Evaluation of T lymphocyte subpopulations in children with nephrotic syndrome.

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an obligate pathogen that causes pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, pharyngitis and asthma in humans. It is well recognized that membrane lipoproteins are immunostimulants exerting as lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory responses upon M. pneumoniae ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo H,He J,Qin L,Chen Y,Chen L,Li R,Zeng Y,Zhu C,You X,Wu Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse peritoneal macrophages were activated in serum-free culture with lipopolysaccharide, dextran sulphate or C3b. They were found to liberate into the culture medium a cytolytic factor and a factor which was pharmacologically indistinguishable from C3a. The cytolytic activity was neutralized by antiserum against C3a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ferluga J,Schorlemmer HU,Baptista LC,Allison AC

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon (IFN)-gamma exert detrimental effects in organ-specific autoimmune disease, while both destructive and protective roles have been demonstrated for interleukin (IL)-10, IL-4 and IL-5. We examined the production of these cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nielsen CH,Hegedüs L,Rieneck K,Moeller AC,Leslie RG,Bendtzen K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graves' disease (GD) is characterized by the presence of autoantibodies against the TSH-receptor (TSH-R) which are pathogenic and, upon binding to the receptor, trigger intracellular signal transduction. The autoantibodies are oligoclonal and as they are responsible for disease activity, their characterization would l...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Der Heijden JH,De Bruin TW,Glaudemans KA,De Kruif J,Banga JP,Logtenberg T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to establish normal reference ranges of serum immunoglobulin G subclasses for different age groups in Chinese, we measured the four IgG subclasses by radial immunodiffusion using polyclonal antisera in 350 normal healthy subjects (148 males and 202 females) recruited from the community. There was no significa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lau YL,Jones BM,Ng KW,Yeung CY

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental factors such as diet are known to play important roles in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Epidemiological studies have indicated that a high-fat diet is a risk factor for IBD. In addition, the balance between effector T cells (T(eff)) and regulatory T cells (T(reg)) contributes to the pathogenesis of m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ma X,Torbenson M,Hamad AR,Soloski MJ,Li Z

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of normal human donors are spontaneously cytotoxic for certain tumour-derived and virus-infected target cells. This so-called natural killing (NK) can be augmented by the action of interferons (IFN) and by IFN-inducers. In this study, we have compared both endogenous and augme...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Neighbour PA,Grayzel AI,Miller AE

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunofluorescence (IF) to detect HCV antigens and non-isotopic in situ hybridization (NISH) to detect HCV RNA genome were carried out on bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) mononuclear cells (MC) of 11 chronically HCV-infected patients. In four patients (36.4%) HCV antigens were detected in monocytes/macrophag...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sansonno D,Iacobelli AR,Cornacchiulo V,Iodice G,Dammacco F

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) are the most professional antigen-presenting cells of the immune system and are capable of initiating immune responses in vitro and in vivo. One of the great challenges in immunotherapy protocols is to introduce relevant antigens into DC for stimulation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) cl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ponsaerts P,Van Tendeloo VF,Berneman ZN

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary Herpes simplex virus (HSV) represents a smart pathogen, which displays both lytic and latent modes of interaction with its natural human host. In order to be optimally equipped for immune evasion and to reply to any attacks of the host during reactivation, HSV has developed a multitude of cleverly devised defe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Novak N,Peng WM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-2 is thought to have entered the human population in the 1930s through cross-species transmission of SIV from sooty mangabeys in West Africa. Unlike HIV-1, HIV-2 has not led to a global pandemic, and recent data suggest that HIV-2 prevalence is declining in some West African states where it was formerly endemic. A...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Boswell MT,Rowland-Jones SL

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:A study was conducted to quantify soluble IL-2 receptor (sIL-2R) levels in sera of 57 chronic plaque psoriasis patients and correlate these measurements with disease activity and the number of IL-2R-positive (CD25+) lymphocytes in lesional biopsies of 11 cyclosporin A (CsA) and 13 psoralen plus ultraviolet radiation (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duncan JI,Horrocks C,Ormerod AD,Powles AV,Whiting PH,Fry L,Thomson AW

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of IL-6 synthesis is thought to play a role in the development of a number of age-related conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and B cell malignancies. Recently it has been suggested that the production of IL-6 is influenced by the adrenal hormone d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Young DG,Skibinski G,Mason JI,James K

