Primary biliary cirrhosis: assessment of the quantitative importance of the adenine nucleotide translocator protein as a major mitochondrial antigen.

abstract：:The expression of cytokine mRNA species was determined in liver biopsies from six normal subjects, 18 patients with PBC and 14 patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive CHB using a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. cDNA, obtained by reverse transcription using oligo d(T) pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shindo M,Mullin GE,Braun-Elwert L,Bergasa NV,Jones EA,James SP

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) promotes CD4(+) T-cell proliferation both directly and indirectly through dendritic cell (DC) activation. Although human TSLP-activated DCs induce CD8(+) T-cell proliferation, it is not clear whether TSLP acts directly on CD8(+) T cells. In this study, we show that human CD8(+...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Akamatsu T,Watanabe N,Kido M,Saga K,Tanaka J,Kuzushima K,Nishio A,Chiba T

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both viral effect and immune-mediated mechanism are involved in the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection. In this study, we showed that in SARS patient sera there were autoantibodies (autoAbs) that reacted with A549 cells, the type-2 pneumocytes, and that these ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lin YS,Lin CF,Fang YT,Kuo YM,Liao PC,Yeh TM,Hwa KY,Shieh CC,Yen JH,Wang HJ,Su IJ,Lei HY

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase platelet membrane enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for the detection of circulating platelet binding IgG in serum. 18 out of 28 (64%) sera from patients with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and 10 out of 21 (48%) sera from patients with acute ITP contained more pl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Winiarski J,Ekelund E

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In autoimmune diseases, mitogen-induced IL-2 production in vitro is generally considered to be diminished despite evidence of lymphoid hyperactivity in vivo. HgCl2 is known to cause T-dependent polyclonal B cell activation in Brown-Norway (BN) rats, resulting in autoimmune disease. We show here that the IL-2 producing...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Baran D,Lantz O,Dosquet P,Sfaksi A,Druet P

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we reported the first known incidence of antibodies possessing catalytic sialidase activity (sialidase abzymes) in the serum of patients with multiple myeloma and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). These antibodies desialylate biomolecules, such as glycoproteins, gangliosides and red blood cells. Desialylati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tomin A,Dumych T,Tolstyak Y,Kril I,Mahorivska I,Bila E,Stoika R,Herrmann M,Kit Y,Bilyy R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA) are highly specific for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the predominant B cell epitopes have not yet been defined. The aim of this study was to examine the reactivity of ACPA against different peptides derived from citrullinated proteins and to investigate whether or no...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goules JD,Goules AV,Tzioufas AG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial fluids from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients were found to contain activated T lymphocytes that could be maintained as continuous T cell lines (CTCL) in the presence of the T cell growth factor, interleukin (IL)-2. The CTCL predominantly expressed the OKT8 phenotype and were Ia antigen positive. IL-2-depend...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wilkins JA,Olivier SL,Warrington RJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) was able to inhibit T cell proliferation induced in an autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (AMLR). The effect of CD4 MoAb on cellular proliferation appears to be directly exerted on CD4+ T lymphocytes, and to be due to inhibition of a post-activation event, since the CD4+ T cell prolife...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sakane T,Takada S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have evaluated the effects of cyclophosphamide on the development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in four EAE rodent models: monophasic EAE in Lewis rats, protracted relapsing (PR)-EAE in DA rats, myelin oligodendrocyte protein (MOG)-induced EAE in C57Bl/6 mice and proteolipid protei...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mangano K,Nicoletti A,Patti F,Donia M,Malaguarnera L,Signorelli S,Magro G,Muzio V,Greco B,Zaratin P,Meroni P,Zappia M,Nicoletti F

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmunity may contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Studies have identified disease-specific autoantibodies (DSAAbs) in COPD patients, but natural autoantibodies (NAAbs) may also play a role. Previous studies have concentrated on circulating autoantibodies, but lung-associa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Daffa NI,Tighe PJ,Corne JM,Fairclough LC,Todd I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) against proteinase 3 (PR3) are strongly associated with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) and are thought to be involved in its pathogenesis. Levels of PR3-ANCA do not always correspond to clinical disease activity. To investigate the relationship between functional effects of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van der Geld YM,Tool AT,Videler J,de Haas M,Tervaert JW,Stegeman CA,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG,Roos D

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaphylatoxins C5a and C3a and their des Arg derivatives inhibited C2 production by mononuclear phagocytes. C5a and C5adesArg which were approximately equipotent (IC50 = 10(-10) mol/l) were more effective than C3a (IC50 = 5 X 10(-8) mol/l) which was approximately 10-20-fold more potent than C3adesArg IC50 = 5 X 10(-6)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lappin D,Damerau B,Whaley K

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgG-antilipoprotein-autoantibody activity (at 4 degrees C) of a plane xanthoma patient was shown by double-immunodiffusion method. Cryoglobulins in the serum were dissociated to polyclonal IgG and alpha- and beta-lipoproteins by acidification and were reconstructed by neutralization. IgG fraction of the cryoglob...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kodama H

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human alveolar macrophages (AM) were obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage from 18 patients with a variety of conditions. For each patient the percentages of AM showing the following properties were determined: (1) staining for the enzymes non-specific esterase (NSE) and acid phosphatase (ACP); (2) in vitro phagocytosis ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gant VA,Hamblin AS

