Monoclonal anti-poly(rA) hybridoma antibodies from an autoimmune MRL/MpJ-lpr/lpr mouse.

abstract：:Serum samples from 64 apparently healthy individuals (32 men and 32 women, mean age 81.0 years) were examined for the prevalence of several autoantibodies, including rheumatoid factor (RF), antinuclear antibodies (ANA), antibodies to extracted cellular antigens Ro (SSA), La (SSB), Sm, U1nRNP and Scl-70. IgG and IgM is...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Manoussakis MN,Tzioufas AG,Silis MP,Pange PJ,Goudevenos J,Moutsopoulos HM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction of T cells is a common feature in chronic persistent viral infections, including hepatitis C virus (HCV), and although hepatic and peripheral T cells have been studied extensively in chronic HCV hepatitis, the role of splenic T cell responses in such patients is poorly defined. This is an important issue, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hashimoto N,Shimoda S,Kawanaka H,Tsuneyama K,Uehara H,Akahoshi T,Kinjo N,Taketomi A,Shirabe K,Akashi K,Lleo A,Ansari AA,Gershwin ME,Maehara Y

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major subtypes of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) detected by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) are P-ANCA and C-ANCA. In patients with vasculitis, myeloperoxidase (MPO) is the major P-ANCA antigen and proteinase 3 (PR3) is the major C-ANCA antigen. BPI and azurocidin, which are also called 57-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yang JJ,Tuttle R,Falk RJ,Jennette JC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) are known to grow and proliferate in the liver while a splenectomy induces host resistance against a Listeria infection despite the fact that a splenectomy inhibits the Th1 response. Therefore, the mechanism by which a splenectomy helps to prevent the growth of Listeria still remains ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kuranaga N,Kinoshita M,Kawabata T,Shinomiya N,Seki S

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:In order to delineate the molecular pathogenesis of the increased susceptibility to CMV disease in HIV infection, the patterns of antigen responsiveness in HIV-infected and non-infected individuals were investigated. CMV was fractionated by SDS-PAGE and electroblotted onto nitrocellulose. Lymphoproliferative responses...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Converse PJ,Fehniger TE,Ehrnst A,Strannegård O,Britton S

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saimiri sciureus monkeys have been successfully immunized against a human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, using soluble antigens purified from schizont and merozoite extracts. High levels of antibodies reacting with schizont and merozoite specific polypeptides of 140 and 200 kdaltons were detected in the sera...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Perrin LH,Loche M,Dedet JP,Roussilhon C,Fandeur T

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of the protein A-like activity of some strains of group A streptococci has thrown doubt on much previous work suggesting antigenic cross-reactions between these streptococci and mammalian tissues. The strains used in our previous studies have now been examined by the mixed reverse passive antiglobulin reac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kingston D

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium is a murine pathogen that transiently colonizes the lumen of the large intestine. C. rodentium induces colitis, but the relative importance and temporal induction of the T helper type 17 (Th17) and regulatory T cell (T(reg)) pathways in protection from the infection and inflammation have not been...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Symonds EL,Riedel CU,O'Mahony D,Lapthorne S,O'Mahony L,Shanahan F

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) and other colleagues have updated the multi-stage expert-opinion-based diagnostic protocol for non-immunologists incorporating newly defined primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs). The protocol presented here aims to increase the awareness of PIDs among d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Vries E,European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) members.

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When MRL/lpr (H-2k) spleen cells were intraperitoneally injected into C.B-17-scid/scid (severe combined immunodeficient (SCID)) (H-2d) mice, the SCID (SCID-MRL/lpr) mice manifested a severe wasting syndrome with weight loss, splenic atrophy, and lymphoid cell infiltration in the liver and lung, as seen in lpr-GVHD. In...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hosaka N,Nagata N,Miyashima S,Ikehara S

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of PGE2 from monocytes of newly diagnosed patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) was compared to that of patients in remission, who were not receiving either chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and normal controls. We found that monocyte monolayers of some patients, both newly diagnosed and those in remission, s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Passwell J,Levanon M,Davidsohn J,Ramot B

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and prostaglandins (PG) regulate the cell-mediated immune response, so it has been proposed that they affect the progression of pulmonary tuberculosis. Here we report that the administration of soluble betaglycan, a potent TGF-beta antagonist, and niflumic acid, a PG synthesi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hernández-Pando R,Orozco-Esteves H,Maldonado HA,Aguilar-León D,Vilchis-Landeros MM,Mata-Espinosa DA,Mendoza V,López-Casillas F

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cationic proteins, a neutral phosphatase (NP-tase) and a 70-kD protein (p70) were isolated from Staphylococcus aureus by ion exchange chromatography. We compared their properties to those of the well established B cell mitogen of whole, fixed Staph. aureus strain Cowan I cells (SAC). Both purified proteins were ab...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jahreis A,Yousif Y,Rump JA,Dräger R,Vogt A,Peter HH,Schlesier M

