Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in acute hepatitis B and in chronic active hepatitis.

abstract：:Monoclonal anti-dermatan sulphate antibodies were produced with hybridization after immunizing BALB/c mice with dermatan sulphate (DS). These antibodies were tested for cross-reactivity to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) and heat-denatured DNA (ssDNA). Five clones had binding activity to DS, dsDNA and ssDNA in enzyme-link...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ohnishi K,Sagawa A,Nakabayashi T,Ohmoto A,Megumi,Yoshikawa M,Watanabe I,Mukai M,Yasuda I,Nakagawa S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-schistosomular humoral responses of guinea-pigs vaccinated with radiation-attenuated cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni have been investigated in vitro. The sera of vaccinated animals contain schistosomulicidal complement-fixing antibodies which peak in titre at week 5 after vaccination and predominantly consis...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gordon JR,McLaren DJ

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is characterized by defective cellular transport of the dibasic amino acids, secondary dysfunction of the urea cycle, aversion to dietary protein, failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly and osteoporosis. Because several patients have suffered from recurrent respiratory infections and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lukkarinen M,Parto K,Ruuskanen O,Vainio O,Käyhty H,Olander RM,Simell O

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A T helper (Th) 1 immune response is important for host defense against tuberculosis. The multidrug resistance protein (Mrp) 1 is constitutively present at low levels on Th2 lymphocytes, and is expressed on Th1 lymphocytes upon activation. To determine the role of Mrp1 in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, Mrp1 deficie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Verbon A,Leemans JC,Weijer S,Florquin S,Van Der Poll T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The era prior to 1990 was a time of careful observation of disease presentation, course, outcomes and meticulous pathology studies. These mainly single-centre studies introduced new life-saving therapies for drugs still used effectively today. In the 1970-1980s, cyclophosphamide (CyP) added to glucocorticosteroids (GC...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman GS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement activation with formation of biologically potent mediators like C5a and the terminal C5b-9 complex (TCC) contributes essentially to development of inflammation and tissue damage in a number of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. A particular role for complement in the ischaemia/reperfusion injury of the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harboe M,Ulvund G,Vien L,Fung M,Mollnes TE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GC) play an important role in the treatment of inflammatory diseases like asthma. However, in selected patients a relative resistance to GC has been reported. Recently, it has been suggested that GC sensitivity of peripheral blood leucocytes may be regulated in a dynamic fashion during exercise, in as...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Smits HH,Grünberg K,Derijk RH,Sterk PJ,Hiemstra PS

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are estimated to be approximately 1500 people in the United Kingdom with C1 inhibitor (C1INH) deficiency. At BartsHealth National Health Service (NHS) Trust we manage 133 patients with this condition and we believe that this represents one of the largest cohorts in the United Kingdom. C1INH deficiency may be her...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Manson AL,Price A,Dempster J,Clinton-Tarestad P,Greening C,Enti R,Hill S,Grigoriadou S,Buckland MS,Longhurst HJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During pathogenesis of diabetes, pancreatic islets are exposed to high levels of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators that induce deterioration of insulin-producing beta cells. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) plays a key role in the onset and development of several immunoinflammatory diseases and al...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stojanovic I,Saksida T,Nikolic I,Nicoletti F,Stosic-Grujicic S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sensitive IL-1-dependent T cell clone we estimated interleukin 1 (IL-1)-like activity in a variety of synovial fluids (SF). Although we demonstrate that SF contains potent inhibitors of endogenous and exogenous IL-1 we were able to estimate that samples from rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and other arthr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hopkins SJ,Humphreys M,Jayson MI

更新日期：1988-06-01 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

abstract：:The 20-kD homologous restriction factor (HRF20), which is identical to CD59, is a membrane-associated protein which inhibits the reaction of C9 to form membrane attack complex (MAC) of homologous complements. In various human glomerular diseases deposition of complement components is frequently seen and MAC is reporte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tamai H,Matsuo S,Fukatsu A,Nishikawa K,Sakamoto N,Yoshioka K,Okada N,Okada H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemorrhage produces alterations in macrophage, T and B cell function. In order to better define the mechanism for the effects of blood loss on immune response, we examined function of and cytokine production by purified T cells, CD4+ and CD8+ subpopulations after blood loss. Whereas T and CD4+ cells from control, unh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Abraham E,Chang YH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal population of gamma delta T cell receptor (TCR)-bearing cells was characterized with regard to V delta and V gamma subtype expression. For this purpose, we utilized V gene-specific PCR of mRNA prepared from intestinal biopsies. Predominant expression of the V delta 1 subtype was demonstrated in the smal...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bucht A,Söderström K,Esin S,Grunewald J,Hagelberg S,Magnusson I,Wigzell H,Grönberg A,Kiessling R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages play a central role in inflammation and host defence against microorganisms, but they also participate actively in the resolution of inflammation after alternative activation. However, it is not known whether the resolution of inflammation requires alternative activation of new resting monocytes/macrophage...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Porcheray F,Viaud S,Rimaniol AC,Léone C,Samah B,Dereuddre-Bosquet N,Dormont D,Gras G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in the role of T cell exhaustion and it is well known that the natural history of chronic hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is modulated by CD8(+) T cell immunobiology. There are many pathways that alter the presence of exhaustive T cells and, in particular, they are functionally impaired ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sumida K,Shimoda S,Iwasaka S,Hisamoto S,Kawanaka H,Akahoshi T,Ikegami T,Shirabe K,Shimono N,Maehara Y,Selmi C,Gershwin ME,Akashi K

