Studies on the origin of the precursor cells in multiple myeloma, Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia and benign monoclonal gammopathy. I. Cytoplasmic isotype and idiotype distribution in peripheral blood and bone marrow.

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

abstract：:Ro ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) are autoantigens that result from the association of a 60-kDa protein (Ro60) with a small RNA (hY1, hY3, hY4 or hY5 in humans, mY1 or mY3 in mice). Previous studies localized Ro RNPs to the cytoplasm. Because Ro RNPs containing hY5 RNA (Ro(hY5) RNPs) have unique biochemical and immunologic...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gendron M,Roberge D,Boire G

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-10 and IL-12 are cytokines which are important in regulating immune responses. Plasma levels of IL-10 and autoantibodies against double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) often mirror disease activity in patients with SLE. IL-12 secretion from SLE patients' blood mononuclear cells also correlates with disease activity, but has a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tyrrell-Price J,Lydyard PM,Isenberg DA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphokine profiles were determined in the skin lesions of the three distinct clinical forms of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL), using a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and primers for various lymphokines. The message for interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), tumour necrosis factor-beta (TN...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cáceres-Dittmar G,Tapia FJ,Sánchez MA,Yamamura M,Uyemura K,Modlin RL,Bloom BR,Convit J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were immunized with the cell wall of BCG suspended in an oil-in-saline emulsion, and examined against time for the emergence of T cell-mediated acquired immunity. Evidence is presented that shows that levels of acquired resistance expressed in these animals over the first month following inoculation, and which en...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Orme IM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fifty-seven healthy individuals a significant correlation ( r = 0.3, P < 0.05) has been found between responses of their lymphocytes to stimulation by PHA and by pooled lymphocytes in MLC. It is suggested that these tests quantitate the general status of T cell reactivity of individuals, and may be used in conjunct...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nanra SK,Boettcher B

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the association between factors regulating DNA methylation and the prognosis of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), we genotyped single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes encoding DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), DNMT3A, DNMT3B, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and methionine synthase reductase (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Arakawa Y,Watanabe M,Inoue N,Sarumaru M,Hidaka Y,Iwatani Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal B cell activation has been thought to play the critical role in production of autoantibodies, and possible activation of autoreactive T cells in murine lupus, especially abnormal expansion of CD5+ B cells, is one of the characteristic findings in these mice. The aim of this study was to investigate further ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ye YL,Chuang YH,Chiang BL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rabbit-passaged L strain of rinderpest virus (RV) causes the transient induction of anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) in rabbits. It has been shown by an indirect immunofluorescence test that the target antigens of these ANA are DNA and/or DNA-histone complexes (nucleohistone). Here detailed examinations of the target...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Imaoka K,Kanai Y,Yoshikawa Y,Yamanouchi K

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular sensitization to rabbit liver specific lipoprotein (RLSP) has been investigated using a lymphocyte transformation test in patients with chronic active hepatitis (CAH). A stimulation index greater than 2 was recorded in twenty out of twenty-five cases (eight of ten HBsAg positive and twelve of fiteen HBsAg neg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ortona L,Laghi V,Cauda R,Nervo P

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrosis is characterized by glomerular epithelial cell injury and a decrease in the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) proteoglycan content. Although CsA is a useful treatment for a group of patients with this disease, its mechanism of action is unclear. We have previously shown that in experimental nephrosis there ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bustos C,González-Cuadrado S,Ruiz-Ortega M,Gómez-Guerrero C,González E,Plaza JJ,Egido J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous findings have indicated that the major surface molecule of Leishmania, lipophosphoglycan (LPG), could abrogate HIV-1-induced syncytium formation and virus replication. In the present work, we were interested in characterizing this inhibitory process. Data from a new luciferase-based semiquantitative assay for...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Genois N,Barbeau B,Olivier M,Tremblay MJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate antibody recognition of DNA in normal and aberrant immunity, the binding of sera of normal human subjects (NHS) and patients with SLE was tested with mammalian and bacterial DNA varying in size. Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) and calf thymus (CT) single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) were investigated as model antigens...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pisetsky DS,Gonzalez TC

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of inflammatory cytokines in a mouse model of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection mimicking diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB), and determined the effects of clarithromycin therapy on the production of these cytokines. The concentrations of IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, interferon-gamma (IFN-ga...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yanagihara K,Tomono K,Kuroki M,Kaneko Y,Sawai T,Ohno H,Miyazaki Y,Higashiyama Y,Maesaki S,Kadota J,Kohno S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and sixty-two unrelated, healthy normals and 118 unrelated SLE patients were subdivided by sex, race, and disease, and each group was in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for autosomal codominant expression of the four CR1 alleles. There were no significant phenotypic differences between males and females (P grea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Dyne S,Holers VM,Lublin DM,Atkinson JP

