week immunization period, 8 out of the 12 Macacae fasicularis monkeys were immunized weekly with B. macacae washed cells and 4...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Nisengard R,Blann D,Zelonis L,McHenry K,Reynolds H,Zambon J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effect which xenogeneic anti-Ig has on rabbit B cell function and Ig expression in an effort to understand the phenomenon of antibody mediated suppression. Treatment of rabbit lymphocyte cultures with xenogeneic anti-rabbit Ig causes 2.5-3.8 fold decrease in the level of Ig secreting cells with li...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Ives N,Asundi V,Dreher K

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven commercially available intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) preparations, a gamma globulin prepared by ethanol fractionation, and an experimental IgG isolated by a chromatographic procedure were compared in several tests. Split products were present in preparations manufactured by procedures involving protease tre...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Medgyesi GA,Kovács J,Füst G,Merétey K

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) plays an important role in the development of periodontitis. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate association of the  MCP-1 gene polymorphism with chronic periodontitis in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). One hundred fifty ESRD patients with chronic ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Ksiazek K,Buraczynska M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Champedak (Artocarpus integer) lectin-M is a lectin with high specificity and affinity for the core-mannosyl residues of the N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins. We have studied the interaction of the champedak seed lectin with human serum glycoproteins that were resolved by 2-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophore...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Hashim OH,Ahmad F,Shuib AS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in cytokine expression have been frequently found in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Cytokine values outside the normal range may be somewhat related to common polymorphisms within cytokine genes. OBJECTIVE:The present study was designed to investigate the possible association betwee...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Ebrahimi Daryani N,Saghazadeh A,Moossavi S,Sadr M,Shahkarami S,Soltani S,Farhadi E,Rezaei N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to laboratory animals poses a hazard for development of occupational allergy. Identification of antigenic determinants of allergenic proteins may be valuable for immunotherapeutic purposes. Overlapping peptides of the major allergen in rat urine, Rat n 1.02, corresponding to the protein alpha2u-globulin were ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Bayard C,Siddique AB,Berzins K,Troye-Blomberg M,Hellman U,Vesterberg O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jeevaneeya rasayana is an ayurvedic polyherbal formulation, with antirheumatic potential. The present study investigates the therapeutic efficacy of isolated total alkaloid fraction of Jeevaneeya Rasayana (AJR) in treating rheumatoid arthritis in a rat model of Adjuvant-induced arthritis (AIA). Paw swelling, inflammat...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Shyni GL,Sindhu G,Helen A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th17 cells of the intestine and colon can produce several important cytokines during mucosal inflammation. However, few studies have focused on the role of IL-26 in intestinal inflammations. Colonic epithelial cells express receptors for IL-26, and this cytokine has been shown to induce the HT-29 colonic epithelial ce...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Weishaar IM,Young RS,Wiles BM,McGee DW

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we aimed to explore the association among gene variants of five cytokines, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1), interferon gamma (IFN-γ), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interleukin-10 (IL-10), and clinical parameters and prognosis in patients with multiple myeloma ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Haydaroglu H,Oguzkan Balcı S,Pehlıvan S,Ozdıllı K,Gundogan E,Okan V,Nursal AF,Pehlıvan M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotaviruses were first recognized about 15 years ago in association with diarrhea in children and animals. Since then, rotaviruses have been determined to be the most important viral agent that causes clinically significant diarrhea in children and a need for an effective vaccination program has been recognized. This ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Estes MK,Conner ME,Gilger MA,Graham DY

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study has demonstrated that both interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were needed to induce the production of nitric oxide (NO) in BNL CL.2 cells, murine embryonic liver cells. We here demonstrate that when BNL CL.2 cells were cultured with serum-free medium, they were induced to produc...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Pae HO,Yoo JC,Choi BM,Paik SG,Kim YH,Jin HS,Chung HT

