Anti-Semaphorin 3A neutralization monoclonal antibody prevents sepsis development in lipopolysaccharide-treated mice.

abstract：:The transcription factor interferon regulatory factor-5 (IRF5) plays an important role in innate immune responses via the TLR-MyD88 (Toll-like receptor - myeloid differentiation primary response 88) pathway. IRF5 is also involved in the pathogenesis of the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Recent ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ban T,Sato GR,Tamura T

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is an important porcine bacterial pathogen and a zoonotic agent responsible for sudden death, septic shock and meningitis, with exacerbated inflammation being a hallmark of the systemic and central nervous system (CNS) infections. However, S. suis serotype 2 strains are genetically and ph...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Auger JP,Benoit-Biancamano MO,Bédard C,Segura M,Gottschalk M

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-driven interaction of dendritic cells (DC) with CD4(+) T(h) cells results in the exchange of bidirectional activating signals. Cross-linking of TCR by MHC class II-bound antigen activates T(h) cells, resulting in their up-regulation of CD40 ligand. Here we show that MHC class II molecules, in addition to their...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lokshin AE,Kalinski P,Sassi RR,Mailliard RB,Müller-Berghaus J,Storkus WJ,Peng X,Marrangoni AM,Edwards RP,Gorelik E

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is involved both in immune responses and in inflammation, hematopoiesis, bone metabolism and embryonic development. IL-6 plays roles in chronic inflammation (closely related to chronic inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases and cancer) and even in the cytokine storm of corona virus disease 201...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Hirano T

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data suggest that initiation of signal transduction via type 1 Fc epsilon receptor (Fc epsilon RI) and other immunoreceptors is spatially constrained to lipid rafts. In order to better understand the complexity and function of these structures, we prepared mAb against lipid rafts from the rat basophilic leukemi...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Hálová I,Dráberová L,Dráber P

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria infection induces the production of serum antibodies to a variety of malaria antigens but the prevalence of antibodies to any particular antigen is typically much less than 100%. It has been assumed that non-responsiveness to defined antigens in malaria immune subjects is due to HLS-mediated restriction of the...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Taylor RR,Egan A,McGuinness D,Jepson A,Adair R,Drakely C,Riley E

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-acetyl GD3 ganglioside is a cell surface molecule of some neural, neural crest and renal cells. Here we show, by using mAbs specific for O-acetyl GD3 (clone 27A) and flow-cytometric, biochemical or immunological techniques, that it is also expressed at high intensity level on the surface of 49.6% (median) of the CD3...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Reivinen J,Holthöfer H,Miettinen A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration of large doses of protein antigen generally induces a state of systemic unresponsiveness currently termed mucosally induced tolerance. In this study, we used human milk protein (HMP) without casein as a multi-protein antigen for the study of mucosally induced tolerance. The HMP utilized in this stu...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yuki Y,Fujihashi K,Yamamoto M,McGhee JR,Kiyono H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury-induced autoimmunity is characterized by a T cell-dependent B cell activation (mainly of IgG1 and IgE isotypes), production of anti-nucleolar autoantibodies (ANolA) and the formation of renal IgG deposits. The autoimmunity is to a large extent controlled by genetic factors. We studied 15 different inbred mouse...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Abedi-Valugerdi M,Möller G

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intradermal inoculation of plasmids expressing antigens that contain MHC class I-restricted epitopes leads to the induction of specific CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). The role of in situ transfected antigen-presenting cells (APC) in the priming of specific CTL subsequent to intradermal DNA immunization was inve...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bot A,Stan AC,Inaba K,Steinman R,Bona C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the role of the invariant chain (li) in the presentation of hen egg lysozyme (HEL) and measles virus hemagglutinin (HA) antigens to MHC class II-restricted T hybridoma cells. Fibroblastic cells transfected with Ed or Ak genes, and supertransfected or not with the li gene, were used as ant...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bertolino P,Forquet F,Pont S,Koch N,Gerlier D,Rabourdin-Combe C

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of individual VH7183 genes in the autoimmune non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse and the normal C57BL/6 mouse, both carrying the IgHb haplotype, was investigated. Nucleotide sequence analyses of a large number of VHDJH rearrangements utilizing VH7183 gene segments allowed us to identify 10 individual member...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Andersson A,Ekstrand-Hammarström B,Eriksson B,Overmo C,Holmberg D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Plasmodium falciparum schizont lysate has been previously described as being a powerful inducer of proliferation for human peripheral T lymphocytes. In this report we study the phenotype of cycling T cells from unexposed donors and examine how the P. falciparum lysate compares with the conventional T cell mitogen ph...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Behr C,Dubois P

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3)] and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) are important regulators of autoimmunity. The effect of the VDR on the ability of mice to fight a primary or secondary infection has not been determined. Young and old VDR knockout (KO) mice were able to clear both primary and secondary infe...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bruce D,Whitcomb JP,August A,McDowell MA,Cantorna MT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-B*0702 transgenic mice (expressing a chimeric heavy chain with a murine alpha 3 domain: HLA-B7(m alpha 3)) in which the H-2K(b) and H-2D(b) class I-a (Cl I-a(-/-)) genes have been inactivated were compared with H-2K(b)D(b) Cl I-a(+/+) positive controls. Expression of the HLA-B7(m alpha 3) molecules resulted in a 3...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Rohrlich PS,Cardinaud S,Firat H,Lamari M,Briand P,Escriou N,Lemonnier FA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD69, an 'activation marker' that is rapidly induced on mature T cells after stimulation through the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) was found to be expressed on approximately 10% of normal thymocytes. All of these CD69+ thymocytes express alpha beta TCR, and they include both TCRlowCD4+CD8+ and TCRhighCD4+CD8- or CD4-C...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yamashita I,Nagata T,Tada T,Nakayama T

