Lymphocyte migration between mutually tolerant parabiotic rats.

abstract：:Macrophages are multifunctional cells that participate in numerous biological processes; they actively phagocytose foreign particles and cell debris. Embryonic tissue macrophages are present at early stages of mammalian development; their ontogeny and function is still under investigation. Our study used immunohistoch...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Yamashita A,Kanayama N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have associated carriage of HLA-DRB1*1501, DQA1*0102 and DQB1*0602 (DR15, DQ6) with dominant resistance to type 1 diabetes and have concluded that one or more of the component HLA class II molecules mediate this effect. Mechanisms for MHC class II-mediated resistance to diabetes have been proposed fro...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Price P,Cheong KY,Boodhoo A,Witt CS,McCann V,Christiansen FT,Allcock RJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influx of Ca2+ via Ca2+ channels is the major step triggering exocytosis of pituitary somatotropes to release growth hormone (GH). Voltage-gated Ca2+ and K+ channels, the primary determinants of the influx of Ca2+, are regulated by GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) through G-protein-coupled intracellular signalling systems....

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chen C,Xu R,Clarke IJ,Ruan M,Loneragan K,Roh SG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyse Th2-type immune responses in sheep by the assay of interleukin (IL)-5 in biological fluids, the ovine IL-5 gene was cloned and expressed in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 insect cells using the baculovirus expression vector system. The recombinant product was purified as BAC-OV-IL-5 from the supernatant...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bosward K,Emery DL,McWaters PW,Husband AJ,Bendixsen T

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells are part of the first line defense against tumors, parasites and virus-infected cells. Therefore, factors that control NK-cell numbers and their function are important. CD27 is constitutively expressed on NK cells and its expression correlates with sequential phases in NK-cell development, di...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： De Colvenaer V,Taveirne S,Delforche M,De Smedt M,Vandekerckhove B,Taghon T,Boon L,Plum J,Leclercq G

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte activation was examined by interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor expression on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from coeliac and control subjects. Purified T cells were incubated with gluten fraction 111 (a known toxic peptide for coeliac subjects), soyabean hydrolysate (an unrelated hydrolysed food antigen), and...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Penttila IA,Gibson CE,Forrest BD,Cummins AG,LaBrooy JT

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are abundant small molecules of ≈ 22 nucleotides that reprogram gene expression by targeting mRNA degradation and translation disruption. An emerging concept implicates miRNA coupling with transcription factors in myeloid-based development of dendritic cells, monocytes and granulocytes, as well as f...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El Gazzar M,McCall CE

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parturition is associated with myometrial and cervical inflammation. The causes and consequences of this inflammatory response are not clear. Mast cells (MCs) are important inducers of allergic and non-allergic inflammation, and their secreted products can induce myometrial contractions. Thus, mast cell activation has...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Menzies FM,Higgins CA,Shepherd MC,Nibbs RJ,Nelson SM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ikaros, Aiolos and Helios encode zinc finger transcription factors that are important regulators of lymphoid development and differentiation. These proteins are involved in the control of gene expression and when associated with nuclear complexes, participate in nucleosome remodeling. Because differential splicing pro...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rebollo A,Schmitt C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the potential for extensive diversity of gamma delta TCR, especially for delta-chains, expression of the gamma delta TCR repertoire in various mouse epithelial tissues is highly restricted. This implies that the recognition of antigen by gamma delta T cells may also be limited. To date, however, few studies ha...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Olive C

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ex vivo mammary explant systems are an excellent model to study interactions between epithelium and stromal cell types because they contain physiologically relevant heterotypic interactions in the background of genetically diverse patients. The intact human mammary tissue, termed patient-derived explant (PDE), can be ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gregory KJ,Morin SM,Kubosiak A,Ser-Dolansky J,Schalet BJ,Jerry DJ,Schneider SS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) are ligand-activated transcription factors. There are three genes that code for the PPAR isoforms: PPARalpha, PPARbeta and PPARgamma. In the present review, studies characterizing the various PPAR isoforms are discussed. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Roberts-Thomson SJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells (MC) can undergo significant changes in number and phenotype; these alterations result in the differential expression of growth factors and cytokines. Kit ligand (KL; stem cell factor) is produced by mesenchymal cells, and in the liver by biliary epithelial cells. Recent studies suggest that KL, and its rec...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zweifel M,Breu K,Matozan K,Renner E,Welle M,Schaffner T,Clavien PA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis, a group of visceral and cutaneous diseases, is caused by parasites belonging to one genus comprising approximately 13 different species. Many methods including serological, biochemical and molecular biological techniques have been used by various workers to characterize these different species and isola...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Arora SK,Kapoor GS,Sehgal S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-toxic agents that target intracellular signalling pathways in apoptosis may have potential therapeutic use in many diseases. One such agent is the transition metal Zn, a dietary cytoprotectant and anti-oxidant, which stimulates cell proliferation and suppresses apoptosis. Zn is maintained in discrete subcellular p...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chai F,Truong-Tran AQ,Ho LH,Zalewski PD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of Lewis rats with guinea-pig myelin basic protein (Gp-MBP) induced T cell responses to primary and secondary encephalitogenic determinants, as well as to a third non-encephalitogenic epitope, residues 55-69. This sequence is of interest due to its protective activity against experimental autoimmune encep...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Vandenbark AA,Chou YK,Whitham R,Bourdette DN,Offner H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of T-cell receptor (TCR) transgenic mice in medical research has been considerable, with applications ranging from basic biology all the way to translational and clinical investigations. Crossing of TCR transgenic mice with either recombination-activating gene (RAG)-1 or RAG-2 knockouts is frequently used ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： McGuire HM,Watkins TS,Field M,Taylor S,Yasuyama N,Farmer A,Miles JJ,Fazekas de St Groth B

