Immunological effects following administration of interferon-alpha in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (cHCV) infection.

abstract：CONTEXT:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by autoreactive antibodies. Recent findings revealed the importance of innate immune responses, especially Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in the pathogenesis of SLE. OBJECTIVE:In this study, the level of TLR9 expression on peripheral...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Mortezagholi S,Babaloo Z,Rahimzadeh P,Namdari H,Ghaedi M,Gharibdoost F,Mirzaei R,Bidad K,Salehi E

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-nitrozodimethyloamine (NDMA) is a carcinogenic compound that can be formed in vivo. NDMA is synthesized from precursors-amines and nitrosating agents. Nitrosating agents are formed through the reaction of oxide, reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide (NO). Human neutrophils (PMN) are an important source of the mos...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Jabłoński J,Jabłońska E,Iwanowska J,Marcińczyk M,Moniuszko-Jakoniuk J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of rapamycin (RAPA) on kidney function and histopathology was assessed in two strains of mice. Male C3H/HeJ mice were treated with RAPA for 4 days at doses of 25, 50, 75, and 100 mg/kg, ip and male C3H/HeJ or female Balb/cJ mice were both treated for 7 days at doses of 75, 150 and 200 mg/kg. Cyclosporine (C...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Di Joseph JF,Sehgal SN

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the current study was to assess the effects of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) along with their simultaneous application on proliferation and pluripotency genes of murine adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AT-MSCs). The proliferation, doubling time (DT), colony-for...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Mohammadpour H,Pourfathollah AA,Nikougoftar Zarif M,Hashemi SM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naloxone at concentrations 10(-6) M to 10(-10) M modulated endogenous NK-activity in 11 of 14 samples of human peripheral blood lymphocytes after 18-hour incubation. The dose response usually showed two peaks, which varied with the donor. Enhancement was obtained in 6, suppression in 4, and both effects (depending on ...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Martin-Kleiner I,Gabrilovac J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND AIMS:N-Acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG), a marker of renal tubular dysfunction, is increased in patients with lupus nephritis. In addition to the toxic effects of proteinuria, patients with lupus nephritis may exhibit other factors that contribute to tubular dysfunction, such as pathogenic antitubular ...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Gluhovschi C,Velciov S,Kaycsa A,Gluhovschi G,Petrica L,Marian R,Bozdog G,Gadalean F,Bob F,Cioca D,Vernic C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of oxytetracycline (OXT) (incorporated at a level of 0.05 g per kg of feed for 50 days) to pigeons, significantly decreased total leukocyte and lymphocyte counts, increased heterophil:lymphocyte ratio and lysosomal enzyme activity, and decreased reticuloendothelial system function compared with ...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Al-Ankari AS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arecoline, a major alkaloid of arecanut was screened to explore its modulatory influence on cell-mediated immune response in a murine model system. The in vivo and in vitro effects were evaluated at subtoxic concentrations of arecoline. Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) were...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Selvan RS,Selvakumaran M,Rao AR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally venoms are used from thousands of years to treat pain, inflammation, and arthritis. In Ayurveda "Suchika Voron" and "Shodhona" were practiced against pain. In the present study, venom composition of the Indian honeybee Apis florea (AF), Apis dorsata (AD), and Apis cerana indica (AC) were analyzed using e...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Nipate SS,Hurali PB,Ghaisas MM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ponesimod, a novel selective sphingosine-1-phosphate 1 receptor modulator in the development for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, dose-dependently reduced lymphocyte counts in peripheral blood of healthy subjects. It rapidly and transiently reduced the number of circulating T and B cells, but not natural killer c...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： D'Ambrosio D,Steinmann J,Brossard P,Dingemanse J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chief part of hemopoietic stromal cells in mediating hemopoiesis-stimulating effects of adamantylamide dipeptide (AdDP), a synthetic immunomodulatory compound, has been determined in a series of combined in vivo/in vitro studies. Indirect stimulatory effect of AdDP on proliferation of hemopoietic progenitor cells for ...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Vacek A,Hofer M,Weiterová L,Hoferová Z,Pipalová I,Masek K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was aimed to examine non-specific immunologic capabilities of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) during the development of hypertension. In vitro phagocytosis and oxidative killing exerted by monocytes, polymorphonuclear cells (PMN) and splenic macrophages (SpM0) were evaluated in SHR at 5...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Serio M,Potenza MA,Vulpis V,Pirrelli A,Mitolo-Chieppa D,Jirillo E

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidepressants are reported to display anti-inflammatory effects. Nitric oxide (NO), in turn, has a key role in inflammation. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of amitriptyline co-administered with L-NAME (a NO synthase inhibitor) on certain parameters of acute inflammatory response in rat...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Vismari L,Alves GJ,Muscará MN,Palermo-Neto J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contribution of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) to experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (EAT) was well defined (Speidel et al., Eur. J. Immunol. 1997, 27, 2391-2399, Ref. 7). The native porcine thyroglobulin (pTg) showed high sensitivity to endo-o-N-acetylglucosaminidase F (Endo F) and its molecular weights, correspondin...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Kang BS,Chung TW,Moon JY,Lim JK,Shon YH,Nam KS,Kim DS,Jeon BH,Kim CH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Velvet antler (VA) is recognized as one of the most important Chinese traditional medical herbs. To date, the immunoactivity of the single component of VA is rarely studied though its compound extracts have been well analyzed. OBJECTIVE:The current study was designed to evaluate the immunomodulatory effects of...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Zha E,Dandan L,Bai X,Zhou T,Li Y,Shenyang G,Yue X

