Slow subcutaneous immunoglobulin therapy in a patient with reactions to intramuscular immunoglobulin.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease influenced by risk factors for the metabolic syndrome. In adult patients, NASH is associated with an altered phenotype and functionality of peripheral immune cells, the recruitment of leukocytes and intrahepatic activation, and an ex...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Ferreyra Solari NE,Inzaugarat ME,Baz P,De Matteo E,Lezama C,Galoppo M,Galoppo C,Cherñavsky AC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in DOCK8 result in autosomal recessive Hyper-IgE syndrome with combined immunodeficiency (CID). However, the natural course of disease, long-term prognosis, and optimal therapeutic management have not yet been clearly defined. In an international retrospective survey of patients with DOCK8 mutations, focused...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Aydin SE,Kilic SS,Aytekin C,Kumar A,Porras O,Kainulainen L,Kostyuchenko L,Genel F,Kütükcüler N,Karaca N,Gonzalez-Granado L,Abbott J,Al-Zahrani D,Rezaei N,Baz Z,Thiel J,Ehl S,Marodi L,Orange JS,Sawalle-Belohradsky J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:DNA Ligase 4 (LIG4) is a key factor in the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) DNA double-strand break repair pathway needed for V(D)J recombination and the generation of the T cell receptor and immunoglobulin molecules. Defects in LIG4 result in a variable syndrome of growth retardation, pancytopenia, combined i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Felgentreff K,Baxi SN,Lee YN,Dobbs K,Henderson LA,Csomos K,Tsitsikov EN,Armanios M,Walter JE,Notarangelo LD

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined in clinical terms by the development of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or severe opportunistic infections in persons without predisposing conditions. A hallmark of the syndrome has been a decrease in the number of CD4+ T helper cells. The reduction in the frequency of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Katz JD,Nishanian P,Mitsuyasu R,Bonavida B

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the functional properties of the OK-T8+/OKT4+ T-cell subpopulations in nine patients with a new syndrome of acquired immune deficiency (AIDS). Despite polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia in the sera of these patients, their peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) produced negligible quantities of immunoglob...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Benveniste E,Schroff R,Stevens RH,Gottlieb MS

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various factors seem to be etiologic in the susceptibility to sinopulmonary infections in ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) patients, i.e., low serum and salivary IgA, low serum IgG2, and even aspiration of saliva. S. pneumoniae is a common pathogen responsible from pulmonary infections and impaired antibody response to pol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Sanal O,Ersoy F,Yel L,Tezcan I,Metin A,Ozyürek H,Gariboglu S,Fikrig S,Berkel AI,Rijkers GT,Zegers BJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cell deficiency (NKD) is a subset of primary immunodeficiency disorders (PID) in which an abnormality of NK cells represents a major immunological defect resulting in the patient's clinical immunodeficiency. This is distinct from a much larger group of PIDs that include an NK cell abnormality as a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Orange JS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is characterized by mutation in any one of the five genes coding NADPH oxidase components that leads to functional abnormality preventing the killing of phagocytosed microbes by affecting the progression of a respiratory burst. CGD patients have an increased susceptibility...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Kulkarni M,Hule G,de Boer M,van Leeuwen K,Kambli P,Aluri J,Gupta M,Dalvi A,Mhatre S,Taur P,Desai M,Madkaikar M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates metaphase chromosome protein 1 (MCP1), a nuclear antigen, as a diagnostic marker for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Reactivity of sera from 114 Portuguese patients with autoimmune rheumatic disease or from healthy blood donors (HBD), against MCP1, produced in bacteria (bact-MCP1) or in its na...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Bronze-da-Rocha E,Nóvoa A,Teixeira N,Vasconcelos CS,Cerveira C,Castro e Melo J,Carvalho MC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first description of the hybridoma technology in 1975 seemed to hold enormous promise for the treatment of a variety of human disease. The ability to produce monoclonal antibodies led to the availability of large amounts of homogeneous and predictable preparations of antibody. The potential to renew indefinitely a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Pirofski L,Casadevall A,Rodriguez L,Zuckier LS,Scharff MD