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are aimed at controlling the exacerbated response in the gut, but no treatment is fully effective for many refractory patients. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are multi-potent cells with regulatory immunosuppressive activity that may control inflammatory disease...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alves VBF,de Sousa BC,Fonseca MTC,Ogata H,Caliári-Oliveira C,Yaochite JNU,Rodrigues Júnior V,Chica JEL,da Silva JS,Malmegrim KCR,Pernomian L,Cardoso CR

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study of protein composition of amyloid fibrils isolated from eight patients representative of the spectrum of amyloidosis found in Papua New Guinea has been investigated. All fibril preparations, including three from patients with amyloidosis secondary to lepromatous leprosy and one from an unusual juvenile c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Anders RF,Price MA,Wilkey IS,Husby G,Takitaki F,Natvig JB,McAdam KP

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) were detected by a solid-phase radioassay in 34% of fifty-three insulin-dependent diabetics (IDD) as compared to 18% of forty-five non-insulin-dependent diabetics (NIDD) and 14% of 173 control subjects. In control subjects, the prevalence of CIC increased with age and was higher in m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Delespesse G,Gausset P,Sarfati M,Dubi-Rucquoy M,Debisschop MJ,van Haelst L

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of CR1 on podocytes is reduced in nephropathies with severe glomerular damage, especially in the diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (DPGN) of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Reduction of CR1 number on erythrocytes is due to proteolysis of CR1 by macrophage proteases activated by the reaction of th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Teixeira JE,Costa RS,Lachmann PJ,Würzner R,Barbosa JE

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We serially monitored cell surface antigen expression on mononuclear cells in peripheral blood isolated from patients with Kawasaki disease (KD), and found, for the first time, that a markedly increased number of CD4+CD8+ T lymphocytes was present in some of the patients (11 of the 24 cases). The cases of five of thes...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hirao J,Sugita K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The open reading frame of human proteinase 3 (PR3) without the prepro-peptide was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli (rcPR3) and in Pichia pastoris (rpPR3). The 6-histidine tagged rpPR3 was efficiently secreted into culture supernatant from which it could be purified by immobilized metal chelate chromatography. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harmsen MC,Heeringa P,van der Geld YM,Huitema MG,Klimp A,Tiran A,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:Although increasing evidence demonstrates the association between intestinal dysbiosis and pancreatic diseases such as chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, it remains largely unknown whether intestinal dysbiosis is involved in the immunopathogenesis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). Recently, we found that inte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kamata K,Watanabe T,Minaga K,Hara A,Sekai I,Otsuka Y,Yoshikawa T,Park AM,Kudo M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated infection with virulent Mycobacterium avium in C57Bl/6 (B6) mice leads to severe lymphocyte depletion in secondary lymphoid organs. In this study, we found an up-regulation of caspase-8 activity in spleen cell extracts from M. avium 25291-infected B6 mice compared to non-infected mice. The activation of t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Borges M,Rosa GT,Appelberg R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both murine and human experimental systems, acute, low dose exposure of skin to ultraviolet B light (UVB) impairs the induction of allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) by haptens such as dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) in a significant proportion of individuals. By light microscopy, epidermal Langerhans cells (LC) have be...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mommaas AM,Mulder AA,Vermeer M,Boom BW,Tseng C,Taylor JR,Streilein JW

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgD levels in 83 healthy adults were measured by a radioimmunoassay technique and analysed according to each subject's smoking habit. The IgD geometric mean in cigarette smokers was twice as high as in non-smokers (408.6 vs 202.0 micrograms/dl). Serum IgD levels of 1,000 micrograms/dl or greater were noted in 22...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bahna SL,Heiner DC,Myhre BA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report is focused on the functional capacity of Langerhans cells (LC) in the epithelium of skin and oral mucosa, which both meet different antigenic challenges. The capacity of LC from human oral and skin epithelium to provide co-stimulatory signals to T cells in vitro was compared. LC in a crude suspension of or...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hasséus B,Jontell M,Bergenholtz G,Dahlgren UI

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Whether differences in foetoplacental weight and post-implantation mortality in rodents are secondary to heterosis and inbreeding depression or antigenic differences between mother and foetus has been a continuing controversy. To determine whether non-specific depression or stimulation of the maternal immune system af...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Scott JR,Feldbush TL,Covault JM

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation, local and systemic bone loss and a lack of compensatory bone repair. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) are the most abundant cells of the stroma and a key population in autoimmune diseases such as RA. An increasing body of evide...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wehmeyer C,Pap T,Buckley CD,Naylor AJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency and specificity of antibodies to native and denatured collagens were evaluated in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and in primary Raynaud's phenomenon (PRP) by direct and competitive ELISA. Antibodies reactive with denatured collagen type I (CI) were found in 43% of the SSc sera, and anti-CIV and anti-CV in 31%....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Riente L,Marchini B,Dolcher MP,Puccetti A,Bombardieri S,Migliorini P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00