Abstract:
:The molecular mechanism responsible for the age-dependent decline of natural killer (NK) cell response was examined. The responses of NK cells to poly(I:C), Con A, and LPS were compared between the young and the aged animals. We observed that both basal and induced NK cell activity declined with age. To further determine the basis for this change, an effort was made to identify the cytokine genes that might be involved. In addition, the capacity of acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) to restore NK cell activity was evaluated. In this study, 51Cr release assay and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay were used to measure the NK cell activity and the changes in cytokine gene expression, respectively. Our results show that the decline in NK cell response to poly(I:C) and LPS in aged animals was correlated with decreased expression of the IFN-gamma gene. The decline in the NK cell response to Con A in aged animals was, however, independent of the expression of IL-2 or IFN-gamma genes. Although ALC was reported to restore functions of T cells and macrophages in aged animals, we found that long-term treatment (4 months) with ALC had no effect on either the basal or the induced age-dependent loss of NK cell activity. Our observations suggest that cytokine gene therapy could be a potential approach to improving or even preventing the decline of certain immune functions in the elderly.
journal_name
Cell Immunoljournal_title
Cellular immunologyauthors
Hsueh CM,Chen SF,Ghanta VK,Hiramoto RNdoi
10.1006/cimm.1996.0271subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-11-01 00:00:00pages
221-9issue
2eissn
0008-8749issn
1090-2163pii
S0008-8749(96)90271-3journal_volume
173pub_type
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(91)90010-9
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Atherosclerosis involves immune mechanisms: T lymphocytes are found in atherosclerotic plaques, suggesting their activation during atherogenesis. The predominant voltage-gated potassium channel of T cells, Kv1.3 is a key regulator of the Ca(2+)-dependent activation pathway. In the present experiments we studied the pr...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cellimm.2013.01.004
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(86)90003-1
更新日期:1986-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The effects of progesterone on murine suppressor cell function generated in allogeneic MLCs were investigated. BALB/c splenic lymphocytes stimulated in vitro with C3H/He cells significantly suppressed the proliferative response of BALB/c lymphocytes in a secondary MLC. This suppression was highly specific for the sens...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(83)90377-5
更新日期:1983-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Avirulent clones of Leishmania braziliensis were produced by treatment of parental parasite stock with the mutagen N-methyl-N'-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine and selection for growth at 19 degrees C. These clones have a clear preference for infection and growth in vitro at 19 degrees C rather than the normal 28 de...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(85)90081-4
更新日期:1985-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Two functional T hybridomas were prepared by fusing BW5147 with ovalbumin (OVA)-primed splenic T blast cells. One was OVA specific for helper function requiring concanavalin A supernatant (CAS) for activity while the other, termed autoreactive, was nonspecific for helper-augmenting activity. Both required H-2d present...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(84)90371-x
更新日期:1984-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(89)90117-2
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(91)90327-8
更新日期:1991-04-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(85)90089-9
更新日期:1985-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(83)90309-x
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Modification of cytokine production by gender hormones has been postulated to affect disease susceptibility and outcome. Here we investigate the effect of gender and the menstrual cycle on production of cytokines. Mononuclear cells were isolated every week for 10 consecutive weeks from healthy pre-menopausal women and...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cellimm.2008.04.013
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Anti-TNF-α therapies have been applied in RA treatment, but the regulatory effect of the drug on immune system is not clear. In this study, we included 33 active RA patients and divided them into two groups. One group received anti-TNF-α mAb+methotrexate for 24 weeks, the other group got placebo+methotrexate for the f...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.cellimm.2012.09.001
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have observed that the CD28 molecule was present on the cell surface of a large fraction of resting CD3- thymocytes (40 to 100%). Interestingly, the majority (greater than 90%) of surface CD3-CD28-cells reacted in the cytoplasm with anti-CD28 (CK248, 9.3) and anti-CD3 epsilon chain mAbs (Leu4, OKT3). Along this lin...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(91)90385-o
更新日期:1991-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the present report, we demonstrated that extrathymic gamma(delta) T cells proliferated in the mixed culture of lymph node cells of BALB/c nu/nu mice and irradiated syngeneic spleen cells (syngeneic MLR). Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analyses revealed that V(delta)5 and V(delta)6 were dom...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/cimm.1996.0250
