A type 2 (Th2-like) pattern of immune response predominates in the pulmonary interstitium of patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA).

abstract：:By using OKT monoclonal antibodies; OKT3(pan T), OKT4(inducer/helper), OKT8 (suppressor/cytotoxic) and OKIa1, T lymphocyte subsets were examined in lymphocytes of patients with tuberculosis both before and after in vitro stimulation with purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD). In freshly obtained lymphocytes ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shiratsuchi H,Tsuyuguchi I

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence has shown that microRNA-126 (miR-126) has been involved in the development and function of immune cells, which contributed to the pathogenesis of related clinical diseases. However, the potential role of miR-126 in the development and function of CD4+ T cells remains largely unknown. Here we first foun...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chu F,Hu Y,Zhou Y,Guo M,Lu J,Zheng W,Xu H,Zhao J,Xu L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies recognizing infliximab (IFX) may develop in a proportion of treated patients, leading to loss of response or hypersensitivity reactions (HRs). T cell response to IFX has been poorly investigated. This paper was addressed to detect IFX-specific T cells in treated patients with inflammatory diseases developin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vultaggio A,Petroni G,Pratesi S,Nencini F,Cammelli D,Milla M,Prignano F,Annese V,Romagnani S,Maggi E,Matucci A,ABIRISK Consortium.

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:We explored the effects of local anaesthetics, which are proposed to affect the plasma membrane, on human natural killer (NK) cells. Human NK cell activity was inhibited by lidocaine and procaine in a dose-dependent manner. Procaine inhibited not only NK cytolysis but also the binding of NK cells to target cells when ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takagi S,Kitagawa S,Oshimi K,Takaku F,Miura Y

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration in rats during the development of autoimmune Heymann nephritis (HN) was studied using the fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) technique. The results were compared with those obtained by immunohistochemical studies of infiltrating T helper (T-h) and T suppressor/cytotoxic (T-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Grönhagen-Riska C,Honkanen E,von Willebrand E,Tikkanen I,Miettinen A,Holthöfer H,Törnroth T

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YKL-40 is secreted by macrophages and neutrophils and patients with bacterial infections have elevated circulating YKL-40. The aim was to evaluate changes in plasma YKL-40 (determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) at 0, 2, 4, 8, 24 and 32 h) in eight healthy volunteers after injection with Esherichia co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Johansen JS,Krabbe KS,Møller K,Pedersen BK

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A not only stimulates the synthesis and release of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone, but exerts various effects on haematopoietic cells, embryos, and fibroblasts. In the present study we have examined effects of activin A on IgE synthesis and cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yamashita N,Nakajima T,Takahashi H,Kaneoka H,Mizushima Y,Sakane T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children receiving anti-leukaemic therapy often become susceptible to severe herpesvirus infection. To investigate specific immunity to herpes simplex virus (HSV) in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), in first remission and receiving maintenance chemotherapy, we measured their HSV specific T responder ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tellez PA,Odom L,Hayward AR

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of allograft tolerance has been considered the ultimate goal in organ transplantation. Although numerous protocols to induce allograft tolerance have been reported in mice, a chimerism-based approach through donor haematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been the only approach to date that induced allogr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Oura T,Cosimi AB,Kawai T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parechymal cells (PC) were prepared by digestion of perfused, lavaged rat lung in a mixture of collagenase and DNase, and harvested on a discontinuous percoll gradient. The process yielded on average 1.0 X 10(8) viable cells/gram tissue. PC were pulsed with soluble antigen, and tested for their capacity to trigger ant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Holt PG,Degebrodt A,O'Leary C,Krska K,Plozza T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate prospectively the relationship between Yersinia enterocolitica (YE) infection and the development of overt autoimmune hypo- or hyperthyroidism (study A) and the de novo occurrence of thyroid antibodies (study B). This was a prospective cohort study of 790 euthyroid women who...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Effraimidis G,Tijssen JG,Strieder TG,Wiersinga WM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia is an endothelial disorder and TNF-alpha has fundamental effects on endothelial cells by several means, including altering the balance between oxidant and anti-oxidant, changing the pattern of prostaglandin production and affecting expression of several cell surface components. To determine whether TNF-a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chen G,R Wilson,Wang SH,Zheng HZ,Walker JJ,McKillop JH

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of the protein A-like activity of some strains of group A streptococci has thrown doubt on much previous work suggesting antigenic cross-reactions between these streptococci and mammalian tissues. The strains used in our previous studies have now been examined by the mixed reverse passive antiglobulin reac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kingston D

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few studies assessing the pathogenicity of human monoclonal anti-DNA antibodies. The use of SCID mice avoids the problem of rejection of the human hybridoma cells thus allowing in vivo assessment of human immunoglobulins. Using electron microscopy we have shown that the human IgG anti-dsDNA monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mason LJ,Ravirajan CT,Latchman DS,Isenberg DA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine immune system is not necessarily identical to it human counterpart, which has led to the construction of humanized mice. The current study analysed whether or not a human immune system contained within the non-obese diabetic (NOD)-Rag1(null) -γ chain(null) (NRG) mouse model was an accurate representation of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harris DT,Badowski M,Balamurugan A,Yang OO

