Successful combined treatment with thymectomy, rituximab and tocilizumab for severe thymoma-associated multi autoimmune syndrome.

abstract：:Tissue cysts, the hallmark of chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection, are predominantly located in the brain making clearance of the parasite difficult. Currently available anti-T. gondii drugs are ineffective on cysts and fail to prevent reactivation of latent toxoplasmosis. We examined whether abrogation of inhibitory ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Xiao J,Li Y,Yolken RH,Viscidi RP

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroadapted Sindbis virus infection of mice causes T cell-mediated fatal encephalomyelitis. In the absence of IL-10, pathogenic Th17 cells are increased and disease is accelerated. Lymphoid and myeloid cell contributions to IL-10 production were determined using VertX IL-10 transcriptional eGFP reporter mice. Effecto...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Kulcsar KA,Griffin DE

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients were randomized, in a double blind design, and placed into either a vitamin D supplemented group or a placebo control group. As expected, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels increased significantly following 6 month vitamin D supplementation (17+/-6 ng/ml at baseline to 28+/-8 ng/ml at 6 ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Mahon BD,Gordon SA,Cruz J,Cosman F,Cantorna MT

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG fractions of sera containing anti-Hu antibodies or control sera were incubated with Hu-positive and Hu-negative cell lines. Anti-Hu IgG specifically localized in the nucleus of Hu-positive cells. Anti-Hu-positive and control sera were incubated with Hu-positive cells and human complement or peripheral blood mononu...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Hormigo A,Lieberman F

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the immunoregulatory effects of anadamide, the recently identified first endogenous cannabinoid receptor ligand. Anadamide caused dose-dependent inhibition of mitogen-induced T and B lymphocyte proliferation. Its potency was 3- and 10-fold less than that of the synthetic cannabinoids delta 8-tetrah...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Schwarz H,Blanco FJ,Lotz M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-point-in-time ELISA optical densities for three putative antibodies identified in Sydenham's chorea, the streptococcal group A carbohydrate antigen, N-acetyl-beta-d-glucosamine, tubulin, and the dopamine 2 receptor, showed no differences in children with PANDAS (n=44) or Tourette syndrome (n=40) as compared to ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Morris-Berry CM,Pollard M,Gao S,Thompson C,Tourette Syndrome Study Group.,Singer HS

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about antibody production within the central nervous system, called intrathecal antibody production (ITAbP). Mice infected with Theiler's murine encephalomyocarditis virus (TMEV) develop an immune-mediated demyelinating disease(TMEV-IDD), characterized by progressive weakness associated with robust ITA...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Pachner AR,Brady J,Narayan K

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th17 cells play an important role in multiple sclerosis (MS) and its autoimmune model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). However, studies have not addressed how enhanced Th17 immune responses can affect demyelinating diseases. We induced EAE with MOG in RORγt transgenic C57BL/6 mice that overexpress a T...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Martinez NE,Sato F,Omura S,Kawai E,Takahashi S,Yoh K,Tsunoda I

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral circulating cytokines are involved in immune to brain communication and systemic inflammation is considered a risk factor for flaring up the symptoms in most neurodegenerative diseases. We induced both central inflammatory demyelinating lesion, and systemic inflammation with an interleukin-1β expressing ade...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Murta V,Farías MI,Pitossi FJ,Ferrari CC

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We used immunohistochemistry to assess the role of humoral and cellular factors in endoneurial microangiopathy and epineurial vasculitis in 15 nerve biopsies of patients with axonal neuropathy and monoclonal or mixed cryoglobulinemia (CG). Deposition of immunoglobulins and cytolytic complement was detected in endoneur...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Bonetti B,Invernizzi F,Rizzuto N,Bonazzi ML,Zanusso GL,Chinaglia G,Monaco S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice may be protected from the invariably fatal consequences of intracerebral (i.c.) inoculation of A/WSN influnza virus by intravenous injection with 0.5 mg of virus-specific monoclonal anti-hemagglutinin antibody given 2 days after i.c. challenge. The integrity of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier in such ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Doherty PC,Gerhard W

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) administration has been beneficially used in the treatment of several autoimmune disorders including myasthenia gravis (MG), although its mechanism of action is still not clear. To study the optimal conditions of IVIG treatment and delineate its mechanism of action we established a su...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Zhu KY,Feferman T,Maiti PK,Souroujon MC,Fuchs S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that the CD4+ suppressor cells (Ts) that regulate recovery of Lewis rats from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) produce transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta). We also reported that TGF-beta downregulates interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), but not interleukin-2 (IL-2) production, by...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Stevens DB,Gould KE,Swanborg RH

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article is to discuss the putative role of cannabinoid receptors in immune modulation by cannabinoid compounds. The primary focus is on the signal transduction events that are initiated following ligand binding to cannabinoid receptors and how these events lead to detrimental effects on the norma...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Kaminski NE

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) myelin basic protein (MBP) specific T cells differ in their encephalitogenic potential. To investigate the functional diversity of human MBP specific T cell lines, we analysed their cytotoxic activity against human astrocytes and monocytes. Five out of 14 MBP specific T...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Weber F,Huber S,Aloisi F,Meinl E