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two brothers with marked leucopenia, lymphopenia, no immunologicl response to infections (no Ig production, negative PHA response and very low number of T and B lymphocytes in peripheral blood) and hypocellular marrow. They died at 12 and 8 days of life with infection (E. coli and Klebsiella, respectively)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Español T,Compte J,Alvarez C,Tallada N,Laverde R,Peguero G

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary The interaction between stroma and blood cells in the human spleen has received little attention, despite their well-defined roles during blood cell development in bone marrow. We have reported previously that human spleen-derived fibroblasts display a differentiated myofibroblast phenotype and constitutively ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Briard D,Azzarone B,Brouty-Boyé D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breakpoint cluster region-Abelson murine leukaemia viral oncogene homologue 1 (BCR-ABL1), encoded by the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, is the characteristic of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and a subset of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). We demonstrated that expression of the Ik6 transcript, which lacked exons ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dong Y,Liu F,Wu C,Li S,Zhao X,Zhang P,Jiao J,Yu X,Ji Y,Zhang M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an immunological treatment that has been used for more than 40 years to cure a variety of diseases. The procedure is associated with serious side effects, due to the severe impairment of the immune system induced by the treatment. After a conditioning regimen with hig...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bemark M,Holmqvist J,Abrahamsson J,Mellgren K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effect of the probiotic strain Lactobacillus plantarum 299v on the immune functions of gnotobiotic rats. One group of germ-free rats was colonized with the type 1-fimbriated Escherichia coli O6:K13:H1 and another group with the same E. coli strain together with L. plantarum 299v. One and 5 weeks af...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Herías MV,Hessle C,Telemo E,Midtvedt T,Hanson LA,Wold AE

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is an innate immune molecule present in blood and some mucosal tissues, which can influence microbial attachment and inflammatory responses of host cells during infection. In this study MBL was found to be present at a low concentration in semen samples in the range 1.2-24.9 ng/ml. Co-incu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wing JB,Jack DL,Lee ME,Pacey AA,Kinghorn GR,Read RC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement receptor 2 (CR2, CD21), the receptor for both the C3d,g portion of human complement component C3 and the Epstein-Barr virus, has been recently described on peripheral T cells. By using dual stain flow cytometric analysis, we have also observed that a peripheral T lymphocyte subpopulation of normal healthy d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Levy E,Ambrus J,Kahl L,Molina H,Tung K,Holers VM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver-specific protein (LSP) prepared by standard methods from five normal human livers showed significant variations in terms of quantitative yield, lipid/protein ratio and migration characteristics of different components on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This heterogeneity is probably related to varying am...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lebwohl N,Gerber MA

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis. Historically believed to be a relatively rare human disease in tropical countries, a recent study estimated that, worldwide, there are approximately 165 000 human melioidosis cases per year, more than half of whom die. The bacterium is inherently resista...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Morici L,Torres AG,Titball RW

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that rabbit anti-mouse immunoglobulin sera (anti-Ig) which kill non-activated B lymphocytes in the presence of complement, are incapable of doing so when the cells are activated by antigen or mitogen into mitosis. Results reported here indicate that the resistance is not dependent on either...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kerbel RS,Birbeck MS,Robertson D,Cartwright P

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed on eleven patients with inflammatory bowel disease to determine if there was an alteration in concanavalin A (Con A) induced suppressor cell activity. Similar investigations were also performed on twenty-one control subjects and five patients with other inflammatory conditions. Supressor cells w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hodgson HJ,Wands JR,Isselbacher KJ

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte-enriched mononuclear cell fractions were obtained from the peripheral blood of four healthy young adults. Living B cells with membrane immunoglobulin (Ig) were studied by immunofluorescence to reveal exposed J-chain determinants or surface affinity for the secretory component (SC). Alcohol-fixed cell smears...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brandtzaeg P

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have produced monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) to the Rb core and lipid A regions of Salmonella lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and have assessed their ability to inhibit LPS-mediated mitogenic responses in vitro, and to protect against LPS toxicity and lethal Salmonella infection in vivo. Monoclonal antibodies RC-8 and RC-16...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ward DC,Michalek SM,McGhee JR

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic value of using the copy number of propionibacterial rRNA as a biomarker for sarcoidosis. Ribosomal RNA of Propionibacterium acnes and P. granulosum was measured by real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using formalin-fixe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhou Y,Wei YR,Zhang Y,Du SS,Baughman RP,Li HP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00