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrated that NK resistant Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) carrying human lymphoblastoid cell lines become sensitive to NK cell-mediated destruction following induction of the viral cycle by superinfection with the P3HR-1 substrain of EBV or chemicals. In the present report we analysed the cellular membr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Blazar BA,Fitzgerald J,Sutton L,Strome M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapy of murine autoimmune and allergic diseases by administration of peptides corresponding to the dominant T cell epitope is a reality. However, problems remain in applying this therapy to reduce antibody responses in humans. To overcome these difficulties, a preclinical system was developed to test the effe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jackson DJ,Elson CJ,Kumpel BM

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons play an important, but incompletely understood role in HIV-related disease. We investigated the effect of HAART on plasma levels of IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma, neopterin and interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) in 41 HIV-infected patients during 78 weeks of therapy. At baseline HIV-infected patients had raise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stylianou E,Aukrust P,Bendtzen K,Müller F,Frøland SS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice made tolerant to A/J alloantigens by neonatal injection of (A/J x BALB/c)F1 spleen cells develop a host-versus-graft (HVG) disease due to the activation of donor B cells by a subset of host alloreactive helper T cells. We have investigated the effects of a single neonatal injection of the 145-2C11 anti-mou...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wissing M,Marchant A,Moser M,Flamand V,Leo O,Abramowicz D,Urbain J,Goldman M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenine nucleotide translocator protein (ANT) is the first well-characterized mitochondrial polypeptide to be identified as an antigen for antimitochondrial autoantibodies (AMA) in PBC sera. Because of the potential use for a highly purified antigen as a tool in studying the aetiology of PBC, we have undertaken an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mendel-Hartvig I,Frostell A,Nelson BD

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α-induced proteins (TNFAIP)9 and TNFAIP3 play an important pathogenic role in murine arthritis. To clarify their pathophysiological roles in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we examined their expression and localization in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). TNFAIP9 and ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takai C,Matsumoto I,Inoue A,Umeda N,Tanaka Y,Kurashima Y,Wada Y,Narita I,Sumida T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are associated with inflammation resulting from monocyte activation. We sought for differences in the production of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines by monocytes from patients with ACS. C-reactive protein (CRP) and neopterin were measured in 22 patients with acute coronary syndromes,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van Haelst PL,Tervaert JW,Bijzet J,Baljé-Volkers C,May JF,Langeveld B,Gans RO

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:EAU is a model of ocular inflammatory disease. EAU resembles another T cell-mediated autoimmune disease--experimental allergic encephalomyelitis--since both have increased expression of MHC class II molecules in the target tissue, can be adoptively transferred by activated CD4+ T cells and are inhibited by cyclosporin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Calder VL,Lightman SL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-1 acts on many cells as an inflammatory mediator. Its two forms, IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta, are regulated differentially within hyperproliferative inflammatory skin conditions, such as psoriasis. While IL-1 alpha is down-regulated within psoriatic lesions, the levels of IL-1 beta are increased. However, some investi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schön M,Behmenburg C,Denzer D,Schön MP

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecies immunization of marmosets with platelets leads to an acute thrombocytopenia which appears to be immunologically mediated. The thrombocytopenia is preceded by the formation of antibodies to the donor platelet antigen and deposition of IgG on the host's platelets. Examination of sera obtained from these ani...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gengozian N,Annostby D

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis. Historically believed to be a relatively rare human disease in tropical countries, a recent study estimated that, worldwide, there are approximately 165 000 human melioidosis cases per year, more than half of whom die. The bacterium is inherently resista...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Morici L,Torres AG,Titball RW

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Neutrophils maintain immune homeostasis by engulfing apoptotic cells and debris. We describe the rapid activation of neutrophils after engulfing hemoglobin (Hb)-activated platelets, which are abundant in the circulation of hemolytic patients. Neutrophils from healthy individuals after engulfing Hb-activated platelets ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bhasym A,Annarapu GK,Saha S,Shrimali N,Gupta S,Seth T,Guchhait P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewis rats were immunized with bee venom allergen in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) or with FCA only. Animals immunized with bee venom developed specific IgG antibodies but no specific IgE antibodies were detected. Lymphocytes from lymph nodes when cultured with antigen in vitro showed an increased stimulation index...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schneider H,Urbanek R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), inflammation is sustained by an exaggerated response of lymphocytes. This results from enhanced expression of anti-apoptotic B cell lymphoma (BCL-2) and BCL-XL associated with a diminished turnover. Azathioprine (AZA) directly targets BCL-2 family-mediated apoptosis. We investigate...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Weder B,Mozaffari M,Biedermann L,Mamie C,Moncsek A,Wang L,Clarke SH,Rogler G,McRae BL,Graff CL,Ruiz PA,Hausmann M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00