Study of cell changes induced by radiolabelling of human lymphocytes with 99m-technetium.

abstract：:Pretreatment of guinea-pigs with cyclophosphamide (Cy) (300 mg/kg) 3 days before cutaneous infection with Leishmania enriettii caused an increased intensity of the lesion at the site of infection and an increase in the incidence of widespread metastases. Decreased levels of circulating antibody were found from the fir...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Belehu A,Poulter LW,Turk JL

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro IgG synthesis by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) from patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) was studied. In addition, the effect of pokeweed mitogen (PWM), polyadenylic-polyuridylic acid complexes (poly A:U) and thymosin fraction 5 on IgG synthesis was determined. Unstimulated cultures of PBM fro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mutchnick MG,Lederman HM,Missirian A,Johnson AG

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) against proteinase 3 (PR3) are strongly associated with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) and are thought to be involved in its pathogenesis. Levels of PR3-ANCA do not always correspond to clinical disease activity. To investigate the relationship between functional effects of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van der Geld YM,Tool AT,Videler J,de Haas M,Tervaert JW,Stegeman CA,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG,Roos D

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies anti-Ly 1, anti-Ly 2 and GK1.5 were applied to determine phenotypes of T cells within granulomas formed as a result of infection of mice with the facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Early in granuloma formation, equal numbers of Ly 1+, Ly 2+ and L3T4+ cells were found, T c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Näher H,Sperling U,Takacs L,Hahn H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pulmonary infection is known to constitute a major complication of cystic fibrosis (CF). In order to determine whether a defect of antibody formation is associated with this clinical finding, we have investigated antibody production on the cellular level by using a haemolytic plaque forming cell (PFC) assay. T...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Götz M,Zielinski CC,Ahmad R,Eibl M

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to extractable nuclear antigens (ENA) were analysed in the sera of fifty-two patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were divided into two categories: twenty-five with arthritis only and twenty-seven with extra-articular disease. Using haemagglutination, counterimmunoelectropheresis (CIE) and dou...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Venables PJ,Erhardt CC,Maini RN

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:Cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CTX) of meningioma patients was assessed postoperatively by a [3H]proline microcytotoxicity test. Autologous and allogeneic tumour cells were used for prelabelling with isotope and peripheral blood lymphocytes added in a ratio of 200:1. After 60 hg the plates were washed and residual CMP co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pees HW,Seidel B

更新日期：1976-05-01 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：:It has been suggested that the increase in C3 and C4 levels in jejunal perfusates of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) results from local intestinal synthesis of complement. The present study evaluated the expression of these complement genes in inflamed tissues from patients with CD. Surgically resected specimens fr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Laufer J,Oren R,Goldberg I,Horwitz A,Kopolovic J,Chowers Y,Passwell JH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the role of three mouse distinct non-H-2 genes (Bcg, Tbc-1, xid) in several phenomena of antituberculosis immunity and resistance. On the basis of median survival time (MST) of mice following infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, Bcg gene did not control resistance to the lethal dos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nikonenko BV,Apt AS,Mezhlumova MB,Avdienko VG,Yeremeev VV,Moroz AM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of human seminal plasma (SP) and whole semen (S) on the expression of natural cytotoxicity by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNC) was examined. Marked suppression of natural cytotoxicity against K562 targets was observed when effectors were pre-treated for 1 h with SP or S diluted up to 1:40...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rees RC,Vallely P,Clegg A,Potter CW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated lymphocyte subsets both quantitatively and functionally in children with nephrotic syndrome. Ten children had minimal change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS), seven had focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSGS) and four had recovered from MCNS. Two patients with FSGS had decreased OKT4+ cells and a decrea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Herrod HG,Stapleton FB,Trouy RL,Roy S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is strongly associated with cigarette smoking. More than 20 lung carcinogens have been identified in cigarette smoke and one of the most abundant is 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). We hypothesized that NNK modulates alveolar macrophage (AM) mediator production, thus contributing to ca...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Therriault MJ,Proulx LI,Castonguay A,Bissonnette EY

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of autoantibodies detected by immunofluorescence to single endocrine cells, of human duodenum is described in three groups of patients and two control groups. Of 173 coeliac cases, four had GIP cell antibodies, one had secretin cell antibodies and twenty-one reacted with both cell types. Of twelve tropica...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mirakian R,Bottazzo GF,Doniach D

