Responses of 'mature' human B lymphocyte lines to inducers of maturation and activation.

abstract：:In the present study we describe the in vitro transcription-translation of human melanocyte-specific protein Pmel17 cDNA and subsequent use of the resulting 35S-labelled Pmel17 in an RIA to analyse vitiligo sera for the presence of Pmel17 antibodies. Of 53 vitiligo sera examined in the assay, three (5.9%) were found t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kemp EH,Gawkrodger DJ,Watson PF,Weetman AP

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated enhanced synovial fluid (SF) antigen-presenting cell (APC) function in inflammatory arthritis patients selected on the basis of marked SF mononuclear cell (MNC) responsiveness to reactive arthritis-associated bacteria (Clin Exp Immunol 1990; 79:189-94). In this study we have assessed wh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Viner NJ,Gaston JS,Bacon PA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to a soluble Mycobacterium leprae skin test antigen (SML) was successfully induced in healthy volunteers following immunization with 2 X 10(8) killed armadillo-derived M. leprae. No better sensitization was obtained by a mixture of live BCG and killed M. leprae. The relative specifi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Smelt AH,Rees RJ,Liew FY

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus (Af) is a fungus associated with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and other allergic diseases. Immune responses in these diseases are due to T and B cell responses. T cell activation requires both Af-specific engagement of the T-cell-receptor as well as interaction of antigen indepe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barrios CS,Johnson BD,D Henderson J Jr,Fink JN,Kelly KJ,Kurup VP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG2 deficiency has been recently associated with the appearance of vasculitis. None of the 42 patients with IgG2 deficiency whom we studied has a history of vasculitis. We have also studied 56 patients with vasculitis, and found four of them with IgG2 levels below the normal range for their age. As a group, the vascu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jiménez A,López-Trascasa M,Fontán G

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cardiolipin antibodies, oxidatively modified low-density lipoproteins (oxLDL) and circulating immune complexes are humoral factors that have been linked to vascular damage. To analyse their possible role in the vascular complications in type 1 diabetes mellitus, we investigated patients with and without vascular ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ahmed E,Nityanand S,Mustafa A,Brismar K,Lefvert AK

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrodynamic (gel filtration and sedimentation) properties of an isolated monoclonal IgM-K cryoglobulin (McE.) and five non-cryoglobulin cold-soluble proteins, as well as their constituent monomeric subunits and (Fc)5mu and Fabmu fragments, are compared under both native and partially denaturing conditions. It is ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Middaugh CR,Oshman RG,Litman GW

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjuvant arthritis in Lewis rats is a model of T cell-mediated autoimmune arthritis resembling human rheumatoid arthritis. A nonapeptide from the 65-kD heat-shock protein of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, amino acid sequence 180-188, has been described to carry the dominant immunogenic epitope(s) for both arthritis-protecti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yang XD,Gasser J,Feige U

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guinea pig model of low-dose pulmonary tuberculosis has been used to study the pathogenesis of infection as well as the mechanisms of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine-induced resistance. We investigated the function of lung cells from naive and BCG-vaccinated guinea pigs after enzymatic digestion of lung tiss...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jeevan A,Majorov K,Sawant K,Cho H,McMurray DN

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed whether complement and its factor C4 or abnormal immunoglobulin levels are associated with chronic or recurrent rhinosinusitis. We used multiple patient and control groups to obtain clinically meaningful data. Adult chronic or recurrent rhinosinusitis and acute purulent rhinosinusitis patients were compare...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Seppänen M,Suvilehto J,Lokki ML,Notkola IL,Järvinen A,Jarva H,Seppälä I,Tahkokallio O,Malmberg H,Meri S,Valtonen V

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T cells seem to play a central role in maintaining immune tolerance in the gut mucosa. Previously we have shown that interleukin (IL)-10 is produced at high levels in the inflamed colonic tissue of ulcerative colitis (UC) patients. The cellular source was CD4+ T cells, suggesting local activation of regulat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sitohy B,Hammarström S,Danielsson A,Hammarström ML

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease caused by the T cell-mediated destruction of the pancreatic insulin-producing beta cells. Currently there are no widely accepted and standardized assays available to analyse the function of autoreactive T cells involved in T1D. The development of such an assay would great...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mannering SI,Wong FS,Durinovic-Belló I,Brooks-Worrell B,Tree TI,Cilio CM,Schloot NC,Mallone R,Immunology of Diabetes Society T-Cell Workshop Committee.

