T- and B-lymphocyte subpopulations in the tropical splenomegaly syndrome (TSS).

abstract：:Fluorescent probes can monitor events in lymphocytes stimulated by mitogens and antigens. Early activation is associated with conformational changes in membrane macromolecules, and has been studied by measurement of fluorescence intensity or polarization of the membrane-localizing probes ANS, NPN, DPH and TMRITC. Subs...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nairn RC,Rolland JM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are lines of evidence that natural killer (NK) cells are sensitive to physical and psychological stress. Alterations in the immune system including NK cells are known to differ among tissues and organs. The effect of stress on the lung immune system, however, has not been well documented in spite of the fact tha...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kanemi O,Zhang X,Sakamoto Y,Ebina M,Nagatomi R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune modulating capacity of vitamin D(3) is well-recognized. Ultra-violet (UV) exposure determines production of vitamin D(3) in vivo and varies through the course of the year, especially in temperate regions. However, it is not known whether the human innate immune response differs due to seasonality. To valida...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Khoo AL,Chai LY,Koenen HJ,Sweep FC,Joosten I,Netea MG,van der Ven AJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease and has served as a model of certain ocular inflammatory conditions in man. The present study was aimed at separating the effects of MHC and non-MHC genes on the development of EAU in the rat. EAU-susceptible LEW (RT1l), EAU-resistant WKAH (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hirose S,Ogasawara K,Natori T,Sasamoto Y,Ohno S,Matsuda H,Onoé K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GVHD is a major complication in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). MHC class I mismatching increases GVHD, but in MHC-matched BMT minor histocompatibility antigens (mH) presented by MHC class I result in significant GVHD. To examine the modification of GVHD in the absence of cell surface MHC class I molecul...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shenoy S,Desch K,Duffy B,Thorson P,Mohanakumar T

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:The lectin pathway of complement activation is used by a collectin, mannan-binding lectin (MBL), and two ficolins, L-ficolin and H-ficolin, to opsonize microorganisms for phagocytosis. We published evidence recently that MBL insufficiency is associated with recurrent respiratory infections in childhood. We have now me...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Atkinson AP,Cedzynski M,Szemraj J,St Swierzko A,Bak-Romaniszyn L,Banasik M,Zeman K,Matsushita M,Turner ML,Kilpatrick DC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that male mice of strains with high target organ responsiveness to androgen, the C57L/J and RF/J, have lower plasma immunoglobulin levels and weaker antibody responses to protein and polysaccharide antigens than mice of low androgen responder (LAR) strains, the A/J and 129/J. In the current...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cohn DA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) plays a role in the fibrotic process of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Because hypoxia is associated with fibrosis in several profibrogenic conditions, we investigated whether CTGF expression in SSc fibroblasts is regulated by hypoxia. Dermal fibroblasts from patients with SSc and hea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hong KH,Yoo SA,Kang SS,Choi JJ,Kim WU,Cho CS

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CXC chemokines, monokine induced by interferon (IFN)-gamma (MIG) (CXCL9), IFN-gamma-induced protein 10 (IP-10) (CXCL10) and IFN-inducible T cell alpha chemoattractant (I-TAC) (CXCL11), are known to attract CXCR3- (CXCR3A and CXCR3B) T lymphocytes. We investigated MIG, IP-10 and I-TAC mRNAs expression by semi-quant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Manousou P,Kolios G,Drygiannakis I,Koulentaki M,Pyrovolaki K,Voumvouraki A,Notas G,Bourikas L,Papadaki HA,Kouroumalis E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and efficient method of extracting complement-fixing immune complexes (IC) from whole serum and recovering them has been developed. 125I-labelled, in vitro prepared IC in whole serum were incubated with Sepharose 4B covalently linked to monoclonal anti-C3g or anti-C1q and the binding and recovery of IC was mo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Samuel DJ,Amlot PL,Shepherd P,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (MyD), an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disease with multisystem abnormalities, is associated with hypercatabolism of IgG. The hypercatabolism is not related to structural abnormalities of the IgG molecule in MyD but appears to be due to a derangement of the serum IgG concentration-fractional cat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Banerjee D,McClintock J,Silver MM,Hudson AJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is usually more severe in HIV-infected patients, and the immune derangement found in co-infected patients may differ from that in each isolated disease. Following mitogen stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), interferon (IFN)-gamma and tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha production...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Castro Cunha RM,Kallas EG,Rodrigues DS,Nascimento Burattini M,Salomao R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus entered a double-blind randomized trial to study the therapeutic effect of vigorous versus sham reinfusion plasmapheresis. Four of them received real plasmapheresis while five received sham reinfusion plasmapheresis. In the present communication we report the effe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tsokos GC,Balow JE,Huston DP,Wei N,Decker JL

