Interleukin-6 blockade in ocular inflammatory diseases.

abstract：:Autoantibodies in the sera of patients with Goodpasture's syndrome showed a strong reaction in indirect immunofluorescence tests on unfixed, frozen sections of a mouse tumour (EHS sarcoma), previously shown to produce extracellular basement membrane. Anti-basement membrane antibodies from patients with bullous pemphig...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wick G,Timpl R

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a study on immunoregulation of in vitro antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs) synthesis induced by pokeweed mitogen (PWM) from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in chronic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers and in 'high responders', (anti-HBs RIA ratio greater than or equal to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barnaba V,Valesini G,Levrero M,Zaccari C,Van Dyke A,Falco M,Musca A,Balsano F

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy (IgAN), the most common form of glomerulonephritis, is characterized by normal to elevated levels of serum IgA. In order to understand the molecular mechanism(s) involved in the production of IgA in IgAN, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from these patients were analysed in this study. IL-10, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Baskin B,Pettersson E,Rekola S,Smith CI,Islam KB

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybridoma (FMC4) has been derived which secretes antibody showing selective reaction with human B lymphocytes, monocytes and some null lymphocytes. Few, if any, T lymphocytes in normal blood are stained, although stimulation of lymphocytes with PHA leads to an increase in the proportion of cells reacting with the hy...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Beckman IG,Bradley J,Brooks DA,Kupa A,McNamara PJ,Thomas ME,Zola H

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten out of 14 rhesus monkeys developed arthritis after a single immunization with bovine type II collagen (B-CII). In contrast to primary resistant monkeys, arthritic animals showed a B-CII specific T cell proliferation during the induction phase of the disease. All surviving animals showed a full remission of the dis...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bakker NP,van Erck MG,'t Hart LA,Jonker M

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the effect of ethyl pyruvate (EP) on pulmonary inflammation in rats with severe pancreatitis-associated acute lung injury (ALI). Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) was induced in rats by the retrograde injection of 5% sodium taurocholate into the pancreatic duct. Rats were randomly divided into...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luan ZG,Zhang J,Yin XH,Ma XC,Guo RX

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The era prior to 1990 was a time of careful observation of disease presentation, course, outcomes and meticulous pathology studies. These mainly single-centre studies introduced new life-saving therapies for drugs still used effectively today. In the 1970-1980s, cyclophosphamide (CyP) added to glucocorticosteroids (GC...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman GS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In susceptible mice, the heavy metal ion mercury is able to induce a strong immune activation, which resembles a T helper 2 (Th2) type of immune response and is characterized by a polyclonal B cell activation, formation of high levels of IgG1 and IgE antibodies, production of autoantibodies of different specificities ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brenden N,Rabbani H,Abedi-Valugerdi M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated phenotypical differences in glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 autoantibodies (GADA) found in type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients, individuals at risk of developing T1D and stiff-person syndrome (SPS) patients. In a Phase II trial using aluminium-formulated GAD(65) (GAD-alum) as an immunomodula...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chéramy M,Hampe CS,Ludvigsson J,Casas R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune and bone systems maintain homeostasis by interacting closely with each other. Rheumatoid arthritis is a pathological consequence of their interplay, as activated T cell immune responses result in osteoclast-mediated bone erosion. An imbalance between forkhead box protein 3 (Foxp3)+ regulatory T (Treg ) cell...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Komatsu N,Takayanagi H

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most frequent symptomatic primary immunodeficiency disease, characterized by low levels of circulating immunoglobulins and recurrent bacterial infections, particularly of the respiratory tract. T cell dysfunction is often present, and lymphoproliferative and autoimmune di...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Holm AM,Tjønnfjord G,Yndestad A,Beiske K,Müller F,Aukrust P,Frøland SS

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Aspergillus fumigatus, a ubiquitous fungus, is implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of clinically different allergic diseases in man, including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Peptide-based immunotherapy may offer an alternative treatment strategy for the management of allergic disease. The objective of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Svirshchevskaya EV,Alekseeva L,Marchenko A,Viskova N,Andronova TM,Benevolenskii SV,Kurup VP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay for complement-dependent antibody-mediated cytolysis of Plasmodium yoelii infected mouse erythrocytes was designed. By means of a rat hyperimmune serum to P. yoelii the presence of parasite associated antigens was demonstrated on erythrocytes from P. yoelii infected mice. Tests with such erythrocytes fraction...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gabriel J,Berzins K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes from unsensitized donors by fractions of T.b rhodesiense has been demonstrated in vitro. Both T and B cells were stimulated to differentiate into blast cells. Purified T cells failed to proliferate, but did so when mitomycin C-treated non-T cells were added. Non-T cell ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Selkirk ME,Ogilvie BM,Platts-Mills TA