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined sera from 160 HIV-infected individuals for antibodies reactive to HIV-1 gp160 epitopes defined by seven synthetic peptides. Seropositive individuals were placed into three groups based upon levels of circulating CD4+ cells. These groups consisted of individuals with (1) more than 400 CD4+ cells, (2) 200-40...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Warren RQ,Wolf H,Zajac RA,Boswell RN,Kanda P,Kennedy RC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived cytokine with anti-inflammatory properties. Paradoxically, circulating adiponectin levels are increased in a number of inflammatory diseases. Thus, we sought to define the role of adiponectin deficiency in mouse models of autoimmunity. Adiponectin-deficient mice on a C57BL/6 backgro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Parker J,Menn-Josephy H,Laskow B,Takemura Y,Aprahamian T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last five decades, elegant mouse models of hematopoiesis have yielded most of the seminal insights into this complex biological system of self-renewal and lineage commitment. More recent advances in assays to measure human stem and progenitor cells as well as high resolution RNA profiling have revealed that...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Parekh C,Crooks GM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Owing to the established roles of human macrophages in immune defense, we investigated the effect of chronic arsenic exposure upon these major hematopoietic cells in 70 arsenic-exposed individuals with skin lesions and 64 unexposed individuals. METHODS:Human monocyte-derived macrophages were prepared from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Banerjee N,Banerjee S,Sen R,Bandyopadhyay A,Sarma N,Majumder P,Das JK,Chatterjee M,Kabir SN,Giri AK

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We used proteomic analyses to assess how drug abuse modulates immunologic responses to infections with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). METHODS:Two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis was utilized to determine changes in the proteome of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) isol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Reynolds JL,Mahajan SD,Aalinkeel R,Nair B,Sykes DE,Agosto-Mujica A,Hsiao CB,Schwartz SA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of illness attributed to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) includes patients with symptoms persisting for more than 1 year without any other obvious underlying disease. High titers of antibodies to EBV, either IgG antiviral capsid antigen or anti-early antigen, can be demonstrated. In this study, 13 patients diagn...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Kibler R,Lucas DO,Hicks MJ,Poulos BT,Jones JF

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially used as a replacement therapy for immunodeficiency diseases, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is now widely used for a number of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Considerable progress has been made in understanding the mechanisms by which IVIg exerts immunomodulatory effects in autoimmune and inflammat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Negi VS,Elluru S,Sibéril S,Graff-Dubois S,Mouthon L,Kazatchkine MD,Lacroix-Desmazes S,Bayry J,Kaveri SV

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study was done to further reveal the role of the innate immune system in celiac disease. METHODS:Dendritic cells were matured from venous blood of patients with active or treated celiac disease and DQ2-DQ8-positive or negative controls. Dendritic cells were treated with a peptic-tryptic digest of gli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Rakhimova M,Esslinger B,Schulze-Krebs A,Hahn EG,Schuppan D,Dieterich W

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) has been used to treat autoimmune diseases and lymphoid malignancies with some therapeutic effect. In both these pathological conditions, there is an overproduction of BAFF (for "B-cell-activating factor of the TNF family"), and APRIL (for "a proliferation-inducing ligand"). The prese...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Le Pottier L,Bendaoud B,Dueymes M,Daridon C,Youinou P,Shoenfeld Y,Pers JO

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although CpG methylation is thought to be a negative regulator of gene transcription, its relationship with cytokine expression remains unclear. Interleukin (IL)-4 and interferon (IFN)-gamma are major cytokines that affect the differentiation of naïve CD4+ T lymphocytes into the Th1 and Th2 lineage. We used bisulfite ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Kwon NH,Kim JS,Lee JY,Oh MJ,Choi DC

