Evaluation of the presence of circulating immune complexes and their relationship to glomerular IgG deposits in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.

abstract：:Twelve patients, ten with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia and two with hypogammaglobulinaemia secondary to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), have been taught to self-infuse their intravenous immunoglobulin replacement therapy. Follow-up of these patients has shown that regular self-infusion at home is feasib...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chapel H,Brennan V,Delson E

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immunoglobulin (Ig)G antibodies against M(2) muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (M(2) mAChR) have been implicated in Chagas' disease (ChD) pathophysiology. These antibodies bind to and activate their target receptor, displaying agonist-like activity through an unclear mechanism. This study tested the abili...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Beltrame SP,Auger SR,Bilder CR,Waldner CI,Goin JC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purified preparation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been shown to activate the classical complement pathway by direct interaction with the first component of complement, C1, without the intervention of antibody. No evidence was found for activation of the alternative pathway. Following classical pathway activation ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Martin H,McConnell I,Gorick B,Hughes-Jones NC

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (ECs) are a target in inflammation, and the death of EC is regulated by various factors. Although intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) preparations are known to be beneficial therapeutic agents for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and systemic inflammatory disorders, their mechanism of action have n...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nakatani K,Takeshita S,Tsujimoto H,Sekine I

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchoalveolar washings (BAW) were obtained from rats primarily infected with N. brasiliensis during the early infection stage that coincides with the lung passage of the parasite and the recruitment of inflammatory cells. BAW were tested for IL-1, IL-6 and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) activities. We found that IL-1 ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Benbernou N,Matsiota-Bernard P,Jolivet C,Ougen P,Guenounou M

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbation of epithelial structure is a prominent but poorly understood feature of the immunopathological response to bacterial antigens which characterizes the destructive lesion of periodontitis. Western analysis of sera from 22 patients with periodontitis detected multiple antigens in extracts of epithelial cells...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ye P,Harty DW,Chapple CC,Nadkarni MA,Carlo AA,Hunter N

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro monoclonal immunoglobulin (mIg) production of cultured tumour cells--prepared from the bone marrow (BM) or from the peripheral blood (PB) of 40 multiple myeloma (MM) patients, 16 patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and two patients with M. Waldenström--was measured with an enzyme-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Peest D,Gasch S,Thiele C,Bartels B,Brunkhorst U,Dallmann I,Hoffmann M,Schedel I,Deicher H

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：:Recent studies have suggested that a high percentage of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-infected lymphocytes in peripheral blood of patients with chronic, active EBV infection (CAEBV) is of T cell origin. Although T cells are expanded oligoclonally in CAEBV, it is not clear whether the restricted diversity of T cells arise f...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Toyabe S,Harada W,Uchiyama M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a multi-factorial disease caused by the interaction of both genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. Bacterial infection has been investigated most intensively, both epidemiologically and experimentally, as a prime environmental aetiology in PBC. The association of recurr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tanaka A,Leung PSC,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) are known to grow and proliferate in the liver while a splenectomy induces host resistance against a Listeria infection despite the fact that a splenectomy inhibits the Th1 response. Therefore, the mechanism by which a splenectomy helps to prevent the growth of Listeria still remains ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kuranaga N,Kinoshita M,Kawabata T,Shinomiya N,Seki S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Hartley guinea-pigs were immunized with N-phthaloylated ox insulin (96% NA1,NB1,NB29-triphthaloyl ox insulin) using H. pertussis as adjuvant. Haptenic antibody, which was found in antisera taken 20 days after secondary immunization, was assessed for cross-reaction with a series of N-acylated ox insulins. Cross-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hollins PJ,Nathan MM

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rabbit antiserum has been prepared using peripheral mononuclear cells from a patient with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia (CVH) who had demonstrable suppressor cells in vitro. This antiserum (anti-Ck), after absorption with pooled normal glass-non-adherent cells and platelets, showed selective reactivity with...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rizzoli AJ,Bankhurst AD

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence has shown that microRNA-126 (miR-126) has been involved in the development and function of immune cells, which contributed to the pathogenesis of related clinical diseases. However, the potential role of miR-126 in the development and function of CD4+ T cells remains largely unknown. Here we first foun...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chu F,Hu Y,Zhou Y,Guo M,Lu J,Zheng W,Xu H,Zhao J,Xu L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report studies undertaken to determine the contribution of seminal prostaglandins to some of the known immunosuppressive properties of human seminal plasma. Initial studies revealed that fractions of seminal plasma enriched in E series prostaglandins, obtained by reverse phase chromatography, had a pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Quayle AJ,Kelly RW,Hargreave TB,James K