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the histamine release from basophils in patients suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) (median 17.2 years of age) and compared the data with an age-matched group of healthy donors. No significant differences in the basophil counts were determined between the CF and control groups. However, the absolute his...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schönfeld W,Saak A,Steinkamp G,Van der Hardt H,König W

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allergenic properties of the proteins of two lyophilized fractions of fresh natural rubber latex obtained by ultracentrifugation, the C serum and the sedimented bottom or lutoid fraction, have been compared with those of the serum proteins of two samples of high ammonia latex (HAL) [A]HALS obtained from HAL stored...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kekwick R,Bhambri S,Chabane MH,Autegarden JE,Levy DA,Leynadier F

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we hypothesized that the granulomatous disorder sarcoidosis is not caused by a single pathogen, but rather results from abnormal responses of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) to conserved bacterial elements. Unsorted bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells from patients with suspected pulmonary sarcoidosis and hea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gabrilovich MI,Walrath J,van Lunteren J,Nethery D,Seifu M,Kern JA,Harding CV,Tuscano L,Lee H,Williams SD,Mackay W,Tomashefski JF Jr,Silver RF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I diabetes (T1D) is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease characterized by loss of tolerance to islet autoantigens, leading to the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells. Peripheral tolerance to self is maintained in health through several regulatory mechanisms, including a population of CD4+CD25hi naturally ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lawson JM,Tremble J,Dayan C,Beyan H,Leslie RD,Peakman M,Tree TI

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of pregnancy depends upon regulatory mechanisms that allow the fetus to survive and develop to term in the uterus, despite maternal immune cells' awareness of paternal alloantigens. At least some of these specific mechanisms are mediated by the effect of fetal trophoblast cells. In the present study we exa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Talayev VY,Matveichev AV,Lomunova MA,Talayeva MV,Tsaturov ME,Zaichenko IY,Babaykina ON

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-tubulin antibodies were studied in normal human serum either maintained at neutral pH to measure the free antibody activity (FAA) or treated at pH 2.8 to measure the total antibody activity (TAA): FAA + the antibody activity in the form of immune complexes (ICAA). Anti-tubulin antibody activities were assessed by...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bernier-Valentin F,Rabilloud R,Rousset B

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucosal candidiasis is one of the first opportunistic diseases in HIV-infected subjects. In order to understand the relationship between this disease and immunodeficiency to chemically defined, immunodominant Candida antigens, a mannoprotein fraction from C. albicans cell wall (GMP) was used to analyse proliferative a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Quinti I,Palma C,Guerra EC,Gomez MJ,Mezzaroma I,Aiuti F,Cassone A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against intracellular pathogens such as Mycobacterium leprae is critically dependent on the function of NK cells at early stages of the immune response and on Th1 cells at later stages. In the present report we evaluated the role of IL-18 and IL-13, two cytokines that can influence NK cell activity, in the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de la Barrera S,Finiasz M,Fink S,Ilarregui J,Aleman M,Olivares L,Franco MC,Pizzariello G,del Carmen Sasiain M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of NK T cells was measured in relation to the Th1/Th2 imbalance observed in RA. Peripheral blood samples of patients with RA (n = 60) and healthy controls (n = 36) were stained with anti-NK receptor 1A (anti-NKR-P1A), anti-CD56, and anti-CD3 MoAbs, and examined by three-colour flow cytometry. NK T (NKR-P1A+...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yanagihara Y,Shiozawa K,Takai M,Kyogoku M,Shiozawa S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the natural killer (NK) sensitive K562 cell line, enhanced NK cell cytotoxicity was demonstrable early in the course of acute hepatitis B while normal values were obtained in patients studied during convalescence. No evidence of enhanced NK activity was instead obtained in the course of acute non-A, non-B hepati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chemello L,Mondelli M,Bortolotti F,Schiavon E,Pontisso P,Alberti A,Rondanelli EG,Realdi G

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:The administration of the polyclonal activator HgCl2 (1 mg/kg i.p.) to Brown Norway (BN) rats on days 0, 2, 4 and 7 resulted in the cyclical production of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies, the first peak of which occurred at day 14 with a smaller peak at day 26. Glomerular anti-GBM antibody levels we...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Savige JA,Lockwood CM

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant SRBC rosette-forming cells were detected in samples of mitogen-stimulated human peripheral blood lymphocytes. When the concentrations of mitogens were varied, the amount of [3H]TdR incorporated by the lymphocytes also varied. In general, the higher the amount of [3H]TdR incorporated, the higher were the percenta...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yu DT

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review the authors discuss the evidence for T helper type 17 (Th17) cells as pathogenic T cells in autoimmunity. Studies with cytokine-deficient mice or blocking of interleukin (IL)-17, IL-21 and IL-22 have resulted in a conflicting data set. Although in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koenders MI,van den Berg WB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00