Suppression of natural and activated human antitumour cytotoxicity by human seminal plasma.

abstract：:We report a case of a combined immunodeficiency (CID) in a child affected by trichothiodystrophy (TTD) characterized by an altered response to ultraviolet (UV) light due to a defect in the XPD gene. The XPD gene encodes a subunit of the transcription factor II H (TFIIH), a complex involved in nucleotide-excision repai...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Racioppi L,Cancrini C,Romiti ML,Angelini F,Di Cesare S,Bertini E,Livadiotti S,Gambarara MG,Matarese G,Lago Paz F,Stefanini M,Rossi P

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility genes for psoriasis remain to be identified. At least one of these must be in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) to explain associations with alleles at human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-A, -B, -C, -DR, -DQ and C4. In fact, most of these alleles are components of just two ancestral haplotypes (A...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tay GK,Hui J,Gaudieri S,Schmitt-Egenolf M,Martinez OP,Leelayuwat C,Williamson JF,Eiermann TH,Dawkins RL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the effects of local anaesthetics, which are proposed to affect the plasma membrane, on human natural killer (NK) cells. Human NK cell activity was inhibited by lidocaine and procaine in a dose-dependent manner. Procaine inhibited not only NK cytolysis but also the binding of NK cells to target cells when ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takagi S,Kitagawa S,Oshimi K,Takaku F,Miura Y

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABA-1 is a major allergen of nematode parasites of the genus Ascaris which includes the large roundworms of humans and pigs, A. lumbricoides and A. suum, respectively. The allergen was purified from A. suum by immunoaffinity chromatography for immunochemical examination. The IgE antibody repertoire is under MHC contro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Christie JF,Dunbar B,Kennedy MW

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coeliac disease (CD) is described as an autoimmune enteropathy associated with the presence of IgG and IgA antigliadin and antitransglutaminase autoantibodies. While of diagnostic significance, the role of these autoantibodies in the immunopathogenesis of CD is elucidated. An inappropriate T cell immune response to gl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cremata JA,Sorell L,Montesino R,Garcia R,Mata M,Cabrera G,Galvan JA,Garcia G,Valdes R,Garrote JA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF-1 plays an important role in female reproduction and normal embryo development. To understand further CSF-1 function in normal and, especially, in compromised pregnancy, we studied the pattern of its mRNA expression as well as expression of its receptor (c-fms) in the uteroplacental units of mice with induced (cyc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gorivodsky M,Torchinsky A,Shepshelovich J,Savion S,Fein A,Carp H,Toder V

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) is predominantly due to destruction of pulmonary tissue. The host immune response may, in part, play a pathogenic role in pulmonary destruction in these patients. To further understand host immune response in CF, we examined the state of activation of peripheral blood mo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jones MM,Seilheimer DK,Pier GB,Rossen RD

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A syngeneic, monoclonal, anti-idiotype antibody, G6D9, was raised against the mouse monoclonal IgM HNK-1. G6D9, characterized as an IgG1-kappa, inhibits the binding of HNK-1 to the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). G6D9 does not interfere with the binding of various human monoclonal anti-MAG IgM to their specific ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schluep M,Page N,Burger D,Steck AJ

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgG subclasses and IgG, IgA and IgM were measured in 47 patients with chronic respiratory tract infection, 53 patients with recurrent acute respiratory infections and 66 healthy normal adults. Compared to the healthy control group, mean serum IgG2 was significantly lower in patients with chronic infection (P les...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stanley PJ,Corbo G,Cole PJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies using in vitro systems with various stimuli have shown that PBMC from patients with AD show increased levels of IL-4 but decreased levels of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) compared with PBMC from normal controls. However, in vitro conditions do not always mimic the in vivo condition. We therefore believ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Katagiri K,Itami S,Hatano Y,Takayasu S

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated TNF-alpha secretory response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 13 uraemic patients undergoing regular haemodialysis with cuprophane membrane (CM). Sixteen healthy subjects and five uraemic patients under conservative therapy were also studied as controls. Cells of haemodialysis pat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Annenkov AY,Strokov AG,Baranova FS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since thyroid follicular epithelial cells (thyrocytes) have been shown to express a number of functions similar to monocytes, they were further examined for their potency in secreting thymocyte-stimulating activity (TSA). Although spontaneous production of TSA could not be detected when thyrocytes were cultured in the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hirose W,Kawagoe M,Hara M,Kitani A,Hirose T,Norioka K,Harigai M,Nakamura H

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human thymoma is a thymic epithelial cell tumour which often contains a large number of immature T cells and is frequently associated with autoimmune diseases. Since thymic epithelial cells play key roles in the development and selection of T cells in the normal thymus, we hypothesized that the neoplastic thymic epith...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Inoue M,Fujii Y,Okumura M,Takeuchi Y,Shiono H,Miyoshi S,Matsuda H,Shirakura R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that human thyroid epithelial cells, which are normally negative for HLA-DR molecules, express HLA-DR in thyroid autoimmunity. Furthermore, induction of HLA-DR on normal thyroid cells can be achieved by culture with plant lectins. We have now found that recombinant human interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Todd I,Pujol-Borrell R,Hammond LJ,Bottazzo GF,Feldmann M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is strongly associated with cigarette smoking. More than 20 lung carcinogens have been identified in cigarette smoke and one of the most abundant is 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). We hypothesized that NNK modulates alveolar macrophage (AM) mediator production, thus contributing to ca...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Therriault MJ,Proulx LI,Castonguay A,Bissonnette EY