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated phenotypical differences in glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 autoantibodies (GADA) found in type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients, individuals at risk of developing T1D and stiff-person syndrome (SPS) patients. In a Phase II trial using aluminium-formulated GAD(65) (GAD-alum) as an immunomodula...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chéramy M,Hampe CS,Ludvigsson J,Casas R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two amyloidogenic Bence Jones proteins (Am37 VkappaIV and NIG1 VkappaI) and one non-amyloidogenic protein (NIG26 VkappaIII) were characterized. The protein Am37 had four deletions when compared with the translated germ-line gene sequence: two Ser residues following position 27 (27e, 27f) in CDR1 and two amino acids Pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alim MA,Yamaki S,Hossain MS,Takeda K,Kozima M,Izumi T,Takashi I,Shinoda T

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the airways. Increased levels of T cells are found in the lungs after the induction of an allergic-like inflammation in rats, and flow cytometry studies have shown that these levels are reduced in CD26-deficient rats. However, the precise anatomical sites where these ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schade J,Schmiedl A,Kehlen A,Veres TZ,Stephan M,Pabst R,von Hörsten S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-2 is thought to have entered the human population in the 1930s through cross-species transmission of SIV from sooty mangabeys in West Africa. Unlike HIV-1, HIV-2 has not led to a global pandemic, and recent data suggest that HIV-2 prevalence is declining in some West African states where it was formerly endemic. A...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Boswell MT,Rowland-Jones SL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cytotoxic activity was simultaneously investigated in bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMC) and peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from nine Hodgkin's disease (HD) and 15 non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) untreated patients. Twenty-five PBL samples and seven bone marrow specimens from healthy individuals w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Caldera LH,Leon-Ponte M,Acquatella G,Bianco NE,Blanca I

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral leucocytes and platelets from twenty healthy volunteers were incubated in vitro with radiographic contrast media (diatrizoate-Hypaque, iothalamate-Conray and iodipamide-Cholografin) under varying conditions. All radiographic contrast media (RCM) were able to induce histamine release from peripheral leucocyt...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ring J,Arroyave CM,Frizler MJ,Tan EM

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were immunized with the cell wall of BCG suspended in an oil-in-saline emulsion, and examined against time for the emergence of T cell-mediated acquired immunity. Evidence is presented that shows that levels of acquired resistance expressed in these animals over the first month following inoculation, and which en...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Orme IM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the inhibitory effect of iron on macrophage production of tumoricidal free radical nitric oxide (NO) has been reported, its possible influence on macrophage anti-tumour activity has not been established. In the present study, FeSO4 markedly reduced IFN-gamma + LPS-induced NO synthesis in mouse and rat macroph...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harhaji L,Vuckovic O,Miljkovic D,Stosic-Grujicic S,Trajkovic V

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been shown that murine sarcoma cells express high-affinity IL-4 receptors (IL-4R) which are internalized after binding to the ligand (Puri et al., Cancer Res 1991; 51:3011-7). We have also reported that human renal cell carcinoma cells express high-affinity IL-4R, and IL-4 inhibits tumour growth in v...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Obiri NI,Siegel JP,Varricchio F,Puri RK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient stimulatory capacities of autologous dendritic cells (DC) may contribute in part to impaired T cell stimulation and therefore viral persistence in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. In order to characterize the antigen presenting functions of DC from chronic HBV carriers and controls...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Löhr HF,Pingel S,Böcher WO,Bernhard H,Herzog-Hauff S,Rose-John S,Galle PR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to the major phenolic glycolipid purified from Mycobacterium leprae have been demonstrated previously in sera of leprosy but not tuberculosis patients using an ELISA. The major antigenic determinants on this molecule were investigated using antisera raised in rabbits to the purified glycolipid and with a po...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brett SJ,Payne SN,Draper P,Gigg R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several patients with Paget's disease have been reported to have monoclonal IgM proteins in their serum. We have systematically studied 26 patients with Paget's disease severe enough to require diphosphonate therapy. Five of these patients were found to have isolated elevations of serum IgM which were well outside the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Buxbaum JN,Kammerman S

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of CD4 or CD8 on the cell surface is an important guide for discriminating the immunological functions of T cells. However, a minor T cell subset, which lacks both CD4 and CD8 molecules but bears the usual form of T cell receptor (TCR) alpha beta (CD4-CD8-TCR alpha beta+ T cells), has recently been found no...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Matsumoto M,Yasukawa M,Inatsuki A,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of human monocytes form long needles of fibrin on their surfaces when they are briefly exposed to human plasma. A number of coagulation factor deficient plasmas (II, V, VII, VIII, von Willebrand, IX, X, XI and XII) were tested for their ability to promote formation of this fibrin. Monocytes failed to make...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hogg N

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is characterized by benign exophytic lesions of the respiratory tract caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), in particular low-risk HPV6 and HPV11. Aggressiveness varies greatly among patients. Surgical excision is the current standard of care for RRP, with adjuvant therap...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ivancic R,Iqbal H,deSilva B,Pan Q,Matrka L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00