Activation-induced cytidine deaminase in B cells of hepatits C virus-related cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis.

abstract：:CD4(+) CD25(+) regulatory T cells produce the anti-inflammatory cytokines transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta or interleukin (IL)-10. Regulatory T cells have been recognized to suppress autoimmunity and promote self-tolerance. These cells may also facilitate pathogen persistence by down-regulating the host defence r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mason CM,Porretta E,Zhang P,Nelson S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presence of antibodies directed against replication protein A (RPA), a DNA binding protein complex composed of three subunits (RPA-70, RPA-32 and RPA-14) was investigated among patients with SLE and other autoimmune diseases using immunoblot analysis to RPA-70 and RPA-32 recombinant proteins. Anti-RPA antibodies were ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Garcia-Lozano R,Wichmann I,Garcia A,Sanchez-Roman J,Gonzalez-Escribano F,Nuñez-Roldan A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro lymphocyte function of 13 patients with selective IgA deficiency was studied. IgG, IgA and IgM secretion by pokeweed mitogen-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes from normal donors and IgA deficient patients was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Addition of concanavalin A or hydrocortisone ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： De la Concha EG,Subiza JL,Fontán G,Pascual-Salcedo D,Sequí J,Bootello A

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominance of Th2 cytokine-secreting pattern in allergic asthma has been known as a cause and an accelerating factor, and Th1 suppresses these allergic phenomena, but the role of Th0 clones is obscure. Because Th1/Th2 differentiation has been determined by cytokine environment, we investigated how mite-specific ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yamashita N,Takeno M,Kaneko S,Mizushima Y,Sakane T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranous nephropathy (MN), the leading cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults, is characterized by the deposition of subepithelial immune deposits that consist mainly of immunoglobulin (Ig)G and complement. Most of the cases are primary or idiopathic (iMN), while only approximately 25% of the cases are secondary to s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sinico RA,Mezzina N,Trezzi B,Ghiggeri GM,Radice A

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Cattle, infected with Fasciola hepatica metacercariae, produce antibodies against the outer glycocalyx of freshly excysted juvenile F. hepatica. Using 51Cr-release and viability assays such antibodies in the presence or absence of bovine complement did not cause discernible damage to the parasite. The presence of exce...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duffus WP,Franks D

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated that mannose-binding lectin (MBL) recognizes various slow-growing, pathogenic mycobacteria [Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), M. bovis, M. kansasii, M. gordonae] as well as non-pathogenic M. smegmatis. Recognition resulted in activation of the lectin pathway (LP) of complement and an enhancement o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bartlomiejczyk MA,Swierzko AS,Brzostek A,Dziadek J,Cedzynski M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the cellular and humoral responses of 30 recipients of hepatitis B vaccine were studied. All individuals exerted an HBsAg blastogenic response sometime throughout the study period but the maximum response was detected on day 28 and 56. The removal of CD8+ cells enhanced significantly the HBsAg response...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Filion LG,Saginur R,Szczerbak N

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans immunized intramuscularly with one dose of tetanus toxoid exhibited IgG, and in some cases IgA antibody, in their bile as well as serum. Both isotypes appeared in bile transiently with titres declining after about day 10 for both classes. These kinetics resembled those of the serum IgA response but were markedl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hansen PG,Hennessy EJ,Blake H,Clancy RL,Kamath R,Molenaar C,Cripps AW,Jackson GD

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytohaemagglutinin-induced lymphocyte transformation of four healthy adults and a child with kwashiorkor was performed in the presence of plasma from nineteen patients with protein energy malnutrition and a nutritionally normal child. Marked inhibition occurred in the presence of plasma from six patients who subseque...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Heyworth B,Moore DL,Brown J

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgD levels in 83 healthy adults were measured by a radioimmunoassay technique and analysed according to each subject's smoking habit. The IgD geometric mean in cigarette smokers was twice as high as in non-smokers (408.6 vs 202.0 micrograms/dl). Serum IgD levels of 1,000 micrograms/dl or greater were noted in 22...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bahna SL,Heiner DC,Myhre BA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the prevalence of circulating immune complexes in sera from patients with mycobacterial infections. Sera from 68 percent of patients with active M. tuberculosis and 58 percent of patients with M. intracellulare infections had significantly elevated Clq binding activity (Clq-BA). In general there was a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carr RI,Chakraborty AK,Brunda MJ,Davidson PT,Damle PB,Hardtke MA,Gilbride KJ,Minden P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of CR1 on podocytes is reduced in nephropathies with severe glomerular damage, especially in the diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (DPGN) of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Reduction of CR1 number on erythrocytes is due to proteolysis of CR1 by macrophage proteases activated by the reaction of th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Teixeira JE,Costa RS,Lachmann PJ,Würzner R,Barbosa JE

