Tolerance: a case of self/not-self discrimination maintained by clonal deletion?

abstract：:With a larger, independent cohort and more sophisticated measures, we sought to confirm our work that indicated independence of humoral and cellular immunity following measles vaccination. We recruited an age-stratified random cohort of 764 healthy subjects from all socioeconomic strata, all with medical-record docume...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Jacobson RM,Ovsyannikova IG,Vierkant RA,Pankratz VS,Poland GA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonclassical MHC class I HLA-G antigen is expressed in cytotrophoblasts during pregnancy and may play a role in inhibiting lysis by maternal natural killer cells. HLA-G gene transcription was analyzed in human fetal liver of 6-8 wk of gestation, a development stage where classical HLA class I expression is very re...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Moreau P,Lefebvre S,Gourand L,Dausset J,Carosella ED,Paul P

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin idiotypes (Id) of malignant B cells represent highly specific markers which can be used for vaccination. PCR-amplification of immunoglobulin genes enables the rapid production of large amounts of Id vaccines. However, the separate amplification and subsequent recombination of heavy and light chains can ...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Terness P,Welschof M,Moldenhauer G,Jung M,Moroder L,Kirchhoff F,Kipriyanov S,Little M,Opelz G

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of Ig allotypes with celiac disease was analyzed in a sample of 95 Italian patients typed for HLA polymorphisms. No significant association was found for any Gm, A2m, or Km specificity when the overall sample was considered. However, significant different sex ratios were shown by patients' fnb positive...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Carbonara AO,DeMarchi M,van Loghem E,Ansaldi N

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidences have shown that several host genetic factors influence susceptibility or protection to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. There are controversial data regarding the associations of human leukocyte antigens (HLA) and the clearance or progression of HCV. The aim of this study was to investigate whether ...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Grimaldi V,Sommese L,Picascia A,Casamassimi A,Cacciatore F,Renda A,De Rosa P,Montesano ML,Sabia C,Fiorito C,De Iorio G,Napoli C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological and immunochemical studies showed that monoclonal antibody Q2/70 (MoAb Q2/70), produced by the hybridoma technique, is specific for human Ia-like antigens. This antibody recognizes an antigenic determinant which is different from those defining the serologic polymorphism of Ia-like antigens, and is express...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Quaranta V,Indiveri F,Glassy MC,Ng A,Russo C,Molinaro GA,Pellegrino MA,Ferrone S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mexican Mestizos, who are the result of the admixture of Spanish, Indian, and Black genes, were analyzed for different systems. Three populations from geographical distinct areas were studied: the north (State of Nuevo Leon ), the center (State of Guanajuato), and the highlands (mainly Mexico City). Ten blood group sy...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Gorodezky C,Alaez C,Vázquez-García MN,de la Rosa G,Infante E,Balladares S,Toribio R,Pérez-Luque E,Muñoz L

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even when kidney allografts are well matched for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and anti-HLA antibodies are not detected, graft rejection can still occur. There is evidence that some patients who lose their graft have antibodies specific for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-related chain A (MICA) antigens...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Cox ST,Stephens HA,Fernando R,Karasu A,Harber M,Howie AJ,Powis S,Zou Y,Stastny P,Madrigal JA,Little AM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies have played an important role in studying the biochemistry of the HLA-Class I molecules. Some murine anti-HLA mAbs can identify configurations of HLA epitopes that have never been reported in human allosera. One of these configurations is identified by an IgM mAb designated as: BHA-1441. This ant...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Etessami S,Tarsitani C,Lias M,Broadous M,Conger N,Randol G,Delory M,Bahrami S,Lee JH

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase I (β-1,4-GalT-I) mediates several biological mechanisms as a key enzyme in glycobiology, but the role of β-1,4-GalT-I in immune system remains unclear. We conducted experiments to investigate whether β-1,4-GalT-I is participating in the activation of Jurkat T cell and intercellular conta...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Sun X,Wu Y,Wang Y,Xue Q,Cheng X,Zhang G,Zhu Y,Wang X