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swiss Webster mice were exposed to excess dietary aluminum (Al) (1000 micrograms Al/g diet, Al as Al lactate) from conception to 6 months of age. Splenic lymphocytes (10(6) per culture) were incubated for 24 hrs with concanavalin A (5 micrograms/ml). Concentrations of interleukin-2, interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Golub MS,Takeuchi PT,Gershwin ME,Yoshida SH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both pregnancy and cyclosporin A (CsA) are known to inhibit T-cell mediated immune response and to activate phagocytes against microbial infections as a compensatory mechanism. Pregnant women, either with organ transplantation or suffering from autoimmune diseases, are commonly managed with CsA therapy. This investiga...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Khan HA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic skin inflammatory disease characterized by disequilibrium between Th1/Th2 lymphocytes. Helicobacter pylori neutrophil-activating protein (HP-NAP) has been reported that it has the potential immunomodulatory effect able to regulate the Th1/Th2 balance. OBJECTIVE:This study...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Guo X,Ding C,Lu J,Zhou T,Liang T,Ji Z,Xie P,Liu X,Kang Q

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with generated mouse anti-consensus interferon (CIFN) antibody was developed for quantitative determination of pegylated consensus interferon (PEG-CIFN) in rhesus monkey serum. The operational concentrations of the original assay were determined using the chessbo...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Cao J,Du Y,Tian H,Gao XD,Yao WB

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulatory effect of FK 506 and cyclosporin A (CsA) on the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in macrophages and mechanisms of their action were analysed. Isolated rat peritoneal macrophages were cultured for 12 or 24 h with or without lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (5 microg/ml) and in the absence or ...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Strestíková P,Otová B,Filipec M,Masek K,Farghali H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A substantial body of research exists to support the production of growth hormone by cells of the immune system. However, the function and mechanism of action of lymphocyte-derived growth hormone remain largely unelucidated. Since, it has been found that exogenous growth hormone (GH) primes neutrophils for the product...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Arnold RE,Weigent DA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various cells are associated with the integrated stress response (ISR) that leads to translation arrest via phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2. Pathogenic insults or nutritional imbalance in the mucosal tissues including the intestinal, airway, and genitourinary epitheli...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Park SH,Moon Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect that MnCl2 has on murine splenic natural killer (NK) cell activity was investigated in infant (10 days old), pre-weanling (18 days old) and weanling (24 days old) C57BL/6J mice. A single intraperitoneal injection of 10, 20 or 40 micrograms MnCl2/g body weight caused a significant enhancement in NK activity,...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Smialowicz RJ,Riddle MM,Rogers RR,Luebke RW,Burleson GR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies outline the imbalance of phagocyte functions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this regard, here, we have assessed either monocyte- and polymorphonuclear cell (PMN)-mediated chemotactic, phagocytic and killing capacities or PMN-triggered metabolic pathway in a group of COPD patients b...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Tortorella C,Ottolenghi A,Moretti AM,Jirillo E,Antonaci S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a ubiquitously expressed ATP-dependent molecular chaperone across all species that helps to the correct the folding of many proteins related to important signaling pathways. Tumor cells expressing Hsp90 have more ATP-binding affinity than normal cells. Many correlative inhibitors have ...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Huyan T,Li Q,Dong DD,Yang H,Zhang J,Huang QS,Yin DC,Shang P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the efficacy of Withania somnifera on tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes and electron transport chain in azoxymethane-induced experimental colon cancer in mice. Azoxymethane at the dose of 15 mg/kg body weight was induced intraperitoneally once in a week for 28 ...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Muralikrishnan G,Amanullah S,Basha MI,Dinda AK,Shakeel F

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the possibility that the WNT/β-catenin pathway plays a role in inflammatory responses both in an human inflammatory condition and in an in vitro inflammation model. First, we analyzed gene expression patterns of the peripheral blood cells from asthma patients compared with those f...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Lee H,Bae S,Choi BW,Yoon Y

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metals administered to animals, at doses which appear relatively innoxious by themselves, enhance susceptibility to endotoxin. The mechanisms which underly this phenomenon are not yet fully understood. In this study we investigated the role of the cytokine Tumour Necrosis Factor (TNF), an important mediator of t...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Dentener MA,Greve JW,Maessen JG,Buurman WA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes predominantly express delayed rectifier K(+)-channels (Kv1.3) in their plasma membranes, and the channels play crucial roles in the lymphocyte activation and proliferation. Since nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), the most commonly used analgesic and antipyretic drugs, exert immunomodulatory ef...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Kazama I,Maruyama Y,Murata Y

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosa davurica Pall. has been traditionally used to treat inflammatory diseases and tumors. Its dried leaves were extracted with absolute methanol, and the methanol extract was successively fractionated into n-hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate, n-butanol, and aqueous fractions. Anti-angiogenic and anti-nociceptive acti...

journal_title：Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology

authors： Jung HJ,Sa JH,Song YS,Shim TH,Park EH,Lim CJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00