A study of the material inhibiting EAC-rosette formation in the sera of patients with nephropathies.

abstract：:Proliferative responses by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and rat spleen cells were measured to Pneumocystis carinii in a blastogenic assay using organisms obtained from rat lungs and propagated in tissue culture as the antigen. Responses occurred only in subjects with known prior exposure to P. carinii and ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hagler DN,Deepe GS,Pogue CL,Walzer PD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both MRL-lpr/lpr (lpr) and BXSB mice fall victim to autoimmune disease as a function of age. To combine their properties, brother-sister mating of (female lpr x male BXSB)F1 mice was done. Mice for mating were selected according to indicators of early onset of glomerulonephritis and subsequent early death (i.e., EOD)....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Honda S,Nemoto K,Mae T,Kinjoh K,Kyogoku M,Kawamura H,Miyazawa S,Weerashinghe A,Watanabe H,Narita J,Koya T,Arakawa M,Abo T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinochoroiditis caused by Toxoplasma gondii infection results in inflammation and necrosis of the retina. We have used human retinal pigment epithelial cultures (HRPE) as an in vitro model to investigate the role of TGF-beta in T. gondii-induced retinochoroiditis. RT-PCR analyses showed enhanced steady state levels ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nagineni CN,Detrick B,Hooks JJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a clonally derived, skin invasive malignancy of CD4+ cells with the phenotype of mature helper T cells. We previously demonstrated that the leukaemic form of CTCL (Sézary), is characterized by prominent immunological defects including depressed cell-mediated immunity. We also demons...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rook AH,Gottlieb SL,Wolfe JT,Vowels BR,Sood SS,Niu Z,Lessin SR,Fox FE

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of T cell receptor V gene expression by lymphocytes from rheumatoid synovial fluid and paired peripheral blood samples was compared using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay. Eight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who had varying durations of disease (from 2 to 20 years) were studied. In all pa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lunardi C,Marguerie C,So AK

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-proteinase 3 antibodies are a subgroup of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), and we have established an ELISA for their detection using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-purified protein. This assay is sensitive and specific: inhibition studies have shown that despite the homology between ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jennings JG,Chang L,Savige JA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is a worldwide health problem, and multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively multidrug-resistant (XMDR) strains are rapidly emerging and threatening the control of this disease. These problems motivate the search for new treatment strategies. One potential strategy is immunotherapy using cationic anti-mic...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rivas-Santiago CE,Rivas-Santiago B,León DA,Castañeda-Delgado J,Hernández Pando R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a key cytokine featuring redundancy and pleiotropic activity. It plays a central role in host defence against environmental stress such as infection and injury. Dysregulated, persistent interleukin (IL)-6 production has been implicated in the development of various autoimmune, chronic inflammat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mesquida M,Leszczynska A,Llorenç V,Adán A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and the functional role of the CD26 (1F7) T cell surface molecule, an ectoenzyme which seems to represent a functional collagen receptor of T lymphocytes and to have a role in T cell activation, were analysed in both peripheral blood (PB) and synovial fluid (SF) T cell samples from patients with active ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Muscat C,Bertotto A,Agea E,Bistoni O,Ercolani R,Tognellini R,Spinozzi F,Cesarotti M,Gerli R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum from grass-sensitive patients who had received hyposensitization therapy was found able to depress the in vitro response to Holcus lanatus grass pollen extract of lymphocytes from untreated grass-sensitive individuals. The inhibitory activity could no longer be demonstrated at serum dilutions equal to or greater...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Romagnani S,Biliotti G,Ricci M

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:The sera of six patients infected with Trichinella spiralis were studied for the presence of circulating immune complexes (CIC). CIC were present in all six patients studied 1 month after infection. In two patients in whom serial serum samples were available, as clinical improvement occurred there was a decrease in th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Géniteau M,Verroust PJ,Smith MD,Morel-Maroger L,Saimot G,Coulaud JP

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes and plasma cells in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma, benign monoclonal gammopathy and Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia were investigated for their cytoplasmic immunoglobulin distribution. Anti-idiotypic sera were used as markers for monoclonality. Double-wavelength fl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Camp B,Reynaert P,Broodtaerts L

