Direct binding of IL-12 to human and murine B lymphocytes.

abstract：:The contribution of the HLA-DRB1, -B3, and -B5 gene products in the recognition of Dermatophagoides spp. (house dust mite) by helper T cells isolated from an atopic individual (HLA-DRw12, DR7; DRw52b) with perennial rhinitis was investigated. Using a panel of histocompatible and histoincompatible accessory cells, the ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： O'Hehir RE,Mach B,Berte C,Greenlaw R,Tiercy JM,Bal V,Lechler RI,Trowsdale J,Lamb JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the dominance of CD8+ T cells expressing TCR Vbeta17 in the adult HLA-A*0201-restricted influenza A/M1(58-66)-specific response is acquired following first antigen exposure. Despite the acquired dominance of Vbeta17+ cells, subdominant M1(58-66)-specific clones expressing non-Vbeta17+ TCR persist in...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lawson TM,Man S,Wang EC,Williams S,Amos N,Gillespie GM,Moss PA,Borysiewicz LK

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs 125a and 125b are predicted to be able to bind to the B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1 (BLIMP-1) and IFN regulatory protein-4 (IRF-4) transcription factors, which are essential for plasma cell differentiation. A computational survey of the human and mouse genomes revealed that miR-125a and miR-125b ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Gururajan M,Haga CL,Das S,Leu CM,Hodson D,Josson S,Turner M,Cooper MD

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of bone marrow (BM) lymphocytes in C57BL/6 mice homozygous for the lpr mutation (B6.lpr) disclosed low numbers of pre-B and B cells, as compared with age-matched control B6 mice. BM depletion in B6.lpr mice was selective for B-lineage cells, appeared in young adults, and developed markedly with age and diseas...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Sundblad A,Coutinho A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania results in the development of leishmaniasis, an increasingly prevalent group of diseases affecting over 12 million people worldwide. Leishmaniasis can have very different outcomes ranging from cutaneous lesions, mucosal lesions to visceralization depending on th...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Rossi M,Fasel N

更新日期：2018-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the occurrence of CD45RA+ adult mouse thymocytes is strain-dependent, e.g. constituting approximately 0.6% in C57BL/Icrf and approximately 2.5% in BALB/c (Huby, R. and Goff, L., 1992. Eur. J. Immunol. 22:1659). Here we show that irrespective of strain, the thymus contains approximately 0....

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Goff LK,Huby RD

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NKT follicular helper cells (NKTfh cells) are a recently discovered functional subset of CD1d-restricted NKT cells. Given the potential for NKTfh cells to promote specific antibody responses and germinal center reactions, there is much interest in determining the conditions under which NKTfh cells proliferate and/or d...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Rampuria P,Lang ML

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of self MHC-restricted T cells responding to peptide fragments of processed antigen has been well characterized. However, the means by which alloreactive T lymphocytes recognize MHC alloantigen remain poorly understood. We now provide evidence that the recognition of class I human leukocyte antigen (HL...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Breur-Vriesendorp BS,Ivanyi P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined effects of c-fos overexpression on the development and property of peritoneal B-1 cells using transgenic (H2-c-fos) mice carrying the c-fos gene under the control of the constitutive H-2Kb promoter. The number of B-1b cells in the peritoneal cavity of H2-c-fos mice was 4-fold larger than that in control li...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Mori S,Sakamoto A,Yamashita K,Fujimura L,Arima M,Hatano M,Miyazaki M,Tokuhisa T

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD45 is a receptor tyrosine phosphatase essential for TCR signaling. One isoform, CD45RB, is down-regulated in memory cells and targeting CD45RB with a specific antibody has been shown to inhibit graft rejection. Its role in immunity to infection, however, has not been tested. Here, we report the effect of anti-CD45RB...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lim B,Sutherland RM,Zhan Y,Deliyannis G,Brown LE,Lew AM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin, one of the typical adipokines, is reported to promote Th17 cell responses and to enhance production of proinflammatory cytokines. To clarify the role of leptin in the regulation of the IL-23/IL-17 axis and the development of kidney disease, we used a murine model of nephrotoxic serum (NTS) nephritis (NTN). She...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Goto K,Kaneko Y,Sato Y,Otsuka T,Yamamoto S,Goto S,Yamamoto K,Yamamoto T,Kawachi H,Madaio MP,Narita I

