Harmful and beneficial antibodies in immune thrombocytopenic purpura.

abstract：:An original representative of histamine-containing peptidomimetics L-glutamyl-histamine (L-Glu-Hist) was synthesized and characterized as a cytokine mimic leading to cellular responses of improved specificity. The energy-minimized 3-D conformations of L-Glu-Hist derived from its chemical structure resulted in stabiliz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Babizhayev MA,Semiletov YA,Lul'kin YA,Sakina NL,Savel'yeva EL,Alimbarova LM,Barinskii IP

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is associated with atherosclerosis and the organism has been identified in arterial lesions. To determine whether T lymphocyte-mediated immune responses to Chlamydia antigens within plaque could contribute to pathogenesis, we have derived T cell lines from atherosclerotic plaques of 32 p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Curry AJ,Portig I,Goodall JC,Kirkpatrick PJ,Gaston JS

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophils, added to fibronectin (FN)-coated polystyrene wells and exposed to tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), were found to exhibit a prolonged production of superoxide anion (O2-) after a lag period of approx 30 min. The O2- production, but not the cell adherence to FN, was completely inhibited by tw...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dapino P,Dallegri F,Ottonello L,Sacchetti C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described which can be used to quantitate class II MHC antigens (HLA-DR) expressed by cells within tissue sections. A mouse anti-human HLA-DR monoclonal antibody is directly conjugated to the fungal enzyme glucose oxidase. The enzyme, in the presence of its substrate can be used to reduce tetrazolium salts...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Collings LA,Tidman N,Poulter LW

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens (SAgs) are potent stimulators of T cells bearing specific Vbeta T cell receptors (TCR) and may play a role in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki syndrome (KS), although despite 15 years of intense study this area remains controversial. Because SAgs can cause Vbeta restricted T cell activation in the absence of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brogan PA,Shah V,Clarke LA,Dillon MJ,Klein N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatants of concanavalin A (Con A)-activated human spleen cells have been previously shown to inhibit polyclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) biosynthesis by pokeweed mitogen (PWM)-stimulated human spleen and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. In the present study, hydrocortisone was added at the beginning of in vitro cul...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ilfeld D,Krakauer RS

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fifty-seven healthy individuals a significant correlation ( r = 0.3, P < 0.05) has been found between responses of their lymphocytes to stimulation by PHA and by pooled lymphocytes in MLC. It is suggested that these tests quantitate the general status of T cell reactivity of individuals, and may be used in conjunct...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nanra SK,Boettcher B

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kinds of brush border antigens were isolated from pronase-treated rat tubular material by gel filtration, DEAE-chromatography and disc-electrophoresis, successively. One, a 0.05 M antigen which was eluted from DEAE-column with 0.05 mol of NaCl solution, has no nephritogenic ability when inoculated into homologous ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kawai H,Yano S,Naruse T

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory effect of prostaglandin (PG) E2 and a cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor on Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-induced macrophage cytotoxicity in a bladder cancer cell, MBT-2, was studied in vitro. BCG stimulated thioglycollate-elicited murine peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) to induce cytotoxic activity and to pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yamada H,Kuroda E,Matsumoto S,Matsumoto T,Yamada T,Yamashita U

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the association between factors regulating DNA methylation and the prognosis of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), we genotyped single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes encoding DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), DNMT3A, DNMT3B, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and methionine synthase reductase (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Arakawa Y,Watanabe M,Inoue N,Sarumaru M,Hidaka Y,Iwatani Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to test whether normal rat epiphyseal chondrocytes react with monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) detecting different markers of lymphoid cells. For this purpose, isolated chondrocyte and, for comparison, splenocyte cytosmears were exposed to a battery of different MoAbs followed by indirect immunop...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Malejczyk J,Romaniuk A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD44 is an adhesion molecule involved in a wide range of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. The standard form of CD44 (CD44S) is a 85-90-kD glycoprotein, but alternative splicing of RNA encoding 10 variable exons (V1-V10) can give rise to many different CD44 variant protein isoforms of higher molecular weight. CD...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takazoe K,Foti R,Tesch GH,Hurst LA,Lan HY,Atkins RC,Nikolic-Paterson DJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibody (MAB) 60.3 reacts with the beta chain (CD18) of lymphocyte function associated antigen (LFA-1), encoded by a gene on chromosome 21. We have used 60.3 to measure the expression of CD18 on lymphoblastoid cell-lines derived from persons with Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) by quantitative fluorescence ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Taylor GM,Williams A,D'Souza SW,Fergusson WD,Donnai D,Fennell J,Harris R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) was able to inhibit T cell proliferation induced in an autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (AMLR). The effect of CD4 MoAb on cellular proliferation appears to be directly exerted on CD4+ T lymphocytes, and to be due to inhibition of a post-activation event, since the CD4+ T cell prolife...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sakane T,Takada S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) participates in intracellular signalling cascades that mediate inflammatory responses. Therefore, the JNK signalling may be involved in gastric injury and inhibition of this pathway may form the basis of a new strategy for the treatment of gastric injury. The aim of this study was to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mitsuyama K,Tsuruta O,Matsui Y,Harada K,Tomiyasu N,Suzuki A,Takaki K,Masuda J,Handa K,Satoh Y,Bennett BL,Toyonaga A,Sata M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycobacterial antigens and the factors related to protection for the development of active tuberculosis are not known. In a natural model of tuberculosis, we studied 10 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis (non-protective immune response) and 38 healthy household contacts (protective immune response). We te...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Torres M,Mendez-Sampeiro P,Jimenez-Zamudio L,Teran L,Camarena A,Quezada R,Ramos E,Sada E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level and avidity of anti-DNA antibody in the serum of New Zealand Black/White (NZB/W F1) hybrid mice has been determined. The results show that there is an age and sex-related variation in the avidity of this antibody. In mice of both sexes, the avidity of circulating anti-DNA antibody increases up to 5 months of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Steward MW,Katz FE,West NJ

