Supplemental immune globulins in sepsis: a critical appraisal.

abstract：:Merozoite surface protein 2 (MSP2) expressed by Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stages has been identified as a promising vaccine candidate. In order to explore allelic family-specific humoral responses which may be responsible for parasite neutralization during natural infections, isolates from individuals with e...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ekala MT,Jouin H,Lekoulou F,Mercereau-Puijalon O,Ntoumi F

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty sera reacting by IFL technique in titres greater than or equal to 100 with smooth muscle fibres of rat stomach, rat renal glomeruli, and with the membrane region of thyroid cells were randomly chosen among sera sent in for routine testing of tissue antibodies. All sera but one were found to be derived from pati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lidman K,Biberfeld G,Fagraeus A,Norberg R,Torstensson R,Utter G,Carlsson L,Luca J,Lindberg U

更新日期：1976-05-01 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：:Growth and maturation of B lymphocytes from stem cells require a series of complex processes that are dependent at least in part on growth factors. Uncontrolled expression of receptors from these early growth factors may contribute to a leukaemogenesis of such early B cell progenitors. We show here that early pre-pre-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Trink B,Wang G,Shahar M,Meydan N,Roifman CM

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephritic factor was detected in an individual whose serum showed a selective decrease in the third component of complement (C3) during and subsequent to an illness resembling disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI). As is characteristic of C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF), its activity was heat stable, was associated with...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gewurz AT,Imherr SM,Strauss S,Gewurz H,Mold C

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lung injury frequently develops following haemorrhage, and is characterized by increased proinflammatory cytokine levels and massive neutrophil accumulation in the lung. Blood loss produces rapid increases in tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) mRNA expression among pulmonary cell populations which precede ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Abraham E,Coulson WF,Schwartz MD,Allbee J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α-induced proteins (TNFAIP)9 and TNFAIP3 play an important pathogenic role in murine arthritis. To clarify their pathophysiological roles in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we examined their expression and localization in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). TNFAIP9 and ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Takai C,Matsumoto I,Inoue A,Umeda N,Tanaka Y,Kurashima Y,Wada Y,Narita I,Sumida T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectric focusing of serial bleeds from patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis was carried out and thyroglobulin (Tg) autoantibodies visualized using 125I-labelled Tg followed by autoradiography. Although the spectrotype of these antibodies was polyclonal and varied from patient to patient, each individual's spectro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Delves PJ,Roitt IM

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare form of systemic vasculitis occurring in patients with asthma and hypereosinophilia; however, its mechanisms involved in the severe tissue inflammation with vasculitis are poorly understood. High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein, originally identified as a DNA binding protein...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Taira T,Matsuyama W,Mitsuyama H,Kawahara KI,Higashimoto I,Maruyama I,Osame M,Arimura K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymoma is known to contain CD4+CD8+ T cells, indicating that neoplastic epithelial cells of thymoma have a function as thymic cortical epithelium. However, it has been shown that there is an impairment of CD4+ T cell development in thymoma and that IFN-gamma-induced HLA-DR expression on cultured thymic epithelial cel...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kadota Y,Okumura M,Miyoshi S,Kitagawa-Sakakida S,Inoue M,Shiono H,Maeda Y,Kinoshita T,Shirakura R,Matsuda H

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years galectin-3 has gained attention as a signalling molecule, mainly in inflammatory diseases. Data on galectin-3 expression in neonates, however, are limited, and expression of this lectin in cord blood has not yet been reported. The aim of this study was to determine galectin-3 levels in cord blood of te...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Demmert M,Faust K,Bohlmann MK,Tröger B,Göpel W,Herting E,Härtel C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high incidence of infections characteristic of impaired cell-mediated immunity in patients with hairy cell leukemia led us to study T lymphocyte function in sixteen patients with the lymphocyte transformation test. All patients showed imparied responses to mitogens, attributable to one or more of the following cau...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sabbe LJ,Meijer CJ,Jansen J

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a flow cytometric technique which allows direct identification of proliferating cells within mixed cell populations, we have previously described that soluble extracts obtained from Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. avium represent strong stimuli for human gammadelta+ T cells. In the present study, we demonstr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Batoni G,Esin S,Harris RA,Källenius G,Svenson SB,Andersson R,Campa M,Wigzell H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii is a major opportunistic pathogen and leading cause of morbidity in patients with AIDS. The major surface glycoprotein (MSG) of P. carinii, represented by a family of related proteins encoded by unique genes, is highly immunogenic and contains T cell-protective epitopes. We undertook the present s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Theus SA,Smulian AG,Sullivan DW,Walzer PD