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) plays a role in the fibrotic process of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Because hypoxia is associated with fibrosis in several profibrogenic conditions, we investigated whether CTGF expression in SSc fibroblasts is regulated by hypoxia. Dermal fibroblasts from patients with SSc and hea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hong KH,Yoo SA,Kang SS,Choi JJ,Kim WU,Cho CS

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation of mesangial cells is a hallmark of glomerular disease, and understanding the regulatory mechanisms is critically important. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mesangial cell proliferation and phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 3 and to d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hirai T,Masaki T,Kuratsune M,Yorioka N,Kohno N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory effect of prostaglandin (PG) E2 and a cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor on Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-induced macrophage cytotoxicity in a bladder cancer cell, MBT-2, was studied in vitro. BCG stimulated thioglycollate-elicited murine peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) to induce cytotoxic activity and to pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yamada H,Kuroda E,Matsumoto S,Matsumoto T,Yamada T,Yamashita U

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody response and antigen specific suppression to bovine serum albumin (BSA) in uremic rats have been investigated. Primary immune response was found to be significantly reduced independent of the route of administration or adjuvant while secondary response was affected only in animals in which a weak adjuvant suc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mezzano S,Pesce A,Peters T Jr,Pollak VE,Reed R,Michael G

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten sera from 48 patients with systemic sclerosis were found to be capable of producing cytotoxicity of human umbilical venous and arterial endothelium when co-cultured with peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Fractionation of sera on Ultrogel and the preparation of monomeric IgG by ion exchange and affinity chromatog...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Holt CM,Lindsey N,Moult J,Malia RG,Greaves M,Hume A,Rowell NR,Hughes P

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:Activation of human natural killer (NK) cells is associated with the cleavage of CD16 from the cell surface, a process mediated by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). In this report, we examined whether inhibition of MMPs would lead to improved NK cell antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) function. Using...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhou Q,Gil-Krzewska A,Peruzzi G,Borrego F

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-labelling immunofluorescence analysis within the CD4+ cell subset was carried out in 27 bronchoalveolar lavage fluids and 11 peripheral blood samples of sarcoidosis patients with anti-TQ1, anti-2H4 and anti-4B4 monoclonal antibodies. Helper/inducer CD4+TQ1-/4B4+ cells were strongly increased in the lung and sli...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gerli R,Darwish S,Broccucci L,Minotti V,Spinozzi F,Cernetti C,Bertotto A,Rambotti P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for culturing intact human thyroid follicles, based on the study of 40 thyroidectomy specimens from normal (n = 18) and diseased glands (n = 22). Reversal of the normal polarity of thyrocytes, whereby the microvilli move from the colloid edge to the vascular pole of the cells, occurs gradually wh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hanafusa T,Pujol-Borrell R,Chiovato L,Doniach D,Bottazzo GF

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgD levels in 83 healthy adults were measured by a radioimmunoassay technique and analysed according to each subject's smoking habit. The IgD geometric mean in cigarette smokers was twice as high as in non-smokers (408.6 vs 202.0 micrograms/dl). Serum IgD levels of 1,000 micrograms/dl or greater were noted in 22...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bahna SL,Heiner DC,Myhre BA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two colour fluorescent staining using anti-Leu-1 and anti-B1 monoclonal antibodies has been combined with continuous flow microfluorimetry to analyse and isolate the T and B cell populations in B cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) patients. In Rai stage 0 patients two distinct B1 positive populations were dete...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Murphy JJ,Tooze J,Millard RE,Hudson L

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody reactivity against the 'mitochondrial M2 antigen' was determined in sera from 10 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), using Western blotting after SDS-PAGE separation of rat liver mitochondria (RLM) and plasma membrane proteins. The molecular weights of the major M2 antigens in rat liver mitochondri...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sundin U,Sundqvist KG

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nickel (Ni), the main cause of contact allergy to metals, induces in vitro production of both Th1- and Th2-type cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from allergic subjects. Because the knowledge of the cellular immune response to other metals involved in contact allergy has been limited, we investiga...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Minang JT,Areström I,Troye-Blomberg M,Lundeberg L,Ahlborg N

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade several notable viruses have suddenly emerged from obscurity or anonymity to become serious global health threats, provoking concern regarding their sustained epidemic transmission in immunologically naive human populations. With each new threat comes the call for rapid vaccine development. Inde...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Afrough B,Dowall S,Hewson R

更新日期：2019-05-01 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