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Intranasal administration of high amount of allergen was shown to induce tolerance and to reverse the allergic phenotype. However, mechanisms of tolerance induction via the mucosal route are still unclear. OBJECTIVES:To characterize the therapeutic effects of intranasal application of ovalbumin (OVA) in a m...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Pellaton-Longaretti C,Boudousquié C,Barbier N,Barbey C,Argiroffo CB,Donati Y,Sauty A,Spertini F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is increasingly evident that neutrophils are able to cross-talk with other leukocytes to shape ongoing inflammatory and immune responses. In this study, we analyzed whether human NK cells may influence the survival and activation of neutrophils under co-culture conditions. We report that NK cells exposed to either ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Costantini C,Micheletti A,Calzetti F,Perbellini O,Pizzolo G,Cassatella MA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invertebrate pattern-recognition protein named coelomic cytolytic factor (CCF) and the mammalian cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) share functional analogies that are based on a similar saccharide recognition specificity. In particular, CCF and TNF have been shown to interact with ion channels on the surface of...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Bilej M,Josková R,Van den Bergh R,Procházková P,Silerová M,Ameloot P,De Baetselier P,Beschin A

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：: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：:Sequestration of neutrophils and release of histotoxic mediators are considered important for the development of pathologic alterations of the lung defined as adult respiratory distress syndrome. Mechanisms of inflammatory lung injury caused by abdominal sepsis were investigated using the colon ascendens stent periton...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Neumann B,Zantl N,Veihelmann A,Emmanuilidis K,Pfeffer K,Heidecke CD,Holzmann B

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STAT6, NF-kappaB (p50) and C/EBPbeta transcription factors (TF) were examined with respect to CD23 regulation. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA), competition and supershift analysis demonstrated that STAT6 binds the CD23a promoter but with a lower affinity than the consensus site. STAT6-/- mice were analyzed...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Tinnell SB,Jacobs-Helber SM,Sterneck E,Sawyer ST,Conrad DH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking advantage of the recently demonstrated presence of N-aminopeptidases and the serine protease dipeptidyl aminopeptidase IV (DPP IV) at the surface of human myeloblastic HL-60 cells, the regulation of these protease activities in HL-60 cell differentiation has been assessed using combined spectrophotometric and f...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Laouar A,Wietzerbin J,Bauvois B

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gelatin sponge model of concomitant tumor immunity was employed in order to examine the clonality of T cells associated with progressing and rejected tumor sites. Here we show that freshly isolated T cells bearing TCR V(beta)1, CDR3 RPGTGN, J(beta)1.1 and TCR V(beta)8, CDR3 GD, J(beta)1.6 predominated progressing an...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Kurt RA,Park JA,Schluter SF,Marchalonis JJ,Akporiaye ET

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:It has proven difficult to evaluate the functional potential of germinal center (GC) B cells, including those from Peyer's patches (PP), by either in vivo or in vitro methods. Thus, rather than assess secreted Ig product as an indicator of functional potential we have instead sought to detect mRNAs related to the vari...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Weinstein PD,Schweitzer PA,Cebra-Thomas JA,Cebra JJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion molecules of the integrin family are implicated not only in leukocyte migration but also in leukocyte activation. Here we characterize the expression and function of fibronectin receptor integrins on rat mast cells. A rat basophilic leukemia cell line (RBL-2H3) and phorbol ester-stimulated rat peritoneal mast...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Yasuda M,Hasunuma Y,Adachi H,Sekine C,Sakanishi T,Hashimoto H,Ra C,Yagita H,Okumura K

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of cell activation in post-radiation fibrosis and its chronic extension are still poorly understood. Since local IL-2 cancer treatment sometimes triggers intraperitoneal fibrosis we have analyzed three myofibroblastic cell strains from post-radiation skin fibrosis (FPR7, FPR10 and FPR15) for their interacti...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Alileche A,Han D,Plaisance S,Assier E,Sahraoui Y,Clemanceau C,Metivier D,Brouty-Boyer D,Jasmin C,Azzarone B

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metazoan species, from sponges to insects and mammals, possess successful defence systems against their pathogens and parasites. The evolutionary origins of these diverse systems are beginning to be more comprehensively investigated and mapped out. We have collected 1811 metazoan immunity genes from literature and gen...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Rannikko K,Ortutay C,Vihinen M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD18-deficient PL/J mice develop dermatitis characterized by hyperkeratosis, and a mixed dermal and epidermal inflammatory infiltrate. The development of this disease requires low-level CD18 expression and at least two PL/J loci. Currently, the mechanisms by which decreased beta(2) integrin expression on leukocytes pr...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Barlow SC,Xu H,Weaver CT,Lindsey JR,Schoeb TR,Bullard DC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

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：:CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets involved in primary allo-MLR responses were re-evaluated in the present study. The slope analysis of B6 allo-MLR responses to MHC class I-disparate bm1 and class II-disparate bm12 revealed the presence of a T-T cell interaction between CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets. The allo-MLR response of B6 ...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Asano Y,Komuro T,Tada T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta has been shown to stimulate isotype switching to IgA in cultures of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated B cells. The induction of isotype switching is associated with the appearance of novel germline alpha transcripts that cannot be found in cultures stimulated with LPS alone. TGF...

journal_title：International immunology

authors： Lebman DA,Park MJ,Hansen-Bundy S,Pandya A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00