Antibodies to small ribonucleoprotein and to 73-kD heat shock protein: two distinct markers of mixed connective tissue disease.

abstract：:The prolonged generalized lymphadenopathy syndrome (PGL) has been considered a prodromal condition to the Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), but the clinical, virological and immunological characteristics of patients who will develop AIDS are not known. We report on the immunological profile of intravenous dru...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： De Paoli P,Reitano M,Battistin S,Martelli P,Villalata D,Bergamo F,Tirelli U,Carbone A,Diodato S,Bosio R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:OTHER THEMES PUBLISHED IN THIS IMMUNOLOGY IN THE CLINIC REVIEW SERIES Allergy, Host Responses, Cancer, Type 1 diabetes and viruses, Metabolic diseases. SUMMARY:Initiation of a successful immune response requires a working set of sensors that detect any noxious agent within the cellular microenvironment and ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mankan AK,Kubarenko A,Hornung V

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effect of the anti-thyroid drugs (ATD), propylthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (MMI) on blastogenesis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from healthy subjects was studied in 72 hr PHA stimulated cultures. PTU in therapeutic concentrations (10 micrograms/ml) suppressed blastogenesis only when add...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goldrath N,Eisenstein Z,Bank H,Shoham J

更新日期：1982-10-01 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：:Previous findings have indicated that the major surface molecule of Leishmania, lipophosphoglycan (LPG), could abrogate HIV-1-induced syncytium formation and virus replication. In the present work, we were interested in characterizing this inhibitory process. Data from a new luciferase-based semiquantitative assay for...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Genois N,Barbeau B,Olivier M,Tremblay MJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment of guinea-pigs with cyclophosphamide (Cy) (300 mg/kg) 3 days before cutaneous infection with Leishmania enriettii caused an increased intensity of the lesion at the site of infection and an increase in the incidence of widespread metastases. Decreased levels of circulating antibody were found from the fir...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Belehu A,Poulter LW,Turk JL

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and the functional role of the CD26 (1F7) T cell surface molecule, an ectoenzyme which seems to represent a functional collagen receptor of T lymphocytes and to have a role in T cell activation, were analysed in both peripheral blood (PB) and synovial fluid (SF) T cell samples from patients with active ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Muscat C,Bertotto A,Agea E,Bistoni O,Ercolani R,Tognellini R,Spinozzi F,Cesarotti M,Gerli R

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of its potent inhibitory capacity on immune cells in culture, we wished to determine the ability of transforming growth factor (TGF) beta 1 to down-regulate immune responses in vivo. Preliminary experiments suggested that, at the doses used, systemic injection of soluble TGF beta 1 could not affect bacterial-i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Strassmann G,Bertolini DR,Eidelman O

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) is a diagnostic hallmark of HT. The aim of our study was to evaluate the avidity of TgAb in sera from HT patients with different thyroid functional status. Sera from 50 patients with newly diagnosed HT ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Gao Y,Li M,Xie L,Huang Y,Gao Y,Guo X

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile illness of early childhood, in which the activation of monocytes/macrophages plays a central role in the development of vasculitis during the acute stage of disease. In this study we investigated peripheral blood T cells of 10 patients with KD, focusing on the Th1 and Th2 imba...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Matsubara T,Katayama K,Matsuoka T,Fujiwara M,Koga M,Furukawa S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we reported the first known incidence of antibodies possessing catalytic sialidase activity (sialidase abzymes) in the serum of patients with multiple myeloma and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). These antibodies desialylate biomolecules, such as glycoproteins, gangliosides and red blood cells. Desialylati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tomin A,Dumych T,Tolstyak Y,Kril I,Mahorivska I,Bila E,Stoika R,Herrmann M,Kit Y,Bilyy R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine whether or not IFN-gammaR is associated with regulatory mechanisms on human eosinophil function, we examined the expression of functional IFN-gammaR on human peripheral eosinophils. In this study, peripheral blood eosinophils were obtained from seven normal controls and 12 patients (bronchial ast...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ishihara C,Ochiai K,Kagami M,Takashahi H,Matsuyama G,Yoshida S,Tomioka H,Koya N

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 25 years of research since HIV-1 was first identified in Paris, there have been great advances in our understanding of the virus and of the immune system. Practical advances include the early development of diagnostic tests of infection that made blood donation safe, and since 1996, combination anti-retroviral ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Weiss RA