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary Herpes simplex virus (HSV) represents a smart pathogen, which displays both lytic and latent modes of interaction with its natural human host. In order to be optimally equipped for immune evasion and to reply to any attacks of the host during reactivation, HSV has developed a multitude of cleverly devised defe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Novak N,Peng WM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulatory effect of human milk proteins from colostrum and late milk on the proliferative response of human T lymphocytes activated by mitogens (OKT3 and leucoagglutinin from Phaseolus vulgaris) and alloantigens was studied. High concentrations (10-100 micrograms/ml) of crude colostral milk proteins had an inhibi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mincheva-Nilsson L,Hammarström ML,Juto P,Hammarström S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated lymphocyte subsets both quantitatively and functionally in children with nephrotic syndrome. Ten children had minimal change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS), seven had focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSGS) and four had recovered from MCNS. Two patients with FSGS had decreased OKT4+ cells and a decrea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Herrod HG,Stapleton FB,Trouy RL,Roy S

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of HLA-A*6802-restricted CD8+ T cells in chlamydial disease was investigated in human ocular infections. Peptides with predicted binding motifs for HLA-A*6802 were synthesized using sequences based on chlamydial antigens, major outer membrane protein (MOMP), macrophage infectivity potentiator (MIP) and heat s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mahdi OS,Whittle HC,Joof H,Mabey DC,Bailey RL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) have been postulated to contribute to the development of secondary complications in diabetes mellitus. In this study, CIC were measured in control rats and both insulin deficient and insulin treated streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. CIC were more prevalent in both groups of diabe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Abrass CK

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease of unknown etiology characterized by non-caseating granulomata, formed mainly from macrophages surrounded by lymphocytes and plasma cells. Using a novel method for the preparation of blood leucocytes for flow cytometry, we report increased expression of LeuCAMs (CD11/CD18) on perip...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shakoor Z,Hamblin AS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients display a wide array of anomalies in peripheral immune tolerance mechanisms. The role of ubiquitin ligases such as Cbl-b has been described recently in these phenomena. However, its role in resistance to suppression phenotype in SLE has not been characterized, w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Romo-Tena J,Rajme-López S,Aparicio-Vera L,Alcocer-Varela J,Gómez-Martín D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In reactive arthritis (ReA) there is specific proliferation of synovial fluid (SF) mononuclear cells (MNC) to the triggering bacterial antigen; comparatively little or no response is seen in peripheral blood (PB). To investigate the mechanism of this elevated local immune response, we examined patients with typical Re...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sieper J,Braun J,Wu P,Kingsley G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cell adoptive transfer is a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy; however, its development has been hindered by the lack of efficient methods to produce large numbers of functional NK cells. In this study, we engineered the leukaemia cell line K562 to express CD137 ligand (CD137L) and membra...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang X,Lee DA,Wang Y,Wang L,Yao Y,Lin Z,Cheng J,Zhu S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of surgery on the immune response (as measured by a variety of parameters) were examined in patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for benign disease. Two groups were assessed, one having the procedure performed under a general anaesthetic and the other under a spinal anaestheti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Whelan P,Morris PJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new disease which has spread rapidly and widely. We wished to know whether evaluation of in vitro cytokine production could contribute to improved understanding of disease pathogenesis and to better patient management. Numbers of unstimulated and mitogen-stimulated cytokin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jones BM,Ma ES,Peiris JS,Wong PC,Ho JC,Lam B,Lai KN,Tsang KW

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of thirty-nine children with recurrent infections, circulating antigens, either free or in the form of immune complexes, were detected in thirty. The ability of sera to inhibit the agglutination of latex by rheumatoid factor or the C1q component of complement was used as a test for the presence of immune co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Delire M,Masson PL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00