Homing of lymphocytes into islets of Langerhans in prediabetic non-obese diabetic mice is not restricted to autoreactive T cells.

abstract：:SKG mice, a newly established model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spontaneously develop autoimmune arthritis accompanying extra-articular manifestations, such as interstitial pneumonitis. To examine possible roles of T cells for mediating this systemic autoimmunity, we generated T cell clones from arthritic joints of ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Wakasa-Morimoto C,Toyosaki-Maeda T,Matsutani T,Yoshida R,Nakamura-Kikuoka S,Maeda-Tanimura M,Yoshitomi H,Hirota K,Hashimoto M,Masaki H,Fujii Y,Sakata T,Tsuruta Y,Suzuki R,Sakaguchi N,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) and TLR9 sense microbial single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) and ssDNA in endolysosomes. Nucleic acid (NA)-sensing in endolysosomes is thought to be important for avoiding TLR7/9 responses to self-derived NAs. Aberrant self-derived NA transportation to endolysosomes predisposes to autoimmune diseas...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Li X,Saitoh S,Shibata T,Tanimura N,Fukui R,Miyake K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of our recent report that T cell receptor (TCR) alpha chain restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) is associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), we have assessed the possibility that HLA-DR2, HLA-DPw4, and TCR alpha chain RFLPs may interact to increase the risk of developing MS. Detection of TCR alpha c...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Sherritt MA,Oksenberg J,de Rosbo NK,Bernard CC

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we explored the potential of human naive CD4(+) T cells to acquire regulatory properties upon stimulation. We demonstrated that, in vitro, pre-activated naive CD4(+)CD25(-)CD45RA(+) T cells could become anergic and suppressive CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells upon lower intensity TCR stimulation. These CD4(+)CD25(...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Noël G,Brinster C,Semana G,Bruniquel D

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have searched the human genome for genes that predispose to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using fluorescence-based microsatellite marker analysis and affected sib-pair linkage study. A panel of 41 Japanese families, each with at least two affected siblings, was typed for genome-wide 358 polymorphic microsatellite marke...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Shiozawa S,Hayashi S,Tsukamoto Y,Goko H,Kawasaki H,Wada T,Shimizu K,Yasuda N,Kamatani N,Takasugi K,Tanaka Y,Shiozawa K,Imura S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal epithelium not only acts as the physical structure that separates the intestinal lumen from the body but also actively participates in intestinal barrier functions. In the past decade, significant progress has been made in the development of culture technologies to maintain intestinal epithelial cells (...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nakamura T

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the LAG-3 gene is a cell surface protein with significant homology to CD4. It has been suggested that it can serve as a functional equivalent of CD4 and account for the MHC class II-restricted responses which persist in CD4-deficient mice. To test this hypothesis, we have created CD4/LAG-3 double-defici...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Miyazaki T,Dierich A,Benoist C,Mathis D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of individual VH7183 genes in the autoimmune non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse and the normal C57BL/6 mouse, both carrying the IgHb haplotype, was investigated. Nucleotide sequence analyses of a large number of VHDJH rearrangements utilizing VH7183 gene segments allowed us to identify 10 individual member...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Andersson A,Ekstrand-Hammarström B,Eriksson B,Overmo C,Holmberg D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) has been shown to be highly dependent upon their functional avidity (the sensitivity of their cellular response to MHC-peptide complexes). To examine this relationship, we employed target cell lysis as a quantitative measure and established a set of four CTL clones that ex...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Derby MA,Wang J,Margulies DH,Berzofsky JA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite intense recent interest, the suppressive mechanisms of regulatory CD25+CD4 T cells remain poorly understood. One deficiency in the field is the lack of in vivo models where the effects of regulatory CD25+CD4 T cells on antigen-specific responder T cells can be measured quantitatively. We describe one such mode...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Thorstenson KM,Herzovi L,Khoruts A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD40 has been shown to play an important role in the regulation of B cell survival, proliferation and Ig class switching. The natural partner for CD40 is CD40 ligand, gp 39, which is transiently expressed on activated T cells. In vitro, CD40 ligation leads to polyclonal B cell proliferation and, in the presence of app...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Wohlleben G,Gray D,Schimpl A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a complete series of overlapping peptides, we have identified the T cell epitopes of a malaria vaccine candidate, the circumsporozoite (CS) protein, that are recognized by sporozoite-exposed residents of a non-endemic country. This protein and subunits from it are being considered as malaria sporozoite vaccine c...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Zevering Y,Houghten RA,Frazer IH,Good MF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B cell-activating factor from the tumor necrosis factor family (BAFF) is an important regulator of B cell immunity. Recently, we demonstrated that recombinant BAFF also provides a co-stimulatory signal to T cells. Here, we studied expression of BAFF in peripheral blood leukocytes and correlated this expression wit...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Huard B,Arlettaz L,Ambrose C,Kindler V,Mauri D,Roosnek E,Tschopp J,Schneider P,French LE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinase 2 (Tyk2), a member of the Jak kinase family, mediates signals triggered by various cytokines, which are related to the pathogenesis of psoriasis. In this study, we investigated the role of Tyk2 in IL-23-induced psoriasis-like skin inflammation. Tyk2(-/-) mice when injected with IL-23 showed significant...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ishizaki M,Muromoto R,Akimoto T,Sekine Y,Kon S,Diwan M,Maeda H,Togi S,Shimoda K,Oritani K,Matsuda T