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Both CC- and CXC-chemokines are known to be potent leucocyte activators and chemoattractants and play important roles in inflammatory responses. However, chemokine response to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection remains incompletely defined. In this study, we investigated human CC- [macrophage-derived chemokine (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo Y,Chen X,O'Donnell MA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG, IgM and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) containing immune complexes (IC) were detected by the Clq and conglutinin solid phase assays in both HBsAg+ and HBsAg- groups of patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). No differences were observed between the two patient groups either in the levels of ant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brown SE,Howard CR,Steward MW,Ajdukiewicz AB,Whittle HC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of contact sensitivity (CS) responses by immune lymphoid cells was the first finding that distinguished cellular from humoral immunity. CS has remained the most studied T cell reaction in vivo, and is the prototype for a variety of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses. DTH in essence is the recruitme...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Askenase PW

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial and homologous human heat shock protein T cell peptide epitopes specific for T lymphocytes in Behçet's disease were investigated for their pathogenicity in Lewis rats. The potential pathogenicity of eight peptides and two controls was assessed by administering the peptides in enriched Freund's adjuvant i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stanford MR,Kasp E,Whiston R,Hasan A,Todryk S,Shinnick T,Mizushima Y,Dumonde DC,van der Zee R,Lehner T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple halothane exposures in rabbits generate modified liver proteins or antigens that appear to incorporate the metabolic intermediate of halothane, trifluoroacetyl halide (TFA), as identified by specific anti-TFA antibody. These halothane-induced antigens are most prevalent throughout the second to fourth days fo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Roth TP,Hubbard AK,Gandolfi AJ,Brown BR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antilactoferrin antibodies have been reported in patients with several autoimmune disorders, including primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis and autoimmune cholangitis. We investigated the prevalence and the clinical significance of such autoreactivity in patients with autoimmune and viral chronic liver dise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Muratori L,Muratori P,Zauli D,Grassi A,Pappas G,Rodrigo L,Cassani F,Lenzi M,Bianchi FB

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyspecific IgG given intravenously at high doses (IVIG) is used for immunomodulatory therapy in autoimmune diseases such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and myasthenia gravis. It is assumed that the clinical effect is brought about in part by a modulation of mononuclear phagocyte function, in particular by an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jungi TW,Brcic M,Kuhnert P,Spycher MO,Li F,Nydegger UE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants respond to antigen by making antibody that is generally of low affinity for antigen. Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes, and selection of cells expressing mutations with improved affinity for antigen, are the molecular and cellular processes underlying the maturation of antibody affinity. We have re...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ridings J,Dinan L,Williams R,Roberton D,Zola H

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of an experimental human immunoglobulin preparation for intravenous use, containing normal pooled IgM (IVIgM), have shown its beneficial therapeutic effect in experimental autoimmune diseases. The mechanisms of its immunomodulatory activity remain however, poorly understood. In the experiments reporte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vassilev T,Mihaylova N,Voynova E,Nikolova M,Kazatchkine M,Kaveri S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model of immunological deficiency obtained by treating mice for 6 months with serum of human blood drawn from different healthy individuals has been studied. The results show that an alteration of a circulating lymphocyte population with alterations of the ratio CD4+/CD8+ appeared in mice stimulated fo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Galdiero F,Galdiero M,Nuzzo I,Vitiello M,Bentivoglio C,Romano-Carratelli C

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatants of both CD4+ and CD8+ alloreactive T cell clones induced IgM, IgG and IgA synthesis by peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of healthy donors in vitro. These supernatants were also tested on their capacity to induce immunoglobulin production by PBL of four patients with CVI and one patient with CVI and thym...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pastorelli G,Roncarolo MG,Touraine JL,Rousset F,Pene J,de Vries JE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the effects of local anaesthetics, which are proposed to affect the plasma membrane, on human natural killer (NK) cells. Human NK cell activity was inhibited by lidocaine and procaine in a dose-dependent manner. Procaine inhibited not only NK cytolysis but also the binding of NK cells to target cells when ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takagi S,Kitagawa S,Oshimi K,Takaku F,Miura Y

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of microbial products to inhibit allergic inflammation make them logical candidates for novel therapies in allergic diseases such as atopic dermatitis. To assess the effects of intradermal Mycobacterium vaccae derivative on allergen-specific immune responses in children with moderate to severe atopic derm...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dunstan JA,Brothers S,Bauer J,Hodder M,Jaksic MM,Asher MI,Prescott SL

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perforin, one of the cytotoxic proteins of the immune system, plays a prominent role in protection against viral and bacterial infections. We investigated its expression in PBL and their CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ and CD16+ and/or CD56+ subpopulations in endurance athletes before and after a triathlon. Lymphocyte subpopulations...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Staats R,Balkow S,Sorichter S,Northoff H,Matthys H,Luttmann W,Berg A,Virchow JC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to extractable nuclear antigens (ENA) were analysed in the sera of fifty-two patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were divided into two categories: twenty-five with arthritis only and twenty-seven with extra-articular disease. Using haemagglutination, counterimmunoelectropheresis (CIE) and dou...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Venables PJ,Erhardt CC,Maini RN

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two facts support the definition of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) as an immune disorder. First, antibodies against platelets, which often appear after a viral infection, provoke the increased elimination of these cells. Viral disease may change the complex immune response of the host at different levels. I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Imbach PA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum activity of the adenosine deaminase (ADA) isozyme, ADA2, has been reported to be elevated during various disease states. Macrophages have been suggested as the cellular source of extracellular ADA activity because they are one of the only cell types in which intracellular ADA2 activity has been measured, but ext...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Conlon BA,Law WR

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00