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human neoplastic B cell line SSK41 that expresses IgM on its surface switches spontaneously to IgG-producing cells. The SSK41 line contains a single immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus, the constant region (C) genes of which retain the germline configuration. The IgG-producing SSK41 line was purified by sorting, and sh...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Sideras P,Mizuta TR,Kanamori H,Suzuki N,Okamoto M,Kuze K,Ohno H,Doi S,Fukuhara S,Hassan MS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that different organ grafts are not equally competent to induce tolerance of the host even if they are performed early in development, i.e. before the host's immune system has started to develop. We have grafted the epithelio-mesenchymal rudiment of the bursa of Fabricius between histoincompatible chick...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Martin C,Belo M,Le Douarin NM,Corbel C

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MHC class I antigens enhance the T cell response to various mitogenic stimuli. Class I antigens co-cap and associate with the CD3 structure on these cells. The present work shows that co-aggregation of these MHC antigens with CD3 induces a sustained elevated Ca2+ response in T cells. The duration required for a 50...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Dasgupta JD,Granja CB,Yunis EJ,Relias V

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectroscopic methods have been applied to elucidate conformational differences responsible for the immunological diversity of two synthetic multichain copolymers, Tyr1Tyr2Glu3Glu4-poly-DL-Ala--poly-Lys and Tyr1Glu2Tyr3Glu4-poly-DL-Ala--poly-Lys. Despite their far-reaching structural similarity in the epitope peptide ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Muszkat KA,Schechter B,Sela M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells expressing the retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor γt (RORγt) and producing IL-17 represent a minor subset of CD1d-restricted iNKT cells (iNKT17) in C57BL/6J (B6) mice. We aimed in this study to define the reasons for their low distribution and the sequence of events ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Klibi J,Li S,Amable L,Joseph C,Brunet S,Delord M,Parietti V,Jaubert J,Marie J,Karray S,Eberl G,Lucas B,Toubert A,Benlagha K

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell development is a complex process involving interactions between B cell precursors, stroma, and known and unknown ligands and cytokines. In order to more fully understand the requirements for Ig in that development we have created transgenic mice that carry a gamma 2b transgene and express it early in B cell dev...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Kurtz BS,Witte PL,Storb U

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vaccine development, a major objective is to induce strong, specific T cell responses. This might be obtained by targeting antigen to cell surface molecules that efficiently channel the antigen into endocytic compartments for loading of MHC molecules. Antibodies have been used to deliver antigen; however, it is imp...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Schjetne KW,Thompson KM,Aarvak T,Fleckenstein B,Sollid LM,Bogen B

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is one of the major causes of lethality and disability, yet few effective therapies have been established for ischemic stroke. Inflammation in the ischemic brain is induced by the infiltration and subsequent activation of immune cells. Loss of cerebral blood flow and ischemic brain-cell death trigger the activa...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nakamura A,Otani K,Shichita T

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal epithelium not only acts as the physical structure that separates the intestinal lumen from the body but also actively participates in intestinal barrier functions. In the past decade, significant progress has been made in the development of culture technologies to maintain intestinal epithelial cells (...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nakamura T

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The T cell Ig domain and mucin domain (TIM) proteins form a conserved family of transmembrane cell-surface glycoproteins expressed by a variety of tissues. Each TIM protein contains a single V-type Ig domain, a glycosylated mucin-like domain, a transmembrane domain and a cytoplasmic domain. TIM proteins recognize a di...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Wilker PR,Sedy JR,Grigura V,Murphy TL,Murphy KM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel approach to probe the molecular basis of TCR recognition of the MHC class I-peptide complex and to determine how constraints placed on peptide binding by the class I molecule influence T cell recognition. We synthesized peptide pairs derived from the N- and C-terminal regions of class I peptide li...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Gillanders WE,Hanson HL,Rubocki RJ,Hansen TH,Connolly JM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatic fever (RF) follows a throat infection with different M-serotypes of beta-hemolytic group A streptococci (GAS) and can affect different tissues, predominantly the heart. It is thought to be an autoimmune illness. Although histological examination of affected heart shows an infiltrate consisting mainly of T ce...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Pruksakorn S,Currie B,Brandt E,Phornphutkul C,Hunsakunachai S,Manmontri A,Robinson JH,Kehoe MA,Galbraith A,Good MF

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) has been shown to be highly dependent upon their functional avidity (the sensitivity of their cellular response to MHC-peptide complexes). To examine this relationship, we employed target cell lysis as a quantitative measure and established a set of four CTL clones that ex...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Derby MA,Wang J,Margulies DH,Berzofsky JA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite intense recent interest, the suppressive mechanisms of regulatory CD25+CD4 T cells remain poorly understood. One deficiency in the field is the lack of in vivo models where the effects of regulatory CD25+CD4 T cells on antigen-specific responder T cells can be measured quantitatively. We describe one such mode...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Thorstenson KM,Herzovi L,Khoruts A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00