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Ageing is a very complex process, the result of the dysregulation of multiple systems interacting in many ways. A prominent change occurring with ageing is related to the architecture and functioning of the immune system, viewed commonly as detrimental and termed 'immunosenescence'. However, age-associated changes may...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fulop T,Witkowski JM,Le Page A,Fortin C,Pawelec G,Larbi A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxazolone-induced colitis in mice has become a recognized model to study the efficacy of therapeutics targeting the immunological response underlying the development of inflammatory bowel disease. However, this model cannot be used when therapeutics designed to address human targets do not interact with the respective...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nolte T,Zadeh-Khorasani M,Safarov O,Rueff F,Gülberg V,Herbach N,Wollenberg A,Mueller T,Siebeck M,Wolf E,Gropp R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splenectomized patients are highly susceptible to infections with capsulated bacteria and an impaired response to vaccination with bacterial polysaccharides has frequently been observed in these individuals. Based partly on experimental animal data, an important role for the spleen in the production of specific anti-c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hammarström L,Smith CI

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence points to autophagy as an essential component in the immune response to tuberculosis. Autophagy is a direct mechanism of killing intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis and also acts as a modulator of proinflammatory cytokine secretion. In addition, autophagy plays a key role in antigen pro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ní Cheallaigh C,Keane J,Lavelle EC,Hope JC,Harris J

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Human polymorphonuclear cells (PMN) were found to adhere to a novel model of blood vessel wall-associated IgG. The internal surfaces of cellulose acetate hollow fibres, of comparable internal diameter to small blood vessels, were coated with normal serum human IgG, heat-aggregated IgG (HAIgG), laminin or fibrinogen. U...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： D'Arrigo C,Candal-Couto JJ,Greer M,Veale DJ,Woof JM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral immune response, especially IgG and IgA, is considered to be protective in the pathogenesis of periodontal disease, but the precise mechanisms are still unknown. Immunoglobulins arriving at the periodontal lesion are from both systemic and local tissue sources. In order to understand better the local immun...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kinane DF,Lappin DF,Koulouri O,Buckley A

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:Antibodies against cytomegalovirus-specific early antigens (CMV-EA) were followed in sera, obtained from fifteen immunosuppressed renal-allograft recipients. Eight patients (sixty-two sera) showed seroconversion 47--137 days post-transplantation. Five patients (forty sera) with CMV antibodies at the moment of renal im...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： The TH,Andersen HK,Spencer ES,Klein G

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is an important part of the innate immune defence. It contributes not only to local inflammation, removal and killing of pathogens, but it also assists in shaping of the adaptive immune response. Besides a role in inflammation, complement is also involved in physiological processes such as waste ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lubbers R,van Essen MF,van Kooten C,Trouw LA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we describe the in vitro transcription-translation of human melanocyte-specific protein Pmel17 cDNA and subsequent use of the resulting 35S-labelled Pmel17 in an RIA to analyse vitiligo sera for the presence of Pmel17 antibodies. Of 53 vitiligo sera examined in the assay, three (5.9%) were found t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kemp EH,Gawkrodger DJ,Watson PF,Weetman AP

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble form of CD23 (sCD23) was found in the urine from 12 normal individuals but was not present in 20 normal sera, suggesting that sCD23 produced by cells in tissues is eliminated in the urine. The sCD23 from urine differed in physicochemical properties from the sCD23 found in supernates from B-lymphoblastoid cel...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ling NR,Stevenson FK,Brown B

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) (also known as cicatricial pemphigoid) is a rare autoimmune mucocutaneous blistering disease that affects mucous membranes derived from stratified squamous epithelium and the skin. A subset of MMP affects only the oral cavity and is referred to as the oral pemphigoid (OP). MMP and OP a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mignogna M,Lanza A,Rossiello L,Ruocco V,Ahmed AR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproducibility of a simplified, sensitive and rapid agarose-cell droplet assay for leucocyte migration inhibition factor (LIF) activity was studied. Removal of T cells with anti-T-cell serum eliminated LIF activity, indicating that in humans it is probably the T cell that produces LIF. Cord blood lymphocytes prod...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hahn T,Levin S,Handzel ZT

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliable risk assessment for biotherapeutics requires accurate evaluation of risk factors associated with immunogenicity. Immunogenicity risk assessment tools were developed and applied to investigate the immunogenicity of a fully human therapeutic monoclonal antibody, ATR-107 [anti-interleukin (IL)-21 receptor] that ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xue L,Hickling T,Song R,Nowak J,Rup B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) results from death of insulin-secreting β cells mediated by self-immune cells, and the consequent inability of the body to maintain insulin levels for appropriate glucose homeostasis. Probably initiated by environmental factors, this disease takes place in genetically predisposed indivi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barcala Tabarrozzi AE,Castro CN,Dewey RA,Sogayar MC,Labriola L,Perone MJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00