Cytotoxic factor produced by human blood lymphocytes of low density upon exposure to autologous B cells.

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) can often lead to many life-threatening diseases. It has the ability to invade normal endovascular tissue. Acute inflammation and its resolution are important to ensure bacterial clearance and limit tissue injury. Carbon monoxide (CO) has been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tsai MH,Yang CM,Chang KT,Chuang CC,Lin WN,Jiang RS,Wu CH,Lee IT

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As one studies more and more the immune systems of invertebrates their multiplicity and diversity increase. On one hand, the number of different local and systemic innate mechanisms (or cascades of mechanisms) increases with every phylum studied, on the other hand the diversity increases within each system as multiple...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Du Pasquier L

更新日期：2004-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we determined the molecular locations on BoNT/A of the antigenic regions recognized by blocking Abs of cervical dystonia patients immunoresistant to BoNT/A treatment. In the present work we tested the possibility of reducing the levels of the Ab response against immunodominant antigenic sites on the heavy ch...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Dolimbek BZ,Aoki KR,Atassi MZ

更新日期：2011-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:As shown earlier, the cells transformed in vitro by several different oncogenes, or spontaneously, during in vivo growth in normal hosts would be gradually replaced by the highly-tumorigenic descendants co-expressing high H2O2-catabolizing and PGE2-releasing activities. Acquisition of (H2O2(CA) + PGE(S)) phenotype pro...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Deichman G,Dyakova N,Kashkina L,Matveeva V,Uvarova E

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to defibrinated blood, cells isolated from heparinized blood give lower T-lymphoproliferative responses. Such responses can be also suppressed by addition of heparin to lymphocyte cultures. Platelets inhibit T cell proliferation and B cell differentiation, but their interactions with heparin may produce co...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Górski A,Wasik M,Stepień-Sopniewska B,Glapiński T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article has been withdrawn at the request of the authors and Guest Editor. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy. ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Salter RD,Watkins SC

更新日期：2009-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft failure (GF) following bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in man is usually attributed to allograft rejection; however, other mechanisms of GF exist. Exposure of the developing allograft to viruses, myelotoxic drugs, and damage to the host-derived marrow stroma during graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) may all caus...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hows JM

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:Opioid receptors are expressed not only on neuroendocrine cells but also on immunocompetent cells such as lymphocytes, monocytes and macrophages. micro-Opioid receptor agonists were found to exert immunosuppressive effects, whereas delta-opioid receptor agonists have been shown to act as immunostimulants. delta-Opioid...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Jenny M,Winkler C,Spetea M,Schennach H,Schmidhammer H,Fuchs D

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MHC tetramers are used to directly enumerate and visualize the antigen-specific T lymphocyte population of interest by flow cytometry, regardless of the T lymphocyte's functional capacity. Assay sensitivity can be hindered by non-specific binding activity, which is due to the inherent interactions of CD8 and MHC. Poin...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Nugent CT,Renteria RO,Kuus-Reichel K,Kumar A

更新日期：2005-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A375 human melanoma cell cultures grown in the presence of TGF beta contained greatly reduced cell numbers and exhibited drastic alterations in cell morphology compared to the control cultures. Preincubation of the cells with the cytokine for only 18 h was sufficient to induce these changes irreversibly. Examination o...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Larisch-Bloch S,Yarom R,Sulitzeanu D

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrous plaques and intimal thickenings of 5 femoral and 5 iliac human arteries obtained at surgery were processed for indirect and double-labeling immunoelectron microscopy using an affinity purified rabbit IgG anti-C5b-9 neoantigen and the EBM 11 monoclonal antibody anti-human macrophages. The C5b-9 complexes were l...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Rus HG,Niculescu F,Poruţiu D,Ghiurca V,Vlaicu R

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least three B cell subsets, B-1a (Ly-1B), B-1b and B-2, are present in the mouse periphery. B-1a and B1-b cells represent a small population in the adult spleen and are abundant in the peritonial and pleural cavities. It has been demonstrated in our laboratory that B-1b cells spontaneously proliferated in stationar...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ferreira KS,Almeida SR,Ribeiro CH,Mariano M,Lopes JD

更新日期：2003-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of recombinant human interleukin 4 (rIL-4) on proliferation and differentiation on human myeloid/monocytic leukemia cell lines were examined. At high concentrations, rIL-4 had a slight enhancing effect on [3H]thymidine incorporation by U937 cells. rIL-4 markedly induced expression of the Fc epsilon recepto...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Noma T,Nakakubo H,Hama K,Honjo T

更新日期：1989-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-sensitive serum masking cofactor(s) of antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) in normal human sera (NHS) are specifically inactivated at 56 degrees C. The degree of binding in ELISA by unmasked aPL in NHS was equivalent to that in non-heated, aPL-reactive autoimmune SLE sera. Previously "negative" SLE sera also reacted ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Cheng HM,Wong KK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A docile substrain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) causes a persistent infection in adult C3HeB mice and induces a severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) which is maximal around three weeks post infection (PI). Evaluations of serum immunoglobulin levels of these mice demonstrated grossly elevated IgG2a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Stellrecht KA,Vella AT

