Human neonates display altered ex vivo monokine production related to healthy adults.

abstract：:Investigating the functional effects of anti-T cell monoclonal antibodies (obtained through the Second International Workshop on Human Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens), antibodies to the sheep red cell receptor (CD2) were found to block lectin-dependent cytotoxicity. Blocking was seen with all anti-CD2 reagents tes...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Görög G,Laskay T,Petrányi GG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attenuated androgen Danazol can partially reverse the biochemical defect and prevent angioedema in patients with inherited C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) deficiency (hereditary angioedema, HAE). Though its clinical effectiveness is independent from significant increase of C1-INH plasma levels, its mechanism of action remai...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Pappalardo E,Zingale LC,Cicardi M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is associated to dysfunctional changes in the immune system, a process termed immunosenescence. Elderly individuals usually present chronic low level inflammation, likely as the consequence of continued exposure to antigens combined with poor immune function, increases in production of pro-inflammatory cytokines...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Campos C,Pera A,Lopez-Fernandez I,Alonso C,Tarazona R,Solana R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the cytoskeletal protein talin binds to the β-chain of LFA-1, the immune cell adaptor SKAP1 (SKAP-55) binds to the α-chain of the same integrin via RapL. Whereas calpain protease cleavage of talin is important for LFA-1 activation, it has been unclear whether SKAP1 can alter the function of talin or its associat...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Lim D,Lu Y,Rudd CE

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small soluble IgG aggregates of defined size were prepared from pooled human IgG by gel filtration chromatography, and examined by analytical ultracentrifugation. Three such fractions, dimer-rich, trimer-rich and 25S aggregate were used to inhibit IgG monomer binding in a study of the influence of aggregation in the b...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ratcliffe A,Stanworth DR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the receptors for the Fc portion of IgG molecules (Fc gamma R) are widely distributed in cells of the immune system. The expression of Fc gamma R enables monocytes and neutrophils to destroy antibody-coated target cells through the antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) mechanism. In add...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Isturiz MA,Geffner JR,Pizzolato MA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of asthma and allergic disease has increased in many countries and there has been speculation that immunization promotes allergic sensitization. Bordetella pertussis infection exacerbates allergic asthmatic responses. We investigated whether whole-cell pertussis vaccine (Pw) enhanced or prevented B. per...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ennis DP,Cassidy JP,Mahon BP

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Different splice variants of the CD44 cell-surface molecule have been linked to metastasis formation in several animal and human cancers. We have used metastatic CSML-100 and non-metastatic CSML-0 mouse adenocarcinoma cell lines to determine whether variant CD44 molecules could be implicated in the different behaviour...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tkach T,Li E,Bestagno M,Burrone OR

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) from cancer patients, as well as tumor-infiltrating DCs, are reported to have suppressed immunostimulatory capacity. One of the major problems in the clinical use of DCs for treating tumors is that the DCs must be autologous ones obtained from patients. Compared with normal DCs (nDCs), flow-cytom...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Furumoto K,Mori A,Yamasaki S,Inoue N,Yang W,Nakau M,Yasuda S,Arii S,Imamura M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentoxifylline (PTX), a methylxanthine derivative and phosphodiesterase inhibitor, is known to influence production and/or function of some cytokines. We examined the effect of PTX on the in vitro expression of cytokine genes using endotoxin- or phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human blood mononuclear cells. The e...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Rieneck K,Diamant M,Haahr PM,Schönharting M,Bendtzen K

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between the ages of 2 to approximately 11 days mice respond to a challenge with syngeneic IgE by producing anti-IgE antibodies; by the age of 2 weeks they are unresponsive. Even adult mice, however, produce high titers of anti-IgE antibodies when immunized with a conjugate of syngeneic IgE and a foreign antigen such a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Haba S,Nisonoff A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) reacting with native (TA5, TB12) and denatured (T33, T35) plant toxin mistletoe lectin I (MLI) from Viscum album have been obtained. The interaction between mAbs and native toxin with ML isoforms (MLII, MLIII) has been investigated. An immunological cross-reaction has been shown to take pla...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tonevitsky AG,Rakhmanova VA,Agapov II,Shamshiev AT,Usacheva EA,Prokoph'ev SA,Denisenko ON,Alekseev YuO,Pfueller U

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyophilized bacterial lysates, which actively stimulate the immune response, are widely used as vaccines or 'biological response modifiers' in subjects with recurrent bacterial respiratory infections. Since vaccines are indicated in the absence or in the presence of a weak constitutive immune response activity, a bett...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Rossi GA,Peri C,Raynal ME,Defilippi AC,Risso FM,Schenone G,Pallestrini E,Melioli G

更新日期：2003-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Six murine monoclonal antibodies, AT-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 were produced against human recombinant tumor necrosis factor (gamma TNF). AT-1, -2, -3, -4, and -6 were IgG1, and AT-5 was IgG2a. AT-1, -2, and -3 neutralized the activity of gamma TNF (2 X 10(3) U/ml) over a range of dilutions between 5 and 500 micrograms/ml ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Shimamoto Y,Chen RL,Bollon A,Chang A,Khan A

