Autoantibodies from mixed cryoglobulinaemia patients bind glomerular antigens.

abstract：:An adult twin with recurrent bacterial infections was found to have a partial functional deficiency of complement factor D. Full restoration of alternative pathway activity and zymosan- or cobra venom factor-induced consumption of C3 and B was found after reconstitution of patient's serum with purified D. Family studi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kluin-Nelemans HC,van Velzen-Blad H,van Helden HP,Daha MR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a key cytokine featuring redundancy and pleiotropic activity. It plays a central role in host defence against environmental stress such as infection and injury. Dysregulated, persistent interleukin (IL)-6 production has been implicated in the development of various autoimmune, chronic inflammat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mesquida M,Leszczynska A,Llorenç V,Adán A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-1 acts on many cells as an inflammatory mediator. Its two forms, IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta, are regulated differentially within hyperproliferative inflammatory skin conditions, such as psoriasis. While IL-1 alpha is down-regulated within psoriatic lesions, the levels of IL-1 beta are increased. However, some investi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schön M,Behmenburg C,Denzer D,Schön MP

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes from unsensitized donors by fractions of T.b rhodesiense has been demonstrated in vitro. Both T and B cells were stimulated to differentiate into blast cells. Purified T cells failed to proliferate, but did so when mitomycin C-treated non-T cells were added. Non-T cell ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Selkirk ME,Ogilvie BM,Platts-Mills TA

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells of C57BL/6J (B6) mice activated in vitro against the K and D determinants of the H-2d haplotype, and expanded in tissue culture in the presence of interleukin 2, were capable of rapidly killing lethally irradiated BALB/c recipients when injected intravenously. Mice given 10(6), 10(7) and 10(8) such T cells sur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Andrus L,Atkinson K,Lafferty KJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with functional deficiency of C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) suffer from recurrent acute attacks (AA) of localized oedema associated with activation of the contact system, complement and fibrinolysis. To unravel further the role of coagulation and fibrinolysis in the pathophysiology of C1-INH deficiency, we performed ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van Geffen M,Cugno M,Lap P,Loof A,Cicardi M,van Heerde W

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of normal human peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leucocytes on in vitro multiplication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites was investigated. It was shown that normal neutrophils were able to phagocytose parasitized erythrocytes and free parasites and thus inhibit in vitro multiplication of the para...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kharazmi A,Jepsen S

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the immune system may be responsible for the destruction of insulin secreting cells in some types of diabetes. In order to test this hypothesis, we studied the consequences of immune-mediated reactions on the function of pancreatic islet cells in vitro. A model was set up in vitro where mous...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Boitard C,Saï P,Debray-Sachs M,Assan R,Hamburger J

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using quantitative morphometric analysis of immunohistochemically stained tissue sections we compared hypertrophic obstructive adenoids (HOA, n = 10) from children without middle ear disease with chronically infected adenoids (CIA, n = 10) from children with middle ear disease. gamma delta T cell receptor (TCR)+ cells...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Olofsson K,Hellström S,Hammarström ML

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific activation of resting lymphocytes for tumour targeting can be achieved by bispecific monoclonal antibodies (bi-MoAbs) with specificity for tumour antigens and T cell-activating antigens in combination with a costimulatory anti-CD28 antibody. In this study we focus on the immunomodulatory function of an anti-C...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hombach A,Tillmann T,Jensen M,Heuser C,Sircar R,Diehl V,Kruis W,Pohl C

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of melanocortin MC(1) receptors on human peripheral lymphocyte subsets was analysed by flow cytometry using rabbit antibodies selective for the human MC(1) receptor and a panel of monoclonal antibodies against lymphocyte differentiation markers. The MC(1) receptor was found to be constitutively expresse...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Neumann Andersen G,Nagaeva O,Mandrika I,Petrovska R,Muceniece R,Mincheva-Nilsson L,Wikberg JE

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:In vitro monoclonal immunoglobulin (mIg) production of cultured tumour cells--prepared from the bone marrow (BM) or from the peripheral blood (PB) of 40 multiple myeloma (MM) patients, 16 patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and two patients with M. Waldenström--was measured with an enzyme-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Peest D,Gasch S,Thiele C,Bartels B,Brunkhorst U,Dallmann I,Hoffmann M,Schedel I,Deicher H

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of IL-4 and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) on immunoglobulin secretion in vitro by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) or purified B cells activated with murine EL4 thymoma cells and phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) was investigated. As previously reported, IL-4 induced IgE and IgG4 secreti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ninomiya C,Spiegelberg HL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and natural killer (NK) cells have a key role in host defence against infectious pathogens, but their response to bacteria is not well characterized. Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae is a major cause of respiratory tract infection including otitis media, sinusitis, tonsillitis and chro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： King PT,Ngui J,Farmer MW,Hutchinson P,Holmes PW,Holdsworth SR