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bias in cytokine responses has been proposed as a contributing mechanism to pathogenesis in persistent HIV or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. We investigated whether coinfection with HCV modifies the profile of antigen-specific cytokine secretion in women persistently infected with HIV compared to women with singl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Villacres MC,Literat O,Degiacomo M,Du W,La Rosa C,Diamond DJ,Kovacs A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is characterized by rapid and progressive loss of renal function and the presence of crescentic glomerulonephritis (CGN). Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment is mandatory to prevent death and/or renal failure. We have evaluated an ANCA-GBM dot-blot diagnostic test in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Rutgers A,Damoiseaux J,Roozendaal C,Limburg PC,Stegeman CA,Tervaert JW

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of the study was to determine associations between pre-antiretroviral therapy (ART) senescent CD8+ T lymphocytes and naïve versus non-naive CD8+ and CD4+ T lymphocyte subpopulations and CD4+ responses after initiation of ART in younger versus older individuals. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of 1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Hoffman RM,Jamieson BD,Bosch RJ,Currier J,Kitchen CM,Schmid I,Zhu Y,Bennett K,Mitsuyasu R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to characterize the clinical phenotype, genetic basis, and consequent immunological phenotype of a boy with severe infantile-onset colitis and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease, and no evidence of recurrent or severe infections. METHODS:Trio whole-exome sequencing (WES) was utilized for pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Kurolap A,Eshach Adiv O,Konnikova L,Werner L,Gonzaga-Jauregui C,Steinberg M,Mitsialis V,Mory A,Nunberg MY,Wall S,Shaoul R,Overton JD,Regeneron Genetics Center.,Shuldiner AR,Zohar Y,Paperna T,Snapper SB,Shouval DS,Bari

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system is affected by the aging process and undergoes significant age-related changes, termed immunosenescence. Different T cell subsets are affected by this process. Alterations within the bone marrow and thymus lead to a shift in the composition of the T cell repertoire from naïve to antigen-experienced T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Arnold CR,Wolf J,Brunner S,Herndler-Brandstetter D,Grubeck-Loebenstein B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms underlying the loss of self-tolerance in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are incompletely deciphered. TGF-β plays a key role in self-tolerance demonstrated by the onset of a fatal autoimmune syndrome associated with lupus autoantibodies in mice lacking a functional TGF-β receptor. The prese...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Elbeldi-Ferchiou A,Ben Ahmed M,Smiti-Khanfir M,Houman MH,Abdeladhim M,Belhadj Hmida N,Cerf-Bensussan N,Louzir H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a rare X-linked disorder originally described by Dr. Alfred Wiskott in 1937 and Dr. Robert Aldrich in 1954 as a familial disease characterized by infections, bleeding tendency, and eczema. Today, it is well recognized that the syndrome has a wide clinical spectrum ranging from mil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Candotti F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypogammaglobulinemia is a common symptom in different immunodeficiencies. It is, however, not usually associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections. The X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP) on the other hand shows immunological changes in response to the EBV. Here we report three previously healthy boys, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Hügle B,Suchowerskyj P,Hellebrand H,Adler B,Borte M,Sack U,Overberg-Schmidt US,Strnad N,Otto J,Meindl A,Schuster V

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological differences between lymphocytes separated from thymoma patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and those separated from thymoma patients without MG was examined. We investigated whether lymphocytes in thymoma (Th-L) of patients with and without MG could react to interleukin-2 (IL-2) to develop cytolytic ac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Takahashi K,Monden Y,Saito S,Kamamura Y,Uyama T

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In severe sepsis, functional impairment and decreased numbers of dendritic cells (DCs) are essential reasons for immune function paralysis, secondary organ infection, and organ failure. We investigated the effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) administration on protecting lung DCs function in a zymosan-induced gene...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Wang HW,Yang W,Lu JY,Li F,Sun JZ,Zhang W,Guo NN,Gao L,Kang JR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00