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are potent antigen-presenting cells that can be matured in vitro from immature dendritic cells (iDCs) in the presence of several biological agents such as cytokine cocktail, CD40L, TNF-a and antigen loading, which are necessary and achieved using various protocols, such as lipofection, passive pu...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Son CH,Bae JH,Shin DY,Lee HR,Choi YH,Yang K,Park YS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the functional and subset surface marker characteristics of supramammary lymph node T cell populations at sites proximal and distal to the mammary region of goats repeatedly injected with heat-treated Staphylococcus aureus antigen (HK-SAC). Flow cytometric studies showed quantitative differences in CD4...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Dobrzanski MJ,Yang TJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the relation between CD226 rs763361 gene polymorphism and CD226 serum level and to evaluate their role in susceptibility and disease activity of RA in a cohort of Egyptian individuals. METHODS:The serum level of CD226 was measured using a suitable ELISA kit and the CD226 rs763361 gene polymorphism w...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mosaad YM,El-Toraby EE,Tawhid ZM,Abdelsalam AI,Enin AF,Hasson AM,Shafeek GM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restriction of antigen presentation of a single mucin1 (MUC1) variable number of tandem repeats peptide (VNTR1) was examined by generating cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) derived from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated with a single repeat MUC1 peptide presented b...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Orr MK,Burnside JS,Phillips CA,Philip R,Dombrowski KE,Wright SE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-body hyperthermia (WBH) has been used as an adjunct approach to radio-/ chemotherapy for tumor therapy for many years. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the enhancement of tumor control is not clearly understood. It has been hypothesized that WBH might activate immune system by inducing the expression ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Zhang H,Wang W,Zhang S,Huang W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested by Western blot several thousand antibody-secreting human cell lines immortalized by hybridoma fusion or Epstein-Barr virus transformation of peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus or mixed connective tissue disease. The blots utilized total human Jurkat cell extract as ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Vanderslice WE,Takeda Y,Chen J,Sharp GC,Pettersson I,Rosen A,Wigzell H,Wang RJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA vaccine represents a powerful approach for prevention of avian H5N1 influenza infection. Yet, DNA vaccine-induced immune responses might be limited by the short duration of antigen expression. As a strategy to enhance adaptive immune responses elicited by a hemagglutinin 5 (H5) DNA vaccine, we explored the effect ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Tabatabaeizadeh SE,Bassami MR,Haghparast A,Dehghani H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunoassay (EIA) is described and evaluated which quantitates human antibodies to serotype specific S. pneumoniae polysaccharide (PnPs) in human sera. Based on the observations previously described by Koskela (1), native PnPs are used as coating antigens and sera are absorbed with a soluble pneumococ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Quataert S,Martin D,Anderson P,Giebink GS,Henrichsen J,Leinonen M,Granoff DM,Russell H,Siber G,Faden H,Barnes D,Madore DV

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil chemotactic defects have been reported previously in patients with hyper-IgE syndrome. Bi-allelic mutations in dedicator of cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) gene usually cause an autosomal recessive hyper-IgE syndrome phenotype. Data are lacking about expression of DOCK8 protein in neutrophils or the possible role of ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mandola AB,Levy J,Nahum A,Hadad N,Levy R,Rylova A,Simon AJ,Lev A,Somech R,Broides A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each functional gene illustrates the complexity of genetic predisposition to disease; however, it is difficult to bring out these traits with reference to autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes (T1D). To find out the genetic contribution of CTLA-4 + 49A/G, CTLA-4 -318C/T and CD28 + 17T/C polymorphisms toward T1D, th...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Gunavathy N,Asirvatham A,Chitra A,Jayalakshmi M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system which is a critical mediator of innate immunity plays diverse roles in the neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 infection such as clearing HIV-1 and promoting productive HIV-1 replication. In the development of HIV-1 associated neurological disorders (HAND), there may be an imbalance between complement act...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mahajan SD,Aalinkeel R,Parikh NU,Jacob A,Cwiklinski K,Sandhu P,Le K,Loftus AW,Schwartz SA,Quigg RJ,Alexander JJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the blocking ability of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) in enzyme immunoassays by coating polystyrene microtiter wells with PVA of different molecular weights (MW) and percent hydrolysis (%Hyd). Blocking ability was measured by the differences in non-specific binding of an anti-rabbit IgG-horseradish peroxidase ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Rodda DJ,Yamazaki H

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00