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abstract：:Autoimmune gastritis is a CD4+ T cell-mediated disease induced in genetically susceptible mice by thymectomy on the third day after birth. Previous linkage analysis indicated that Gasa1 and Gasa2, the major susceptibility loci for gastritis, are located on mouse chromosome 4. Here we verified these linkage data by sho...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ang DK,Brodnicki TC,Jordan MA,Wilson WE,Silveira P,Gliddon BL,Baxter AG,van Driel IR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to identify autoantigens of synovium in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we constructed lambda phage expression cDNA libraries from synovium and screened them by IgG purified from synovial fluids, both of which were derived from RA patients. As a result of this unique combination of the libraries and probes, w...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Tanaka M,Ozaki S,Osakada F,Mori K,Okubo M,Nakao K

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:To investigate the role of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family in host defense against Toxoplasma gondii, we infected TLR2-, TLR4- and MyD88-deficient mice with the avirulent cyst-forming Fukaya strain of T. gondii. All TLR2- and MyD88-deficient mice died within 8 days, whereas all TLR4-deficient and wild-type mice su...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mun HS,Aosai F,Norose K,Chen M,Piao LX,Takeuchi O,Akira S,Ishikura H,Yano A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence has demonstrated that NOD-Shi/scid/γc(null) (NOG) mice are one of the most suitable mouse strains for humanized mouse technologies, in which various human cells or tissues can be engrafted without rejection and autonomously maintained. We have characterized and analyzed various features of the human ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Suzuki M,Takahashi T,Katano I,Ito R,Ito M,Harigae H,Ishii N,Sugamura K

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are responsible for the initiation of immune responses. Our study demonstrates a new pathway for generating a large quantity of stimulatory monocyte-derived DCs (Mo-DCs) from human monocytes using anti-4-1BB ligand (4-1BBL) mAb to trigger reverse signaling. The anti-4-1BBL-driven Mo-DCs (DCs(alph...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ju S,Ju S,Ge Y,Qiu H,Lu B,Qiu Y,Fu J,Liu G,Wang Q,Hu Y,Shu Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous sensitization of C57BL/6 (B6) mice with class II H-2-disparate B6-C-H-2bm12(bm12) resting B cells induced anti-bm12 CD4+ T cell tolerance as shown by hyporesponsiveness in the anti-bm12 mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR). The present study investigated the mechanism(s) of the failure of bm12 B cells to stimul...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Toyooka K,Maruo S,Iwahori T,Yamamoto N,Tai XG,Abe R,Takahama Y,Murakami M,Uede T,Hamaoka T,Fujiwara H

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the LAG-3 gene is a cell surface protein with significant homology to CD4. It has been suggested that it can serve as a functional equivalent of CD4 and account for the MHC class II-restricted responses which persist in CD4-deficient mice. To test this hypothesis, we have created CD4/LAG-3 double-defici...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Miyazaki T,Dierich A,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vascularized organ transplantation, vascular endothelial cells (EC) confronting recipient T cells are potentially significant APC initiating cellular immune responses that lead to rejection. In the present study, we studied the ability of human EC to stimulate allogeneic T cells and the co-stimulatory molecules inv...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Seino K,Azuma M,Bashuda H,Fukao K,Yagita H,Okumura K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion molecules of the integrin family are implicated not only in leukocyte migration but also in leukocyte activation. Here we characterize the expression and function of fibronectin receptor integrins on rat mast cells. A rat basophilic leukemia cell line (RBL-2H3) and phorbol ester-stimulated rat peritoneal mast...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yasuda M,Hasunuma Y,Adachi H,Sekine C,Sakanishi T,Hashimoto H,Ra C,Yagita H,Okumura K

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the capacity of a novel, nanoparticle-based tumor vaccine to eradicate established tumors in mice. C57BL/6 mice were intradermally (i.d.) inoculated with ovalbumin (OVA)-expressing EG-7 tumor cells. When the tumor size reached 7-8 mm, the tumor-bearing mice were i.d. injected near the tumor-draining ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Wakita D,Chamoto K,Zhang Y,Narita Y,Noguchi D,Ohnishi H,Iguchi T,Sakai T,Ikeda H,Nishimura T

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II collagen (CII) is of immunological interest because of its repetitive structure and properties as an autoantigen. The mouse gene has recently been cloned, thus enabling T cell-defined epitopes to be identified. Multiple novel epitopes on mouse CII are here detected in the autoreactive T cell response. The majo...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bayrak S,Holmdahl R,Travers P,Lauster R,Hesse M,Dölling R,Mitchison NA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin A (CsA) prevents most immature thymocytes from progressing to a mature phenotype and blocks the deletion of T cells that express self-specific TCR in the small population of cells that achieve maturity. The latter effect may explain the paradoxical observation that this immunosuppressive drug can induce au...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Urdahl KB,Pardoll DM,Jenkins MK

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infection in CD4(+) T cells initiates a viral cytopathic effect (CPE) that is dependent on the activation of intracellular protein tyrosine kinases (PTK). PTK in T cells are also activated during the course of TCR or CD4 receptor engagement and the manner of receptor engagement may generate signals leading eithe...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Tian H,Lempicki R,King L,Donoghue E,Samelson LE,Cohen DI