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulomatous inflammation around parasite eggs is the prominent lesion in human schistosomiasis. Studies have suggested the involvement of a series of suppressive mechanisms in the control of this reaction, such as macrophages, cytokines, idiotypic interactions and immune complexes (IC). The studies examine the role ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Rezende SA,Gollob KJ,Correa-Oliveira R,Goes AM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of pretreatment with interferon (IFN) on subsequent IFN synthesis was investigated in macrophage cultures of DBA/2 and C57BL/6 mice. The doses of IFN alpha/beta for pretreatment ranged from 10,000 U/ml to 100 U/ml and the incubation time was between 18 and 2 h. No blocking effect was observed for chemica...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Giese M,Kirchner H

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several diseases where the immune system plays an important role there has been a tremendous progress in treatment efficacy during the last decades. Based on necessary basic science these improvements are results of rapid, numerous and open-minded clinical trials where pieces of positive results step by step have b...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ludvigsson J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal human rheumatoid factor (RF-AN) reactive with human Fc gamma is shown to recognise a discontinuous epitope dependent on the presence of histidine (His) at residue 435. RF-AN is not reactive with IgG1 paraproteins having C gamma 2 or C gamma 3 domain deletions or IgG3m (5) or Ig3m (21) proteins having argi...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Jefferis R,Nik Jaafar MI,Steinitz M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It remains unclear whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS) pre-treatment, which prevents Th2-type responses via Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), inhibits anaphylaxis. To determine the dose-dependent effects of LPS pre-treatment on anaphylactic decreases in rectal temperature caused by ovalbumin (OVA) re-exposure in immunized mic...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Shiva D,Matsumoto T,Kremenik MJ,Kato Y,Yano H

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of neutralizing antibodies against the central portion of HIV-1 gp120 requires cooperation between T cell and B cell epitopes of this region. We found a motif common to the carboxyterminus of the second conserved region of HIV-1 gp120 and sequences of some human proteins, most of which participate in im...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Veljković V,Metlas R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is a protein cascade capable of neutralizing invading pathogens. One of its activation pathways is the lectin pathway which is dependent on the binding of MBL or the ficolins. The specificity of L-ficolin binding has been investigated previously and it was observed that binding is dependent on ac...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Krarup A,Mitchell DA,Sim RB

更新日期：2008-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is able to replicate in the cytoplasm of primary resident macrophages, but is killed by activated macrophages. Pretreatment of human macrophages with recombinant IFN-gamma and to a lesser extent with TNF-alpha, induced a significant trypanocidal activity. Furthermore, TNF-alpha...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Muñoz-Fernández MA,Fernández MA,Fresno M

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Notch pathway is highly conserved across species and is involved in the regulation of cell differentiation and activity both in embryonic development and adult life. Notch signaling has an important role in the development of hematopoietic stem cells and their differentiation to committed lineages, as well a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Šućur A,Filipović M,Flegar D,Kelava T,Šisl D,Lukač N,Kovačić N,Grčević D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ageing on thymocyte progenitors in the bone marrow was studied in an in vitro experimental model that permits T lymphocyte development. The model is based on co-culture of BM cells from young and old mice with lymphoid depleted fetal thymus explants. We applied different strategies of thymic colonization...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Globerson A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary angioedema with C1-inhibitor deficiency (C1-INH-HAE) is a rare, autosomal dominant disorder. The characteristic episodes of subcutaneous/submucosal edema formation may be preceded by erythema marginatum (EM) - the occurrence of a 'map-like' pattern on the skin. EM can occur as an isolated finding ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kőhalmi KV,Veszeli N,Cervenak L,Varga L,Farkas H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have explored the requirements for the induction of the N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) response in Daudi cells after anti-immunoglobulin treatment. Our results indicate that (a) induction of responsiveness to FMLP was observed in Daudi only after crosslinking of surface immunoglobulin by anti-immuno...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kalunta CI,Kaptein JS,Scott SJ,Lin CK,Gu DG,Lad PM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent, thought-provoking novel by Elizabeth McCracken (The Giant's House. Avon Books, New York, 1997), two characters discuss love and its impossibilities. One brashly claims to be "immune to love", explaining the concept to his perplexed interlocutor, "...people become immune to love like they become immune to ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Clerici M,Salvi A,Trabattoni D,Lo Caputo S,Semplici F,Biasin M,Ble C,Meacci F,Romeo C,Piconi S,Mazzotta F,Villa ML,Mazzoli S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Callithrix jacchus, the common marmoset, is a small new world primate that is considered effective as an experimental animal model for various human diseases. In this study, we generated monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against common marmoset lymphocytes for immunological studies on the common marmoset. We established fi...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ito R,Maekawa S,Kawai K,Suemizu H,Suzuki S,Ishii H,Tanioka Y,Satake M,Yagita H,Habu S,Ito M

更新日期：2008-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:NADPH oxidase 2 is a superoxide-generating enzymatic complex based on the catalytic subunit gp91phox that is also known as Nox2. Initially identified in neutrophils, NADPH oxidase 2 was long considered responsible only for the killing of phagocytized microorganisms. However, advances in knowledge about redox signallin...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Trevelin SC,Shah AM,Lombardi G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens in general and pathogenic viruses in particular have evolved a myriad of mechanisms to escape the immune response of mammalian species. Viruses that cause acute disease tend to bear characteristics that make them very contagious, as survival does not derive from chronicity of infection, but spread of disease...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Toka FN,Golde WT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00