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus (Af) is a fungus associated with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and other allergic diseases. Immune responses in these diseases are due to T and B cell responses. T cell activation requires both Af-specific engagement of the T-cell-receptor as well as interaction of antigen indepe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barrios CS,Johnson BD,D Henderson J Jr,Fink JN,Kelly KJ,Kurup VP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role of cytokines in leprosy reactions was investigated by analysing the levels of tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-1 (IL-1) in serum samples from 39 leprosy patients, 22 of them presenting either type I (upgrading) or type II (ENL) reactions. Fifty per cent of the patients showed elevated con...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sarno EN,Grau GE,Vieira LM,Nery JA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens (SAgs) are potent stimulators of T cells bearing specific Vbeta T cell receptors (TCR) and may play a role in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki syndrome (KS), although despite 15 years of intense study this area remains controversial. Because SAgs can cause Vbeta restricted T cell activation in the absence of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brogan PA,Shah V,Clarke LA,Dillon MJ,Klein N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pituitary hormones are known to affect immune function, treated hypopituitarism is not a recognized cause of immune deficiency in humans. We set out to assess integrity of baseline and stimulated immune function in severely hypopituitary adults. Twenty-one panhypopituitary adults (group 1), on stable pituitar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mukherjee A,Helbert M,Ryder WD,Borrow R,Davis JR,Shalet SM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years galectin-3 has gained attention as a signalling molecule, mainly in inflammatory diseases. Data on galectin-3 expression in neonates, however, are limited, and expression of this lectin in cord blood has not yet been reported. The aim of this study was to determine galectin-3 levels in cord blood of te...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Demmert M,Faust K,Bohlmann MK,Tröger B,Göpel W,Herting E,Härtel C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is an immune-mediated vasculitis with symptoms that mimic febrile illness; the immune origin has been suggested but never proved. First, cell chip technology was used to screen immune targets cells. With the indirect immunofluorescence assay we found that the HeLa cell chip could be recognized by...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cui J,Zhou Y,Hu H,Zhao L,Du Z,Du H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and efficient method of extracting complement-fixing immune complexes (IC) from whole serum and recovering them has been developed. 125I-labelled, in vitro prepared IC in whole serum were incubated with Sepharose 4B covalently linked to monoclonal anti-C3g or anti-C1q and the binding and recovery of IC was mo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Samuel DJ,Amlot PL,Shepherd P,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the skin and nerve fibrosis in toxic oil syndrome by in situ hybridization using specific cDNA probes for types I, III, and IV collagens. Fibroblasts with high levels of type I and III collagen mRNA were observed in biopsies from fibrotic skin areas. Similarly, type IV collagen mRNA was abundant in cel...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gomez-Reino JJ,Sandberg M,Carreira PE,Vuorio E

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family and associated signalling pathways provides a key molecular basis for our understanding of the relationship between exposure to microbial products and susceptibility to immune-mediated disorders. Indeed, ligation of TLR controls innate and adaptive immune respons...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goldman M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate antibody recognition of DNA in normal and aberrant immunity, the binding of sera of normal human subjects (NHS) and patients with SLE was tested with mammalian and bacterial DNA varying in size. Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) and calf thymus (CT) single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) were investigated as model antigens...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pisetsky DS,Gonzalez TC

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise factor responsible for the altered immunological reactivity and diminished inflammatory responses occurring in pregnancy is unknown. Recent observations implicate the pregnancy-associated alpha-2 glycoprotein (PAG). Using rosette assays for the detection of cells carrying Fc receptors and for the demonstra...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Persellin RH,Rhodes J

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the expression of the inhibitory receptor, leucocyte-associated immunoglobulin (Ig)-like receptor-1 (LAIR-1) in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients to investigate its potential role in the modulation of inflammatory cytokines, matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Wang S,Dong H,Yi X,Zhang J,Liu X,Zhuang R,Ding Y

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies anti-Ly 1, anti-Ly 2 and GK1.5 were applied to determine phenotypes of T cells within granulomas formed as a result of infection of mice with the facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Early in granuloma formation, equal numbers of Ly 1+, Ly 2+ and L3T4+ cells were found, T c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Näher H,Sperling U,Takacs L,Hahn H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of macrophage infiltrates in oral mucosal acute graft-versus-host disease (AGVHD) remains unclear, although clinical studies suggest that macrophage infiltration correlates directly with the severity of AGVHD. In this study, we investigated the role of M1 macrophage infiltration in the oral mucosa of rats wit...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Seno K,Yasunaga M,Kajiya H,Izaki-Hagio K,Morita H,Yoneda M,Hirofuji T,Ohno J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxic responses of peripheral blood lymphocytes from cottontop tamarins to in vitro restimulation with autologous lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCL) were assayed. Lymphocytes from immune tamarins that had recovered from EBV challenge developed potent cytotoxicity for natural killer (NK) cell targets and for autol...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wilson AD,Shooshstari M,Finerty S,Watkins P,Morgan AJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00