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type I hypersensitivity, also known as IgE-mediated allergy, is a complex, multifactorial condition whose onset and severity are influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Mite allergens stimulate the production of humoral response (IgE), especially in children, which is closely involved in atopic...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： da Costa Lima Caniatti MC,Borelli SD,Guilherme AL,Tsuneto LT

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An independent pool of 16 incompatible live donor-recipient pairs registered at the Vienna transplant unit was applied to test whether virtual crossmatch allocation used in the Australian kidney paired donation (KPD) program reliably predicts negative crossmatches. High resolution HLA data were entered into the comput...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Böhmig GA,Fidler S,Christiansen FT,Fischer G,Ferrari P

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Felty's syndrome (FS) is a rare complication of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) previously shown to be strongly associated with HLA-DR4 and less significantly with HLA-DQw7. To map more precisely the HLA locus responsible for susceptibility to FS, we have examined HLA-DR4 and DQ beta-chain polymorphisms in FS patients and c...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Lanchbury JS,Jaeger EE,Sansom DM,Hall MA,Wordsworth P,Stedeford J,Bell JI,Panayi GS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allelic diversity and associated human leukocyte antigen (HLA) disparity of 1775 bone marrow recipients and their unrelated donors, matched for six of six (1361/1775,77%), five of six (397/1775, 22%), or four of six (17/1775, 1%) HLA-A, -B, -DR antigens, were retrospectively evaluated. The comprehensive HLA analys...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Hurley CK,Fernandez-Vina M,Hildebrand WH,Noreen HJ,Trachtenberg E,Williams TM,Baxter-Lowe LA,Begovich AB,Petersdorf E,Selvakumar A,Stastny P,Hegland J,Hartzman RJ,Carston M,Gandham S,Kollman C,Nelson G,Spellman S,Sett

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the large local donor registries, for some Israeli patients an HLA-matched unrelated donor cannot be identified within a favorable time period. This study aims to retrospectively analyze donor search processes in our transplantation center in order to provide a basis to enhance the efficacy of these procedures...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Israeli M,Yeshurun M,Stein J,Ram R,Shpilberg O,Levi CL,Klein T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the association of rs7574865 polymorphism in STAT4 with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome and Behçet's disease (BD) in a Chinese Han population. Genotyping of rs7574865 polymorphism in the STAT4 gene was performed using polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphisms in 37...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Hu K,Yang P,Jiang Z,Hou S,Du L,Li F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are widely used for their anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties. Changing concentrations of transcriptional cofactors or chemicals in transiently transfected tissue culture cells modify several properties of glucocorticoid receptor-regulated gene expression including total activity (A(max)...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Luo M,Simons SS Jr

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of HLA antigens in lymphocyte differentiation is strongly suggested by the existence of a recently identified immunodeficiency associated with, and probably resulting from, the lack of expression of HLA-A, B, and C antigens as well as beta2 microglobulin on various cells of hematopoietic origin. This "bare ly...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Touraine JL,Bétuel H

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG)-resistant Kawasaki disease (KD) patients comprise at least 20% of treated patients and are at high risk for coronary artery abnormalities. If identified early in the course of the disease, such patients may benefit from additional anti-inflammatory therapy. The aim of this study was t...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Fury W,Tremoulet AH,Watson VE,Best BM,Shimizu C,Hamilton J,Kanegaye JT,Wei Y,Kao C,Mellis S,Lin C,Burns JC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II alleles have been associated with the development of atopic asthma. To determine whether HLA class II alleles are associated with atopic asthma in a population from southeast Spain (Murcia region), 213 atopic asthmatic patients and 150 controls were selected for HLA typ...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Torío A,Sánchez-Guerrero I,Muro M,Villar LM,Minguela A,Marín L,Moya-Quiles MR,Montes-Ares O,Pagán J,Alvarez-López MR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigators have reported that subdivisions of HLA-B44, which are not defined by available cytotoxic antisera, can be detected by cytotoxic T lymphocytes. The present study was designed to evaluate two sera which appear to recognize a specificity on some HLA-B44 and B45 positive cells and to determine whethe...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Heise ER,Tekolf WA,Hampton JP

