Inhibition of human monocyte Fc receptor and HLA-DR antigen expression by pregnancy alpha-2 glycoprotein.

abstract：:An injection of human renal tubular fraction, Fx1A, with Freund's complete adjuvant in rats induces Heymann nephritis (HN) with clinical and morphological features similar to rat Fx1A-induced HN. The present study was undertaken to characterize antibody specificities and the corresponding antigen involved in human Fx1...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Natori Y,Hayakawa I,Shibata S

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-CD2 MoAbs have previously been shown to induce tolerance and to block B cell differentiation, T cell and monocyte activation. Since these immune functions are important in joint inflammation, we asked whether administration of the anti-CD2 MoAb OX34 has a beneficial effect on established rat adjuvant arthritis, a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffmann JC,Herklotz C,Zeidler H,Bayer B,Westermann J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During chronic inflammation, interleukin (IL)-22 expression is up-regulated in both CD4 and CD8 T cells, exerting a protective role in infections. However, in autoimmunity, IL-22 appears to have either a protective or a pathogenic role in a variety of murine models of autoimmunity and, by extrapolation, in humans. It ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yang GX,Sun Y,Tsuneyama K,Zhang W,Leung PS,He XS,Ansari AA,Bowlus C,Ridgway WM,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyopathy is the most severe outcome of Chagas disease, causing more than 12 000 deaths/year. Immune cells participate in cardiomyopathy development either by direct tissue destruction, or by driving inflammation. We have shown that CD4- CD8- [double-negative (DN)] T cells are major sources of inflammatory and an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Passos LSA,Magalhães LMD,Soares RP,Marques AF,Nunes MDCP,Gollob KJ,Dutra WO

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of some class 1 acute-phase proteins (APP), including C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid A (SAA) protein is completely blocked by the IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra), whereas the production of fibrinogen, a class 2 APP, is increased by IL-1Ra in hepatoma cells, but this has never been tested in...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gabay C,Genin B,Mentha G,Iynedjian PB,Roux-Lombard P,Guerne PA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An altered expression pattern of adhesion molecules (AM) on the surface of immune cells is a premise for their extravasation into the central nervous system (CNS) and the formation of acute brain lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS). We evaluated the impact of glatiramer acetate (GA) on cell-bound and soluble AM in the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sellner J,Koczi W,Harrer A,Oppermann K,Obregon-Castrillo E,Pilz G,Wipfler P,Afazel S,Haschke-Becher E,Trinka E,Kraus J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical investigations of recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase for the treatment of Pompe disease often reveal the appearance of therapy-specific antibodies. These antibodies could potentially interfere with recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase efficacy and induce immunological consequences. Several immunosup...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Joseph A,Munroe K,Housman M,Garman R,Richards S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in-vivo clearance of Bordetella pertussis infections in murine models in naive mice and animals vaccinated with whole-cell vaccine is considered to be via a Th-1-dependent mechanism in which interleukin-12 (IL)-12 may play a prominent role. It has also been demonstrated clearly that the treatment of animals with m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carter CR,Dagg BM,Whitmore KM,Keeble JR,Asokanathan C,Xing D,Walker KB

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in this laboratory have shown that efficient activation of complement (C) on HIV isolates and HIV-infected cells requires the binding of specific anti-HIV antibodies, while other investigators have observed 'antibody-independent' C activation. In an attempt to clarify these disparate findings, we inve...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Saarloos MN,Lint TF,Spear GT

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominance of Th2 cytokine-secreting pattern in allergic asthma has been known as a cause and an accelerating factor, and Th1 suppresses these allergic phenomena, but the role of Th0 clones is obscure. Because Th1/Th2 differentiation has been determined by cytokine environment, we investigated how mite-specific ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yamashita N,Takeno M,Kaneko S,Mizushima Y,Sakane T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement C6 has a common charge polymorphism designated A and B with gene frequencies of 0.65 and 0.35. The probable molecular basis for this is a Glu (C6A) for Ala (C6B) substitution at amino acid position 98, and is detected by digestion with the restriction enzyme Dde I of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplif...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fernie BA,Hobart MJ,Delbridge G,Potter PC,Orren A,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:We have examined the cell-mediated immunity (CMI) to Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from children with atopic dermatitis (AD) and from non-atopic child controls by measurement of proliferative responses and production of the cytokin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Campbell DE,Kemp AS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite antigens released from Trypanosoma cruzi-infected cells were adsorbed to infected and uninfected mammalian cells thus rendering them susceptible to immune lysis by antibody and cell-mediated immunity directed against the parasite. BALB/c mice infected with T. cruzi for 15 days developed cytotoxic T lymphocyte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ribeiro Dos Santos R,Hudson L