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:Intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) preparations are efficacious and safe products in use world-wide. Although rare, side-effects of IVIG may be serious, even life-threatening, and clinicians should be aware of their potential occurrence. This article summarizes most of the adverse experiences with IVIG reported in the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duhem C,Dicato MA,Ries F

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus entered a double-blind randomized trial to study the therapeutic effect of vigorous versus sham reinfusion plasmapheresis. Four of them received real plasmapheresis while five received sham reinfusion plasmapheresis. In the present communication we report the effe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tsokos GC,Balow JE,Huston DP,Wei N,Decker JL

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin autoantibodies (IAA) can appear in children within months of introducing solid foods to the diet and before clinical type 1 diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine whether infant dietary antigens could be immunizing agents of IAA. To this end, IAA binding to [(125) I]insulin was competed with food pre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Adler K,Mueller DB,Achenbach P,Krause S,Heninger AK,Ziegler AG,Bonifacio E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage organ failure, but chronic immunosuppression is taking its toll in terms of morbidity and poor efficacy in preventing late graft loss. Therefore, a drug-free state would be desirable where the recipient permanently accepts a donor organ while...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mahr B,Wekerle T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus, a ubiquitous fungus, is implicated in the pathogenesis of a number of clinically different allergic diseases in man, including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Peptide-based immunotherapy may offer an alternative treatment strategy for the management of allergic disease. The objective of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Svirshchevskaya EV,Alekseeva L,Marchenko A,Viskova N,Andronova TM,Benevolenskii SV,Kurup VP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cattle, infected with Fasciola hepatica metacercariae, produce antibodies against the outer glycocalyx of freshly excysted juvenile F. hepatica. Using 51Cr-release and viability assays such antibodies in the presence or absence of bovine complement did not cause discernible damage to the parasite. The presence of exce...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duffus WP,Franks D

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated changes in circulating T helper type 17 (Th17) cells following anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were isolated from 25 RA, 15 AS and eight PsA patients at baseline...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hull DN,Williams RO,Pathan E,Alzabin S,Abraham S,Taylor PC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of chemokines in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), we examined serum levels, spontaneous production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), and histological distribution in the affected skin, of MCP-1, MIP-1alpha and MIP-1beta in SSc patients. Serum levels of these chemokines we...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hasegawa M,Sato S,Takehara K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliable risk assessment for biotherapeutics requires accurate evaluation of risk factors associated with immunogenicity. Immunogenicity risk assessment tools were developed and applied to investigate the immunogenicity of a fully human therapeutic monoclonal antibody, ATR-107 [anti-interleukin (IL)-21 receptor] that ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xue L,Hickling T,Song R,Nowak J,Rup B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) were detected by a solid-phase radioassay in 34% of fifty-three insulin-dependent diabetics (IDD) as compared to 18% of forty-five non-insulin-dependent diabetics (NIDD) and 14% of 173 control subjects. In control subjects, the prevalence of CIC increased with age and was higher in m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Delespesse G,Gausset P,Sarfati M,Dubi-Rucquoy M,Debisschop MJ,van Haelst L

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoenzymatic assays were developed for the measurement of antibodies against mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan (LAM), a cell-free proteic extract (CFX) of Mycobacterium leprae, and the 38-kD protein antigen of M. tuberculosis. Sera from 108 leprosy patients, belonging to all clinical-immunological forms of the spectr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sousa AO,Henry S,Marója FM,Lee FK,Brum L,Singh M,Lagrange PH,Aucouturier P

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Sensorineural hearing loss is a common problem in the otolaryngologist's practice, with autoimmune disease of the inner ear being one possible cause. The restoration of auditory function in some patients following immunosuppressive therapy has created a desire to define and understand this disease better. Because of t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gloddek B,Rogowski M,Reiss G,Arnold W

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the impact of induction and increase target antigen expression on immunotoxin potency, we measured the potentiating effect of recombinant immune interferon-gamma (rIFN-gamma) on the cytotoxicity of an anti HLA-DR ricin A-chain immunotoxin (2G5 RTA-IT) on the myeloid cell line ML-3. After 48 h of i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chiron M,Jaffrezou JP,Carayon P,Bordier C,Roubinet F,Xavier C,Brandely M,Laurent G

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00