Reticular dysgenesis: report of two brothers.

abstract：:Recent experimental data indicate a pathogenic role of complement activation in congestive heart failure (CHF). The aim of this study was to evaluate contact and complement systems activation in patients hospitalized for an acute episode of CHF. Forty-two of 80 consecutive patients admitted at our hospital with confir...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Suffritti C,Tobaldini E,Schiavon R,Strada S,Maggioni L,Mehta S,Sandrone G,Toschi-Dias E,Cicardi M,Montano N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into possible determinants of in vivo polyclonal B cell activation seen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we enumerated immunoglobulin secreting cells appearing in cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells that were stimulated with pokeweed mitogen (PWM) or a newly described polyclonal B cell activato...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pardo I,Carafa C,Dziarski R,Levinson AI

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of autoimmune processes and introduction of new autoantigens involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) can be helpful in the design of new drugs to prevent unresponsiveness and side effects in patients. To find significant changes, we evaluated the autoantibody repertoires in newly diagnos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pazhouhandeh M,Sahraian MA,Siadat SD,Fateh A,Vaziri F,Tabrizi F,Ajorloo F,Arshadi AK,Fatemi E,Piri Gavgani S,Mahboudi F,Rahimi Jamnani F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of ultraviolet B (UV-B) irradiation on cell-cell interactions using mouse lymphoma RMA cells and T cell hybridoma HTB-176.10. RMA cells act as stimulators by presenting H-2Kb surface antigens to HTB-176.10 cells, inducing IL-2 production in HTB-176.10 cells. Irradiating RMA cells with 1000J/m2 U...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Maekawa TL,Takahashi TA,Fujihara M,Akasaka J,Fujikawa S,Minami M,Sekiguchi S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation of mesangial cells is a hallmark of glomerular disease, and understanding the regulatory mechanisms is critically important. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mesangial cell proliferation and phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 3 and to d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hirai T,Masaki T,Kuratsune M,Yorioka N,Kohno N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced B cell numbers and a mutation in Btk are considered sufficient to make the diagnosis of X-linked agammaglobulinaemia. In the process of conducting family studies, we identified a 58-year-old healthy man with an amino acid substitution, Y418H, in the adenosine-5'-triphosphate binding site of Btk. Immunofluoresc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Conley ME,Farmer DM,Dobbs AK,Howard V,Aiba Y,Shurtleff SA,Kurosaki T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of lymphocytes from a patient suffering from the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) to produce interleukin-2 (IL-2) was found to be comparable to that of his healthy sex partner and to that of a normal control. Addition of exogenous IL-2 to lymphocyte cultures did not improve the poor mitogen respo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hauser GJ,Bino T,Rosenberg H,Zakuth V,Geller E,Spirer Z

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macaques provide important animal models in biomedical research into infectious and chronic inflammatory disease. Therefore, a proper understanding of the similarities and differences in immune function between macaques and humans is needed for adequate interpretation of the data and translation to the human situation...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koopman G,Beenhakker N,Burm S,Bouwhuis O,Bajramovic J,Sommandas V,Mudde G,Mooij P,'t Hart BA,Bogers WM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of normal human peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leucocytes on in vitro multiplication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites was investigated. It was shown that normal neutrophils were able to phagocytose parasitized erythrocytes and free parasites and thus inhibit in vitro multiplication of the para...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kharazmi A,Jepsen S

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the role of gamma/delta T cells in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in humans, we measured the percentage of these cells in the peripheral blood, assessed the ratio of the non-disulphide-linked (delta TCS1) type of T cell receptor (TCR) in the total gamma/delta T cells, studied th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Giacomelli R,Parzanese I,Frieri G,Passacantando A,Pizzuto F,Pimpo T,Cipriani P,Viscido A,Caprilli R,Tonietti G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of HLA-A*6802-restricted CD8+ T cells in chlamydial disease was investigated in human ocular infections. Peptides with predicted binding motifs for HLA-A*6802 were synthesized using sequences based on chlamydial antigens, major outer membrane protein (MOMP), macrophage infectivity potentiator (MIP) and heat s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mahdi OS,Whittle HC,Joof H,Mabey DC,Bailey RL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal, but not tolerant, adult thymocytes prevented particulate antigen inducing tolerance in differentiating B lymphocytes. This was demonstrated by measuring the emergence of responsive B cells (identified by their allotype) developing from a foetal liver innoculum in irradiated hosts with or without the addition o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Elson CJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of human natural killer (NK) cells is associated with the cleavage of CD16 from the cell surface, a process mediated by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). In this report, we examined whether inhibition of MMPs would lead to improved NK cell antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) function. Using...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhou Q,Gil-Krzewska A,Peruzzi G,Borrego F