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of guinea-pig major histocompatibility antigens (class I and II) has been investigated on guinea-pig epididymal spermatozoa. Specific alloantisera (anti-B1, anti-B3, anti-Ia2,4 and anti-Ia1,3,7) were obtained by cross-immunization of strains 2, 13 and BIO-AD animals with relevant spleen cell membranes. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Thyphronitis G,De Almeida M,Neveu T,Voisin GA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement activation with formation of biologically potent mediators like C5a and the terminal C5b-9 complex (TCC) contributes essentially to development of inflammation and tissue damage in a number of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. A particular role for complement in the ischaemia/reperfusion injury of the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harboe M,Ulvund G,Vien L,Fung M,Mollnes TE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although increasing evidence demonstrates the association between intestinal dysbiosis and pancreatic diseases such as chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, it remains largely unknown whether intestinal dysbiosis is involved in the immunopathogenesis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). Recently, we found that inte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kamata K,Watanabe T,Minaga K,Hara A,Sekai I,Otsuka Y,Yoshikawa T,Park AM,Kudo M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr (EB) virus serology was correlated with the results of immunological investigations of three inherited immunodeficiency diseases, in an attempt to understand the immune mechanisms controlling EB virus infection. In nine patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), the constant lack of anti-EB virus assoc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vilmer E,Lenoir GM,Virelizier JL,Griscelli C

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Chlorodeoxyadenosine (cladribine, CdA) is an immunosuppressive drug that is licensed to treat hairy cell leukaemia, and has been shown recently to have beneficial effects in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The therapeutic effects of CdA have been suggested to be mediated partly through its potent toxicity tow...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Singh V,Prajeeth CK,Gudi V,Bénardais K,Voss EV,Stangel M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbation of epithelial structure is a prominent but poorly understood feature of the immunopathological response to bacterial antigens which characterizes the destructive lesion of periodontitis. Western analysis of sera from 22 patients with periodontitis detected multiple antigens in extracts of epithelial cells...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ye P,Harty DW,Chapple CC,Nadkarni MA,Carlo AA,Hunter N

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:It is generally accepted that multiple sclerosis (MS) is mediated by autoreactive T cells and that myelin basic protein (MBP) is one of the target autoantigens. The T-cell response to MBP has been analysed extensively, largely through the use of T-cell lines (TCL) and T-cell clones (TCC), and to date, three immunodomi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mazza G,Ponsford M,Lowrey P,Campbell MJ,Zajicek J,Wraith DC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) patients may show an evanescent salmon-pink erythema appearing during febrile attacks and reducing without fever. Some patients may experience this eruption for many weeks. During AOSD, exceptionally high serum levels of ferritin may be observed; it is an iron storage protein compose...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ruscitti P,Cipriani P,Ciccia F,Di Benedetto P,Liakouli V,Berardicurti O,Carubbi F,Guggino G,Di Bartolomeo S,Triolo G,Giacomelli R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its activity as a metabolic hormone and a regulator of somatic growth, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) has cytokine-like activities on lymphoid cells. A 14-day infusion of recombinant human (rh)IGF-I increased lymphocyte numbers in all the peripheral lymphoid organs examined. This increase was appa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Robbins K,McCabe S,Scheiner T,Strasser J,Clark R,Jardieu P

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal, but not tolerant, adult thymocytes prevented particulate antigen inducing tolerance in differentiating B lymphocytes. This was demonstrated by measuring the emergence of responsive B cells (identified by their allotype) developing from a foetal liver innoculum in irradiated hosts with or without the addition o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Elson CJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3b-coated immune complexes adhere to the complement receptor 1 (CR1, CD35) on human erythrocytes. This multi-valent binding might be favoured by the known clustering of CR1 and by the multiple C3b-binding sites on each CR1. The size of the CR1 clusters correlates directly with the number of CR1/erythrocytes, and the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Madi N,Paccaud JP,Steiger G,Schifferli JA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible role of IL-6 in the activation of the autoimmune process in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), we serially measured concentrations of IL-6, IgG, and anti-dsDNA antibodies before and during exacerbations in patients with SLE. In addition, we serially related the IL-6 response to the generat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Spronk PE,ter Borg EJ,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage organ failure, but chronic immunosuppression is taking its toll in terms of morbidity and poor efficacy in preventing late graft loss. Therefore, a drug-free state would be desirable where the recipient permanently accepts a donor organ while...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mahr B,Wekerle T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of methotrexate (MTX) in autoimmune diseases (AID) is unclear. A pro-apoptotic effect has been demonstrated in mitogen-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), but studies employing conventional antigens have disputed a pro-apoptotic effect. CD4+ T helper (Th) cells play a signific...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nielsen CH,Albertsen L,Bendtzen K,Baslund B

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a rare disease characterized by episodes of collapse due to rapid transfer of considerable volumes of plasma from the intravascular to the extravascular compartment. The pathogenesis of this disease is unknown. The diagnosis is made largely on clinical grounds, and investigat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhang W,Ewan PW,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00