Expression and functional role of 1F7 (CD26) antigen on peripheral blood and synovial fluid T cells in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

abstract：:In vitro delayed hypersensitivity was studied in patients with either the chronic or the indeterminate phase of Chagas' disease. Normal healthy individuals were used as controls. The leucocyte migration inhibition test was applied using an antigen an extract of culture forms of T. cruzi or an extract of normal rat hea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Toledo Barros MA,Amato Neto V,Mendes E,Mota I

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an obligate pathogen that causes pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, pharyngitis and asthma in humans. It is well recognized that membrane lipoproteins are immunostimulants exerting as lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory responses upon M. pneumoniae ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo H,He J,Qin L,Chen Y,Chen L,Li R,Zeng Y,Zhu C,You X,Wu Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major subtypes of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) detected by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) are P-ANCA and C-ANCA. In patients with vasculitis, myeloperoxidase (MPO) is the major P-ANCA antigen and proteinase 3 (PR3) is the major C-ANCA antigen. BPI and azurocidin, which are also called 57-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yang JJ,Tuttle R,Falk RJ,Jennette JC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoregulatory role of histamine is presumably mediated by specific receptors on the plasma membrane of lymphocytes. However, using murine spleen cells and a whole cell assay commonly applied in hormone receptor studies, specific histamine receptors with an affinity higher than that of non-specific binding could...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang Y,Kristensen F,Joncourt F,Slauson DO,De Weck AL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-4 synergizes with signals delivered through CD40 both for the induction of CD23/Fc epsilon RII expression and for IgE synthesis. Moreover, engagement of CD40 on the B cell surface by MoAb overcomes the ability of interferons, transforming growth factor-beta, or anti-CD19 to inhibit IL-4-dependent change. We now rep...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Katira A,Knox KA,Finney M,Michell RH,Wakelam M,Gordon J

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method enabling direct enumeration of mouse T and B cells from cytocentrifuged cell smears is described. The acid alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase (ANAE) staining was used as marker for T cells. The distribution of the ANAE marker-carrying lymphocytes closely followed the percentual distribution of T cells in spleen ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ranki A,Tötterman TH,Häyry P

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of polyclonal and monoclonal anti-human IgE sera reacted with a panel of 11 selected IgA and IgM producing B lymphoblastoid cell lines (BLCLs) in cytoplasmic fluorescence, ELISA and immunoprecipitation assays. The reactions were discordant between the BLCLs and the individual antisera. The panel of 11 BLCLs w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hendriks RW,Thompson A,Kraakman ME,Drayer AL,Schuurman RK

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Mycobacterium leprae shares many protein antigens with other mycobacterial species, there is a degree of specificity in the T cell response to the organism. This is evident in the failure of cross-protection between mycobacterial species and the specific unresponsiveness to M. leprae in lepromatous leprosy pa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Adams E,Basten A,Prestidge R,Britton WJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood B lymphocytes, depleted of adherent cells, from 10 patients with multiple myeloma were cultured in the presence of PWM with autologous or donor T lymphocytes. The results show that: (1) co-cultures with allogeneic T lymphocytes produced more plasma cells than those with autologous ones; (2) the kappa/...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gobbi M,Caligaris-Cappio F,Campana D,Tazzari PL,Bergui L,Cavo M,Tura S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies against proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA) are used as diagnostic tools for patients with small vessel vasculitis (AASV). We have produced chimeric mouse/human PR3 molecules and investigate changes in reactivity over time and the possible relationship between epitope specificity and clinica...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Selga D,Segelmark M,Gunnarsson L,Hellmark T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-stage stimulation of SK activity of normal human peripheral blood lymphocytes by soluble factors was demonstrated. The first stage was initiated by factors present in supernatant derived from normal B-LCL cultures. Only cell lines which could induce SK activity in culture in an MLR-type reaction had the capacity t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hofman FM,Spina CA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous lysis of target cells sensitive to natural killer (NK) activity is accomplished in two distinct phases: (i) binding between target and effector cells and (ii) post-binding events leading to target cell destruction. To test the hypothesis that cell surface carbohydrate(s) might be involved in recognitiv...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vose BM,Harding M,White W,Moore M,Gallagher J

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridomas producing monoclonal antibodies that bind to determinants on myelogenous leukaemia blast cells were developed using fresh leukaemia blasts as immunogens. These monoclonal antibodies were used to quantitate the amount of a variety of antigens on both leukaemia and normal blood cells in a radioimmunoassay. Th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ball ED,Fanger MW

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of HLA class II glycoproteins by monocytes from HIV-infected individuals was evaluated. We found no differences in HLA-DR, HLA-DQ, or HLA-DP expression by freshly isolated monocytes from patients with clinical AIDS, HIV-infected patients without AIDS or from uninfected individuals. However, monocytes fr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zwilling BS,Darrow R,Mcpeek M,Laufman H,Pearl D