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TCR is responsible for the specificity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) by recognizing peptides presented in the context of MHC. By producing recombinant soluble TCR, it is possible to study this interaction at the molecular level. We generated single-chain TCR (scTCR) from tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) and...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lake DF,Salgaller ML,van der Bruggen P,Bernstein RM,Marchalonis JJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SKG mice, a newly established model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spontaneously develop autoimmune arthritis accompanying extra-articular manifestations, such as interstitial pneumonitis. To examine possible roles of T cells for mediating this systemic autoimmunity, we generated T cell clones from arthritic joints of ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Wakasa-Morimoto C,Toyosaki-Maeda T,Matsutani T,Yoshida R,Nakamura-Kikuoka S,Maeda-Tanimura M,Yoshitomi H,Hirota K,Hashimoto M,Masaki H,Fujii Y,Sakata T,Tsuruta Y,Suzuki R,Sakaguchi N,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies point to glycolipid-enriched membrane (GEM) microdomains as the critical sites for TCR-mediated signal transduction. However, whether the TCR complex is localized in the GEM domain is not well-defined. In the present study, we analyzed localization of the TCR-CD3 complex in the GEM domain by isolating t...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Kosugi A,Saitoh S,Noda S,Yasuda K,Hayashi F,Ogata M,Hamaoka T

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-coupled antigen-presenting cells (APC) serve as potent tolerogens for inhibiting immune responses in vivo and in vitro, apparently by providing an antigen-specific signal through the TCR in the absence of co-stimulation. Although this approach has been well studied in rodents, little is known about its effects...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Vandenbark AA,Barnes D,Finn T,Bourdette DN,Whitham R,Robey I,Kaleeba J,Bebo BF Jr,Miller SD,Offner H,Chou YK

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Interleukin 3 (IL-3) promotes the survival and proliferation of hematopoietic cells of various lineages in culture. Like most other hematopoietic colony stimulating factors, its mode of action is unknown. However, binding of the lymphokine induces protein tyrosine phosphorylation and enhanced glucose transport in some...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nefesh I,Bauskin AR,Alkalay I,Golembo M,Ben-Neriah Y

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-MHC class II complexes (pMHC II) are degraded by MARCH-I-mediated ubiquitination, and the stabilization of pMHC II by loss of its ubiquitination is one phenotype defining the activation of conventional dendritic cells (cDCs). However, the role of such stabilization of pMHC II in the context of T-cell activatio...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ishikawa R,Kajikawa M,Ishido S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the characteristic features of asthma is chronic airway inflammation typically with eosinophil infiltration. Most asthmatics can be treated successfully with conventional treatment appropriate for their severity, but in some severe cases, asthma cannot be well controlled even with thorough treatment and this co...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ohta K,Nagase H,Suzukawa M,Ohta S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of alpha i2 subunit of heterotrimeric G proteins induces a 2-4-fold increase in the proportions of CD4 and CD8 single-positive (SP) thymocytes as compared with wild-type littermates, but how G alpha i2 is involved in thymocyte development is unknown. To determine a role for G alpha i2 in a specific developmen...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Finegold MJ,Jin Y,Wu MX

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ig are multifunctional molecules with distinct properties assigned to individual domains. To assess the importance of IgM domain assembly in B cell development we generated two transgenic mouse lines with truncated muH chains by homologous integration of the neomycin resistance gene (neo(r)) into exons C(mu)1 and C(mu...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Zou X,Ayling C,Xian J,Piper TA,Barker PJ,Brüggemann M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a commensal fungus that predominantly resides on mucosal surfaces and can cause lethal systemic infection when the host defense is compromised. Candidalysin is a cytolytic peptide toxin produced by C. albicans hyphae that is essential for mucosal tissue damage and is believed to contribute to the e...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Hanaoka M,Domae E

更新日期：2020-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that Fas-mediated apoptosis is involved in the pathogenesis of intestinal injury. In this study, we determined the role of Fas/Fas ligand (FasL) interactions in different T cell compartments using a murine model of small intestinal injury. An intraperitoneal injection of 145-2C11 (anti-CD...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Miura N,Yamamoto M,Fukutake M,Ohtake N,Iizuka S,Ishige A,Sasaki H,Fukuda K,Yamamoto T,Hayakawa S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated macrophages exert strong arginase (ASE) activity that converts L-arginine into ornithine, the key precursor for putrescine and polyamine biosynthesis. Macrophages were previously also shown to generate nitric oxide that is derived from the guanido group of arginine by the oxidative deiminase (OAD) reaction. ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Benninghoff B,Lehmann V,Eck HP,Dröge W

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-CD20 chimeric monoclonal antibody rituximab mediates cytotoxicity in malignant B cells via multiple mechanisms, including complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and direct induction of apoptosis. To optimize treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a fuller unders...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mishima Y,Terui Y,Mishima Y,Kuniyoshi R,Matsusaka S,Mikuniya M,Kojima K,Hatake K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen engagement of the TCR may lead to activation of mature T cells while inducing deletion or positive selection of immature thymocytes. Using thymocytes from TCR transgenic mice recognizing the allo-antigen H-2Kb we investigated whether double-positive CD4+CD8+ (DP) thymocytes constitute a particular developmenta...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Simon AK,Auphan N,Schmitt-Verhulst AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, the thymus is the primary lymphoid organ able to support the development of T cells through its three-dimensional (3D) organization of the thymic stromal cells. Since a remarkable number of similarities are shared between the thymic epithelial cells (TECs) and skin-derived keratinocytes and fibroblasts, in ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Palamaro L,Guarino V,Scalia G,Antonini D,De Falco L,Bianchino G,Fusco A,Romano R,Grieco V,Missero C,Del Vecchio L,Ambrosio L,Pignata C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00