Complete functional C1q deficiency associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

abstract：:During routine immunofluorescence studies of the serum of a patient with Sjögren's syndrome and lymphoma we detected antibodies giving a cytoplasmic pattern which did not correspond to previously described patterns found for autoantibodies. Using different cells and tissues as substrates for indirect immunofluorescenc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rodríguez JL,Gelpi C,Thomson TM,Real FJ,Fernández J

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) has been recognized to possess diverse non-immunological effects on epithelial cells such as cellular growth and differentiation. We have previously demonstrated that IFN-gamma suppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-stimulated thyroglobulin (TG) synthesis in human thyrocytes through ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kung AW,Ma L,Lau KS

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of immunoregulatory cytokines IL-1 beta, IL-6, IL-12, tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) was studied with neonatal (cord blood) monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) after in vitro infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The expression of mRNAs for these cyto...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tsutsumi H,Matsuda K,Sone S,Takeuchi R,Chiba S

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an experimental contact sensitivity model in guinea-pigs, evidence is presented that hapten (DNCB or oxazolone) specific T lymphocytes may persist for several months in previous sites of inflammation. Immunological memory, revealed by accelerated contact skin reactions upon retesting with the hapten, was limited...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Scheper RJ,von Blomberg M,Boerrigter GH,Bruynzeel D,van Dinther A,Vos A

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Patients with common variable immunodeficiency disorders are monitored for liver function test abnormalities. A proportion of patients develop deranged liver function and some also develop hepatomegaly. We investigated the prevalence of abnormalities and types of liver disease, aiming to identify those at risk and det...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ward C,Lucas M,Piris J,Collier J,Chapel H

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the antigenic parts of the 16K protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, overlapping peptides according to the amino acid sequence of the 16K protein were synthesized. In total, 14 peptides of 20 amino acids in length with an overlap of 10 amino acids and two additional decapeptides (amino acids 31-40 and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Verbon A,Hartskeerl RA,Moreno C,Kolk AH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus, a ubiquitous fungus, is implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of clinically different allergic diseases in man, including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Peptide-based immunotherapy may offer an alternative treatment strategy for the management of allergic disease. The objective of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Svirshchevskaya EV,Alekseeva L,Marchenko A,Viskova N,Andronova TM,Benevolenskii SV,Kurup VP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural autoantibodies (NaAb) and IgG antibodies to tetanus toxoid (TT) were analysed in the sera of 38 children with active visceral leishmaniasis (VL) previously vaccinated with TT and in 30 healthy controls matched for sex and age. Patients exhibited high levels of NaAb to a panel of self antigens (tubulin, myosin,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Louzir H,Belal-Kacemi L,Sassi A,Laouini D,Ben Ismail R,Dellagi K

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Lymphocytes and plasma cells in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma, benign monoclonal gammopathy and Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia were investigated for their cytoplasmic immunoglobulin distribution. Anti-idiotypic sera were used as markers for monoclonality. Double-wavelength fl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Camp B,Reynaert P,Broodtaerts L

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3b-coated immune complexes adhere to the complement receptor 1 (CR1, CD35) on human erythrocytes. This multi-valent binding might be favoured by the known clustering of CR1 and by the multiple C3b-binding sites on each CR1. The size of the CR1 clusters correlates directly with the number of CR1/erythrocytes, and the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Madi N,Paccaud JP,Steiger G,Schifferli JA

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a persistent virus with oncogenic capacity that has been implicated in the development of aggressive B cell lymphomas, primarily in immunosuppressed individuals, although it can be present in immunocompetent individuals. Changes in the function and clonal diversity of T lymphocytes might be...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cárdenas D,Vélez G,Orfao A,Herrera MV,Solano J,Olaya M,Uribe AM,Saavedra C,Duarte M,Rodríguez M,López M,Fiorentino S,Quijano S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A syngeneic, monoclonal, anti-idiotype antibody, G6D9, was raised against the mouse monoclonal IgM HNK-1. G6D9, characterized as an IgG1-kappa, inhibits the binding of HNK-1 to the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). G6D9 does not interfere with the binding of various human monoclonal anti-MAG IgM to their specific ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schluep M,Page N,Burger D,Steck AJ

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Features of tissue damage in invasive amoebiasis, in particular polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) degranulation and vasculitis, bear resemblance to that seen in Wegener's granulomatosis, the latter being associated with the presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). We therefore tested sera from patie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pudifin DJ,Duursma J,Gathiram V,Jackson TF

