Terminal stages of complement hemolysis: technical comment.

abstract：:Natural levels of goat antiphosphorylethanolamine (anti-PE) antibodies decreased after injection of purified human C-reactive protein (CRP). The concentration of anti-CRP antibodies followed a continuous increment from non-detectable levels to a plateau at 80 days after first injection. ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Coll JM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small soluble IgG aggregates of defined size were prepared from pooled human IgG by gel filtration chromatography, and examined by analytical ultracentrifugation. Three such fractions, dimer-rich, trimer-rich and 25S aggregate were used to inhibit IgG monomer binding in a study of the influence of aggregation in the b...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ratcliffe A,Stanworth DR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H-2-linked gene(s) have been found to play a role in the quantitative regulation of response to human gamma-globulin (HGG) in mice selected for high or low antibody responsiveness to sheep erythrocytes. Unexpectedly, in a random genetically heterogeneous population of F2 interline hybrids, the gene(s) linked to the H-...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Heumann AM,Mouton D,Biozzi G

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 2 (IL 2) is a lymphocyte growth factor capable of inducing the rapid growth of antigen- or mitogen-stimulated T cells. To understand the molecular mechanisms of IL 2 action, we studied the synthesis of cellular polypeptides induced by IL 2. For a homogeneous cell population responsive to IL 2, we used a mu...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Yoshie O,Wada J,Ishida N

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological alterations observed in chronic alcoholic patients may be due to alterations of signal transduction across the lymphocyte membrane. Upon binding of mitogens or antigens to specific plasma membrane receptors, the activation of phospholipase C leads to the hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids, producin...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hrelia S,Celadon M,Bordoni A,Castelli E,Foschi FG,Stefanini GF,Rossi CA,Biagi PL

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether apoptotic thymocytes can be identified by altered packing of lipids in their plasma membranes, thymocytes were isolated from mice injected with hydrocortisone and stained with merocyanine 540 (MC540), a fluorescent probe sensitive to lipid packing. At 9-10 h after injection, a subpopulation of H2-Klo c...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Schlegel RA,Stevens M,Lumley-Sapanski K,Williamson P

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the hypothesis that the Vδ3 subset of human γδ T cells, like their Vδ2 counterparts, can influence differentiation, antibody secretion and cytokine production by B cells. Vδ3 T cells constitute a minor subset of peripheral blood lymphocytes but are enriched in the liver and gut and are expanded in pa...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Petrasca A,Melo AM,Breen EP,Doherty DG

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligation of both the T cell receptor (TCR) and the CD28 receptor is required for full T cell activation to occur. Engagement of the TCR in primary T cells is followed by rapid cAMP production in lipid rafts and activation of the cAMP-protein kinase A (PKA)-Csk pathway inhibiting proximal T cell signaling. However, CD2...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Bjørgo E,Taskén K

更新日期：2010-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously shown that normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells produce a soluble factor(s) that causes selective inhibition of collagen production by cultured human diploid fibroblasts, and that stimulation of the mononuclear cells by appropriate mitogens greatly enhances its production. Because of ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Jimenez SA,Rosenbloom J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 18 (IL-18) gene polymorphisms have been reported to be associated with the outcomes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Americans, Indians and Europeans. We aimed to investigate whether the association can be replicated in Chinese Han population. Three IL-18 variants, -656G>T, -137G>C and +105A>C, were...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Yue M,Wang JJ,Tang SD,Feng L,Zhang Y,Liu Y,Wang J,Deng XZ,Xu K,Zhang J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of opioids that bind to the classical mu opioid receptor has been shown to lead to unintended alterations in immune function. Traditionally, altered immune function has been investigated with circulating immune cells. Effects of mu agonists on intestinal epithelial immune function have not been describe...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Neudeck BL,Loeb JM

更新日期：2002-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of pretreatment with interferon (IFN) on subsequent IFN synthesis was investigated in macrophage cultures of DBA/2 and C57BL/6 mice. The doses of IFN alpha/beta for pretreatment ranged from 10,000 U/ml to 100 U/ml and the incubation time was between 18 and 2 h. No blocking effect was observed for chemica...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Giese M,Kirchner H

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are the most common benign tumors of childhood. They are characterized by a unique clinical course with two phases, proliferation and involution, which are followed by regression. The therapy of infantile hemangiomas was revolutionized in 2008 by the introduction of propranolol, h...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Wnęk A,Andrzejewska E,Kobos J,Taran K,Przewratil P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we tried to establish a relationship between the immunopotentiating effects and the antioxidant activity of the immunostimulating compound, diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC). We studied the effects of DDC treatment on enriched T and B murine spleen lymphocytes in an in vivo-ex vivo model of O2-induced immune...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Lacombe P,Carre I,Fay M,Pocidalo JJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against Salmonella infection is known to require CD4 Th1 cells and B cells, but the role of MHC class-I-restricted CD8 T cells is less clear. Previous studies have suggested that CD8 T cells participate in secondary, but not primary, bacterial clearance. However, these studies have used experimenta...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Lee SJ,Dunmire S,McSorley SJ

更新日期：2012-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Control animals and rats infected 90 days earlier, by inoculation of 1 x 10(6) trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi at weaning, were subjected to adult thymectomy (ATx) or sham operation (S-ATx) and assessed 3 months later for the presence of myocardial lesions and levels of lymph node and spleen T-cell populations. C...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Bottasso OA,Revelli SS,Dávila H,Valenti JL,Musso OC,Ferro ME,Romero-Piffiguer M,Morini JC