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses numerous mechanisms to avoid elimination by the infected host. In this study, we investigated the possibility whether, similar to other pathogens, M. tuberculosis exploits natural CD4+ CD25+ T-regulatory cells (Treg) to suppress the effector function of responding host lymphocytes, thus...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Quinn KM,McHugh RS,Rich FJ,Goldsack LM,de Lisle GW,Buddle BM,Delahunt B,Kirman JR

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for non-living adjuvant vectors that will allow a full range of local and systemic immune responses to orally administered purified antigens. Here we describe our experience with lipophilic immune-stimulating complexes (ISCOMs) containing the saponin adjuvant Quil A. When given orally, ISCOMs containin...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Smith RE,Donachie AM,Mowat AM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxidase-conjugated anti-surface immunoglobulin (sIg) was used quantitatively to monitor endocytosis of crosslinked sIg on murine B lymphocytes. The role of biochemical second messengers in the initiation of endocytosis was assessed by employing several inhibitors. A novel peroxidase detection system was used and te...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Shuler RL,Owen CS

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common virus that causes lower respiratory infections across a wide range of ages. A licensed RSV vaccine is not available because vaccination with formalin-inactivated RSV (FI-RSV) and the subsequent RSV infection cause not only insufficient induction of neutralizing antibodies ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Shibata T,Ato M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active Brugia pahangi microfilariae (Mf) were injected into naive male BALB/c mice intraperitoneally. Microfilaraemia was studied for 28 days; and Mf circulated in blood in optimum numbers from 3 to 14 days. Anti-Mf response was assessed by the rate of disappearance of Mf from blood as well as their absence from visce...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rajasekariah GR,Puri PM,Chandrashekar R,Subrahmanyam D

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we examine the use of glycopeptides containing tumour-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACA) as potential preventive vaccines for carcinomas. Our recent results suggest that CD8+ T cells (CTL) are capable of recognizing TACA in a conventional class I MHC-restricted fashion. The ThomsenFriedenreich antigen (TF), ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Xu Y,Sette A,Sidney J,Gendler SJ,Franco A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kunjin replicon was used to express a polytope that consisted of seven hepatitis C virus cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes and one influenza cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitope for vaccination studies. The self-replicating nature of, and expression from, the ribonucleic acid was confirmed in vitro. Initial vaccinations w...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ward SM,Tindle RW,Khromykh AA,Gowans EJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant DNA techniques were used to clone, construct and express the bifunctional molecule FV/IL-2. The FV/IL-2 is a single-chain 37 kDa fusion protein expressed in Escherichia coli under control of the strong T7 bacteriophage promoter in the expression vector pT7-7-FV-IL-2. The fused gene fragment FV-IL-2 contain...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Xiang J,Liu E,Moyana T,Qi Y

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peyer's patches (PP) are important inductive sites for the mucosal immune response. It is well known that lymphocytes that migrate into PP are mainly of T-cell lineage from thymus-derived cells (i.e. alphabetaTCR(high) cells). In this study, we further characterized the properties of PP lymphocytes in mice using a mou...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Takahashi S,Kawamura T,Kanda Y,Taniguchi T,Nishizawa T,Iiai T,Hatakeyama K,Abo T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral tolerance mechanisms limit autoimmunity by constitutively eliminating self-reactive CD8+ T cells from the periphery in a process called deletion. Previous work has demonstrated that this deletion process is mediated by BIM-dependent apoptotic death due to transcriptional induction of the Bim gene. Currently...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Wagle MV,Parish IA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a tremendous explosion in the area of DNA vaccine research over the last 4 years, particularly in relation to antiviral vaccines. This report discusses the development and application of this new technology with regard to parasitic infections. Progress has been made towards the development of a vaccine ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Kalinna BH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thy-1 (CD90) expressed by mouse T cells is known to have signal transducing properties, but the ability of Thy-1 to enhance cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) development is not well understood. Here we show that stimulation of mouse T cells with monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to CD3, CD28 and Thy-1 (clone G7), which were coim...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Haeryfar SM,Conrad DM,Musgrave B,Hoskin DW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two related folate antagonists aminopterin (AMN) and methotrexate (MTX) were used to produce drug-antibody conjugates and their tumouricidal effects compared in vitro and in vivo. Active ester derivatives were produced with the use of N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) and covalently coupled to monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) re...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Kanellos J,Pietersz GA,Cunningham Z,McKenzie IF

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00