Glucocorticoid-induced alterations of monocyte defense mechanisms against Candida albicans.

abstract：:Differences in gender immune response have resulted in differences in immune protection and susceptibility to inflammatory diseases. Cultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are widely used in immunomodulation studies, yet the influence of gender is usually not considered. We examined the effect of in vitro ...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Abdullah M,Chai PS,Chong MY,Tohit ER,Ramasamy R,Pei CP,Vidyadaran S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-gamma is a critical factor in the activation of several mononuclear phagocyte effector and immunoregulatory properties. However, it remains uncertain if IFN-gamma is capable of concurrent activation of both functions in the same cell population. Plastic adherent mononuclear cells (80-98% MN by cytochemical ...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Tweardy DJ,Fujiwara H,Scillian JJ,Ellner JJ

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facilitating cells (FC) are bone marrow-derived cells that facilitate allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (SC) engraftment and induce transplantation tolerance without causing graft vs. host disease. Although there is evidence for FC directing the development of FoxP3+CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells, the specific FC subse...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Taylor KN,Laszkowska M,Cohick E,Colson YL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human peripheral blood cells enriched for B lymphocytes were stimulated to focal proliferation in semisolid cultures with lymphocyte-conditioned media, Protein A (Prot A), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME). After 6-8 days of incubation, two morphologically distinct colony types were observed. Type ...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Peschel C,Gattringer C,Konwalinka G,Geissler D,Boyd J,Huber H,Braunsteiner H

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testis-specific gene antigen 10 (TSGA10) encodes an 82-kDa protein expressed during development, and in testis and brain tissues. We report its expression in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages in vitro and in murine spleen CD11c(+) cells ex vivo. An interaction between DC/macrophage-derived TS...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Roghanian A,Jones DC,Pattisapu JV,Wolfe J,Young NT,Behnam B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) and Sr(2+) entry pathways activated by pro-inflammatory agonists FMLP, LTB(4) and PAF have been compared to thapsigargin in human neutrophils. 2-APB (10microM) increased Ca(2+) influx and to a greater extent in agonist than in thapsigargin stimulated neutrophils. This action of 2-APB was specific to Ca(2+) beca...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Salmon MD,Ahluwalia J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Al adjuvants are used in vaccines to increase the immune response. NTPDase and AChE play a pivotal role and act in the regulation of the immune system. The effect of Al exposure in vitro and in vivo on NTPDase and AChE activities in the lymphocytes of rats was determined. In vitro, ATP hydrolysis was decreased by 20.4...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Kaizer RR,Gutierres JM,Schmatz R,Spanevello RM,Morsch VM,Schetinger MR,Rocha JB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific signal transduction leading to IL2 induction and secretion in the T cell line 171 is augmented by association of p56lck with CD4. Although no change in cytoplasmic calcium level ([Ca2+]i) was detectable during antigen-specific signal transduction of 171-CD4+ cells, IL2 induction was inhibited by FK506...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Metcalfe S,Alexander D,Turner J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides evidence that both rat and mouse thymic and splenic T cells express significant levels of MHC class II glycoproteins (MHCII) in vivo. Derivation of rat and mouse chimeras revealed that a major source of MHCII on thymic T cells was acquired from radioresistant host APC. Expression of MHC on thymic T...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Walker MR,Mannie MD

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a model for investigating the role of the thymus in regulating natural killer (NK) cell activity in vivo. Evidence is presented that the thymus can regulate NK cells, and that at least some NK cells can develop without thymic help. Marrow from thymectomized rats depleted of circulating T cells by...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Flexman JP,Holt PG,Mayrhofer G,Latham BI,Shellam GR

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of transcutaneous immunization with tumor antigen to induce cell-mediated immunity. For this purpose, hydrophilic recombinant gp100 protein (HR-gp100) was topically applied on human intact skin in vitro, and used as a vaccine in a mouse model. We demonstrate th...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Eisenberg G,Machlenkin A,Frankenburg S,Mansura A,Pitcovski J,Yefenof E,Peretz T,Lotem M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we have shown that the generation of IFN-gamma-producing cells (IFN-gamma pc) were severely suppressed in cultures of Con A-stimulated splenocytes obtained from HgCl2-exposed BN but not Lewis rats. Since BN rats develop a TH2-biased polyclonal autoimmune syndrome upon exposure to HgCl2, whereas Lewis rats exh...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： van der Meide PH,de Labie MC,Botman CA,Aten J,Weening JJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During normal lymphocyte recirculation and in chronic inflammation, lymphocytes emigrate from blood into the perivascular tissue. The mechanism of lymphocyte migration through the endothelial cell (EC) layer of blood vessels is poorly understood. To identify factors that control lymphocyte emigration, a method has bee...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Oppenheimer-Marks N,Ziff M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the effect of adherent cells on the induction of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell activity by depleting adherent cells from peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) or by adding adherent cells to PBL before culture with interleukin-2. We found that adherent cells clearly down-regulate LAK cell induction. T...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Ibayashi Y,Hoon DS,Golub SH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that DT-5461a, a lipid A analog, has antitumor activity and relatively low toxicity in animals. To clarify its immunostimulatory effect we have studied the cytokine inducibility of DT-5461a and the mechanism involved in the cytokine expression in macrophages. While the activity is lower than that ...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Akahane K,Someya K,Tsutomi Y,Akimoto T,Tohgo A

