Characterization of a human monoclonal IgM with antibody activity to dsDNA.

abstract：:Positive skin reactions to PPD in guinea-pigs immunized with Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) were reversed after treatment with 10 mg/kg/day nifurtimox for 12 days. The in vitro migration of peripheral blood leucocytes from FCA-immunized guinea-pigs was inhibited with PPD, but it returned to normal values after nifur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lelchuk R,Cardoni RL,Levis S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cell adoptive transfer is a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy; however, its development has been hindered by the lack of efficient methods to produce large numbers of functional NK cells. In this study, we engineered the leukaemia cell line K562 to express CD137 ligand (CD137L) and membra...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang X,Lee DA,Wang Y,Wang L,Yao Y,Lin Z,Cheng J,Zhu S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that shared idiotypes may be present on antibodies of different specificities was explored using sera from 13 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Eleven sera had anti-DNA and seven carried the 16/6 idiotype (ID). Two of the sera with 16/6 ID also had lymphocytotoxic antibodies, the activity of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lydyard PM,Isenberg D,de Sousa B,Mackenzie L,Cooke A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept that during an immune challenge the release of glucocorticoids (GC) provides feedback inhibition on evolving immune responses has been drawn primarily from studies of autoimmune and/or inflammatory processes in animal models. The epidemic form of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) occurs secondary to infect...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gómez SA,Fernández GC,Vanzulli S,Dran G,Rubel C,Berki T,Isturiz MA,Palermo MS

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically, corticosteroids (CS) are among the first line drugs in the therapy of autoimmune and allergic diseases and potently inhibit the activation of immune cells. However, due to their pleiotropic mode of action, the prolonged use of CS is generally associated with a range of undesirable side-effects. In this stu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kalthoff FS,Chung J,Musser P,Stuetz A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to test whether normal rat epiphyseal chondrocytes react with monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) detecting different markers of lymphoid cells. For this purpose, isolated chondrocyte and, for comparison, splenocyte cytosmears were exposed to a battery of different MoAbs followed by indirect immunop...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Malejczyk J,Romaniuk A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fc receptor mediated antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and phagocytosis induced by bispecific antibody (BsAb) to the high-affinity Fc receptor for IgG (Fc gamma RI) and to human red blood group antigen RhD were studied in vitro, using human mononuclear leucocytes as effector cells. The results w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Deramoudt EX,Gilard C,Lepine N,Alonso JM,Romet-Lemonne JL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) were reported to cause hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome (HIES). The present study investigates T helper type 17 (Th17) responses triggered by the relevant stimuli Staphylococcus aureus and Candidia albicans in five 'classical' HIES patients, and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van de Veerdonk FL,Marijnissen RJ,Joosten LA,Kullberg BJ,Drenth JP,Netea MG,van der Meer JW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty sera reacting by IFL technique in titres greater than or equal to 100 with smooth muscle fibres of rat stomach, rat renal glomeruli, and with the membrane region of thyroid cells were randomly chosen among sera sent in for routine testing of tissue antibodies. All sera but one were found to be derived from pati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lidman K,Biberfeld G,Fagraeus A,Norberg R,Torstensson R,Utter G,Carlsson L,Luca J,Lindberg U

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 IFN is thought to be implicated in the autoimmune process of SLE. Plasmacytoid dendric cells (DC), which are natural IFN-alpha producing cells, play a pivotal epipathogenic role in SLE. The present study was undertaken to investigate the phenotypic characteristics of peripheral blood DC in SLE patients in compa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Migita K,Miyashita T,Maeda Y,Kimura H,Nakamura M,Yatsuhashi H,Ishibashi H,Eguchi K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are of crucial importance in immune regulation and response to microbial factors. In multiple sclerosis (MS), pDCs from peripheral blood showed an immature phenotype, but its role in susceptibility to MS is not determined. Because infectious diseases are established triggers of exac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bayas A,Stasiolek M,Kruse N,Toyka KV,Selmaj K,Gold R

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:To elucidate antibody recognition of DNA in normal and aberrant immunity, the binding of sera of normal human subjects (NHS) and patients with SLE was tested with mammalian and bacterial DNA varying in size. Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) and calf thymus (CT) single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) were investigated as model antigens...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pisetsky DS,Gonzalez TC

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that CD30 and CD26 are surface molecules expressed on activated Th2 and Th1 cells, respectively. We examined plasma levels of soluble CD26 (sCD26) and sCD30 in patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) when their eruptions were aggravated and in non-atopic healthy controls, and then analysed the possible co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Katoh N,Hirano S,Suehiro M,Ikenaga K,Yamashita T,Sugawara N,Yasuno H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ox-LDL is thought to play a major role in atherogenesis. The mechanisms mediating the deleterious influences of Ox-LDL include foam cell formation and cell cytotoxicity. The production of anti-Ox-LDL antibodies results in the formation of immune complexes which are taken up at enhanced rate by macrophages, leading to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： George J,Blank M,Hojnik M,Bar-Meir E,Koike T,Matsuura E,Lorber M,Aviram M,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of patients with active tuberculosis (TB) and infected healthy individuals have shown that interferon (IFN)-gamma is present in sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in comparable levels. This suggests that there is a deficiency in the macrophage response to IFN-gamma in TB patients. We used recombinan...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Esquivel-Solís H,Quiñones-Falconi F,Zarain-Herzberg A,Amieva-Fernández RI,López-Vidal Y

