Thymus changes in experimentally induced myasthenia gravis.

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) accumulation in the retrobulbar space of patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) has been documented in a number of immunohistochemical studies. In order to gain further insight into possible immunopathogenic mechanisms, the influence of humoral immunity on retrobulbar fibroblasts...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kahaly G,Stover C,Otto E,Beyer J,Schuler M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinase 3 (PR3)-specific antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (PR3-ANCA) recognize conformational epitopes on PR3. This study evaluates PR3-ANCA target epitopes utilizing a novel recombinant PR3 (rPR3) produced to accommodate manipulations of the N-terminal domain. The rPR3 molecule contains an N-terminus six ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Farrag L,Pendergraft WF 3rd,Yang JJ,Jennette JC,Falk RJ,Preston GA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for methods to improve the diagnosis, patient staging and evaluation of therapeutic response in patients with autoimmune conditions to improve patient care. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two inflammatory diseases characterized by involvement of innate and adaptive i...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： McBride HJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of maternal systemic autoimmune diseases on pregnancy outcome is not unequivocally defined. We analysed the pregnancy outcome of 221 pregnancies from 181 autoimmune patients, consecutively followed in a single Italian reference centre from 2001 to 2009. All patients were prospectively followed with monthly ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Canti V,Castiglioni MT,Rosa S,Franchini S,Sabbadini MG,Manfredi AA,Rovere-Querini P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosuppression is the mainstay of treatment for myasthenia gravis (MG). In this paper, we review the mechanisms of action and clinical application of corticosteroids and different classes of immunosuppressive drugs that are currently used in MG patients, and present the results of their use in more than 1000 patien...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sanders DB,Evoli A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental agents have been implicated in the pathogenesis of insulin dependent diabetes (IDD). These studies were designed to learn if dietary protein influences the development of IDD in the BB rat. Specifically, analysis involved the effects of substituting a modified, semi-synthetic diet (AIN-76) containing soy...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Atkinson MA,Winter WE,Skordis N,Beppu H,Riley WM,Maclaren NK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-beta1 is a pleiotropic cytokine, which prevents inappropriate autoimmune responses and balances the requirements of proper immune cell levels during pathologic states that trigger the immune response. We assessed the serum levels of TGF-beta1 and determined the relationship between TGF-beta1 and clinical parameter...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mieliauskaite D,Venalis P,Dumalakiene I,Venalis A,Distler J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study uses the agent-based model IMMSIM to simulate immune responses to a viral infection, with a focus on the impact of preformed memory (homologous and heterologous) on the quality and the efficacy of the response. The in machina results confirm the observed thwarting of new, naïve responses exerted by c...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pearson YE,Cheng Y,Selin LK,Puzone R,Celada F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonuclease1 (DNase1) is involved in chromatin degradation of apoptotic cells. Its deficiency results in accumulation of self-DNA, which in turn may induce inflammation and autoimmunity. We assessed for the first time serum DNase1-activity in a large consecutive cohort of treatment-naïve patients with autoimmune...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Gatselis NK,Vakrakou AG,Zachou K,Androutsakos T,Azariadis K,Hatzis G,Manoussakis MN,Dalekos GN