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of interleukin 1 (IL-1) by lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated myelomonocytic cell lines ML-1, THP-1 and PL-21 was significantly enhanced by the addition of insulin, insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I or IGF-II into the cell cultures. The IL-1 activity in the supernatants from cell cultures stimulated w...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Holán V,Minowada J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory response plays an important role during the induction of several neonatal diseases. Previous studies have shown that during newborn infections, the natural imbalance between pro- and anti-inflammatory responses shifts toward the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. In this study, we employed an a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Antas PR,Pedro TQ,Santiago EA,Lima JR,Silva FC,Melca LA,Ponte CG

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-35 (IL-35) is a novel anti-inflammatory cytokine and has been shown to play an important role in maintaining immune homeostasis. However, the effect of IL-35 on human asthma remains unclear. The present study is to investigate the expression and significance of IL-35 in childhood asthma. Forty-one asthmati...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ma Y,Liu X,Wei Z,Wang X,Xu D,Dai S,Li Y,Gao M,Ji C,Guo C,Zhang L,Wang X

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress stimuli affect the immune system responses that occur at mucosal membranes, particularly IgA secretion. It has been suggested that acute stress increases the levels of IgA and that sympathetic innervation plays an important role in this process. We herein explore in a murine model how acute stress affects the T...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Gutiérrez-Meza JM,Jarillo-Luna RA,Rivera-Aguilar V,Miliar-García A,Campos-Rodríguez R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both CD8 and CD2 are T cell surface receptors involved in physical cell interaction and in transmembrane signalling. The present paper addresses their role in the induction of two different functions of the cloned murine cytotoxic T cell C196: target cell lysis and IFN-gamma production. These functions were induced in...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Reimann A,Ehrfeld A,Kupsch J,Maier B,Saizawa KM,Clinchy B,Eichmann K

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell functions are regulated by multiple signaling cascades, including the MKK4-JNK (c-Jun NH2 terminal kinase) pathway. However, the mechanism regulating the MKK4-JNK axis in T cells remains unclear. Herein, we demonstrated that protein acetylation modulates JNK activity induced by T cell receptor (TCR) activation....

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Matsui Y,Kuwabara T,Eguchi T,Nakajima K,Kondo M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroma is a frequent complication of breast cancer surgery, the etiology of which remains indefinite. It represents a subcutaneous accumulation of fluid frequently reported after surgical procedures such as axillary lymph node dissection. Despite previous studies have associated seroma fluid to an inflammatory exudate...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Montalto E,Mangraviti S,Costa G,Carrega P,Morandi B,Pezzino G,Bonaccorsi I,Cancellieri A,Mingari MC,Mesiti M,Ferlazzo G,Melioli G

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that most physiological functions change with aging, including the immune response. Data concerning the aging of lymphocyte subpopulations are conflicting. The antigen density of peripheral blood lymphocytes has been determined by fluorescently tagged OKT-3, OKT-4, OKT-8, OKT-11 and OKM1 monoclonal an...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Varga Z,Bressani N,Zaia AM,Bene L,Fülöp T,Leövey A,Fabris N,Damjanovich S

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of human recombinant interleukin-2 (RIL-2) into congenitally athymic (nu/nu) mice carrying subcutaneous transplants of HeLa, HU 609T and T24B human carcinoma cells partially inhibited growth of the human tumor xenografts. In vitro activation of nu/nu spleen cells with human RIL-2 resulted in generation ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Bubeník J,Kieler J,Tromholt V,Indrová M,Lotzová E

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have mapped a T cell epitope in the circumsporozoite (CS) protein of the murine malaria parasite, Plasmodium yoelii. A 21-mer synthetic peptide corresponding to the amino acid positions 59-79 (referred to as Py1), induced specific proliferation in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice, and provided help for the production of ant...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Del Giudice G,Grillot D,Rénia L,Müller I,Corradin G,Louis JA,Mazier D,Lambert PH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the random polymer (Glu, Phe)n was added to primary lymph node T cell cultures from mice immunized with (Glu, Lys, Ala) and other immunogens, significant inhibition of [3H]thymidine incorporation was noted. A similar addition of (Glu, Phe)n to murine T cell lines (Fathman) from the above reacting lymph nodes led ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Maurer PH,Liu DC,Grun JL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-comparison indicates existing sequence-similarity between receptor-binding regions of human type 1 IFNs (IFN-alpha, -beta and -omega) and HIV-1 gp41. Previous findings had suggested that the increased levels of antibodies against human IFN-alpha and -beta in HIV-1-infected individuals are associated with a co...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Chen YH,Wu W,Yang J,Sui SF,Sun J,Dierich MP

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The monocytic cell line I937 was derived from U937 by sorting for cells with high expression of MHC class II molecules. Further analysis of these class II molecules revealed the presence of the HLA-DR3 subtype suggesting that the cell line was a potential candidate for testing antigen presentation to T cells restricte...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Reischl IG,Pöllabauer EM,Peiritsch S,Schlager S,Gladstone P,Vooijs WC,Woisetschläger M,Mudde GC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between the ages of 2 to approximately 11 days mice respond to a challenge with syngeneic IgE by producing anti-IgE antibodies; by the age of 2 weeks they are unresponsive. Even adult mice, however, produce high titers of anti-IgE antibodies when immunized with a conjugate of syngeneic IgE and a foreign antigen such a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Haba S,Nisonoff A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00