Fluorescent probes to detect lymphocyte activation.

abstract：:We describe the usefulness of a fast (48-h) limiting dilution assay (LDA) for the enumeration of human alloreactive helper T lymphocytes (HTL) in the peripheral blood, in relation to histologically defined rejection grades after heart transplantation. HTL frequencies (HTLf) in pretransplant samples varied from patient...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vaessen LM,Daane CR,Maat AP,Balk AH,Claas FH,Weimar W

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the characterization and fine specificity of a human monoclonal IgM lambda reacting with double stranded DNA. The purified IgM and its Fab fragment bind to DNA in the Farr or Crithidia lucilae assays as well as in an immunoenzymatic test. In the latter case, binding was inhibited by native DNA, by DNA a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fermand JP,Danon F,Brouet JC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression of one or more parameters of cellular and/or humoral immune responses was found in 60% of general hospital patients treated with phenytoin and 47% of patients treated with carbamazepine. Phenytoin-treated patients failed to manifest delayed hypersensitivity (DHS) reactions to common antigens, and to make an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sorrell TC,Forbes IJ

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously found that isolated B-CLL cells from progressive disease produce less interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) as compared with cells from patients with indolent disease. Here we extend that finding to include measurements of IL-1 beta mRNA and secretion of IL-1 alpha and interleukin-6 (IL-6). As before, a lo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Aguilar-Santelises M,Magnusson R,Svenson SB,Loftenius A,Andersson B,Mellstedt H,Jondal M

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:To elucidate the mechanisms of anti-DNA production, we assessed the binding of sera of normal human subjects (NHS) and patients with SLE to a panel of bacterial and mammalian DNA. Using single-stranded DNA as antigens in an ELISA, NHS showed significant binding to some but not all bacterial DNA, while lacking reactivi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wu ZQ,Drayton D,Pisetsky DS

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha 7 nicotinic receptor is reportedly a key element in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. Because a prototypical ligand for this receptor is nicotine, we studied the in vivo human response to bacterial endotoxin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the context of nicotine or placebo pretreatment. Twelve adult...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wittebole X,Hahm S,Coyle SM,Kumar A,Calvano SE,Lowry SF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the adhesion molecule, CD146/MCAM/MelCAM, on T cells has been associated with recent activation, memory subsets and T helper type 17 (Th17) effector function, and is elevated in inflammatory arthritis. Th17 cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritide...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wu C,Goodall JC,Busch R,Gaston JS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of neutrophils to adjuvant arthritis (AA) by in vivo depletion of peripheral blood neutrophils. Specific anti-neutrophil MoAb, RP3 (10 mg), or a control antibody was given twice daily on days 8-11 after injection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in inbred male Sprag...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Santos LL,Morand EF,Hutchinson P,Boyce NW,Holdsworth SR

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) macrophages were obtained from normal human volunteers and infected with an AIDS-associated strain of Mycobacterium avium. Infected cells were exposed to purified envelope glycoprotein (gp120) from HIV-1 or to the recombinant non-glycosylated gp120 fragments PBI-RF and PBI-IIIB. Nati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Denis M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on studies in animal models, viral infections, in particular by enteroviruses, can accelerate or halt type 1 diabetes (T1D) development. Among factors that determine the outcome are the degree of viral replication in the target organ (viral titres), the tropism of the virus for beta cells, and the precise time-p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Filippi CM,von Herrath MG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunopathological mechanisms are speculated to underlie haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by Hantaviruses. CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells (T(regs)), a subset of CD4+ T cells, expressed high levels of CD25 and the forkhead box transcription factor P3 (FoxP3), plays an important role in the down-regula...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhu LY,Chi LJ,Wang X,Zhou H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 20-kD homologous restriction factor (HRF20), which is identical to CD59, is a membrane-associated protein which inhibits the reaction of C9 to form membrane attack complex (MAC) of homologous complements. In various human glomerular diseases deposition of complement components is frequently seen and MAC is reporte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tamai H,Matsuo S,Fukatsu A,Nishikawa K,Sakamoto N,Yoshioka K,Okada N,Okada H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an autoimmune hepatitis model of A/J mice which was prepared with immunization by syngeneic crude liver proteins, various influences of neonatal thymectomy were studied by observations of histological liver changes, autoantibody to liver-specific membrane lipoprotein (LSP), delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Watanabe Y,Kawakami H,Kawamoto H,Ikemoto Y,Masuda K,Takezaki E,Nakanishi T,Kajiyama G,Takeno H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) constitutes a stress adaptation, in which a primary contact with LPS results in a minimal response when a second exposure with the same stimulus occurs. However, active important defence mechanisms are mounted during the tolerant state. Our aim was to assess the contribution of po...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Landoni VI,Chiarella P,Martire-Greco D,Schierloh P,van-Rooijen N,Rearte B,Palermo MS,Isturiz MA,Fernández GC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of guinea-pig major histocompatibility antigens (class I and II) has been investigated on guinea-pig epididymal spermatozoa. Specific alloantisera (anti-B1, anti-B3, anti-Ia2,4 and anti-Ia1,3,7) were obtained by cross-immunization of strains 2, 13 and BIO-AD animals with relevant spleen cell membranes. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Thyphronitis G,De Almeida M,Neveu T,Voisin GA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically significant levels of IL-2 activity were produced by isolated lamina propria mononuclear cells (LPMC) from normal intestine (n = 12), cancer-bearing colons (n = 35) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affected tissue (n = 12). The levels of IL-2 produced were similar for all three sources of LPMC (normal...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pullman WE,Doe WF