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerogenic dendritic cells (DCs) play a critical role in the induction of regulatory T cells (Tregs ), which in turn suppress effector T cell responses. We have previously shown the induction of DCs from human and mouse monocytic cell lines, mouse splenocytes and human peripheral blood monocytes by a novel apolipopro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bellemore SM,Nikoopour E,Au BC,Krougly O,Lee-Chan E,Haeryfar SM,Singh B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of systemic infection with Candida albicans with a combination of an antifungal agent (i.e. fluconazole) and a thymus-derived immunostimulant (i.e. thymosin alpha 1 (T alpha 1)) in mice immunosuppressed by morphine treatments was investigated. In normal mice, fluconazole given after infection with 10(6) C. a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： di Francesco P,Gaziano R,Casalinuovo IA,Belogi L,Palamara AT,Favalli C,Garaci E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) administration in vivo has been shown to improve the defence mechanisms against infection by different microbes. Here we evaluated a possible protective role of this molecule in a mouse model of mycobacterial infection. The administration of recombinant G-CSF promoted an e...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gonçalves AS,Appelberg R

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral large granular lymphocytes (LGL) were enumerated in normal subjects and patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases. In normal subjects, the percentage of LGL was significantly lower in women (mean +/- s.d., 17.0 +/- 3.6%; n = 35; P less than 0.05) than in men (19.5 +/- 5.3%; n = 20). In untreated patients wi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Iwatani Y,Amino N,Kabutomori O,Mori H,Tamaki H,Motoi S,Izumiguchi Y,Miyai K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin-reactive T cells are considered to play an essential role in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. We have previously studied the effects of T cell vaccination (TCV), a procedure by which MS patients are immunized with attenuated autologous myelin basi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van der Aa A,Hellings N,Medaer R,Gelin G,Palmers Y,Raus J,Stinissen P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells developed by an incubation of peripheral mononuclear cells with IL-2 express the membrane-associated lymphotoxin (LT)-related molecule (mLT). By a further cultivation of mLT expressing (mLT-positive) LAK cells for 24 h without IL-2, mLT disappears (mLT-negative LAK cells)....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Horiuchi A,Abe Y,Miyake M,Kimura K,Hitsumoto Y,Takeuchi N,Kimura S

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an idiopathic systemic autoimmune disease. It is characterized by a triad of hallmarks: immune dysfunction, fibrosis and vasculopathy. Immune dysfunction in SSc is characterized by the activation and recruitment of immune cells and the production of autoantibodies and cytokines. How immune ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brown M,O'Reilly S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo studies in rats demonstrated that the binding of a highly cationic antigen (cationized human IgG, pI greater than 9.5) to glomerular polyanion could be significantly reduced by prior application of a small polycation, protamine sulfate. The degree of inhibition was dose dependent and the highest dose used, 4 m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Oite T,Shimizu F,Batsford SR,Vogt A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a clonally derived, skin invasive malignancy of CD4+ cells with the phenotype of mature helper T cells. We previously demonstrated that the leukaemic form of CTCL (Sézary), is characterized by prominent immunological defects including depressed cell-mediated immunity. We also demons...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rook AH,Gottlieb SL,Wolfe JT,Vowels BR,Sood SS,Niu Z,Lessin SR,Fox FE

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 26 hybridomas secreting anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies, two reacted with murine brain and spinal cord extracts but not other tissues. Both antibodies (5H7 and 3H3) had identical isotypes (IgM) and specificities as judged by western blotting. Antigens of molecular weight 58,000 and 37,000 in mouse brain and spina...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Snary D,Flint JE,Wood JN,Scott MT,Chapman MD,Dodd J,Jessell TM,Miles MA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two amyloidogenic Bence Jones proteins (Am37 VkappaIV and NIG1 VkappaI) and one non-amyloidogenic protein (NIG26 VkappaIII) were characterized. The protein Am37 had four deletions when compared with the translated germ-line gene sequence: two Ser residues following position 27 (27e, 27f) in CDR1 and two amino acids Pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alim MA,Yamaki S,Hossain MS,Takeda K,Kozima M,Izumi T,Takashi I,Shinoda T

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Epstein-Barr (EB) virus serology was correlated with the results of immunological investigations of three inherited immunodeficiency diseases, in an attempt to understand the immune mechanisms controlling EB virus infection. In nine patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), the constant lack of anti-EB virus assoc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vilmer E,Lenoir GM,Virelizier JL,Griscelli C

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：:2-Chlorodeoxyadenosine (cladribine, CdA) is an immunosuppressive drug that is licensed to treat hairy cell leukaemia, and has been shown recently to have beneficial effects in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The therapeutic effects of CdA have been suggested to be mediated partly through its potent toxicity tow...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Singh V,Prajeeth CK,Gudi V,Bénardais K,Voss EV,Stangel M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00