Envelope glycoprotein (gp120) from HIV-1 enhances Mycobacterium avium growth in human bronchoalveolar macrophages; an effect mediated by enhanced prostaglandin synthesis.

abstract：:2-Chlorodeoxyadenosine (cladribine, CdA) is an immunosuppressive drug that is licensed to treat hairy cell leukaemia, and has been shown recently to have beneficial effects in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The therapeutic effects of CdA have been suggested to be mediated partly through its potent toxicity tow...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Singh V,Prajeeth CK,Gudi V,Bénardais K,Voss EV,Stangel M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG) in soluble and particulate fractions of discrete tissue samples from multiple sclerosis (MS) brain was analysed. Supernatant IgG/albumin rations and particulate-bound IgG levels were highest in samples dissected from MS plaques and adjacent white matter. Acid extracts of particulate fractions fr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Glynn P,Gilbert HM,Newcombe J,Cuzner ML

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatants of both CD4+ and CD8+ alloreactive T cell clones induced IgM, IgG and IgA synthesis by peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of healthy donors in vitro. These supernatants were also tested on their capacity to induce immunoglobulin production by PBL of four patients with CVI and one patient with CVI and thym...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pastorelli G,Roncarolo MG,Touraine JL,Rousset F,Pene J,de Vries JE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular sensitization to rabbit liver specific lipoprotein (RLSP) has been investigated using a lymphocyte transformation test in patients with chronic active hepatitis (CAH). A stimulation index greater than 2 was recorded in twenty out of twenty-five cases (eight of ten HBsAg positive and twelve of fiteen HBsAg neg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ortona L,Laghi V,Cauda R,Nervo P

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phenotypic and functional analysis of the circulating natural killer (NK) cell population was carried out in a series of patients with hairy cell leukaemia (HCL). The overall mean NK activity of both the mononuclear and T cell fractions was reduced compared to that of normal controls (466 lytic units (lu) v 573 lu a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Foa R,Lauria F,Lusso P,Raspadori D,Fierro MT,Tazzari PL,Caudana L,Matera L

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an autoimmune hepatitis model of A/J mice which was prepared with immunization by syngeneic crude liver proteins, various influences of neonatal thymectomy were studied by observations of histological liver changes, autoantibody to liver-specific membrane lipoprotein (LSP), delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Watanabe Y,Kawakami H,Kawamoto H,Ikemoto Y,Masuda K,Takezaki E,Nakanishi T,Kajiyama G,Takeno H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-gamma is known to be a major inhibitor of IgE synthesis in vitro. Recent studies demonstrating reduced production of IFN-gamma in children and adults with atopic dermatitis and elevated serum IgE suggest a similar role for this cytokine in vivo. The reasons for this reduced IFN-gamma production are not known. One ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tang M,Kemp A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental data indicate a pathogenic role of complement activation in congestive heart failure (CHF). The aim of this study was to evaluate contact and complement systems activation in patients hospitalized for an acute episode of CHF. Forty-two of 80 consecutive patients admitted at our hospital with confir...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Suffritti C,Tobaldini E,Schiavon R,Strada S,Maggioni L,Mehta S,Sandrone G,Toschi-Dias E,Cicardi M,Montano N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frozen sections of control and coeliac jejunal mucosa were examined for HLA-DR staining. In general the staining pattern in the controls and treated coeliac patients was a patchy subapical pattern on villous tips. Untreated coeliac patients gave a different pattern with staining extending to the crypt enterocytes. Glu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ciclitira PJ,Nelufer JM,Ellis HJ,Evans DJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied immunological, serological and clinical abnormalities in 264 HIV-positive and HIV-negative drug abusers. Ninety percent of the 264 drug addicts (mean age 26 +/- 0.8 years) were found to have HIV antibodies and there was a significant increase (P less than 0.01) in the frequency of HIV antibody positivi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fernandez-Cruz E,Fernandez AM,Gutierrez C,Garcia-Montes M,de la Morena MT,Rodriguez-Villanueva J,Longo N,Zabay JM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation with thymosin fraction 5, (TMS F5 at 300 micrograms/ml) a partially purified thymic factor, reduced the steroid binding activity of human infant thymocytes from 9.6 +/- 2.1 fmole/ml to 5.0 +/- 2.0 fmole/ml. The glucocorticoid receptor activity in normal infant thymocytes was found to be 2,146 +/- 726 (s.d.)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ma DD,Ho AH,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by clonal B cell attack of the exocrine glands and dysregulated expression of B cell-activating factor (BAFF). Based upon the current data of increased rates of lymphoid malignancy, as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is associated with SS, we propose the dete...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Guzmán LM,Castillo D,Aguilera SO

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin (CsA) is widely used in the treatment of renal disease and transplantation, which are often complicated by alterations of lipid metabolism. Both chronic administration of CsA and hyperlipidaemia have been shown to evoke an early macrophage influx and have progressively led to glomerular and interstitial sc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Di Paolo S,Grandaliano G,Gesualdo L,Ranieri E,Schena FP