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Castration of normal male mice leads to splenic enlargement and expansion of the B cell population. Since the spleen does not express receptors for androgens, these changes are most likely mediated by effects of androgens on other target organs. Two potential sites of androgen-mediated effects on B cells are evaluated...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Viselli SM,Reese KR,Fan J,Kovacs WJ,Olsen NJ

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine whether bone marrow (BM) cells contain a cell population with the capacity to induce an unresponsiveness of T cells specific to the BM self-H-2 class I antigens in vivo, i.e., veto cell population. Recombinant or congenic mice were infused intravenously with H-2-incompatible BM c...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Muraoka S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether multiple types of suppressor factors play a role in the regulation of immune responses by ultraviolet radiation-induced suppressor T lymphocytes (UV Ts). The UV Ts were induced by applying contact allergens to the ventral, unirradiated skin of mice exposed 5 days earl...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Yee GK,Ullrich SE,Kripke ML

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-Cell hybridomas were constructed by fusing BW5147, an AKR lymphoma, with concanavalin A-stimulated murine splenic lymphocytes. The hybrids which were formed were studied for their ability to produce a lymphokine which inhibits tumor cell migration (TMIF) as well as macrophage migration (MIF) using in vitro assays. C...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Cohen MC,Lazarus M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous reports in the literature describe the effects of beta-adrenergic agonists and/or their second messenger cyclic AMP on in vitro and in vivo immune responses. The fact that the murine spleen receives rich adrenergic innervation and that the pharmacologic disruption of this innervation leads to altered immune r...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Fuchs BA,Campbell KS,Munson AE

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosanoids are important mediators of inflammation, but also play a role in regulation of lymphocyte function. In this study we have examined the function of both prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes in regulating the release of a set of cytokines produced by T cells from mice primed with the contact-sensitising age...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Marcinkiewicz J,Chain BM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological effects of IL-2 are mediated through high (complex of alpha and beta chain) or intermediate (beta chain) affinity IL-2 receptors. Previously, chimeric proteins composed of IL-2 and Pseudomonas exotoxin (IL-2-PE) were shown to be specifically cytotoxic to cells bearing IL-2 receptors. It has also been sh...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Puri RK,FitzGerald D,Leland P,Kozak RW,Pastan I

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that antibody secretion by B.22 hybridoma cells can be suppressed in an MHC-restricted manner, by idiotype-specific T cells. It was shown that T cells of both helper and suppressor phenotypes are involved, and that the suppression is mediated by soluble factors. In the present paper, we hav...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Gulati P,Falck-Pedersen E,Siskind GW

更新日期：1989-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen cells from normal, nonautoimmune mice (C3H/HeN) spontaneously produce hemolytic plaques against autologous bromelain-treated red blood cells (BrMRBC). The number of anti-BrMRBC plaques detectable can be increased by including either a 3 M KCl extracted antigen from BrMRBCs or the hapten phosphorylcholine chlori...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Wieties KM,Moticka EJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mouse, activation of T cells by T cell receptor (TCR) crosslinking with anti-CD3 antibodies in the absence of a costimulatory signal induces Th1 but not Th2 cell anergy. Furthermore, anti-CD3 induces anergy of Th1- but not Th2-type lymphokine secretion in Th0 cells. This study was designed to determine whether ...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Nguyen DD,Beck L,Spiegelberg HL

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine peritoneal macrophages (M phi), activated in vivo or in vitro, remarkably inhibited the uptake of thymidine by a lens epithelial cell line, while resident M phi, or M phi induced by thioglycollate, exhibited much lower or no cytostatic capacity. The target cells were partially protected from the cytostatic acti...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Mochizuki M,Zigler JS Jr,Russell P,Gery I

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4 are of major importance in the pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection because they are co-receptors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) entry. We examined the frequency of CD3-CD56+CCR5+ and CD3-CD56+CXCR4+ in HIV-infected long-term slow progressors (SPs), HIV typical progressors (TPs) w...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Jiang Y,Zhang Z,Diao Y,Jin X,Shi W,Geng W,Dai D,Zhang M,Han X,Liu J,Wang Y,Shang H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral response to encapsulated BSA appears to be a classical TD antigen response with a high ratio of IgG to IgM, whereas that to covalently-linked antigen is more complex, characterized by an enhanced synthesis of IgM, leading to an equal production of IgM and IgG. In a recent paper, we observed that surface-li...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Shahum E,Thérien HM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant nonkiller (K-) T-cell clone derived from the MHC nonrestricted killer (K+) cell line TALL-103/2 (CD3/TCR gamma delta +) was studied to determine whether its lytic defects were at the tumor-binding or post-binding level. The two TALL-103/2 clones were found to display similar mRNA expression of TCR/CD3 comple...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： Visonneau S,Cesano A,Santoli D

更新日期：1995-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of progesterone on murine suppressor cell function generated in allogeneic MLCs were investigated. BALB/c splenic lymphocytes stimulated in vitro with C3H/He cells significantly suppressed the proliferative response of BALB/c lymphocytes in a secondary MLC. This suppression was highly specific for the sens...

journal_title：Cellular immunology

authors： O'Hearn M,Stites DP

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00