Interleukin-6-174G > C (rs1800795) polymorphism distribution and its association with rheumatoid arthritis: A case-control study and meta-analysis.

abstract：:Using a novel cytofluorometric method of cellular antigen quantification, we examined peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for quantitative modification of class II human leucocyte antigen (HLA) molecules expressed on the surface. Class II HLA molecules were ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Eliaou JF,Andary M,Favier F,Carayon P,Poncelet P,Sany J,Brochier J,Clot J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the MRL/lpr murine model of spontaneous lupus to investigate three questions in infection immunity: (1) does mycobacterial infection have any effect on the mortality of the autoimmunity-prone lpr mice?; (2) does the infection modify the progression of kidney disease of lpr lupus?; and (3) does the lpr gen...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Castro AP,Esaguy N,Aguas AP

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating autoimmune disease that affects more than 1 million people worldwide and severely compromises motor and sensory function through demyelination and axonal loss. This review covers current therapies, lessons learned from failed clinical trials, genetic susceptibility, key cell ty...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Slavin A,Kelly-Modis L,Labadia M,Ryan K,Brown ML

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosuppression is the mainstay of treatment for myasthenia gravis (MG). In this paper, we review the mechanisms of action and clinical application of corticosteroids and different classes of immunosuppressive drugs that are currently used in MG patients, and present the results of their use in more than 1000 patien...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sanders DB,Evoli A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, multi-level complex behavior and reactive nature of biological systems, has been a focus point for the biomedical community. We have developed a computational approach, termed Reactive Animation (RA) for simulating such complex biological systems. RA is an approach for describing the dynamic char...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Vainas O,Harel D,Cohen IR,Efroni S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the expressed number of CR1 on erythrocytes (E) in relationship of the CR1 density genotype from 46 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and 47 healthy volunteers. The CR1 genotype was determined by a method based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the genomi...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kiss E,Csipö I,Cohen JH,Reveil B,Kávai M,Szegedi G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart block is a serious condition with significant mortality due in most cases to the transplacental transfer of autoantibodies from an otherwise asymptomatic mother. Although SSA/Ro and SSB/La autoantibodies have been implicated, attention has focused recently on autoantibodies to envelope proteins of end...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： de Parseval N,Forrest G,Venables PJ,Heidmann T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult and one week old marmosets were injected intravenously within a one month period or intraperitoneally within a 6 week period respectively, with monoclonal IgM having an anti-myelin associated glycoprotein antibody activity. No clinical or electrophysiological abnormalities could be detected in experimental anima...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Dancea S,Dellagi K,Renaud F,Mahouy G,Hauw JJ,Brouet JC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are important serologic markers for ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). Our previous studies in propylthiouracil (PTU)-induced AAV demonstrated that withdrawal of PTU resulted in clinical remission and significant decrease of avidity of PTU-induced myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA....

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Lin W,Chen M,Zhao MH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGPO-aAb is a bispecific antibody which binds to thyroglobulin as well as thyroid peroxidase. It is supposed to be raised in some patients with autoimmune thyroid disease. We investigated 205 patients suffering from Graves' disease (n = 81), Hashimoto's thyroiditis (n = 36), toxic nodular goitre (n = 50), differentiat...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zöphel K,Grüning T,Wunderlich G,Franke WG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked fluctuations in the levels of a common DNA-antibody idiotype, PR4-Id have been found on IgM and IgA antibodies in particular and to a lesser extent on IgG in serial bleeds of 14 lupus patients. Few clear cut examples were found of the PR4-Id levels reflecting disease activity. However, the idiotype expression w...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pilcher C,Williams W,Isenberg DA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies directed against nuclear antigens often arise in autoimmune disease associated with the failure to clear apoptotic cells in a swift and timely manner. Nucleic acids present in apoptotic cells and in membranous microparticles derived thereof exert adjuvant activity in the immune response to apoptosis. Th...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bekeredjian-Ding I

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique to assess the expression of cytokine genes in various T cell subsets of autoimmune-prone mice. Our study confirmed the previously described features in lpr mice that IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha, and TNF-beta were transcribed by various T cell...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mori K,Kobayashi S,Inobe M,Jia WY,Tamakoshi M,Miyazaki T,Uede T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The myositis-specific autoantibodies that characterize certain forms of inflammatory myopathy are useful in diagnosing dermatomyositis (DM) / polymyositis and predicting its prognosis. Autoantibodies to small ubiquitin-like modifier activating enzyme (SAE) have been identified as a DM-marker antibody in Euro...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Muro Y,Sugiura K,Akiyama M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a pleiotrophic proinflammatory cytokine that augments adaptive immunity by linking it to innate immunity. Experimental autoimmune gastritis is an animal model of human autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anaemia. We have previously shown that GM-CSF is expre...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Alderuccio F,Biondo M,Toh BH

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper type 17 (Th17) cells, a newly identified effector T-cell subset, have recently been shown to play a role in numerous autoimmune diseases, including iodine-induced autoimmune thyroiditis in non-obese diabetic (NOD)-H2(h4) mice, which had previously been thought Th1-dominant. We here studied the role of Th17 in...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Horie I,Abiru N,Saitoh O,Ichikawa T,Iwakura Y,Eguchi K,Nagayama Y