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One approach to study the role of distinct cellular mechanisms in susceptibility/resistance to tuberculosis (TB) is to compare parameters of response to infection in the lungs of mouse strains exhibiting genetically determined differences in TB susceptibility/severity. Interstrain differences in antimycobacterial macr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Eruslanov EB,Majorov KB,Orlova MO,Mischenko VV,Kondratieva TK,Apt AS,Lyadova IV

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of IL-4 and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) on immunoglobulin secretion in vitro by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) or purified B cells activated with murine EL4 thymoma cells and phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) was investigated. As previously reported, IL-4 induced IgE and IgG4 secreti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ninomiya C,Spiegelberg HL

更新日期：1992-08-01 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 studied the relationship between the HLA specificities associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility in southern Italy and the reactivity of the human myelin basic protein (hMBP) immunogenic peptides 84-98 and 143-168, using short-term T-cell lines established from 9 MS patients and from 8 healthy individu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Montanaro D,Sanna V,Matarese G,Larby BB,Racioppi L,Carrieri PB,Bruno R,Davey NJ,Zappacosta S,Fontana S

更新日期：2001-02-01 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：:In vitro lymphocyte function of 13 patients with selective IgA deficiency was studied. IgG, IgA and IgM secretion by pokeweed mitogen-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes from normal donors and IgA deficient patients was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Addition of concanavalin A or hydrocortisone ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： De la Concha EG,Subiza JL,Fontán G,Pascual-Salcedo D,Sequí J,Bootello A

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-selectin in one of the key members of the selectin family of adhesion molecules and initiates leucocyte attachment to specialized high endothelial venules. The shed form, which retains functional activity, can be detected in biological fluids and is increased in diseases of many kinds. In the present study, we inves...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhang JG,Morgan L,Spickett GP

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:In patients with reactive arthritis (ReA)/undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy (uSpA), synovial fluid mononuclear cells (SFMC) show proliferation to bacterial antigens that trigger ReA, i.e. Chlamydia, Yersinia, Campylobactor, Shigella and Salmonella species. We have shown previously that SFMC proliferate significantl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Singh R,Shasany AK,Aggarwal A,Sinha S,Sisodia BS,Khanuja SP,Misra R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify the epitopes recognized by antibodies to the asialoglycoprotein receptor, a specific hepatocyte protein, from sera of patients with autoimmune hepatitis. An ELISA test was used to detect anti-asialoglycoprotein receptor antibodies in the sera of patients with autoimmune hepatitis....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hajoui O,Martin S,Alvarez F

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of cold reactive lymphocytotoxic antibodies present in sera from Thai adults with malaria revealed that the antibodies are predominantly 19S (IgM), directed against both autologous and allogeneic mononuclear cells, complement-dependent, present in titres ranging from 1:2 to 1:16, and exhibit greater l...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gilbreath MJ,Pavanand K,MacDermott RP,Wells RA,Ussery MA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to test a published claim that the inclusion of Mycobacterium leprae antigens with a tuberculin skin test reagent can suppress delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to tuberculin in both paucibacillary and multibacillary leprosy cases, 109 leprosy cases and 104 non-leprosy controls were skin-tested simultaneous...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fine PE,Gruer PJ,Maine N,Ponnighaus JM,Rees RJ,Stanford JL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb), a diagnostic hallmark of HT, is principally of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype, and it appears to be a response to thyroid injury. The aim of our study was to evaluate the distribution of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xie LD,Gao Y,Li MR,Lu GZ,Guo XH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human red cells (RBC) coated with IgG anti-D are cleared from the circulation to the spleen by macrophages which express IgG receptors (Fcgamma R). Polymorphisms of Fcgamma RIIa and Fcgamma RIIIa affect IgG binding in vitro, and may alter the efficiency of clearance of immune complexes in vivo. In a RBC clearance stud...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kumpel BM,De Haas M,Koene HR,Van De Winkel JG,Goodrick MJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) patients may show an evanescent salmon-pink erythema appearing during febrile attacks and reducing without fever. Some patients may experience this eruption for many weeks. During AOSD, exceptionally high serum levels of ferritin may be observed; it is an iron storage protein compose...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ruscitti P,Cipriani P,Ciccia F,Di Benedetto P,Liakouli V,Berardicurti O,Carubbi F,Guggino G,Di Bartolomeo S,Triolo G,Giacomelli R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00