Immunoregulation in glomerulonephritis, Henoch--Schonlein purpura and lupus nephritis.

abstract：:A more complete understanding of immune-mediated damage to the coronary arteries in children with Kawasaki disease (KD) is required for improvements in patient treatment and outcomes. We recently reported the transcriptional profile of KD coronary arteritis, and in this study sought to determine protein expression of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cameron SA,White SM,Arrollo D,Shulman ST,Rowley AH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with recurrent miscarriage (RM) show up-regulated cytotoxic natural killer (NK) cells that are suspected to play a causal role in abortion. In the present study, we investigated counter-regulating inhibitory mechanisms and compared the results in RM patients with those of healthy controls (HC), patients with ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhu L,Aly M,Wang H,Karakizlis H,Weimer R,Morath C,Kuon RJ,Toth B,Ekpoom N,Opelz G,Daniel V

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin (CsA) is widely used in the treatment of renal disease and transplantation, which are often complicated by alterations of lipid metabolism. Both chronic administration of CsA and hyperlipidaemia have been shown to evoke an early macrophage influx and have progressively led to glomerular and interstitial sc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Di Paolo S,Grandaliano G,Gesualdo L,Ranieri E,Schena FP

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins nerve growth factor (NGF), brain-derived growth factor (BDNF), neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) and neurotrophin-4 (NT-4) and their high-affinity tyrosine protein kinase receptor (Trk) family, TrkA, TrkB, TrkC, and low-affinity p75(NTR) receptor, are key molecules implicated in the development of the central nervou...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Samah B,Porcheray F,Gras G

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is associated with depression of T cell-dependent immune reactivity with proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, playing an important role. Recent investigations describe an association between these immunological alterations and disturbances of the endocrine system, related most ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hildebrand F,Pape HC,Harwood P,Wittwer T,Krettek C,van Griensven M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid peroxidase purified from porcine thyroid (pTPO) was found to induce an experimental murine thyroiditis with genetic restriction which was very different from that induced by mouse thyroglobulin (mTg). C57BL/6 and C57BL/10 (both H-2b) were good responders for thyroiditis, whereas A/J (H-2a), BALB/c (H-2d), DBA/...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kotani T,Umeki K,Hirai K,Ohtaki S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustering activity for neutrophil granulocytes was generated in pooled normal human serum (NHS) by incubation of the serum with preformed IgG aggregates, but not in heat-treated NHS (56 degrees C, 30 min), indicating that the function was complement-dependent. Judging from results of experiments with complement-defic...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sturfelt G,Jonsson H,Hellmer G,Sjöholm AG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the immune response following primary human hookworm infection, an adult volunteer was infected with 50 L3 larvae of Necator americanus, reinfected 27 months later and followed for a further 6 months. Clinical signs, blood picture, ex-vivo peripheral blood cytokine production (IFN-gamma, IL-5, IL-13, I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wright V,Bickle Q

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-18 (IL-18) has been demonstrated to synergize with BCG for induction of a T-helper-type 1 (Th1) immune response. Since successful treatment of superficial bladder cancer with BCG requires proper induction of Th1 immunity, we have developed a recombinant (r) BCG strain that functionally secretes mouse (m) I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo Y,Yamada H,Chen X,Ryan AA,Evanoff DP,Triccas JA,O'Donnell MA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis was induced in rhesus monkeys by immunization with bovine brain homogenate emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant. Four monkeys were treated with anti-CD4 (OKT4+4A) monoclonal antibodies after the onset of clinical signs. One monkey developed a chronic-progressive course of EA...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Lambalgen R,Jonker M

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frozen sections of control and coeliac jejunal mucosa were examined for HLA-DR staining. In general the staining pattern in the controls and treated coeliac patients was a patchy subapical pattern on villous tips. Untreated coeliac patients gave a different pattern with staining extending to the crypt enterocytes. Glu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ciclitira PJ,Nelufer JM,Ellis HJ,Evans DJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaphylatoxins C5a and C3a and their des Arg derivatives inhibited C2 production by mononuclear phagocytes. C5a and C5adesArg which were approximately equipotent (IC50 = 10(-10) mol/l) were more effective than C3a (IC50 = 5 X 10(-8) mol/l) which was approximately 10-20-fold more potent than C3adesArg IC50 = 5 X 10(-6)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lappin D,Damerau B,Whaley K