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA) are highly specific for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the predominant B cell epitopes have not yet been defined. The aim of this study was to examine the reactivity of ACPA against different peptides derived from citrullinated proteins and to investigate whether or no...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goules JD,Goules AV,Tzioufas AG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported recently that mouse liver NK cells and NK1 x 1+ T cells were activated by bacterial superantigens via the IL-12 production from Kupffer cells. In the present study, we examined the effect of staphyloccoccal enterotoxin A (SEA) on human T cells with NK cell markers, CD56 or CD57 (NK-type T cells). Afte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ami K,Ohkawa T,Koike Y,Sato K,Habu Y,Iwai T,Seki S,Hiraide H

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:We measured Ia antigen bearing peripheral blood T cells, as an index of immunological stimulation, of patients with chronic active liver diseases (CALD) by the rosette assay method. We also examined the role of Ia antigen which represents the products of the genes of the major histocompatibility complex on the autolog...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fukui K,Kakumu S,Murakami H,Kuriki J,Yoshioka K,Sakamoto N

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with acquired hypogammaglobulinaemia usually have near normal numbers of B cells and normal T cell function. When hypogammaglobulinaemia occurs in association with thymoma, then B cell numbers have been reported as low, and distinctive T cells are present which inhibit immunoglobulin production by normal cell...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brenner MK,Reittie JG,Chadda HR,Pollock A,Asherson GL

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cellular stresses and inflammatory stimuli can activate p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), a serine/threonine kinase in the MAPK family. The different stimuli act via different receptors or signalling pathways to induce phosphorylation of the cytosolic protein p47(phox), one subunit of the nicotinamide ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lu HW,He GN,Ma H,Wang JK

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native type II collagens of rat, chick, bovine, human and murine origin have been used for immunization of male and female DBA/1 mice of different ages. The four heterologous collagens were able to induce arthritis in both male and female mice although the incidence of arthritis was higher in males. The onset of arthr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Holmdahl R,Jansson L,Gullberg D,Rubin K,Forsberg PO,Klareskog L

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:Serum cytokine levels and peripheral T cell subpopulations of HIV-1-infected patients before, during and after active visceral leishmaniasis (VL) were analysed and compared with appropriate controls. At VL diagnosis, co-infected patients showed higher serum levels of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) than matched HIV-1 con...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Medrano FJ,Rey C,Leal M,Cañavate C,Rubio A,Sánchez-Quijano A,Alvar J,Lissen E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune Addison's disease (AAD), or primary adrenocortical insufficiency, is a classical organ-specific autoimmune disease with 160 years of history. AAD is remarkably homogeneous with one major dominant self-antigen, the cytochrome P450 21-hydroxylase enzyme, which is targeted by both autoantibodies and autoreacti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hellesen A,Bratland E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional analysis of single Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in vivo is necessary to understand how they shape the ocular inflammation involved in uveitis. In this study we explored the role and mechanisms of TLR-2 agonists on the autoreactive T helper type 17 (Th17) response in experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU). Trea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wei R,Dong L,Xiao Q,Sun D,Li X,Nian H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and experimental models of colitis is characterized by a dysregulated intestinal immune response with elevated levels of Th1 cytokines. The luminal flora has been implicated as a major factor contributing to the initiation and perpetuation of inflammation in ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Obermeier F,Dunger N,Strauch UG,Grunwald N,Herfarth H,Schölmerich J,Falk W

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha 7 nicotinic receptor is reportedly a key element in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. Because a prototypical ligand for this receptor is nicotine, we studied the in vivo human response to bacterial endotoxin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the context of nicotine or placebo pretreatment. Twelve adult...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wittebole X,Hahm S,Coyle SM,Kumar A,Calvano SE,Lowry SF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphyllococcus aureus-induced infections often result in high mortality and permanent joint destruction, despite treatment with antibiotics. IL-10 is typically regarded as an anti-inflammatory cytokine because it promotes a T helper cell type 2 response, and subsequently down-regulates cell mediated immune functions....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gjertsson I,Hultgren OH,Tarkowski A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgE was isolated from a patient with the hyper IgE, recurrent infection syndrome by immunoadsorption on sepharose bound goat anti-human IgE. Addition of this IgE to a monolayer culture of human monocytes resulted in a dose-dependent increase in PGE2 secretion. The addition of F(ab')2 fraction of goat anti-human IgE in...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Passwell JH,Geiger B,Levanon M,Davidsohn J,Cohen BE,Ramot B

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00