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes the participation of the immune system. To identify antigenic targets in AD, we screened a human microvascular endothelial cell cDNA library with sera from patients with AD, and we identified rabaptin 5 (RABPT5). We detected serum IgG specific to RABPT5 in 65% of p...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Delunardo F,Margutti P,Pontecorvo S,Colasanti T,Conti F,Riganò R,Profumo E,Siracusano A,Capozzi A,Prencipe M,Sorice M,Francia A,Ortona E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed a CA repeat polymorphism localized 46-kb upstream of the Fas ligand gene in Spanish and American populations that include 139 healthy controls and a cohort of 177 unrelated relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The MS patients consisted of two groups, one with a family history of M...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Zayas MD,Lucas M,Solano F,Fernández-Pérez MJ,Izquierdo G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of microglia cells play critical role in neuroinflammation after brain injury. Exosomes from adipose-derived stem cells (ADSC) possess immunoregulation effect similar with ADSC. We hypothesized that ADSC derived exosomes (ADSC-exosomes) could inhibit the activation of microglia cells and prevent neuroinflam...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Feng N,Jia Y,Huang X

更新日期：2019-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lyme disease agent Borrelia garinii has been suggested to be neurotrop, preferentially affecting the nervous system. We compared the secretion of interferon-gamma in response to outer surface proteins from Borrelia garinii and Borrelia afzelii in 10 patients with neuroborreliosis. In cerebrospinal fluid, stimulati...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Ekerfelt C,Ernerudh J,Forsberg P,Bergström S

更新日期：1998-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The Toll-like receptor 4(TLR4)/nuclear factor kappa B NF-κB inflammatory pathway contributes to secondary inflammation in many diseases including stroke. Moreover, the neuroprotective effect of splenectomy in stroke is supported by a vast body of experimental evidence. Nevertheless, the underlyin...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Belinga VF,Wu GJ,Yan FL,Limbenga EA

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Failure of CD95-mediated apoptosis as a potential negative regulatory mechanism of T cell expansion may be involved in T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Recently, soluble CD95 has been shown to be elevated in MS patients with active disease. Here, we report that the sera of MS patien...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Zipp F,Otzelberger K,Dichgans J,Martin R,Weller M

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelin basic protein (MBP)-like material (MBPLM) in human urine is expressed in a cryptic epitope(s) present in MBP peptide 80-89 and absent or inaccessible in intact MBP. These features of urinary MBPLM have made it difficult to produce reagents for its further characterization. Using an immunogen of keyhole limp...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Whitaker JN,McKeehan A,Freeman DW

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We previously found that antibodies in Tourette's syndrome (TS) patients' sera reacted with a 120 kDa protein from rat brain tissue. Here, we sought to identify this protein and determine if it was involved in TS pathogenesis. METHODS:The 120 kDa protein was identified using immunoprecipitation, Western blo...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Yeh CB,Shui HA,Chu TH,Chen YA,Tsung HC,Shyu JF

更新日期：2012-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work in our laboratory has shown that cytokine production by primary murine macrophages, and macrophage cell lines, is inhibited following treatment with the kappa-opioid agonist U50,488H. Furthermore, we have found that the participation of both accessory cells and T cells in an antibody response is suppress...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Guan L,Eisenstein TK,Adler MW,Rogers TJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), an autoantibody mediated disease, is characterized by presence of antibodies against the proteins bound to the phospholipid membranes. The antibodies are predominantly formed against beta-2-glycoprotein I (b2GPI) which is considered pathogenic, but presence of lupus anticoagulant is a ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Aneja J,Kuppili PP,Paul K,Panda S,Purohit A

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell lines were selected from basic protein (BP)-immunized SJL/J mice using synthetic peptides encompassing the major SJL/J encephalitogenic determinant. Synthetic peptide-derived T cell lines proliferated in response to BP, the 89-169 peptidase fragment of BP and the synthetic peptides, pM87-99, pM90-99 and pM91-99...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Bourdette DN,Vandenbark AA,Hashim G,Whitham RH,Offner H

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological events occurring in the central nervous system (CNS) as a result of head trauma are largely unexplored. We report here that the levels of the alternative pathway complement proteins C3 and factor B are elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of head-injured patients. C3 and factor B indices suggest tha...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Kossmann T,Stahel PF,Morganti-Kossmann MC,Jones JL,Barnum SR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degeneration of cholinergic neurons in the medial septum and the diagonal band of Broca is a frequent neuropathological feature of Alzheimer's disease. To determine whether an immune process can injure these basal forebrain cholinergic neurons, we serially immunized guinea pigs with septal cholinergic hybrid cells (SN...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Kálmán J,Engelhardt JI,Le WD,Xie W,Kovacs I,Kása P,Appel SH

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a cell-based assay (CBA) to detect aquaporin 1 (AQP1) antibodies and determine sensitivity/specificity in patients with neuromyelitis optica (NMO) spectrum disorders. METHODS:A HEK-293T transfected cell model expressing AQP1 was established and detected to be serum AQP1 antibodies. RESULTS:AQP1 a...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Long Y,Zheng Y,Shan F,Chen M,Fan Y,Zhang B,Gao C,Gao Q,Yang N

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Following hypoglossal nerve transection in adult rats, immunoreactivity for complement factor C3 and one of its degradation products C3d as well as C4d and immunoglobulin G (IgG) was observed in the ipsilateral hypoglossal nucleus. Double-labelling experiments indicated that these antigens were present in perineuronal...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Svensson M,Aldskogius H

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00