Stress-induced cell surface expression and antigenic alteration of the Ro/SSA autoantigen.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess muscle strength in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) using neuromuscular scales and isokinetic testing. METHODS:Muscle function was evaluated in 27 IIM patients being followed at the Rheumatology Unit of the University of Pisa using: (i) a modified version of the grading system...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Neri R,Mosca M,Stampacchia G,Vesprini E,Tavoni A,d'Ascanio A,Bombardieri S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is initiated by cholesterol entry into arteries that triggers chronic immune-inflammatory lesions in the vessels. Early lesions are clinically insignificant but advanced complex lesions and vulnerable rupture prone lesions impact on quality of life and can be life threatening. Rupture of vulnerable ath...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kyaw T,Tipping P,Bobik A,Toh BH

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on recent advances and new hypothesis in the understanding of the T and dendritic cells contribution to the pathogenesis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs), especially polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM). The new data show that non-specific amplification of muscle inflammation by T...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Chevrel G,Page G,Miossec P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired myasthenia gravis (MG), a neurological autoimmune disease, is caused by autoantibodies against components of the neuromuscular junction that lead to disabling muscle fatigability. The thymus is clearly involved in the pathogenesis of early-onset MG with anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies, and thymic hyper...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Le Panse R,Bismuth J,Cizeron-Clairac G,Weiss JM,Cufi P,Dartevelle P,De Rosbo NK,Berrih-Aknin S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is a disorder characterized by hyperglycemia in both the fasting and post-prandial states. The two most common forms of diabetes mellitus, type 1 and type 2 (previously called juvenile-onset and adult-onset, respectively), comprise the vast majority of cases. Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) has been shown to ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Taplin CE,Barker JM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pemphigus is an autoimmune cutaneous disease characterized by circulating autoantibodies that cause blistering and erosions on skin and mucous membranes. Circulating autoantibodies bind to epidermal cell membrane and cause cell-cell detachment (acantholysis), leading to epidermal tissue damage and cell death. The prin...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Frusić-Zlotkin M,Raichenberg D,Wang X,David M,Michel B,Milner Y

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-adressin binding is a critical step in lymphocte attachment to target tissues. The mucosal recognition systems (alpha E beta 7, alpha 4 beta 7, MADcam-1) have been implicated in the autoimmune process in rheumatoid arthritis. We developed a model for in vivo study of radio-labelled lymphocyte circulation and ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Jorgensen C,Couret I,Canovas F,Bologna C,Brochier J,Reme T,Sany J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune thyroid disorders, or AITDs, comprise 2 related disorders, Graves' disease and Hashimoto thyroiditis. In AITD, immune system produces antibodies against autothyroid antigens. The etiology of AITDs involves a complex interaction between genetic predisposing factors and environmental triggering factors. V...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Alkhateeb A,Jarun Y,Tashtoush R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous human Cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs) associated with 'phase I' drug metabolism have been identified. Among them, CYP2D6 is thought to be the major target autoantigen to anti-liver kidney microsome (LKM)-1 autoantibody, a characteristic feature of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) type II. In this study, we were able...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Miyakawa H,Kitazawa E,Kikuchi K,Fujikawa H,Kawaguchi N,Abe K,Matsushita M,Matsushima H,Igarashi T,Hankins RW,Kako M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:The human immune system evolved a multi-layered control mechanism to eliminate self-reactive cells. Of these so-called tolerance induction mechanisms, lymphocytes T education in the thymus gland represents the very first one. This complicated process is not fully understood and quantitative models able to he...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Castiglione F,Santoni D,Rapin N

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional and phenotypic characteristics of lymphocytes separated from myasthenic thymoma (Th-L) were compared with those of lymphocytes separated from non-thymomatous thymus associated with thymoma (NTh-L) of the same patients and NTh-L of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients without thymoma. We examined whether Th-L...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Takahashi K,Saito S,Monden Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CCR5 and its ligands play important roles in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A deletion of 32 bp in its gene leads to the production of a non-functional receptor. Although a protective effect of CCR5 Delta32 for the development of RA has been suggested, future study is required to est...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Martens HA,Kallenberg CG,Bijl M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that mice infected with mouse hepatitis virus A59 develop autoantibodies (autoAb) to liver and kidney fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). Because it has been proposed that the immune system is stimulated by alarm signals called damage-associated molecular patterns or alarmins, we investigated the partic...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Duhalde-Vega M,Retegui LA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic tissue expresses a very low level of MHC molecules, and these few appear only late in ontogeny. Possibly related are deficiencies in the expression of TAP molecules and also the fetus' need to avoid maternal immunologic rejection. However, the fetus may overcome the lack of Ag-presenting molecules when threa...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Lee MS,Sarvetnick N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that cationic anti-DNA antibodies have nephritogenic potential in murine models of lupus nephritis. More recently, we have reported that there is a close relationship between the presence of circulating cationic anti-DNA antibodies and the development of lupus nephritis in humans, and that the cation...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Suzuki N,Otuka I,Harada T,Mizushima Y,Sakane T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human herpesvirus hiding in a latent form in memory B cells in the majority of the world population. Although, primary EBV infection is asymptomatic or causes a self-limiting disease, infectious mononucleosis, the virus is associated with a wide variety of neoplasms developing in immunosu...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Niller HH,Wolf H,Minarovits J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous insulin treatment of young diabetes prone BB rats has been shown previously to suppress the development of autoimmune diabetes. In this study the hypothesis was tested that exogenous insulin may deviate the autoimmune process by acting on the Th1/Th2 cytokine balance in the pancreas. BB rats were implante...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kolb H,Wörz-Pagenstert U,Kleemann R,Rothe H,Rowsell P,Rastegar S,Scott FW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) was isolated in 1992 by subtractive-hybridization technique, as a molecule whose expression is enhanced by apoptotic stimuli. Since then we have been analyzing the function of PD-1 in the regulation of immune responses. Generation of PD-1 deficient mice, pathophysiological analyses of au...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Okazaki T,Wang J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are evolutionary conserved molecules that recognize various microbial components and host-derived agonists from damaged cells and play a central role in innate and adaptive immunity. It has been reported that MyD88, the adaptor molecule downstream of all TLRs, except TLR3, is essential for i...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pagni PP,Traub S,Demaria O,Chasson L,Alexopoulou L