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As Q fever is associated with an inflammatory syndrome, we determined circulating levels of inflammatory cytokines, cytokine antagonists, and activation markers of leucocytes in patients with acute Q fever and Q fever endocarditis. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and IL-6, but not IL-1beta, were markedly increased compar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Capo C,Amirayan N,Ghigo E,Raoult D,Mege J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four out of fifty-two vasectomized men studied previously were studied again about 5 years after vasectomy for sperm-agglutinating and sperm-immoblizing antibodies, and for antibodies to human protamine. Only one man lost his already weak antibody activity, whilst one out of eight men, negative at 1 year, appea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hellema HW,Samuel T,Rumke P

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of IL-6 on the development of autoimmune diseases (primary biliary cirrhosis, Sjögren's syndrome) employing murine graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) model with MHC class II disparity. For this purpose, we used IL-6 transgenic (B6.6) mice in which a high level of IL-6 was detected. C57Bl/6 (B6) s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kimura T,Suzuki K,Inada S,Hayashi A,Saito H,Miyai T,Ohsugi Y,Matsuzaki Y,Tanaka N,Osuga T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood leucocytes from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and from normal individuals were tested for their interferon (IFN) producing capacity after stimulation in vitro with various lectins and viruses. The lectins, Con A, PHA and PWM, induced IFN-gamma. In a kinetic study, the response to Con A revealed its...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vervliet G,Carton H,Meulepas E,Billiau A

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BB rat is a well-known animal model for the study of autoimmune thyroid disease. Antithyroglobulin antibodies can be detected in the circulation from the age of 6 weeks onwards, and accumulations of lymphoid cells occurs in the thyroid of up to 60% of animals at the age of 20 weeks and over. The rat, however, stay...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Voorby HA,Van der Gaag RD,Jeucken PH,Bloot AM,Drexhage HA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C77G polymorphism in exon A of the human CD45 gene occurs with low frequency in healthy individuals. An enhanced frequency of C77G individuals has been reported in cohorts of patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, systemic sclerosis, autoimmune hepatitis, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Windhagen A,Sönmez D,Hornig-Do HT,Kalinowsky A,Schwinzer R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sarcoidosis, a T helper 1 (Th1) response is an essential event and the up-regulation of interleukin-12 (IL-12) has been detected in affected disease sites. In order to investigate the clinical usefulness of circulating IL-12, we measured the serum concentrations of IL-12 by ELISA and performed immunohistochemistry ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shigehara K,Shijubo N,Ohmichi M,Kamiguchi K,Takahashi R,Morita-Ichimura S,Ohchi T,Tatsuno T,Hiraga Y,Abe S,Sato N

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and regulatory function of immunoglobulin (Ig) synthesis by monocytes were assessed using several monoclonal antibodies and a cell sorter in samples from 13 patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and nine patients with benign monoclonal gammopathy (BMG). Since all of these cells were separated directly w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takeshita A

更新日期：1986-12-01 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

abstract：:Seeking better immunological markers indicating the long-term outcome of cystic echinococcosis (CE) after chemotherapy we studied 23 patients receiving albendazole, clinically followed for 8 years, and grouped ultrasonographically according to therapeutic outcome. Antibody responses against a partially purified fracti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Riganò R,Ioppolo S,Ortona E,Margutti P,Profumo E,Ali MD,Di Vico B,Teggi A,Siracusano A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistological analysis of the cellular composition of the small intestinal mucosa in a group of untreated and treated coeliac patients and non-coeliac control subjects was performed using monoclonal antibodies and an immunoperoxidase technique. A characteristic cellular distribution was observed within the normal...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kelly J,O'Farrelly C,O'Mahony C,Weir DG,Feighery C

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune T cell responses directed against insulin-producing β cells are central to the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Detection of such responses is therefore critical to provide novel biomarkers for T1D 'immune staging' and to understand the mechanisms underlying the disease. While different T cell assays ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

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

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible co-stimulator-positive (ICOS) and programmed cell death 1-positive (PD-1) are important markers for follicular helper T cells (Tfh); however, their roles and clinical values in ulcerative colitis (UC) remain unknown. In this study, we recruited 68 UC patients and 34 healthy controls. Circulating ICOS+ , PD-1...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Long Y,Zhao X,Liu C,Xia C,Liu C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive immunotherapy with in vitro expanded antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) may be an effective approach to prevent, or even treat, Aspergillus (Asp) infections. Such lines can be generated using monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DC) as antigen-presenting cells (APC) but requires a relatively high vo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhu F,Ramadan G,Davies B,Margolis DA,Keever-Taylor CA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon (IFN)-gamma exert detrimental effects in organ-specific autoimmune disease, while both destructive and protective roles have been demonstrated for interleukin (IL)-10, IL-4 and IL-5. We examined the production of these cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nielsen CH,Hegedüs L,Rieneck K,Moeller AC,Leslie RG,Bendtzen K

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Fractalkine (FKN/CX3CL1) has been detected in synovial fluids from osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Additionally, low-level expression of the FKN receptor, CX3CR1, has been demonstrated in OA synovial lining. This study aimed to determine a biological function for this ligand/receptor pair in OA and to assess a potential...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Klosowska K,Volin MV,Huynh N,Chong KK,Halloran MM,Woods JM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00