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretory IgA antibody responses such as those directed against respiratory and enteric pathogens, may be impaired in protein-calorie malnutrition. In previous studies using a rat model of the mucosal immune response to cholera toxin, as little as 2 weeks of severe protein deprivation markedly impaired mucosal anti-to...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koster F,Pierce NF

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease primarily affecting cartilaginous joints but also extra-articular tissues such as the nose and upper respiratory tract. We have investigated extra-articular cartilage involvement in two commonly used animal models for RA, collagen-induced and pristane-induced...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hansson AS,Lu S,Holmdahl R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we described the occurrence of B cells producing polyspecific natural IgM with anti-tumour specificity in the spleen of non-tumour-bearing individuals as well as in fetal organisms. Immunoprecipitation and 2-D electrophoresis showed the binding of such antibodies to a 55-kD (pI 6.0) membrane surface glycoprot...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bohn J,Niemann B,Roggenbuck D,Döcke W,Jahn S

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By immunological screening of a cDNA library derived from protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus with IgE from patients with cystic echinococcosis (CE) and allergic manifestations, we isolated a protein identical to E. granulosus cyclophilin. The protein, named EA21, has close homology with Malassezia furfur cycloph...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ortona E,Vaccari S,Margutti P,Delunardo F,Rigano R,Profumo E,Buttari B,Rasool O,Teggi A,Siracusano A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with SCID disease have previously been successfully engrafted with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) obtained from normal individuals and from patients with various diseases. To determine whether SCID mice engrafted with SLE PBMC produced autoantibodies with specificities similar to those in the SLE...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ashany D,Hines J,Gharavi A,Mouradian J,Elkon KB

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoenzymatic assays were developed for the measurement of antibodies against mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan (LAM), a cell-free proteic extract (CFX) of Mycobacterium leprae, and the 38-kD protein antigen of M. tuberculosis. Sera from 108 leprosy patients, belonging to all clinical-immunological forms of the spectr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sousa AO,Henry S,Marója FM,Lee FK,Brum L,Singh M,Lagrange PH,Aucouturier P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigen specificity of anti-phospholipid antibodies in infectious mononucleosis (IM) was studied using ELISA for the detection of anti-beta2-glycoprotein I (beta2-GPI), anti-annexin V, anti-protein S and anti-prothrombin antibodies and TLC immunostaining for the detection of anti-phospholipid antibodies. This tech...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sorice M,Pittoni V,Griggi T,Losardo A,Leri O,Magno MS,Misasi R,Valesini G

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As Q fever is associated with an inflammatory syndrome, we determined circulating levels of inflammatory cytokines, cytokine antagonists, and activation markers of leucocytes in patients with acute Q fever and Q fever endocarditis. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and IL-6, but not IL-1beta, were markedly increased compar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Capo C,Amirayan N,Ghigo E,Raoult D,Mege J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costimulation of T lymphocytes by the leucocyte surface molecules CD80 and CD86 expressed on antigen-presenting cells (APC) is required for the development of T cell responses. The CD28 and CTLA-4 molecules on T cells serve as receptors for the CD80 and CD86 costimulatory antigens. We have examined the frequency of ex...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Melichar B,Nash MA,Lenzi R,Platsoucas CD,Freedman RS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and seventy-five sera from thirty-three patients with acute myeloid leukaemia, forty-two patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia and twelve patients with acute lymphatic leukaemia were examined by a radioimmunological technique for the presence of antibodies against single-stranded and double-stranded DNA....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Izui S,Lambert PH,Carpentier N,Miescher PA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb), a diagnostic hallmark of HT, is principally of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype, and it appears to be a response to thyroid injury. The aim of our study was to evaluate the distribution of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xie LD,Gao Y,Li MR,Lu GZ,Guo XH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high affinity form of the human IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) has two known components, the IL-2R alpha (p55) and the IL-2R beta chain (p75). We have previously shown that recombinant IL-2 (rIL-2) could induce the expression of the alpha-chain (p55) on T cells and thymocytes, and increase this expression following subopti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Reem GH,Han X,Marcelli A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated phenotypical differences in glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 autoantibodies (GADA) found in type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients, individuals at risk of developing T1D and stiff-person syndrome (SPS) patients. In a Phase II trial using aluminium-formulated GAD(65) (GAD-alum) as an immunomodula...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chéramy M,Hampe CS,Ludvigsson J,Casas R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal infection of mice with mycobacteria induces the persistent mobilization of neutrophils to the infected peritoneal cavities. The recruitment of the neutrophils was mediated by the immune system since it was enhanced by immunization and reduced in T cell-deficient nude and SCID mice. Anti-mitotic treatme...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Appelberg R

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00