An improved PVC strip ML-ELISA technique for diagnosis of recent cases of amoebiasis.

abstract：:High altitude may be defined as elevations as low as 1500 meters to those as high as 8800 meters. Very few studies have been conducted so far at high altitude for the specific purpose of monitoring different immune parameters in humans. Military personnel and mountaineers may be required to perform in environmental ex...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mishra KP,Ganju L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in cytokine expression have been frequently found in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Cytokine values outside the normal range may be somewhat related to common polymorphisms within cytokine genes. OBJECTIVE:The present study was designed to investigate the possible association betwee...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Ebrahimi Daryani N,Saghazadeh A,Moossavi S,Sadr M,Shahkarami S,Soltani S,Farhadi E,Rezaei N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder with multisystem involvement caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene which encodes a serine/threonine protein kinase. The aims of this study were to investigate c...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Amirifar P,Mozdarani H,Yazdani R,Kiaei F,Moeini Shad T,Shahkarami S,Abolhassani H,Delavari S,Sohani M,Rezaei A,Hassanpour G,Akrami SM,Aghamohammadi A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer immunotherapies have achieved much success and have become the forefront treatment of cancers previously associated with poor prognosis. However, a major challenge in cancer immunotherapies remains the heterogeneity of the immunoregulatory capacities of cancers, and not all patients of a given cancer ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Andersen MM,Larsen J,Hansen M,Pedersen AE,Gad M

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, isolation in tissue culture (TC) was considered the test of choice for diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Non-culture tests, such as direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) and enzyme immunoassay (EIA) which detected chlamydial antigens in clinical specimens, made chlamydia diagnostic tests more w...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Schachter J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter region of the CD14 gene at position 159 has been implicated in susceptibility to infectious diseases. We sought to determine the association between CD14 C-159 T functional promoter polymorphism and brucellosis in Western Iranian population where the disease is endemic....

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Haidari M,Hajilooi M,Rezazadeh M,Rafiei A,Alavi SA,Keramat F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and accurate diagnosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is imperative with the advent of effective antiviral therapy (gangiclovir, foscarnet, CMV hyperimmune globin). Applications of conventional cell culture (CC), shell vial assay (SV), serological testing, antigenemia assay (AG) as well as molecular methods ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Myers JB,Amsterdam D

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the functional and subset surface marker characteristics of supramammary lymph node T cell populations at sites proximal and distal to the mammary region of goats repeatedly injected with heat-treated Staphylococcus aureus antigen (HK-SAC). Flow cytometric studies showed quantitative differences in CD4...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Dobrzanski MJ,Yang TJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the blocking ability of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) in enzyme immunoassays by coating polystyrene microtiter wells with PVA of different molecular weights (MW) and percent hydrolysis (%Hyd). Blocking ability was measured by the differences in non-specific binding of an anti-rabbit IgG-horseradish peroxidase ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Rodda DJ,Yamazaki H

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether phospholipase D1 (PLD1) is involved in autoimmune damage to the eyes, we used Western blotting and immunohistochemistry to examine the expression and distribution of PLD1 in the retinas of Lewis rats with experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU). Western blot analysis showed that the level of...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kang J,Ahn M,Moon C,Min DS,Matsumoto Y,Shin T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal immune monkey serum raised against schizonts of Plasmodium knowlesi (H-strain) showed the presence of antibodies to lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) of P. knowlesi by immunodot enzyme staining method. The anti-LDH antibodies are most probably directed towards an epitope distinct from the catalytic site as shown ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kaushal DC,Watts R,Haider S,Singh N,Kaushal NA,Dutta GP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess whether genotypes in the Toll-like receptor 4 gene and in the promoter of the interleukin-18 gene are associated with the susceptibility to chronic periodontitis. 108 chronic periodontitis patients and 76 controls were genotyped for c.896A>G/1196C>T (TLR4 gene) and for c.-368G>C/ c.-...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Noack B,Görgens H,Lorenz K,Schackert HK,Hoffmann T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) inhibits dendritric cells (DC) function in order to delay T cell response. Furthermore, there is increasing evidence that genetic diversity of Mtb strains can affect their interaction with the immune system. Beijing genotype has attracted attention because of its high prevalence and mu...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Reyes-Martínez JE,Nieto-Patlán E,Nieto-Patlán A,Gonzaga-Bernachi J,Santos-Mendoza T,Serafín-López J,Chávez-Blanco A,Sandoval-Montes C,Flores-Romo L,Estrada-Parra S,Estrada-García I,Chacón-Salinas R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections are a major cause of illness and death amongst elderly people. Peripheral blood CD8+ T lymphocytes --which play a crucial role in host defence against viral infections--, are divided in subsets based upon the expression of several cell and activation markers. In senescence changes and variations in peripher...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Esparza B,Rodriguez A,Puente M,Sabino E,Merino F