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After 3-4 weeks culture of human bone marrow cells in medium supplemented with IL-3, macrophage- (M-CSF), and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), the firmly adherent cells exhibited the morphologic features of mononuclear phagocytes and were strongly esterase-positive. Flow cytometric analysis r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Keller R,Keist R,Joller P,Groscurth P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune repopulation, despite virological failure, often occurs in children under highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). The aim of this study was to analyse the characteristics of immune repopulation and activation in children with and without virological response to HAART. Fourteen human immunodeficiency viru...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Anselmi A,Vendrame D,Rampon O,Giaquinto C,Zanchetta M,De Rossi A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of circulating anti-La(SS-B) antibody to the hypergammaglobulinaemia seen in primary Sjögren's syndrome is unknown. In this study levels of anti-La(SS-B) antibody directed against three immunodominant epitopes of the anti-La(SS-B) autoantigen were measured by ELISA in 84 anti-La(SS-B)+ sera using puri...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gordon TP,Greer M,Reynolds P,Guidolin A,McNeilage LJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is a mediator of inflammatory injury which is inhibited by glucocorticoids and is implicated in rheumatoid (RA) and adjuvant arthritis (AA). The glucocorticoid-induced anti-inflammatory molecule lipocortin 1 is expressed in RA synovium, but the effects of lipocortin 1 on synovial inflammation have be...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yang YH,Hutchinson P,Santos LL,Morand EF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of IL-6 on the development of autoimmune diseases (primary biliary cirrhosis, Sjögren's syndrome) employing murine graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) model with MHC class II disparity. For this purpose, we used IL-6 transgenic (B6.6) mice in which a high level of IL-6 was detected. C57Bl/6 (B6) s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kimura T,Suzuki K,Inada S,Hayashi A,Saito H,Miyai T,Ohsugi Y,Matsuzaki Y,Tanaka N,Osuga T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report studies undertaken to determine the contribution of seminal prostaglandins to some of the known immunosuppressive properties of human seminal plasma. Initial studies revealed that fractions of seminal plasma enriched in E series prostaglandins, obtained by reverse phase chromatography, had a pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Quayle AJ,Kelly RW,Hargreave TB,James K

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte transformation test has often been used as an in vitro test for nickel allergy. We have previously demonstrated the presence of nickel-reactive T cells in individuals with no history of allergic disease and with a negative patch test towards NiSO4. In this study, we show that this proliferative response was...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lisby S,Hansen LH,Menn T,Baadsgaard O

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaphylatoxins C5a and C3a and their des Arg derivatives inhibited C2 production by mononuclear phagocytes. C5a and C5adesArg which were approximately equipotent (IC50 = 10(-10) mol/l) were more effective than C3a (IC50 = 5 X 10(-8) mol/l) which was approximately 10-20-fold more potent than C3adesArg IC50 = 5 X 10(-6)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lappin D,Damerau B,Whaley K

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewis rats were immunized with bee venom allergen in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) or with FCA only. Animals immunized with bee venom developed specific IgG antibodies but no specific IgE antibodies were detected. Lymphocytes from lymph nodes when cultured with antigen in vitro showed an increased stimulation index...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schneider H,Urbanek R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied three patients with ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) and found two of them to have a normal mixed leucocyte culture stimulating and responding ability. However, all three patients and one parent had defective cell-mediated lympholysis (CML), even in the face of a potent proliferative response to allogeneic l...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Levis WR,Dattner AM,Shaw JS

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated enhanced synovial fluid (SF) antigen-presenting cell (APC) function in inflammatory arthritis patients selected on the basis of marked SF mononuclear cell (MNC) responsiveness to reactive arthritis-associated bacteria (Clin Exp Immunol 1990; 79:189-94). In this study we have assessed wh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Viner NJ,Gaston JS,Bacon PA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of human umbilical vein endothelial (HUVE) cells with the inflammatory mediators tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), interleukin-1 (IL-1), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and phorbol esters enhanced their adhesiveness for leucocytes. The appearance of an activation antigen ELAM-1, recognized by a monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Leeuwenberg JF,Jeunhomme GM,Buurman WA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the airways. Increased levels of T cells are found in the lungs after the induction of an allergic-like inflammation in rats, and flow cytometry studies have shown that these levels are reduced in CD26-deficient rats. However, the precise anatomical sites where these ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schade J,Schmiedl A,Kehlen A,Veres TZ,Stephan M,Pabst R,von Hörsten S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferative responses by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and rat spleen cells were measured to Pneumocystis carinii in a blastogenic assay using organisms obtained from rat lungs and propagated in tissue culture as the antigen. Responses occurred only in subjects with known prior exposure to P. carinii and ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hagler DN,Deepe GS,Pogue CL,Walzer PD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression in tissue and serum of a panel of murine and human common DNA antibody idiotypes (Ids) (BEG 2, PR 4, F-423, I-402, II-28, IV-228, V-88) has been investigated. The murine V-88 Id was detected in eight out of 10 and the human BEG 2 Id in five out of 10 labial biopsies from patients with Sjögren's syndrome...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Watts RA,Ravirajan CT,Wilkinson LS,Williams W,Griffiths M,Butcher D,Horsfall AT,Staines NA,Isenberg DA

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the prevalence of circulating immune complexes in sera from patients with mycobacterial infections. Sera from 68 percent of patients with active M. tuberculosis and 58 percent of patients with M. intracellulare infections had significantly elevated Clq binding activity (Clq-BA). In general there was a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carr RI,Chakraborty AK,Brunda MJ,Davidson PT,Damle PB,Hardtke MA,Gilbride KJ,Minden P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeking better immunological markers indicating the long-term outcome of cystic echinococcosis (CE) after chemotherapy we studied 23 patients receiving albendazole, clinically followed for 8 years, and grouped ultrasonographically according to therapeutic outcome. Antibody responses against a partially purified fracti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Riganò R,Ioppolo S,Ortona E,Margutti P,Profumo E,Ali MD,Di Vico B,Teggi A,Siracusano A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00