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophils, added to fibronectin (FN)-coated polystyrene wells and exposed to tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), were found to exhibit a prolonged production of superoxide anion (O2-) after a lag period of approx 30 min. The O2- production, but not the cell adherence to FN, was completely inhibited by tw...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dapino P,Dallegri F,Ottonello L,Sacchetti C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranous nephropathy (MN), the leading cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults, is characterized by the deposition of subepithelial immune deposits that consist mainly of immunoglobulin (Ig)G and complement. Most of the cases are primary or idiopathic (iMN), while only approximately 25% of the cases are secondary to s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sinico RA,Mezzina N,Trezzi B,Ghiggeri GM,Radice A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A T helper (Th) 1 immune response is important for host defense against tuberculosis. The multidrug resistance protein (Mrp) 1 is constitutively present at low levels on Th2 lymphocytes, and is expressed on Th1 lymphocytes upon activation. To determine the role of Mrp1 in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, Mrp1 deficie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Verbon A,Leemans JC,Weijer S,Florquin S,Van Der Poll T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PHA activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (MNC) were incubated with human interleukin 2 (IL-2) in the absence or in the presence of 10(-6)-10(-9) M hydrocortisone (HC). HC suppressed the proliferative response of the activated MNC to highly purified human leucocyte IL-2 in a dose dependent manner. This su...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Horst HJ,Flad HD

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-bound helper and suppressor factors, on lymphocytes from Rhesus monkeys, were assayed by the indirect immunofluorescent method, using F(ab')2 fragments of rabbit antisera to antigen specific secreted helper and suppressor factors. The rabbit antisera recognize the function related to the 'constant' region of secr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lehner T,Lamb JR,Kontiainen S

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the skin and nerve fibrosis in toxic oil syndrome by in situ hybridization using specific cDNA probes for types I, III, and IV collagens. Fibroblasts with high levels of type I and III collagen mRNA were observed in biopsies from fibrotic skin areas. Similarly, type IV collagen mRNA was abundant in cel...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gomez-Reino JJ,Sandberg M,Carreira PE,Vuorio E

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:Human peripheral blood B lymphocytes, when cultured for 6 days with ovalbumin in the presence of T cells and monocytes, can differentiate into plaque-forming cells (PFC) secreting small amounts of antigen-specific IgM. Phenotype analysis using Ig-isotype and B-cell specific monoclonal antibodies revealed that the PFC ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hart LA,Heijnen CJ,Zijlstra J,Ballieux RE

更新日期：1985-09-01 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：:Heavy C3 glomerular deposits were observed in rabbits injected intravenously with C5 streptococcal vaccine. Immunoglobulin deposits appeared later in a few rabbits. Although some data favour the presence of circulating immune complexes during the course of this glomerulonephritis, no evidence for their initiating role...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bellon B,Kuhn J,Ayed K,Girard JF,Druet P

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 15 (IL-15) is critical for the development of human and murine natural killer (NK) cells and hepatic-derived NK T cells (NKT) in mice, and for the homeostatic maintenance of NK/NKT and CD8(+) memory T cells. The lymphocyte repertoire of an adult human liver includes significant populations of NK and NKT-li...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Golden-Mason L,Kelly AM,Doherty DG,Traynor O,McEntee G,Kelly J,Hegarty JE,O'Farrelly C

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uveitis (intraocular inflammation) is a leading cause of loss of vision. Although its aetiology is largely speculative, it is thought to arise from complex genetic-environmental interactions that break immune tolerance to generate eye-specific autoreactive T cells. Experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU), induced by imm...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brown BR,Lee EJ,Snow PE,Vance EE,Iwakura Y,Ohno N,Miura N,Lin X,Brown GD,Wells CA,Smith JR,Caspi RR,Rosenzweig HL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal B cell activation has been thought to play the critical role in production of autoantibodies, and possible activation of autoreactive T cells in murine lupus, especially abnormal expansion of CD5+ B cells, is one of the characteristic findings in these mice. The aim of this study was to investigate further ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ye YL,Chuang YH,Chiang BL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood natural killer (NK) activity was analysed from 32 asthma patients and 13 control donors. Male patients and female patients with atopic asthma had significantly stronger NK activity against the leukaemic cell line K-562. Fractionation of patient mononuclear cells by discontinuous density gradient centr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Timonen T,Stenius-Aarniala B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00