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to investigate the quantitative relationship between inoculation doses and physiological responses to infection by Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis. Rats were orally inoculated with 10-10(9) c.f.u. of S. Enteritidis and monitored for 6 days. Neutrophil and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) respons...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Takumi K,Garssen J,Havelaar A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-7 is a required factor for T-cell homeostasis. Because of low expression levels and poor reagent availability, the cellular sources of IL-7 have proven challenging to characterize. In this study, we describe a reporter mouse in which enhanced GFP is expressed from the endogenous Il7 locus. We show that IL-7 is prod...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Miller CN,Hartigan-O'Connor DJ,Lee MS,Laidlaw G,Cornelissen IP,Matloubian M,Coughlin SR,McDonald DM,McCune JM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature dendritic cell (DC) is considered to be the most potent antigen-presenting cell. Regulation of the DC, particularly its survival, is therefore critical. Mature DC are markedly more sensitive to HLA-DR-mediated apoptosis than immature DC. To further characterize this key survival difference, we compared the ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bertho N,Blancheteau VM,Setterblad N,Laupeze B,Lord JM,Drénou B,Amiot L,Charron DJ,Fauchet R,Mooney N

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extravasation of recirculating lymphocytes into lymph nodes, which is crucial for immune system function, occurs constitutively from specialized post-capillary venules in the lymph node paracortex. The migration of lymphocytes between the structurally distinct high endothelial cells which line these blood vessels ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Ager A,Humphries MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to most organs, the anatomy of the liver may allow naive CD8(+) T cells to make direct contact with liver parenchymal cells. We have previously shown, using a combination of TCR transgenic T cells specific for H-2 K(b) and hepatocytes expressing a transgenic H-2 K(b) molecule, that hepatocytes can induce a...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bertolino P,Trescol-Biémont MC,Thomas J,Fazekas de St Groth B,Pihlgren M,Marvel J,Rabourdin-Combe C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal non-specific suppressor factor (MNSF), a lymphokine produced by a murine hybridoma, was originally found to inhibit the generation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced Ig-secreting cells. Most recently, we demonstrated the recombinant form of the ubiquitin-like segment (rUbi-L) or MNSF beta, an isoform of MN...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Nakamura M,Nagata T,Xavier M,Tanigawa Y

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is a CD4(+) T cell-mediated, inflammatory disease with similarities to multiple sclerosis in humans. Intranasal (i.n.) administration of a myelin basic protein (MBP)-derived peptide can protect susceptible mice from EAE. The mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, however...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Burkhart C,Liu GY,Anderton SM,Metzler B,Wraith DC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:bcl-2 transgenic mice develop anti-double-stranded (ds) DNA antibodies similar to those present in systemic lupus erythematosus. To begin to understand where a breakdown in the regulation of autoreactive lymphocytes is occurring, we have used a bcl-2 transgene (Tg) in conjunction with an Ig Tg that allows us to identi...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mandik-Nayak L,Nayak S,Sokol C,Eaton-Bassiri A,Madaio MP,Caton AJ,Erikson J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic viral infections are often characterized by CD8 T-cell responses with poor cytokine secretion potential and limited expansion of the CD8 T-cell pool, collectively referred to as CD8 T-cell exhaustion. Exhaustion of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV)-specific CD8 T cells was shown to be partially regulat...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Richter K,Agnellini P,Oxenius A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a 3 week course (approximately), during which there is marked lymphoid hyperplasia, Trypanosoma musculi infections in young-adult mice are cured by an immune mechanism involving antibodies of the IgG2a isotype. Both the lymphoid hyperplasia and IgG2a antibody response are T-cell-dependent events and both process...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Utsuyama M,Albright JW,Holmes KL,Hirokawa K,Albright JF

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-12 is a cytokine produced by monocytes and Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cells which initiates Th1 responses by inducing the development of CD4+, IFN-gamma producing Th1 T cells in mouse and human. We have previously reported that allergen-specific CD4+ Th2 T cell clones produce IFN-gamma, following activation b...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yssel H,Fasler S,de Vries JE,de Waal Malefyt R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incompatibility of human minor histocompatibility (hmH) antigens induces rejection of grafts in organ transplantation and graft versus host disease in bone marrow transplantation if donor and recipient are matched for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes. These antigens are recognized only by T cells. We describe here ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Sekimata M,Griem P,Egawa K,Rammensee HG,Takiguchi M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently described the novel A6H antigen expressed on human peripheral blood T cells and on renal cell carcinoma cells. Cross-linking of the A6H antigen results in co-stimulation of human CD4(+) T cells, characterized by induction of the transcription factor activator protein-1 (AP-1), proliferation and promin...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Labuda T,Sundstedt A,Dohlsten M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P-selectin is a Ca(2+)-dependent lectin that participates in leukocyte adhesion to vascular endothelium and platelets. Myeloid cells and a subset of T lymphocytes express carbohydrate ligands at the cell surface. Previously, we suggested that heat stable antigen (HSA/mouse CD24), an extensively glycosylated cell surfa...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Aigner S,Ruppert M,Hubbe M,Sammar M,Sthoeger Z,Butcher EC,Vestweber D,Altevogt P

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The M54 transgenic mouse line, which carries the 17.2.25 Ig mu heavy chain gene, rearranges Ig heavy chains and expresses both transgenic and endogenous mu. B cell lineage development is selectively impaired in these mice and cells that simultaneously express transgenic and endogenous mu ('double-producers') are commo...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lam KP,Herzenberg LA,Stall AM

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The class II trans-activator (CIITA) is a bi- or multi-functional domain protein which plays a critical role in the expression of MHC class II genes. We report that removal of the N-terminal 151 amino acids, encompassing all of the acidic domain but leaving intact the proline/serine/threonine-rich domain, results in a...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yun S,Gustafsson K,Fabre JW

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00