更新日期：1983-11-01 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：: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：:There are few studies assessing the pathogenicity of human monoclonal anti-DNA antibodies. The use of SCID mice avoids the problem of rejection of the human hybridoma cells thus allowing in vivo assessment of human immunoglobulins. Using electron microscopy we have shown that the human IgG anti-dsDNA monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mason LJ,Ravirajan CT,Latchman DS,Isenberg DA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to the major phenolic glycolipid purified from Mycobacterium leprae have been demonstrated previously in sera of leprosy but not tuberculosis patients using an ELISA. The major antigenic determinants on this molecule were investigated using antisera raised in rabbits to the purified glycolipid and with a po...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brett SJ,Payne SN,Draper P,Gigg R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immune response to the 10-kD M. tuberculosis protein was studied by a competition ELISA using monoclonal antibody (MoAb) SA-12. Twenty-five per cent of the sera from 20 patients with tuberculosis and none from 21 control subjects inhibited binding of SA-12 to the 10-kD antigen. To characterize the antigenic ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Verbon A,Hartskeerl RA,Kolk AH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase radioimmunoassay was developed to detect antibodies to liver membrane antigens in sera of patients with HBsAg-negative and -positive liver diseases and primary non-hepatic autoimmune diseases. Ten of fourteen patients with HBsAg-negative CAH had autoantibodies detected by RIA; negative results were obtai...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Manns M,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH,Hütteroth TH,Hess G

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that the LAD-4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed against a fibronectin receptor (FNR) on RL-male-1 T lymphoma cells in BALB/c mice partially inhibited their migration to the liver. In the present study, we examined the mechanism by which another anti-FNR mAb, LAD-1, exerts its antitumourig...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ito M,Omoto S,Kato Y,Hayashi T,Mori N,Fujii YR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native human CRP in solution formed complexes with the abnormal lipoprotein beta-VLDL in serum of patients with type III hyperlipoproteinaemia. CRP also formed complexes in sera from individuals with type IV and type V hyperlipoproteinaemia. The binding was calcium-dependent and inhibitable by free phosphoryl choline....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rowe IF,Soutar AK,Trayner IM,Thompson GR,Pepys MB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin B2 and flavin cofactors are transported tightly bound to immunoglobulin in human serum. We reasoned that anti-mitochondrial flavoprotein autoantibodies (alpha Fp-AB) present in the serum of patients with myocarditis and cardiomyopathy of unknown aetiology may form immunoglobulin aggregates with these serum pro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stähle I,Brizzio C,Barile M,Brandsch R

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of cationic proteins with IgG, IgA and IgM were investigated by solid phase radioimmunoassay. All these immunoglobulins showed avid binding, IgM giving the strongest reaction, followed by IgA and then IgG. Fc fragments of IgG gave binding, but F(ab')2 fragments from the three main Ig classes did not, s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pambakian S,Poston RN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress known to stimulate sympathetic activity, as well as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), produces a significant increase in adrenomedullin (AdM) levels, suggesting a regulatory or protective role for AdM in countering HPA activation that follows a variety of stressors. Stressors can modulate the secre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yildirim NC,Yurekli M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG and IgA subclass distribution of specific antibodies as well as the distribution of total and specific IgE in 15 patients with schistosomiasis was determined in consecutive samples before and after initiation of treatment. An adult worm antigen preparation and a soluble egg antigen preparation were used as ant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Evengård B,Hammarström L,Smith CI,Johansson SG,Linder E

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes isolated from Graves' and Hashimoto thyroid tissue by enzymatic (dispase) digestion or mechanical disaggregation were markedly different in terms of their ability to synthesize thyroid autoantibodies in culture. Dispase digestion, followed by removal of thyroid follicular cells, gave a lymphocyte populatio...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： McLachlan SM,Pegg CA,Atherton MC,Middleton SL,Dickinson A,Clark F,Proctor SJ,Proud G,Rees Smith B

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell transfer experiments were carried out with phytohaemagglutinin-induced normal human T lymphocyte colonies after 2--10 days of primary colony growth. The cells gave a cloning efficiency of 15% after 2 days of incubation and this decreased to 0.2% with the progressive growth of the colonies. The primary colonies ha...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Smith SD,Sachs L

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLPS) is an immunodeficiency characterized by severe primary infection with the Epstein Barr (EB) virus, which is often fatal. This has been attributed to failure to generate T lymphocytes which are specifically cytotoxic for EB virus-infected B lymphocytes, and which develop...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ando I,Morgan G,Levinsky RJ,Crawford DH

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is undefined, and diagnosis requires exclusion of other diseases including X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP). This rare disorder of immunedysregulation presents typically after Epstein-Barr virus infection and results from defects in the SAP (SLAM...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Eastwood D,Gilmour KC,Nistala K,Meaney C,Chapel H,Sherrell Z,Webster AD,Davies EG,Jones A,Gaspar HB

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:Erythrocyte C3b receptors (ECR1) have been measured in 122 pairs of twins (60 monozygotic, 62 dizygotic) using an [125I]-labelled monoclonal antibody (E11). The range of ECR1 numbers was wide, 99-4179 sites/cell, with a log-normal distribution around a geometric mean of 837 sites/cell. The intra-pair variance in dizyg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fyfe A,Holme ER,McKay IC,Zoma A,Hunter J,Lucie NP,Whaley K

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00