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of systemic infection with Candida albicans with a combination of an antifungal agent (i.e. fluconazole) and a thymus-derived immunostimulant (i.e. thymosin alpha 1 (T alpha 1)) in mice immunosuppressed by morphine treatments was investigated. In normal mice, fluconazole given after infection with 10(6) C. a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： di Francesco P,Gaziano R,Casalinuovo IA,Belogi L,Palamara AT,Favalli C,Garaci E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a debilitating and potentially fatal neuromuscular disease characterized by the generation of autoantibodies reactive with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChR) that cause loss of AChR from the neuromuscular endplate with resultant failure of neuromuscular transmission. A role for compleme...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chamberlain-Banoub J,Neal JW,Mizuno M,Harris CL,Morgan BP

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo studies in rats demonstrated that the binding of a highly cationic antigen (cationized human IgG, pI greater than 9.5) to glomerular polyanion could be significantly reduced by prior application of a small polycation, protamine sulfate. The degree of inhibition was dose dependent and the highest dose used, 4 m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Oite T,Shimizu F,Batsford SR,Vogt A

更新日期：1986-05-01 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：: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：:Live Mycobacterium lepraemurium or 60Co-gamma-irradiated organisms stimulated a very weak oxidative burst compared with similar numbers of heat-killed organisms or with live M. microti. This was found to reflect the poor uptake of the living organisms rather than an absolute failure to stimulate an oxidative burst. It...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brett SJ,Butler R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) gene result in XLA. Despite the large numbers of BTK mutations reported, no correlation can be made between the clinical phenotype and the gene defects. Analysis of Btk protein expression and activity in individuals with XLA was performed to characterize the relationship...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gaspar HB,Lester T,Levinsky RJ,Kinnon C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle is an attractive target for gene therapy and for immunization with DNA vaccines and is also the target of immunological injury in myositis. It is important therefore to understand the immunologic capabilities of muscle cells themselves. In this study, we show that proinflammatory stimuli induce the expression o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nagaraju K,Raben N,Merritt G,Loeffler L,Kirk K,Plotz P

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) and other colleagues have updated the multi-stage expert-opinion-based diagnostic protocol for non-immunologists incorporating newly defined primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs). The protocol presented here aims to increase the awareness of PIDs among d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Vries E,European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) members.

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized controlled trial of treatment with thymic humoral factor (THF) in 20 children with severe complicated acute measles infection, resulted in objective benefit as evidenced by improvement in the ESR and a fall in C-reactive protein, fewer complications and a reduced incidence of secondary herpes infection. A...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Beatty DW,Handzel ZT,Pecht M,Ryder CR,Hughes J,McCabe K,Trainin N

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with no detectable serum IgA (less than 20 mug/ml) and one patient with low serum IgA were compared to normal subjects. The number of circulating E-RFC was normal as was the lymphocyte DNA synthesis induced by PHA, Con A, and streptokinase-streptodornase. The patients had normal numbers of IgA-bearing ly...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Delespesse G,Gausset P,Cauchie C,Govaerts A

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease of children in North America. It is characterized by a massive immune activation and multi-system vasculitis, which evolves into a site-specific inflammatory response focused at the coronary arteries. Coronary artery (CA) inflammation leads to elasti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lau AC,Duong TT,Ito S,Wilson GJ,Yeung RS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyspecific IgG given intravenously at high doses (IVIG) is used for immunomodulatory therapy in autoimmune diseases such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and myasthenia gravis. It is assumed that the clinical effect is brought about in part by a modulation of mononuclear phagocyte function, in particular by an...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jungi TW,Brcic M,Kuhnert P,Spycher MO,Li F,Nydegger UE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor H is an abundant plasma glycoprotein that plays a critical role in the regulation of the complement system in plasma and in the protection of host cells and tissues from damage by complement activation. Several recent studies have described the association of genetic variations of the complement factor H gene (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Córdoba SR,de Jorge EG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated TNF-alpha secretory response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 13 uraemic patients undergoing regular haemodialysis with cuprophane membrane (CM). Sixteen healthy subjects and five uraemic patients under conservative therapy were also studied as controls. Cells of haemodialysis pat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Annenkov AY,Strokov AG,Baranova FS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is known for its capacity to induce CD11c(+) myeloid dendritic cells to promote T helper type 2 (Th2)-skewed inflammatory responses. Although increased expression of TSLP was reported in the lesional skin of limited numbers of patients with atopic dermatitis (AD), the relationships...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sano Y,Masuda K,Tamagawa-Mineoka R,Matsunaka H,Murakami Y,Yamashita R,Morita E,Katoh N

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00