Blunted expression of miR-199a-5p in regulatory T cells of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease compared to unaffected smokers.

abstract：:Activation of human umbilical vein endothelial (HUVE) cells with the inflammatory mediators tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), interleukin-1 (IL-1), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and phorbol esters enhanced their adhesiveness for leucocytes. The appearance of an activation antigen ELAM-1, recognized by a monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Leeuwenberg JF,Jeunhomme GM,Buurman WA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone can mediate the binding of both free DNA and DNA complexed to anti-DNA antibody to the glomerular capillary wall. We tested whether performed histone-DNA-anti-DNA immune complexes (IC) could bind to the glomerular capillary wall. The immune complex, generated with anti-DNA antibody derived from an SLE patient ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Morioka T,Fujigaki Y,Batsford SR,Woitas R,Oite T,Shimizu F,Vogt A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) have reduced numbers and frequencies of dendritic cells (DCs) in blood, and there is also evidence for defective activation through Toll-like receptors (TLRs). Collectively, these observations may point to a primary defect in the generation of functional DCs. Here,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Taraldsrud E,Fevang B,Aukrust P,Beiske KH,Fløisand Y,Frøland S,Rollag H,Olweus J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The supernatants of hybrids produced by fusion of splenocytes from normal, germ free, nude and neonatal BALB/c mice with mouse NS-1 myeloma cells were examined for immunofluorescence reactivity with viable and acetone fixed monolayers of syngeneic mouse fibroblasts and mouse 3T3 cells and with viable cell suspensions ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Underwood JR,Pedersen JS,Chalmers PJ,Toh BH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four murine monoclonal antibodies having high levels of activity against phosphatidyl-inositol phosphate (PIP) were tested for lupus anticoagulant activity. The antibodies showed different degrees of potency in a modified partial thromboplastin time test (APTT) that used dilutions of either bovine brain extract (Throm...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alving BM,Banerji B,Fogler WE,Alving CR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of inflammatory cytokines in a mouse model of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection mimicking diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB), and determined the effects of clarithromycin therapy on the production of these cytokines. The concentrations of IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, interferon-gamma (IFN-ga...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yanagihara K,Tomono K,Kuroki M,Kaneko Y,Sawai T,Ohno H,Miyazaki Y,Higashiyama Y,Maesaki S,Kadota J,Kohno S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human thyroid epithelial cells (thyrocytes) express HLA Class II molecules in autoimmune thyroid diseases (ATD). Normal thyrocytes do not express Class II, but can be induced to do so by culture with interferon-gamma (gamma-IFN). We have examined HLA-D subregion expression in sections and monolayers of thyroid by indi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

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

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th1 cell-induced anti-mycobacterial immunity is lost during a progressive Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a susceptible host. This study was designed to test the mechanism of the loss of anti-mycobacterial cell-mediated immune response. We demonstrate that M. tuberculosis infection results in increased Fas exp...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Das G,Vohra H,Saha B,Agrewala JN,Mishra GC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune parameters were compared in four groups of Ugandan subjects: HIV-and HIV+ adult patients with active pulmonary TB (HIV- PTB n = 38; HIV+ PTB n = 28), patients with HIV infection only (n = 26) and PPD+ healthy controls (n = 25). Compared with healthy controls, CD4 and CD8 T cells from patients with HIV and/or PT...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hertoghe T,Wajja A,Ntambi L,Okwera A,Aziz MA,Hirsch C,Johnson J,Toossi Z,Mugerwa R,Mugyenyi P,Colebunders R,Ellner J,Vanham G

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of thymic epithelial cells containing the serum thymic factor (FTS or thymulin), assessed by indirect immunofluorescence using an anti-FTS monoclonal antibody, was studied in the thymus of normal and autoimmune mice as a function of age. In normal mice the number of FTS+ cells was constant until the age of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Savino W,Dardenne M,Bach JF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of cyclosporin A (CsA) on type II collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in the rhesus monkey has been investigated. CsA was administered subcutaneously in a dose of 25 mg/kg per day during 9-18 days and additionally 12.5 mg/kg per day for 7 days. At this dosing regime no significant alterations of haematologi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bakker NP,Van Besouw N,Groenestein R,Jonker M,Hart LA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An original representative of histamine-containing peptidomimetics L-glutamyl-histamine (L-Glu-Hist) was synthesized and characterized as a cytokine mimic leading to cellular responses of improved specificity. The energy-minimized 3-D conformations of L-Glu-Hist derived from its chemical structure resulted in stabiliz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Babizhayev MA,Semiletov YA,Lul'kin YA,Sakina NL,Savel'yeva EL,Alimbarova LM,Barinskii IP

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of anti-DNA antibodies to the endothelial cell is mediated through DNA, which forms a bridge between the immunoglobulin and the plasma membrane. We have shown that 32P-labelled DNA bound to the plasma membrane of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) by a saturable process, which could be competit...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chan TM,Frampton G,Cameron JS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte subpopulations in patients with cervical carcinoma were studied before and after radiotherapy. T lymphocytes were recognized by their ability to form spontaneous rosettes with sheep erythrocytes (E rosettes). Two surface marker characteristics were used to detect B lymphocytes: receptors for activated compl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rand RJ,Jenkins DM,Bulmer R