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a flow cytometric technique which allows direct identification of proliferating cells within mixed cell populations, we have previously described that soluble extracts obtained from Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. avium represent strong stimuli for human gammadelta+ T cells. In the present study, we demonstr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Batoni G,Esin S,Harris RA,Källenius G,Svenson SB,Andersson R,Campa M,Wigzell H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Features of tissue damage in invasive amoebiasis, in particular polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) degranulation and vasculitis, bear resemblance to that seen in Wegener's granulomatosis, the latter being associated with the presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). We therefore tested sera from patie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pudifin DJ,Duursma J,Gathiram V,Jackson TF

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that CD30 and CD26 are surface molecules expressed on activated Th2 and Th1 cells, respectively. We examined plasma levels of soluble CD26 (sCD26) and sCD30 in patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) when their eruptions were aggravated and in non-atopic healthy controls, and then analysed the possible co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Katoh N,Hirano S,Suehiro M,Ikenaga K,Yamashita T,Sugawara N,Yasuno H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of thirty-nine children with recurrent infections, circulating antigens, either free or in the form of immune complexes, were detected in thirty. The ability of sera to inhibit the agglutination of latex by rheumatoid factor or the C1q component of complement was used as a test for the presence of immune co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Delire M,Masson PL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) remains the only available and most widely administered vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), yet it fails to protect vaccinated individuals either from primary infection or reactivation of latent tuberculosis (TB). Despite BCG's variable efficacy against TB, the fact remains...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Siddiqui KF,Amir M,Khan N,Rama Krishna G,Sheikh JA,Rajagopal K,Agrewala JN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to provide proof-of-concept for quantitative and qualitative label-free detection of immune complexes through myeloid cells with imaging surface plasmon resonance. Surface plasmon resonance imaging was first applied to monitor the binding of human sera from healthy and rheumatoid arthritis (R...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Szittner Z,Bentlage AE,Rovero P,Migliorini P,Lóránd V,Prechl J,Vidarsson G

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Mycobacterium leprae shares many protein antigens with other mycobacterial species, there is a degree of specificity in the T cell response to the organism. This is evident in the failure of cross-protection between mycobacterial species and the specific unresponsiveness to M. leprae in lepromatous leprosy pa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Adams E,Basten A,Prestidge R,Britton WJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of T cell receptor V gene expression by lymphocytes from rheumatoid synovial fluid and paired peripheral blood samples was compared using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay. Eight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who had varying durations of disease (from 2 to 20 years) were studied. In all pa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lunardi C,Marguerie C,So AK

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of human peripheral blood NK subsets has been made in a group of Kenyan adults and children with acute P. falciparum malaria. Results were compared with data obtained from three age- and sex-matched control cohorts: parasitaemic but asymptomatic children; aparasitaemic children and adults; and adult Cau...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Orago AS,Facer CA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes and endothelial cells were stimulated in co-culture with allogeneic lymphocytes to produce thromboplastin (TPL). The induction was biphasic, an early response (8-24 h) was greatly augmented by cyclosporin A (CS) (0.5-5 micrograms/ml) whereas the late response (day 3-4) was inhibited. Prednisolone inhibited b...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carlsen E,Gaudernack G,Filion-Myklebust C,Pettersen KS,Prydz H

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants respond to antigen by making antibody that is generally of low affinity for antigen. Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes, and selection of cells expressing mutations with improved affinity for antigen, are the molecular and cellular processes underlying the maturation of antibody affinity. We have re...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ridings J,Dinan L,Williams R,Roberton D,Zola H

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cachexia is one of the prominent features of advanced tuberculosis (TB) seen in association with increased expression of the monokine TNF-alpha. Several mycobacterial proteins, including PPD, stimulate TNF-alpha secretion from monocytes. Host factors that may play a role in cytokine expression from monocytes remain la...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hussain R,Shiratsuchi H,Phillips M,Ellner J,Wallis RS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of a methylcholanthrene-induced fibrosarcoma in BALB/c mice was accompanied by an increase in the activation state of tumour-associated macrophages (TAM), as measured by their FcIgG receptor expression, phagocytic index and beta-glucuronidase levels. All of these parameters were markedly higher in TAM than in p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Valdéz JC,Perdigón G

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that male mice of strains with high target organ responsiveness to androgen, the C57L/J and RF/J, have lower plasma immunoglobulin levels and weaker antibody responses to protein and polysaccharide antigens than mice of low androgen responder (LAR) strains, the A/J and 129/J. In the current...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cohn DA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed CD4+, tetanus antigen-specific T cell clones that proliferate in the presence of tetanus antigen and autologous irradiated peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL) as antigen-presenting cells (APC). There have been several reports that T cells can present antigen themselves. We have used tetanus antigen-spe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chirmule N,Kalyanaraman VS,Slade H,Oyaizu N,Pahwa S

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00