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human B cells nonspecifically activated by Epstein Barr virus (EBV) can present tetanus toxoid (TT) antigen to TT specific helper T cell lines and T cell clones. Presentation of TT antigen by EBV-B cells did not require the presence of TT specific B cells and did not involve B cell surface immunoglobulins. Immunosorbe...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Chu E,Umetsu D,Yunis E,Geha RS

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is a major, soluble, pattern-recognition molecule and an important component of the innate host defense. The role of MBL in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) is controversial. We determined the prevalence of MBL deficiency in a Hungarian IBD patients' cohort, and whether it is associated ...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Papp M,Lakatos PL,Harsfalvi J,Farkas G,Palatka K,Udvardy M,Molnar T,Farkas K,Nagy F,Veres G,Lakatos L,Kovacs A,Dinya T,Kocsis AK,Papp J,Hungarian IBD Study Group.,Altorjay I

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of donor type chimerism in mildly prepared hosts without graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a most desirable goal in bone morrow transplantation. We have recently demonstrated in a mouse model that donor veto cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) can facilitate the induction of donor type chimerism in sublethally ...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Aviner S,Yao X,Krauthgamer R,Gan Y,Goren-Arbel R,Klein T,Tabilio A,McMannis JD,Champlin R,Martelli MF,Bachar-Lustig E,Reisner Y

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two members of a unique class of natural antibodies have been identified in all of a large cohort of sera from clinically normal humans of broad age distribution. By means of a series of 10-12 mer peptides the epitope for each of those antibodies was characterized with regard to amino acid identity and conformation. S...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Rodman TC,To SE,Sullivan JJ,Winston R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the production of mouse monoclonal antibodies specific for the human TcR using as the immunogen transfected murine T-cell hybridoma cells coexpressing mouse CD3 with human Jurkat TcR alpha and beta chains. The shortage of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for the human TcR-V alpha and V beta families r...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Zumla A,McCormack A,George A,Batchelor R,Lechler R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis and catabolism of sheep red blood cells by human peripheral blood phagocytes were studied in 100 normal caucasoid subjects (44 males and 56 females). Both phenomena are highly reproducible, and their indices seem to be biological constants. There is no correlation between these two indices and the indices...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Legrand L,Rivat-Perran L,Huttin C,Dausset J

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA-DR4 haplotype consists of four DRB genes: DRB1*04, DRBVII, DRBVIII, and DRB4*01, arranged in this order on the chromosome. The DRB1 and DRB4 genes code for beta chains of the alpha beta heterodimers expressed on the cell surface and bearing the HLA-DR4 and HLA-DRw53 determinants, respectively; the DRBVII and D...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Klein D,Vincek V,Kasahara M,Schönbach C,O'hUigin C,Klein J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the existence of antigen specific T cell responses and to follow the changes of these reactions, it is considered useful to evaluate whether certain T cells clonally accumulate in the lymphocyte population. For this purpose, we have established a novel method to analyze T cell clonality using a combination...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Yamamoto K,Masuko-Hongo K,Tanaka A,Kurokawa M,Hoeger T,Nishioka K,Kato T

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection and avoidance of donor-reactive antibodies in the sera of potential organ transplant recipients is key to a successful transplant outcome. Techniques of antibody detection that use flow cytometry are more sensitive than those that rely upon a visual determination of cytotoxicity. However, as conventionally p...

journal_title：Human immunology

authors： Wetzsteon PJ,Head MA,Fletcher LM,Lye WC,Norman DJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00