更新日期:1996-10-10 00:00:00
abstract::Treatment with bacterial lipopolysaccharide elicits the appearance of greater numbers of background antigen-specific plaque-forming cells (PFC) in the spleens of mice previously exposed or primed to subimmunogenic amounts of various non-cross-reacting antigens so as to generate detectable immunological memory. These f...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(87)90235-8
更新日期:1987-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The pim-1 gene encodes a serine/threonine protein kinase with expression restricted primarily to cells of hematopoietic lineage and is thought to play a role in the signal transduction events associated with lymphocyte activation. A rapid increase in pim-1 mRNA levels was found after stimulation of normal unseparated ...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/cimm.1995.1059
更新日期:1995-04-15 00:00:00
abstract::T-Cell hybridomas were constructed by fusing BW5147, an AKR lymphoma, with concanavalin A-stimulated murine splenic lymphocytes. The hybrids which were formed were studied for their ability to produce a lymphokine which inhibits tumor cell migration (TMIF) as well as macrophage migration (MIF) using in vitro assays. C...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(85)90158-3
更新日期:1985-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cellimm.2013.08.005
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(85)90345-4
更新日期:1985-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(90)90218-g
更新日期:1990-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(85)90026-7
更新日期:1985-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Class II major histocompatibility antigens (Ia) play a major role in regulating T-B cell interactions; therefore, regulation of the amount of Ia on B cells may be an important point of control in the immune response. Mitogens in human and murine systems have been reported to increase Ia expression on B cells, and in t...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(88)90108-6
更新日期:1988-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The transfer of B cells from mice immunized with Type III pneumococcal polysaccharide (SSS-III) results in the activation of suppressor and amplifier T cells that control the magnitude of the antibody response in recipient mice, immunized subsequently with SSS-III. Prior treatment of transferred B cells with an excess...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(85)90368-5
更新日期:1985-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Idiotypic immunoglobulin, which can be considered to bear tumour-associated antigens in the context of B-cell lymphoma, has been obtained from the splenic A31 tumour, purified, and used to immunise syngeneic mice. On subsequent exposure to a lethal challenge of lymphoma cells, the mice showed no overt tumour developme...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(91)90007-x
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The in vitro effect of single or combined doses of zidovudine (AZT) and dideoxycytidine (ddC) on the production and utilization of interleukin-2 (IL-2) by normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) was evaluated by measuring IL-2 concentrations in supernatants from PHA-stimulated PBMC cultures. Drugs were ...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/cimm.1995.1128
更新日期:1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The third complementarity determining region (CDR3) is the most variable part of alpha beta T cell receptors (TCR) and represents the putative antigen contacting site. To identify parameters determining the structural diversity of the CDR3 region, the CDR3 length distributions of 66 BV-J combinations in peripheral CD4...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/cimm.1996.0071
更新日期:1996-03-15 00:00:00
abstract::Transforming growth factor beta1 (TGFbeta1) is a potent negative immunoregulatory molecule. We have previously shown that the autoimmune-mediated weaning-age lethality of Tgfb1-/- mice is reversed upon genetic combination with Scid or Rag null alleles. Here, we show that elimination of T but not B cells is sufficient ...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cellimm.2005.02.004
更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dendritic cells (DC), as professional antigen presenting cells, play the central role in the process of body initiating the anti-tumor immunity, and the study on DC anti-tumor vaccine has become heated in recent years. In this study, we used polyethylene glycol (PEG) to induce renal cell carcinoma (RCC) 786-O cell lin...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.cellimm.2010.01.004
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper investigates the presence of HLA class I-restricted and tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in tumor sites of esophageal cancers. Five CTL lines were established from the metastatic lymph nodes or pleural effusion by incubation with interleukin-2 of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes: cases 1 and 5, HL...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/cimm.1997.1105
更新日期:1997-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The effects of mAb therapy to CD4 or CD8 on induction of unresponsiveness to Heymann's nephritis by preimmunization with renal tubular antigen in IFA. Anti-CD4 mAbs (MRC Ox35) given for 2 weeks after RTA/IFA completely prevented the induction of resistance to HN, all rats developing proteinuria as well as high titers ...
journal_title:Cellular immunology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0008-8749(91)90118-u
更新日期:1991-04-01 00:00:00