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although costimulatory molecules have been shown to play crucial roles in the immune response, their involvement in the pathogenesis of Sjögren's syndrome is incompletely understood. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between the severity of spontaneous Sjögren's syndrome-like autoimmune sialadenitis in MRL/...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Saito K,Mori S,Date F,Ono M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid lymphocyte RNA from a Hashimoto patient exhibiting high titre serum IgG autoantibodies against thyroglobulin (Tg) has been used to construct a Fab library in phage lambda. Screening of this library with radioiodinated Tg has permitted the cloning of an anti-Tg antibody (MH52) with an affinity of 4.5 x 10(9) mo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hexham JM,Furmaniak J,Pegg C,Burton DR,Smith BR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocytes present in thyroid infiltrates of 6 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and of 4 patients with Graves' disease (GD) were analyzed at clonal level and their profiles of mitogen-induced lymphokine secretion were characterized. Production of interleukin-2 (IL-2), interleukin-4 (IL-4), interferon-gamm...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Del Prete GF,Tiri A,De Carli M,Mariotti S,Pinchera A,Chretien I,Romagnani S,Ricci M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under-nutrition impairs immune responses, but far less is known about the impact of over-nutrition, such as obesity, on the response to vaccines. We measured the effect of childhood overweight status on inflammatory mediators, circulating immunoglobulins and tetanus antibodies in fifteen overweight children (BMI > 85 ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Eliakim A,Schwindt C,Zaldivar F,Casali P,Cooper DM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc transporter 8 (ZnT8), a product of the SLC30A8 gene, is a target-antigen in autoimmune diabetes. Associations between ZnT8 antibody (ZnT8A), phenotype and the genetic variant rs13266634 in the SLC30A8 gene have primarily been studied in patients with young-onset diabetes. We explored such associations in adult-on...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sørgjerd EP,Skorpen F,Kvaløy K,Midthjell K,Grill V

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that cationic anti-DNA antibodies have nephritogenic potential in murine models of lupus nephritis. More recently, we have reported that there is a close relationship between the presence of circulating cationic anti-DNA antibodies and the development of lupus nephritis in humans, and that the cation...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Suzuki N,Otuka I,Harada T,Mizushima Y,Sakane T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NZW "x" BXSB F1 mice develop SLE that is associated with an anti-phospholipid syndrome characterized by anti-cardiolipin antibodies, thrombocytopenia and small coronary artery thrombosis. This syndrome is immune mediated and, dependent, on CD4+T cells. To determine whether disease in these mice can be treated with blo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Akkerman A,Huang W,Wang X,Ramanujam M,Schiffer L,Madaio M,Factor SM,Davidson A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological basis for autoimmunity and immunoincompetence in the BB rat has yet to be localized. In spite of normal thymic histology, thymocyte subsets and blastogenesis, thymus gland products (thymosins) have yet to be studied. In the present report, thymus gland function was studied by measuring thymosin alpha 1 ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Winter WE,Robbins V,Elder M,Barrett D,Martin N,Maclaren NK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous human Cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs) associated with 'phase I' drug metabolism have been identified. Among them, CYP2D6 is thought to be the major target autoantigen to anti-liver kidney microsome (LKM)-1 autoantibody, a characteristic feature of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) type II. In this study, we were able...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Miyakawa H,Kitazawa E,Kikuchi K,Fujikawa H,Kawaguchi N,Abe K,Matsushita M,Matsushima H,Igarashi T,Hankins RW,Kako M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with severe Evans syndrome received an allo-BMT from his HLA-identical sister on November, 2000. Full marrow and blood donor chimerism were achieved only after 5 donor lymphocyte infusions (DLI), and coincided with complete clinical remission and disappearence of auto-antibodies. Five years later, hemolytic ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Marmont AM,Gualandi F,Occhini D,Morandi F,Ferretti E,Pezzolo A,Strada P,Ravetti JL,Pistoia V,Falanga A,Bacigalupo A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study uses the agent-based model IMMSIM to simulate immune responses to a viral infection, with a focus on the impact of preformed memory (homologous and heterologous) on the quality and the efficacy of the response. The in machina results confirm the observed thwarting of new, naïve responses exerted by c...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pearson YE,Cheng Y,Selin LK,Puzone R,Celada F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) and anti-keratin (AKA) antibodies of the IgG class in sera of patients with defined juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) of various subgroups with more than one year duration of the disease. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Immunoscan RA, Eurodi...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hromadnikova I,Stechova K,Pavla V,Hridelova D,Houbova B,Voslarova S,Nekvasilova H,Vavrinec J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T and B lymphocytes are central regulators and effectors of immune responses and are believed to have a key role in many autoimmune diseases. Targeting the activation or effector function of lymphocytes is a potentially effective approach to treat autoimmunity. Typically, T-cell activation occurs after engagement of t...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Felix NJ,Suri A,Salter-Cid L,Nadler SG,Gujrathi S,Corbo M,Aranda R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental myasthenia gravis (EMG) was elicited in female AO rats, 8-12 weeks of age, by injection of 100 micrograms/rat Torpedo marmorata acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-protein incorporated in CFA. Bordetella pertussis, 24 x 10(9) microorganisms, rat, was injected simultaneously as additional adjuvant. Rats were sac...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Damjanović M,Vidić-Danković B,Kosec D,Isaković K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00