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of malaria immune persons from Eastern India were found to possess antibodies to the ribosomal phosphoprotein P0 (PfP0) of the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The characterization of PfP0 has been reported recently, and it has been shown that antibodies against PfP0 inhibit P. falciparum ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Singh S,Chatterjee S,Sohoni R,Badakere S,Sharma S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 1beta (IL-1) is cytotoxic to rat pancreatic beta-cells in vitro, and increased expression of IL-1 mRNA is found in the islets of Langerhans during development of diabetes in BB/Wor/Mol-BB2 (BB-DP) rats and NOD mice. It has been proposed that IL-1 induces a race between protective and deleterious proteins i...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Christensen UB,Larsen PM,Fey SJ,Andersen HU,Nawrocki A,Sparre T,Mandrup-Poulsen T,Nerup J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune thyroid disorders, or AITDs, comprise 2 related disorders, Graves' disease and Hashimoto thyroiditis. In AITD, immune system produces antibodies against autothyroid antigens. The etiology of AITDs involves a complex interaction between genetic predisposing factors and environmental triggering factors. V...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Alkhateeb A,Jarun Y,Tashtoush R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) is expressed on alveolar epithelium and participates to CO2 elimination, fluid secretion and post-capillary pH regulation. CAII is overexpressed in animal models of lung fibrosis in sites of epithelial injury. Autoantibodies directed against CAII (anti-CAII) have been described in sera fro...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Alessandri C,Bombardieri M,Scrivo R,Viganego F,Conti F,de Luca N,Riccieri V,Valesini G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous groups have now validated high-throughput approaches to autoantibody profiling in a variety of systems. Recently, we have used autoantigen microarray technology to identify distinct autoantibody profiles in H-2 congenic MRL/lpr mice (Sekine et al., manuscript in preparation), and we are expanding this platfor...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Graham KL,Robinson WH,Steinman L,Utz PJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that cationic anti-DNA antibodies have nephritogenic potential in murine models of lupus nephritis. More recently, we have reported that there is a close relationship between the presence of circulating cationic anti-DNA antibodies and the development of lupus nephritis in humans, and that the cation...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Suzuki N,Otuka I,Harada T,Mizushima Y,Sakane T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pemphigus vulgaris is a potentially fatal autoimmune mucocutaneous disease associated with production of IgG autoantibodies to desmoglein 3, a 130 kDa epidermal protein. To further characterize the epitope(s) of pemphigus vulgaris antigen we established two human-human hybridoma by fusion of the peripheral blood monon...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bhol KC,Ahmed AR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is postulated to be a target autoantigen in multiple sclerosis (MS). Here we investigated the encephalitogenicity of an immunodominant epitope of MOG, peptide 35-55, in various strains of mice. An MS-like disease was induced in NOD/Lt mice (H-2g7) and C57BL/6 mice (H-2b) by a ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Slavin A,Ewing C,Liu J,Ichikawa M,Slavin J,Bernard CC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, multi-level complex behavior and reactive nature of biological systems, has been a focus point for the biomedical community. We have developed a computational approach, termed Reactive Animation (RA) for simulating such complex biological systems. RA is an approach for describing the dynamic char...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Vainas O,Harel D,Cohen IR,Efroni S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of autoantibodies (aAbs) to thyroglobulin (TG) and thyroperoxidase (TPO) in most of the patients with autoimmune thyroid disease is now well documented. Studies of these aAbs suggested that some, termed TGPO aAbs, could interact with both TG and TPO. This hypothesis was investigated using IgG fraction fro...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Ruf J,Ferrand M,Durand-Gorde JM,Carayon P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms in the upstream regulatory region of the HLA class II DQA1 gene are currently defined by 10 different alleles. Two of them carrying a Y-box mutation are associated with susceptibility to oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (OA-JIA). We investigated allele-dependent differences in HLA-DQA1 gene e...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Haas JP,Metzler M,Frank C,Haefner R,Wassmuth R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are a sensitive and specific marker for ANCA-associated systemic vasculitis. Using indirect immunofluorescence on ethanol-fixed neutrophils, two major fluoroscopic patterns can be recognised: a diffuse cytoplasmic staining (C-ANCA), and a perinuclear/nuclear staining (P-ANC...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Radice A,Sinico RA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is now generally accepted as an autoimmune inflammatory disorder of the extraocular muscles and the orbital connective tissue, its aetiopathogenesis remains poorly understood. Recent data indicate that impaired interactions between T cells and extracellular matrix (ECM)...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bednarczuk T,Kiljanski J,Mrowiec T,Slon M,Ing E,Stolarski C,Kennerdell JS,Gorski A,Nauman J,Wall JR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological basis for autoimmunity and immunoincompetence in the BB rat has yet to be localized. In spite of normal thymic histology, thymocyte subsets and blastogenesis, thymus gland products (thymosins) have yet to be studied. In the present report, thymus gland function was studied by measuring thymosin alpha 1 ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Winter WE,Robbins V,Elder M,Barrett D,Martin N,Maclaren NK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is an autoimmune disease of the eye muscle (EM) and the surrounding orbital connective tissue in which circulating antibodies play an important role. Antibodies against EM membrane proteins of 63-67kDa mol. wt. seem to be the best markers of ophthal...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Gunji K,Kubota S,Stolarski C,Wengrowicz S,Kennerdell JS,Wall JR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) offers the unique opportunity to replace a diseased hematopoietic or immune system by healthy donor cells. Proof of principle comes from experimental animal data, from the experience with severe aplastic anemia, from observations of patients with concomitant au...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Gratwohl A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-1 inhibits the function of insulin-producing rat pancreatic beta-cells in vitro and in vivo, and it has been postulated that the IL-1 effect is mediated through the cytokine inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase. IL-1 inhibits the function of cultured human thyroid cells too, and in this study human th...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Rasmussen AK,Di Marco R,Diamant M,Feldt-Rasmussen U,Bendtzen K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantigen-reactive T lymphocytes have been implicated in the pathogenesis organ-specific autoimmune disease. Thyroglobulin (Tg) is one of the primary autoantigens associated with autoimmune lymphocytic thyroiditis (LT). These experiments investigated the pathogenicity of a lymphocyte line derived from spontaneously-...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Allen EM,Thupari JN

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There have been few reports on the association of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antigen (ANCA)-associated systemic vasculitides. METHODS:Here we present four cases of RA overlapping with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and Churg-Strauss syndrome (CS...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Szilasi M,Mátyus J,File I,Szücs G,Rákóczi E,Pfliegler G,Szabó Z,Végh E,Szekanecz Z

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the natural course of beta cell function in recent onset diabetes, a subgroup (n=157) of all incident cases (n=879) 15-34 years old, 1992-1993 in Sweden, and with positivity for at least one autoantibody of islet cell antibodies (ICA), glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies (GADA) or tyrosine phosphatase an...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Törn C,Landin-Olsson M,Lernmark A,Scherstén B,Ostman J,Arnqvist HJ,Björk E,Blohmé G,Bolinder J,Eriksson J,Littorin B,Nyström L,Sundkvist G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thalidomide is used in cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) refractory to conventional therapies. Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is the most severe side effect, but the incidence of PN and its relation to thalidomide dose are still unclear. OBJECTIVE:To prospectively evaluate the efficacy as well as the occurren...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Briani C,Zara G,Rondinone R,Iaccarino L,Ruggero S,Toffanin E,Ermani M,Ghirardello A,Zampieri S,Sarzi-Puttini P,Doria A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00