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reports a rare case of systemic M. scrofulaceum infection in an AIDS patient and analyses the inflammatory infiltrate in a lymph node by immunohistochemistry. Special emphasis is put on the histiocytes. The diffuse infiltrate consists mainly of large histiocytes that contain numerous bacilli. These c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Delabie J,De Wolf-Peeters C,Bobbaers H,Bilbe G,Desmet VJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of allograft tolerance has been considered the ultimate goal in organ transplantation. Although numerous protocols to induce allograft tolerance have been reported in mice, a chimerism-based approach through donor haematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been the only approach to date that induced allogr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Oura T,Cosimi AB,Kawai T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles CF antibodies have been examined in the sera of patients with a variety of clinical disorders associated with the production of autoantibodies. Previous reports of high-titre reactions in DLE and chronic active hepatitis have been confirmed, the titres in the latter disorder being particularly elevated. Mean a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Triger DR,Gamlen TR,Paraskevas E,Lloyd RS,Wright R

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family and associated signalling pathways provides a key molecular basis for our understanding of the relationship between exposure to microbial products and susceptibility to immune-mediated disorders. Indeed, ligation of TLR controls innate and adaptive immune respons...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goldman M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) enhances human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) activity in patients with dual HIV-1/TB infection. Therapies that control augmentations of HIV-1 activity at sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection may be useful in inhibition of viral expansion. Regulated upon activation, normal T-cell exp...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Toossi Z,Mayanja-Kizza H,Baseke J,Peters P,Wu M,Abraha A,Aung H,Okwera A,Hirsch C,Arts E

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:In this review the authors discuss the evidence for T helper type 17 (Th17) cells as pathogenic T cells in autoimmunity. Studies with cytokine-deficient mice or blocking of interleukin (IL)-17, IL-21 and IL-22 have resulted in a conflicting data set. Although in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koenders MI,van den Berg WB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific antibody deficiency (SAD) to unconjugated pneumococcal vaccine (PPV) is an established primary B cell immunodeficiency. The occurrence and natural history of SAD in children is unclear. We conducted an observational study to identify SAD in children with recurrent respiratory infections. Ninety-nine children,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ruuskanen O,Nurkka A,Helminen M,Viljanen MK,Käyhty H,Kainulainen L

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies done in the last 10 years demonstrate the importance of iron in regulating the expression of T lymphoid cell surface markers, in influencing the expansion of different T cell subsets and in affecting different immune cell functions in vitro. It has been argued that some of the results obtained coul...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Sousa M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-Id Abs) are involved in the regulation of a number of immune responses including the IgE antibody production. In atopic patients, the increased synthesis of IgE antibodies could be related to a defective production of regulatory anti-Id Abs. In the present study, we first developed a se...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hébert J,Bernier D,Mourad W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific response of human peripheral blood lymphocyte cultures to TNP-polyacrylamide was suppressed by the addition of concanavalin A (Con A). A dose of Con A (0.5 microgram/ml) could be selected, which induced a reproducible but incomplete suppression independent of the magnitude of the anti-TNP response. Con A-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Galanaud P,Crevon MC,Delfraissy JF,Segond P,Wallon C,Dormont J

更新日期：1979-10-01 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：:Studies in experimental animals suggest that antibody responses to certain polysaccharide antigens may be restricted in IgG subclass distribution. To determine if human antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides are similarly restricted we measured the IgG subclass specific response to immunization with purified polyv...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barrett DJ,Ayoub EM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-5 is a major factor inducing differentiation of B lymphocytes into immunoglobulin-producing cells as well as a main regulator of eosinophils. Recently, we have shown that peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients with alveolar echinococcosis (AE) express IL-5 mRNA after stimulation with crude Echinoco...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jenne L,Kilwinski J,Scheffold W,Kern P

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify immunological differences among patients with Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's disease (HD) at various levels of severity, we examined the expression of the CD154 molecules on peripheral T cells, which regulate B cell activation, B cell differentiation, and T-cell survival. We found decreases in the int...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Watanabe M,Yamamoto N,Matsuzuka F,Miyauchi A,Iwatani Y

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant numbers of syncytial cells were observed in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of a 42-year-old patient who had SLE with interstitial pneumonia. Electron microscopic study of the BALF cells and positive reverse transcriptase activity in the supernatant of the cultured cells revealed unknown retroviral...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tamura N,Sekigawa I,Hashimoto H,Yamamoto N,Kira S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work indicated that exercise stress in mice was associated with reduced splenic lymphocyte proliferation to T cell mitogens. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of acute exercise stress and exercise training on the phenotype distribution of murine lymphocytes in the spleen, lymph nodes a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman-Goetz L,Thorne R,Simpson JA,Arumugam Y

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00