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibody (MAB) 60.3 reacts with the beta chain (CD18) of lymphocyte function associated antigen (LFA-1), encoded by a gene on chromosome 21. We have used 60.3 to measure the expression of CD18 on lymphoblastoid cell-lines derived from persons with Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) by quantitative fluorescence ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Taylor GM,Williams A,D'Souza SW,Fergusson WD,Donnai D,Fennell J,Harris R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integral membrane proteins (IMP) represent a serologically distinct class of mycobacterial antigens which are potent stimulators of human T cells (Mehrotra et al., Clin Exp Immunol 1995; 102:626). The range of IMP from Mycobacterium fortuitum was resolved by continuous elution SDS-PAGE to recover 31 discrete fractions...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mehrotra J,Mittal A,Dhindsa MS,Sinha S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paneth cells are important contributors to the intestinal antimicrobial barrier through synthesis and release of antimicrobial peptides and proteins. Animal studies indicate that Paneth cell numbers, location and granule morphology are altered by infection and zinc status. We examined human tissue to determine whether...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kelly P,Feakins R,Domizio P,Murphy J,Bevins C,Wilson J,McPhail G,Poulsom R,Dhaliwal W

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (MyD), an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disease with multisystem abnormalities, is associated with hypercatabolism of IgG. The hypercatabolism is not related to structural abnormalities of the IgG molecule in MyD but appears to be due to a derangement of the serum IgG concentration-fractional cat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Banerjee D,McClintock J,Silver MM,Hudson AJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), seronegative spondyloarthropathy (SA) and osteoarthritis (OA) patients receiving no steroid or disease-modifying therapy have been monitored, along with healthy controls, for their prevailing level of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection using four independent indices of the EBV-host balance, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yao QY,Rickinson AB,Gaston JS,Epstein MA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breakpoint cluster region-Abelson murine leukaemia viral oncogene homologue 1 (BCR-ABL1), encoded by the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, is the characteristic of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and a subset of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). We demonstrated that expression of the Ik6 transcript, which lacked exons ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dong Y,Liu F,Wu C,Li S,Zhao X,Zhang P,Jiao J,Yu X,Ji Y,Zhang M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocyte and macrophage dysfunction may be important for both immunopathogenesis and clinical manifestations in subgroups of patients with primary hypogammaglobulinaemia. In the present study we examined the ability to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in isolated monocytes from these patients by two different me...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Aukrust P,Müller F,Frøland SS

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania parasites are the causative agents of leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease that causes substantial morbidity and considerable mortality in many developing areas of the world. Recent estimates suggest that roughly 10 million people suffer from cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), and approximately 76,000 are...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carlsen ED,Liang Y,Shelite TR,Walker DH,Melby PC,Soong L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two amyloidogenic Bence Jones proteins (Am37 VkappaIV and NIG1 VkappaI) and one non-amyloidogenic protein (NIG26 VkappaIII) were characterized. The protein Am37 had four deletions when compared with the translated germ-line gene sequence: two Ser residues following position 27 (27e, 27f) in CDR1 and two amino acids Pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alim MA,Yamaki S,Hossain MS,Takeda K,Kozima M,Izumi T,Takashi I,Shinoda T

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood B lymphocytes, depleted of adherent cells, from 10 patients with multiple myeloma were cultured in the presence of PWM with autologous or donor T lymphocytes. The results show that: (1) co-cultures with allogeneic T lymphocytes produced more plasma cells than those with autologous ones; (2) the kappa/...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gobbi M,Caligaris-Cappio F,Campana D,Tazzari PL,Bergui L,Cavo M,Tura S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) distribution obtained after fractionation of thirty sera of patients with gastrointestinal tumours by gel filtration in Sephadex G200 was compared with that resulting from extraction of the sera with perchloric acid. In all cases gel filtration yielded a fraction of free CEA and in t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kapsopoulou-Dominos K,Anderer FA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons play an important, but incompletely understood role in HIV-related disease. We investigated the effect of HAART on plasma levels of IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma, neopterin and interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) in 41 HIV-infected patients during 78 weeks of therapy. At baseline HIV-infected patients had raise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stylianou E,Aukrust P,Bendtzen K,Müller F,Frøland SS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the adhesion molecule, CD146/MCAM/MelCAM, on T cells has been associated with recent activation, memory subsets and T helper type 17 (Th17) effector function, and is elevated in inflammatory arthritis. Th17 cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritide...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wu C,Goodall JC,Busch R,Gaston JS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously unrecognized autoantibody, detected by immunofluorescence, reacted with all human organs but gave negative results on tissues from rat, mouse, rabbit, guinea-pig, calf and chicken. From its predilection for mitochondria-rich cells (oncocytes) and its selective absorption with human but not animal mitochon...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Swana GT,Swana MR,Bottazzo GF,Doniach D

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the hallmarks of coeliac disease, both active and treated, is an increased number and proportion of gamma/delta intraepithelial T lymphocytes in the small intestinal mucosa, and an increased number of gamma/delta T cells in the small intestinal mucosa of coeliac disease patients has been associated with the inh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Holtmeier W,Rowell DL,Nyberg A,Kagnoff MF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CCL2/CCR2 chemokine/receptor axis directs the chemotaxis of infiltrating monocytes/macrophages and T cells and plays a pivotal role in tissue damage and fibrosis in kidney diseases. The eradication of the activated leucocytes should diminish the production of inflammatory mediators, limit tissue damage and amelior...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： McIntosh LM,Barnes JL,Barnes VL,McDonald JR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00