Asbestos related changes in pulmonary and systemic immune responses--early enhancement followed by inhibition.

abstract：:Mercuric chloride (HgCl2)-induced autoimmunity in Brown Norway (BN) rats is a highly polarized polyclonal Th2-driven autoimmune response with increased IgE production, lymphoproliferation, vasculitis and proteinuria. The increase in serum IgE concentration is clearly measurable by day 4 after the first HgCl2 injection...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Macphee IA,Turner DR,Yagita H,Oliveira DB

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 infections are considered a public health problem in both developed and developing countries because of their increasing incidence and the severity of clinical presentation. Approximately 10% of infected patients develop complications such as haemolytic uraemic syndro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brando RJ,Miliwebsky E,Bentancor L,Deza N,Baschkier A,Ramos MV,Fernández GC,Meiss R,Rivas M,Palermo MS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane activator and calcium modulator and cyclophilin ligand interactor-immunoglobulin (TACI-Ig) is a human fusion protein that binds and neutralizes both B lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS), a cytokine shown to be a key regulator of B cell maturation, proliferation and survival, and a proliferation-inducing ligand...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang D,Chang Y,Wu Y,Zhang L,Yan S,Xie G,Qin Q,Jin J,Wang W,Fang J,Wei W

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of thymic epithelial cells containing the serum thymic factor (FTS or thymulin), assessed by indirect immunofluorescence using an anti-FTS monoclonal antibody, was studied in the thymus of normal and autoimmune mice as a function of age. In normal mice the number of FTS+ cells was constant until the age of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Savino W,Dardenne M,Bach JF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benznidazole (BZL) is a nitroheterocyclic drug employed in the chemotherapy of Chagas' disease, a protozoan disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. Because this parasite mostly replicates in macrophages, we investigated whether BZL was likely to modify the synthesis of macrophage mediators such as nitrite, tumour necrosi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Revelli S,Le Page C,Piaggio E,Wietzerbin J,Bottasso O

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients with primary immunoglobulin deficiency were enrolled in a crossover study to test the efficacy and safety of Alphaglobin in comparison with the licensed preparations Sandoglobulin and Gamimune. There was no statistical difference in these parameters between Alphaglobin and Sandoglobulin/Gamimune. T...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zuhrie SR,Webster AD,Davies R,Fay AC,Wallington TB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with acquired hypogammaglobulinaemia usually have near normal numbers of B cells and normal T cell function. When hypogammaglobulinaemia occurs in association with thymoma, then B cell numbers have been reported as low, and distinctive T cells are present which inhibit immunoglobulin production by normal cell...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brenner MK,Reittie JG,Chadda HR,Pollock A,Asherson GL

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The controlled induction of haemoxygenase-1 (HO-1), an enzyme that catabolizes haem, has been shown to reduce haem, preventing pathologies associated with haem toxicity. The hemoglobin genotype HbAS confers reduced susceptibility to severe complications of malaria by a mechanism that is not well understood. Using a lo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ademolue TW,Amodu OK,Awandare GA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by synovial fibroblast hyperplasia and bone erosion. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) play a pivotal role in RA pathogenesis through aggressive migration and matrix invasion, and certain proinflammatory cytokines may affect synoviocyte invasio...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xing R,Jin Y,Sun L,Yang L,Li C,Li Z,Liu X,Zhao J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration and influx of 86Rb+ (K+ analogue) were determined during the first minutes after stimulation of neoplastic human B cells and B cell lines by antibodies to surface Ig. The Ca2+ concentration increased in the great majority of samples (41 of 48). All of four B cell lines also responde...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Heikkilä R,Ruud E,Funderud S,Godal T

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：:Here we describe the presence of IgG antibodies, in the sera of patients presenting with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), that react in Western blots with a 60-kD protein (Mr 60K) from rat hepatic microsomal extracts. Sera from 60 IDDM patients were screened and 31.6% were positive for the Mr 60K band. This...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pehuet-Figoni M,Alvarez F,Bach JF,Chatenoud L

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoplastic cells from 49 patients with B cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) were studied and compared with normal peripheral and tonsillar B cells using CD21 monoclonal antibodies. Membrane expression of CR2 was quantified by calibrated flow cytometry and by binding analysis with radiolabelled antibody. Both a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tooze JA,Bevan DH

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that multiple sclerosis (MS) is mediated by autoreactive T cells and that myelin basic protein (MBP) is one of the target autoantigens. The T-cell response to MBP has been analysed extensively, largely through the use of T-cell lines (TCL) and T-cell clones (TCC), and to date, three immunodomi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mazza G,Ponsford M,Lowrey P,Campbell MJ,Zajicek J,Wraith DC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that the functional state of the immune system at birth is predictive of the kinetics of immune maturation in early infancy. Moreover, this maturation process can have a major impact on early vaccine responses and can be a key determinant of risk for communicable and non-communicable disea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van den Biggelaar AH,Holt PG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly concentrated (20%) immunoglobulin (Ig)G preparation for subcutaneous administration (IGSC 20%), would offer a new option for antibody replacement therapy in patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDD). The efficacy, safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of IGSC 20% were evaluated in a prospecti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Borte M,Kriván G,Derfalvi B,Maródi L,Harrer T,Jolles S,Bourgeois C,Engl W,Leibl H,McCoy B,Gelmont D,Yel L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase platelet membrane enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for the detection of circulating platelet binding IgG in serum. 18 out of 28 (64%) sera from patients with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and 10 out of 21 (48%) sera from patients with acute ITP contained more pl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Winiarski J,Ekelund E