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG subclass distribution of thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb) has been studied in Hashimoto and Graves' patients by several investigators with conflicting results, in part explainable by methodological problems. We have recently developed a quantitative ELISA to measure in absolute terms the serum concentration of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Caturegli P,Kuppers RC,Mariotti S,Burek CL,Pinchera A,Ladenson PW,Rose NR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytotoxic activity has been found by previous investigators in multiple sclerosis (MS) sera. We confirmed the presence of this activity in MS sera using techniques designed to eliminate possible sources of erroneous conclusion not considered in previous studies. We further characterized this activity and found i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Scott CF,Spitler LE

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that the LAD-4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed against a fibronectin receptor (FNR) on RL-male-1 T lymphoma cells in BALB/c mice partially inhibited their migration to the liver. In the present study, we examined the mechanism by which another anti-FNR mAb, LAD-1, exerts its antitumourig...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ito M,Omoto S,Kato Y,Hayashi T,Mori N,Fujii YR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells were enriched from adenoids of children with otitis media with effusion (OME) by density gradient centrifugation and culture techniques. An enrichment of 40-140-fold was obtained for dendritic cells. These cells were identified using morphology, enzyme cytochemistry, immunocytochemistry and functional ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van Nieuwkerk EB,van der Baan S,Richters CD,Kamperdijk EW

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are considered to be immunologically mediated disorders that share certain features with murine models of colitis. Whether any of these models are physiologically relevant to the human condition remains controversial. The hypothesis is that increased amounts of antibodi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ebert EC,Panja A,Das KM,Praveen R,Geng X,Rezac C,Bajpai M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional impairments of polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMN) are believed to contribute to hampered inflammation and host defence in alcoholics. We studied effects of i.v. ethanol administration on PMN responses in rabbits during induction of a knee-joint synovitis. The synovitis conferred systemic effects, since ch...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nilsson E,Thomsen P,Ericson L,Palmblad J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte autoantibodies in NZB mice react by hemagglutination methods with exposed and hidden red cell antigens. The hidden antigens can be exposed by treatment with proteolytic enzymes. By indirect immunofluorescence one antibody population can be shown to react with modified red cells. In the present study the lo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Linder E

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay for complement-dependent antibody-mediated cytolysis of Plasmodium yoelii infected mouse erythrocytes was designed. By means of a rat hyperimmune serum to P. yoelii the presence of parasite associated antigens was demonstrated on erythrocytes from P. yoelii infected mice. Tests with such erythrocytes fraction...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gabriel J,Berzins K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell mediated immunity (CMI) to hepatitis B viral antigens was studied in BALB/mice after immunization with purified hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), or core antigen (HBcAg), with adjuvants. The two in vitro assays for cell-mediated immunity (CMI), utilizing lymph node cells, were release of interferon after expos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： De Moerloose PA,Frazer IH,Sewell WA,Collins EJ,Mackay IR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight genetically different strains of mice were compared regarding the dissemination of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis to the lungs, liver and omentum/pancreas, DTH responses and specific antibody production at 16 weeks after intraperitoneal infection with Pb18, a virulent P. brasiliensis isolate. The degree of dissem...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Singer-Vermes LM,Sakamoto TN,Vaz CA,Calich VL

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has always been known that anti-tissue transglutaminase 2 (anti-TG2) antibodies are produced in the small intestine. Their serum titres correlate with mucosal damage degree and decrease on a gluten-free diet (GFD). We aimed to correlate intestinal anti-TG2 antibodies levels with degree of mucosal damage and GFD dur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tosco A,Auricchio R,Aitoro R,Ponticelli D,Primario M,Miele E,Rotondi Aufiero V,Discepolo V,Greco L,Troncone R,Maglio M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) has been found to be up-regulated in cytokine-stimulated mesangial cells (MC) and in experimental glomerulonephritis. Since direct toxicity of nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in damage of bacteria, neoplastic and intact pancreatic cells, we investi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hruby Z,Beck KF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of soluble IL-2Ralpha (sIL-2Ralpha) in serum were measured in HTLV-1 carriers and ATL patients in order to evaluate their possible correlation with clinical status. Mean sIL-2R levels in ATL patients were found to be 9704 U/ml for the acute/lymphoma type, 1961 U/ml for the chronic type and 788 U/ml for the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Araki K,Harada K,Nakamoto K,Shiroma M,Miyakuni T

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients display a wide array of anomalies in peripheral immune tolerance mechanisms. The role of ubiquitin ligases such as Cbl-b has been described recently in these phenomena. However, its role in resistance to suppression phenotype in SLE has not been characterized, w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Romo-Tena J,Rajme-López S,Aparicio-Vera L,Alcocer-Varela J,Gómez-Martín D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperlipidaemia accompanies chronic renal disease either as a consequence of the renal dysfunction or as part of generalized metabolic derangements. Under both situations, the lipid profile is characterized by accumulation of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TGRLs). This lipid profile is recognized as a risk factor for...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Saja MF,Cook HT,Ruseva MM,Szajna M,Pickering MC,Woollard KJ,Botto M

更新日期：2018-06-01 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