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Considering the role of interleukin (IL)-9 and IL-9-producing Th9 cells in pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, this study aimed to evaluate serum IL-9 levels in patients with Behçet's disease (BD) compared to healthy subjects and to assess whether there is an association between serum IL-9 levels and dise...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Nouri-Vaskeh M,Malek Mahdavi A,Khabbazi A,Jadideslam G

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface phenotypes of lymphoid cells in the developing embryonic thymus were characterized by using monoclonal antibodies. FT-2 antigen thus defined was predominantly expressed on thymocytes in the earlier embryonic stages in all the inbred mouse strains tested. The immunofluorescence and immunoperoxidase tests in...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Takashi T,Kasai M,Tanaka N,Takahashi T,Tokunaga T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical immunology is in the Netherlands a separate clinical specialty within internal medicine and pediatrics. Clinical immunologists work closely together with nephrologists, rheumatologists and many other medical specialists. Apart from research and teaching, clinical immunologists are taking care of patients with...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tervaert JW,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymocyte conditioned medium (TCM) was prepared using 2 lots of fetal calf, and 1 lot each of horse and rabbit sera. The 4 TCM and the respective sera alone were compared in their ability to support primary in vitro sensitization to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) as assayed by direct plaque formation. As would be expect...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： White LL,Smith RA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ITIM-bearing receptors, a family which only recently has been recognized, play a key role in the regulation of the ITAM-induced activation of immune competent cells. The mechanism of ITM-mediated regulation in various cells was recently clarified. The present review focuses on ITIM bearing membrane proteins that negat...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Gergely J,Pecht I,Sármay G

更新日期：1999-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatic fever (RF) and chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD) are complications of oropharyngeal infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. Despite the importance of the complement system against infections and autoimmunity diseases, studies on the role of the lectin pathway in RF and RHD are scarce. Thus, our aim w...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Catarino SJ,Andrade FA,Bavia L,Guilherme L,Messias-Reason IJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria vaccine development has traditionally concentrated on careful molecular, biochemical, and immunological characterisation of candidate antigens. In contrast, evidence of the importance of identified antigens in immunity to human infection and disease has generally been limited to statistically significant co-va...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Staalsoe T,Jensen AT,Theander TG,Hviid L

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential endogenous ligands for the cysteine rich domain of the murine mannose receptor (MR) have been detected in marginal zone metallophilic macrophages in spleen and subcapsular sinus macrophages in lymph nodes of naive mice by immunohistochemistry using a Fc chimeric protein. Additional labelling was observed in ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Martínez-Pomares L,Gordon S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data suggests that autoimmune factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. In this context several autoantigens have been shown to elicit an immune response that results in accelerated atherosclerotic plaque formation. In the present study, we investigated whether elevated titers of an...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： George J,Harats D,Bakshi E,Adler Y,Levy Y,Gilburd B,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than two decades, chloroquine (CQ) was largely and deliberately used as first choice drug for malaria treatment. However, worldwide increasing cases of resistant strains of Plasmodium have hampered its use. Nevertheless, CQ has recently been tested as adjunct therapy in several inflammatory situations, such a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Thomé R,Lopes SC,Costa FT,Verinaud L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its hematopoietic activities, interleukin-3 (IL-3) can modulate macrophage functions. We have studied the production of interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) by mouse peritoneal macrophages triggered by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the presence or absence of IL-3. Int...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Cohen L,David B,Cavaillon JM

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies had shown that the clinicopathological spectrum in leprosy was associated with discrete T cell subsets in circulation, with tuberculoid patients having antigen-induced Th 1, whereas lepromatous leprosy patients with antigen-specific T cell anergy possessed Th 2 cells. The present study shows that ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Misra N,Selvakumar M,Singh S,Bharadwaj M,Ramesh V,Misra RS,Nath I

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-1 (Gal-1) has been implicated in tumor progression partly via the induction of T-cell apoptosis. However the mechanism of Gal-1 induced T-cell death was mostly studied using recombinant, soluble Gal-1 producing controversial results. To explore the true mechanism of Gal-1 and hence tumor cell-induced T-cell d...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kovács-Sólyom F,Blaskó A,Fajka-Boja R,Katona RL,Végh L,Novák J,Szebeni GJ,Krenács L,Uher F,Tubak V,Kiss R,Monostori E

更新日期：2010-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The diminished expression of HLA-DR on monocytes has been proposed as a reliable marker of immunosuppression occuring during septic shock. The objective of the present observational study was to establish the time-dependent relation between plasma cytokines interleukin (IL)-10, transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1, ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Monneret G,Finck ME,Venet F,Debard AL,Bohé J,Bienvenu J,Lepape A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00