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement convertases are enzymatic complexes that play a central role in sustaining and amplification of the complement cascade. Impairment of complement function leads directly or indirectly to pathological conditions, including higher infection rate, kidney diseases, autoimmune- or neurodegenerative diseases and i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Blom AM,Volokhina EB,Fransson V,Strömberg P,Berghard L,Viktorelius M,Mollnes TE,López-Trascasa M,van den Heuvel LP,Goodship TH,Marchbank KJ,Okroj M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes have been investigated in jirds (Meriones unguiculatus) infected with the filarial nematode Brugia pahangi. Two-month-old male jirds were inoculated with seventy-five B. pahangi infective larvae into the left groin. At 8 months post-infection, sera of individual animals from a group of sev...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Karavodin LM,Ash LR

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to characterize the proinflammatory and T helper (Th)1/Th2 cytokine responses during acute parvovirus B19 (B19) infection and determine whether an imbalance of the Th1/Th2 cytokine pattern is related to persistent B19 infection. Cytokines were quantified by multiplex beads immunoassay in seru...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Isa A,Lundqvist A,Lindblom A,Tolfvenstam T,Broliden K

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pulmonary sarcoidosis, the typical T helper 1-mediated immune response in the lungs has been proposed to be co-ordinated by regulatory T cells; however, their exact role needs to be clarified. We used real-time polymerase chain reaction to study genes involved in regulatory T cell functions in CD4+ T cells isolated...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Idali F,Wahlström J,Müller-Suur C,Eklund A,Grunewald J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaphylaxis denotes an immediate hypersensitivity reaction to allergen, exclusively mediated by IgE antibodies. However, IgE antibodies do not explain all the syndromes that are encountered. We investigated potent IgG-mediated anaphylaxis in CD40-deficient mice that lack the immunoglobulin class switching for T cell-d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wakayama H,Hasegawa Y,Kawabe T,Saito H,Kikutani H,Shimokata K

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a link between increased allergy and a reduction of some infections in western countries. Epidemiological data also show that respiratory allergy is less frequent in people exposed to orofaecal and foodborne microbes such as Toxoplasma gondii. Infection with T. gondii induces a strong cell-mediated immunity w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fenoy I,Giovannoni M,Batalla E,Martin V,Frank FM,Piazzon I,Goldman A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because activation of the alternative pathway (AP) of the complement system is an important aspect of both age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we wished to address the question whether genetic risk factors of the AP inhibitor complement factor H (CFH) for AMD would also be risk factor...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Trouw LA,Böhringer S,Daha NA,Stahl EA,Raychaudhuri S,Kurreeman FA,Stoeken-Rijsbergen G,Houwing-Duistermaat JJ,Huizinga TW,Toes RE

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin A (Cy A) enhances immunoglobulin (Ig) production by EB virus stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes from normal subjects with prior immunity to EB virus. In 11 normal adults, this enhancement of Ig production correlated with T cell-mediated cytotoxic regression. Cultures from normal healthy adults without...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pereira RS,Gear AJ,Doré CJ,Webster AD

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into possible determinants of in vivo polyclonal B cell activation seen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we enumerated immunoglobulin secreting cells appearing in cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells that were stimulated with pokeweed mitogen (PWM) or a newly described polyclonal B cell activato...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pardo I,Carafa C,Dziarski R,Levinson AI

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed leucocyte culture blocking factor activity (MLC-BFA) in the plasma of haemodialysis patients appears as a result of recent blood transfusions and is concentrated in IgG fractions of the blocking serum. Four patients neither developed lymphocytotoxins nor MLC-BFA in spite of having received multiple blood transfu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sengar DP,Rashid A,Perelmutter L,Harris JE

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) are known to grow and proliferate in the liver while a splenectomy induces host resistance against a Listeria infection despite the fact that a splenectomy inhibits the Th1 response. Therefore, the mechanism by which a splenectomy helps to prevent the growth of Listeria still remains ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kuranaga N,Kinoshita M,Kawabata T,Shinomiya N,Seki S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been developed for separating eosinophils from other types of leucocyte in normal individuals. Erythrocytes are sedimented with dextran, and mononuclear cells are removed on an isotonic density gradient of ficoll and sodium diatrizoate. The eosinophils and neutrophils are then washed and sedimented onto p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tai PC,Spry CJ

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is an immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease that mainly affects the skin barrier. Treatment for psoriasis mainly includes conventional immunosuppressive drugs. However, long-term treatment with global immunosuppressive agents may cause a variety of side effects, including nephrotoxicity and infections. K...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Liu C,Liu H,Lu C,Deng J,Yan Y,Chen H,Wang Y,Liang CL,Wei J,Han L,Dai Z

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00