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil chemotactic defects have been reported previously in patients with hyper-IgE syndrome. Bi-allelic mutations in dedicator of cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) gene usually cause an autosomal recessive hyper-IgE syndrome phenotype. Data are lacking about expression of DOCK8 protein in neutrophils or the possible role of ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mandola AB,Levy J,Nahum A,Hadad N,Levy R,Rylova A,Simon AJ,Lev A,Somech R,Broides A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a method combining mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) using a carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE)-labeling technique, intracellular cytokine immunofluorescence staining (ICIS), and multiparameter flow cytometry for simultaneous determination of proliferation and cytokine-secreting activity in...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Tanaka Y,Ohdan H,Onoe T,Asahara T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endomyocardial biopsy is generally used to quantify heart allograft rejection and guide immunotherapy. Biopsy, however, is invasive, costly, and risky. Since rejection requires lymphocyte activation, the purpose of this study was to assess alternative methods to evaluate rejection dynamics by investigating serum level...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Chang DM,Ding YA,Kuo SY,Chang ML,Wei J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological parameters previously shown to constitute an increased risk for progression towards AIDS have been observed in clinically asymptomatic individuals considered to be at risk for this syndrome. These parameters include severely decreased numbers of T helper cells (count below 400/mm3 blood for CD4+ cells we...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mannhalter JW,Wolf HM,Pum M,Banekovich M,Hutterer J,Brandstätter R,Eibl MM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar macrophages (AM) freshly obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage suppressed significantly, in a dose-dependent fashion, lung interstitial lymphocytes cytotoxicity against the NK-sensitive target cells, YAC-1. Kinetic experiments revealed that AM-mediated suppression of NK activity was seen following short-term inc...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Lemaire I,St-Jean M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantation of pellets containing 75 mg of morphine induced short term (4 day) morphine dependence and markedly reduced total number of spleen cells of BALB/c mice, without affecting total body or liver weight. Polyclonal responses induced by anti-CD3 antibodies, Concanavalin A or Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Portolés JM,Ojeda G,Ronda M,Leza JC,Rojo JM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research was undertaken to test the in vitro anti-inflammatory action of 5,7,4'-trimethoxy-4-phenylcoumarin and 5,7-dimethoxy-4-phenylcoumarin produced by Streptomyces aureofaciens CMUAc130. The effects of the two coumarins were investigated on the formation of NO, PGE2, and TNF-alpha and also on inducible nitric...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Taechowisan T,Tuntiwachwuttikul P,Lu C,Shen Y,Lumyong S,Taylor WC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan binding lectin (MBL) deficiency has been associated with increased susceptibility to vaginitis in humans due to Candida albicans. In these studies we assessed the utility of recombinant human MBL (rhMBL) as a therapeutic against experimental C. albicans vaginitis. After intravenous treatment of uninfected mice ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Clemons KV,Martinez M,Axelsen M,Thiel S,Stevens DA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cancer immunotherapy, which is able to target specifically cancer cells without detrimental effects to normal cell functions, would serve as an ideal therapeutic modality, most of the randomized clinical trials of cancer immunotherapy have not demonstrated a meaningful survival benefit to cancer patients over...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kim SJ,Ha GH,Kim SH,Kang CD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we reported the preparation and antigen-presenting properties of hybridoma B-cell clones obtained after fusing non-secreting, non-antigen presenting Balb/c 653-myeloma cells with non-immune SJL spleen cells. It was found that antigen presentation at the clonal level can be specific or non-specific, depending...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Cohly HH,Morrison DR,Atassi MZ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colorimetric microadhesion assay that allows the quantitative determination of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)-mediated homophilic cell adhesion to CEA immobilized on 96-well polyvinyl chloride plates is described. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected with a full-length CEA cDNA were used as indicator cells....

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kuwahara M,Kuroki M,Haruno M,Murakami M,Arakawa F,Oikawa S,Nakazato H,Matsuoka Y

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that suppress natural killer (NK) cell activity were examined in a random sample of 73 schizophrenic patients. NK activity in these patients were compared with 25 healthy age, sex and race matched controls. The mean percent of NK activity was 21% in the schizophrenic group compared with 30% percent in the cont...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Abdeljaber MH,Nair MP,Schork MA,Schwartz SA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study has demonstrated that both interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were needed to induce the production of nitric oxide (NO) in BNL CL.2 cells, murine embryonic liver cells. We here demonstrate that when BNL CL.2 cells were cultured with serum-free medium, they were induced to produc...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Pae HO,Yoo JC,Choi BM,Paik SG,Kim YH,Jin HS,Chung HT

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of interleukin-2 (IL-2)-responsive bystander cells to the proliferative responses of human peripheral blood T lymphocytes to antigens used for sensitization such as Purified Protein Derivative (PPD), Tetanus toxoid (T T) and Influenza virus was investigated. Marked proliferation of the unfractionated ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Sia DY,Chou JL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a heterogeneous population of cells that inhibit anti-tumor immunity through a variety of mechanisms. Malignant gliomas are heavily infiltrated by myeloid cells, some of which appear to share biological functions of MDSCs. Our data with mouse de novo gliomas indicate critic...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kohanbash G,Okada H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in breakdown of blood-brain barrier, transmigration, and invasion of immune cells and formation of MS lesions. The aim of present study was to investigate the influence of MMP-...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Rahimi Z,Abdan Z,Rahimi Z,Razazian N,Shiri H,Vaisi-Raygani A,Shakiba E,Vessal M,Moradi MT

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00