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of cytokines in unstimulated and mitogen-stimulated cultures were evaluated by ELISPOT in 34 SLE patients with low to moderate disease activity and 23 healthy controls. Significantly reduced production of IFN gamma, IL4 and IL12 and significantly increased production of IL6, IL10 and TNF alpha were found in...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Jones BM,Liu T,Wong RW

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the clinical features of AIHA/ES patients with clonal Ig/TCR gene rearrangement. METHODS:Ig/TCR gene rearrangements were measured by BIOMED-2 PCR. 44 primary AIHA/ES patients were enrolled in the study. Clinical characteristics were analyzed and compared between patients with and without clona...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zhu H,Zhao M,Cao Z,Yang J,Li Y,Xing L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (Ia antigen) has been analyzed by immunoperoxidase staining in thyroids of normal C3H mice, of iodine-deficient mice with a hyperplastic goiter and of mice during goiter involution induced by administration of either a high iodide dose (HID, 10 micr...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Toussaint-Demylle D,Many MC,Theisen H,Kraal G,Denef JF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart block is a serious condition with significant mortality due in most cases to the transplacental transfer of autoantibodies from an otherwise asymptomatic mother. Although SSA/Ro and SSB/La autoantibodies have been implicated, attention has focused recently on autoantibodies to envelope proteins of end...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： de Parseval N,Forrest G,Venables PJ,Heidmann T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously derived and identified a highly avid monoclonal IgM rheumatoid factor (mRF), C6, from unstimulated rheumatoid synovial cells (RSC). At the time, the closet VH germline gene, VH26, demonstrated only 88% homology with C6. To identify the germline counterpart of C6, genomic DNA from the same rheumatoid...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Wong A,Tait R,Kenny T,Gorin F,Robbins D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is postulated to be a target autoantigen in multiple sclerosis (MS). Here we investigated the encephalitogenicity of an immunodominant epitope of MOG, peptide 35-55, in various strains of mice. An MS-like disease was induced in NOD/Lt mice (H-2g7) and C57BL/6 mice (H-2b) by a ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Slavin A,Ewing C,Liu J,Ichikawa M,Slavin J,Bernard CC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H2B is an autoantigen that appears in circulation due to altered apoptosis/or insufficient clearance and is likely to be involved in the induction and progression of autoimmune diseases since modified-H2B is immunogenic. Our studies demonstrate that tyrosines of H2B histone spontaneously converts to free and n...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Khan MA,Alam K,Hassan SM,Rizvi MMA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss (ASNHL) is a relatively rare disorder which can lead to total deafness. At present, no specific laboratory test with adequate sensitivity and specificity is available to confirm the clinical suspicion of ASNHL. The aim of this study was to identify if evaluation of anti-...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bonaguri C,Orsoni JG,Zavota L,Monica C,Russo A,Pellistri I,Rubino P,Giovannelli L,Manzotti F,Piazza F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T and B lymphocytes are central regulators and effectors of immune responses and are believed to have a key role in many autoimmune diseases. Targeting the activation or effector function of lymphocytes is a potentially effective approach to treat autoimmunity. Typically, T-cell activation occurs after engagement of t...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Felix NJ,Suri A,Salter-Cid L,Nadler SG,Gujrathi S,Corbo M,Aranda R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA is a nuclear molecule that has both an intracellular and extracellular role. Inside the cell, it is the essential molecule of heredity while outside the cell it can have immunological activity, both alone and in the context of immune complexes. Furthermore, extracellular DNA has information content that can be min...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pisetsky DS,Fairhurst AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is preceded by the presence of antibodies against islet proteins including a protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) designated IA-2. Recently, we cloned a novel PTP named IAR which shares 43% sequence identity with IA-2 and is recognised by antibodies from a majority of patients ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Schmidli RS,Colman PG,Cui L,Yu WP,Kewming K,Jankulovski C,Harrison LC,Pallen CJ,DeAizpurua HJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00