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible role of tryptophan metabolism in immune regulation of primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) the serum concentrations of tryptophan and its metabolite kynurenine were measured by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in 103 patients with pSS, 56 patients with sicca symptoms ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pertovaara M,Raitala A,Uusitalo H,Pukander J,Helin H,Oja SS,Hurme M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons of the results obtained in a study of fifty-two patients with genitourinary malignancies using three assays to monitor the thymus-dependent immune system (delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity to DNCB, PHA-induced lymphocyte blastogenesis, and peripheral blood E rosette-forming lymphocyte counts) yielded stat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Catalona WJ,Tarpley JL,Potvin C,Chretien PB

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunofluorescence forty-nine sera giving striational staining of skeletal and cardiac muscle have been tested on glycerinated myofibrils. By comparing immunofluorescence and phase contrast it has been found that these antibodies are rather heterogeneous but at least three different staining patterns can be iden...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Peers J,McDonald BL,Dawkins RL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is strongly associated with cigarette smoking. More than 20 lung carcinogens have been identified in cigarette smoke and one of the most abundant is 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). We hypothesized that NNK modulates alveolar macrophage (AM) mediator production, thus contributing to ca...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Therriault MJ,Proulx LI,Castonguay A,Bissonnette EY

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination against meningococcal serogroup B is recommended for patients with a complement deficiency; however, although immunogenicity in this patient group has been shown, efficacy has not yet been established. In this study, we collected serum from children with a complement deficiency in the alternative pathway o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van den Broek B,van Els CACM,Kuipers B,van Aerde K,Henriet SS,de Groot R,de Jonge MI,Langereis JD,van der Flier M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal IgM smooth muscle antibody secreted by a hybrid (MMI-1) of mouse plasmacytoma NS-1 with spleen cells from mouse immunized with Treponema pallidum was detected by indirect immunofluorescence tests on frozen tissue sections and on acetone fixed monolayers of rat and human fibroblasts. The antibody did not r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Strugnell RA,Underwood JR,Clarke FM,Pedersen JS,Chalmers PJ,Faine S,Toh BH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The era prior to 1990 was a time of careful observation of disease presentation, course, outcomes and meticulous pathology studies. These mainly single-centre studies introduced new life-saving therapies for drugs still used effectively today. In the 1970-1980s, cyclophosphamide (CyP) added to glucocorticosteroids (GC...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman GS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has been found to be up-regulated in cytokine-stimulated mesangial cells (MC) and in experimental glomerulonephritis. Since direct toxicity of nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in damage of bacteria, neoplastic and intact pancreatic cells, we investi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hruby Z,Beck KF

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory response, probably to a range of initiating causes. Chronic infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae (C.pn) has been suggested as one cause, but the nature of the association is controversial, in large part due to lack of an identified mechanism to link infection with the atherosclerotic ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Clancy R,Ren Z,Pang G,Fletcher P,D'Este C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of human peripheral blood NK subsets has been made in a group of Kenyan adults and children with acute P. falciparum malaria. Results were compared with data obtained from three age- and sex-matched control cohorts: parasitaemic but asymptomatic children; aparasitaemic children and adults; and adult Cau...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Orago AS,Facer CA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and in laboratory animals, administration of a single does of glucocorticosteroids induces a rapid and transient decrease in the numbers of peripheral blood lymphocytes through a redistribution of circulating lymphocytes. This lymphocytopenic effect is an important factor in the immunosuppressive capacity of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bloemena E,Weinreich S,Schellekens PT

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbation of epithelial structure is a prominent but poorly understood feature of the immunopathological response to bacterial antigens which characterizes the destructive lesion of periodontitis. Western analysis of sera from 22 patients with periodontitis detected multiple antigens in extracts of epithelial cells...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ye P,Harty DW,Chapple CC,Nadkarni MA,Carlo AA,Hunter N

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine antibody response to porcine insulin is controlled by immune response genes of the major histocompatibility complex. Animals of the one haplotype (H-2d) produce specific antibodies to pork insulin, while animals of other haplotypes do not. We analysed the antibody responses to purified pork insulin by anima...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Strayer DS,Kapp J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular sensitization to rabbit liver specific lipoprotein (RLSP) has been investigated using a lymphocyte transformation test in patients with chronic active hepatitis (CAH). A stimulation index greater than 2 was recorded in twenty out of twenty-five cases (eight of ten HBsAg positive and twelve of fiteen HBsAg neg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ortona L,Laghi V,Cauda R,Nervo P

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucocyte adhesion deficiency type 1 (LAD-1) is characterized by the incapacity of leucocytes to carry out their adhesion functions via their CD11/CD18 antigens, which are also referred to as the leucocyte integrins. The patients generally suffer from poor wound healing and recurrent bacterial and fungal infections. I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mathew EC,Shaw JM,Bonilla FA,Law SK,Wright DA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00