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is usually more severe in HIV-infected patients, and the immune derangement found in co-infected patients may differ from that in each isolated disease. Following mitogen stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), interferon (IFN)-gamma and tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha production...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Castro Cunha RM,Kallas EG,Rodrigues DS,Nascimento Burattini M,Salomao R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD3- CD56(+dim) natural killer (NK) cells, which are cytotoxic against virally infected cells, may be important in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients who are successfully treated with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN)-alpha. We used flow cytometry to enumerate activated (CD69+) and apoptotic (annexin-V+) dim (CD3-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lin AW,Gonzalez SA,Cunningham-Rundles S,Dorante G,Marshall S,Tignor A,Ha C,Jacobson IM,Talal AH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are uncommon, chronic and severe disorders of the immune system in which patients cannot mount a sufficiently protective immune response, leading to an increased susceptibility to infections. The treatment of choice for PID patients with predominant antibody deficiency is intravenous ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ballow M,Notarangelo L,Grimbacher B,Cunningham-Rundles C,Stein M,Helbert M,Gathmann B,Kindle G,Knight AK,Ochs HD,Sullivan K,Franco JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a persistent virus with oncogenic capacity that has been implicated in the development of aggressive B cell lymphomas, primarily in immunosuppressed individuals, although it can be present in immunocompetent individuals. Changes in the function and clonal diversity of T lymphocytes might be...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cárdenas D,Vélez G,Orfao A,Herrera MV,Solano J,Olaya M,Uribe AM,Saavedra C,Duarte M,Rodríguez M,López M,Fiorentino S,Quijano S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of a methylcholanthrene-induced fibrosarcoma in BALB/c mice was accompanied by an increase in the activation state of tumour-associated macrophages (TAM), as measured by their FcIgG receptor expression, phagocytic index and beta-glucuronidase levels. All of these parameters were markedly higher in TAM than in p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Valdéz JC,Perdigón G

更新日期：1991-11-01 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

abstract：:Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) seems to be the target self-antigen for endomysial antibodies in coeliac disease (CD) and to catalyse the critical deamidation of gliadin which strengthens its recognition by HLA-restricted gut-derived T cells. To date, it has not been demonstrated whether gliadin is cross-linked to tTG w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ciccocioppo R,Di Sabatino A,Ara C,Biagi F,Perilli M,Amicosante G,Cifone MG,Corazza GR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulnerability to Streptococcus pneumoniae is most pronounced in children. The microbial virulence factors and the features of the host immune response contributing to this phenomenon are not completely understood. In the current study, the humoral immune response to separated Strep. pneumoniae surface proteins and the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lifshitz S,Dagan R,Shani-Sekler M,Grossman N,Fleminger G,Friger M,Nebenzahl YM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases mediate protein phosphorylation, which is a fundamental component of cell signalling, with crucial roles in most signal transduction cascades: from controlling cell growth and proliferation to the initiation and regulation of immunological responses. Aberrant kinase activity is implicated in an increas...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Patterson H,Nibbs R,McInnes I,Siebert S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effector arm of the mucosal immune system comprises lymphocytes scattered at intraepithelial and lamina propria levels. Intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) are a large population of oligoclonal resting cells which exhibit phenotypic and functional characteristics of cytolytic T cells when activated. Several mechanis...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ciccocioppo R,Di Sabatino A,Parroni R,D'alò S,Pistoia MA,Doglioni C,Cifone MG,Corazza GR

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease primarily affecting cartilaginous joints but also extra-articular tissues such as the nose and upper respiratory tract. We have investigated extra-articular cartilage involvement in two commonly used animal models for RA, collagen-induced and pristane-induced...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hansson AS,Lu S,Holmdahl R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis with cardiac and noncardiac complications. Anti--endothelial cell antibodies (AECA) are found among many patients with KD. The aim of this study was to investigate the pathogenic role of AECA in KD using in vitro and in vivo experimental models. F(ab)2 fragments of IgG-AE...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Grunebaum E,Blank M,Cohen S,Afek A,Kopolovic J,Meroni PL,Youinou P,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of HLA class II glycoproteins by monocytes from HIV-infected individuals was evaluated. We found no differences in HLA-DR, HLA-DQ, or HLA-DP expression by freshly isolated monocytes from patients with clinical AIDS, HIV-infected patients without AIDS or from uninfected individuals. However, monocytes fr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zwilling BS,Darrow R,Mcpeek M,Laufman H,Pearl D

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00