High circulating IL-6 level in Graves' ophthalmopathy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The myositis-specific autoantibodies that characterize certain forms of inflammatory myopathy are useful in diagnosing dermatomyositis (DM) / polymyositis and predicting its prognosis. Autoantibodies to small ubiquitin-like modifier activating enzyme (SAE) have been identified as a DM-marker antibody in Euro...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Muro Y,Sugiura K,Akiyama M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agalactosyl IgG (Gal(0) is a glycoform lacking terminal galactose from the oligosaccharides situated on the Fc. The percentage of circulating IgG that is Gal(0) is increased in a a number of autoimmune diseases, and in certain chronic infections associated with autoantibody production. However it is not known whether ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pilkington C,Yeung E,Isenberg D,Lefvert AK,Rook GA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic cells are readily recognized and engulfed by phagocytes and usually do not induce inflammation or tissue damage. Furthermore, they can actively suppress a pro-inflammatory response in phagocytes: In the presence of apoptotic cells, activated monocytes/macrophages produce more of the anti-inflammatory and imm...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Girkontaite I,Urbonaviciute V,Maseda D,Neubert K,Herrmann M,Voll RE

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide population studies have generally agreed that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a group of HLA-DRB1 alleles which share a common amino acid sequence at residues 70-74. This represents the first study to investigate the association of HLA-DRB1 genes with susceptibility to RA amongst Malay, Chinese ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kong KF,Yeap SS,Chow SK,Phipps ME

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated constitutive expression of major histocompatibility (MHC) class II antigens occurs in the enterocytes of patients with IBD. It has been suggested that this aberrant expression of class II molecules may play a role in the pathogenesis of IBD. We examined two possible reasons for such a finding. 1) Heightened s...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Salomon P,Pizzimenti A,Panja A,Reisman A,Mayer L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study uses the agent-based model IMMSIM to simulate immune responses to a viral infection, with a focus on the impact of preformed memory (homologous and heterologous) on the quality and the efficacy of the response. The in machina results confirm the observed thwarting of new, naïve responses exerted by c...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Pearson YE,Cheng Y,Selin LK,Puzone R,Celada F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed morphologically autoimmune disease in MRL/MpJ mice bearing both the Yaa and lpr genes (MRL-lpr,Yaa mice), and compared it with that in MRL/MpJ-lpr/lpr (MRL-lpr) mice, in order to examine the effect of the Yaa gene on lpr-induced tissue-specific immunopathologies. MRL-lpr,Yaa male mice developed glomerulone...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Suzuka H,Yoshifusa H,Nakamura Y,Miyawaki S,Shibata Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:The nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse develops diabetes spontaneously due to autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic islets with a higher incidence in the female than the male. Prolactin (PRL), a hormone whose role has been previously focused on reproduction and lactation has been demonstrated to influence immune respons...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hawkins TA,Gala RR,Dunbar JC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-DP+ T cells in peripheral blood from 23 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were examined using two-colour flow cytometry analysis. A marked increase of HLA-DP+ T cells was observed in patients with SLE (20.5-98.7%; 59.8 +/- 20.8%) in comparison to normal subjects (1.3-20.6%; 11.1 +/- 7.2%), and the r...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Tokano Y,Hishikawa T,Hirose T,Sekigawa I,Hashimoto H,Okumura K,Hirose S

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (cAIT) leads to hypothyroidism due to T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in most cases. By contrast, Graves' disease (GD) with thyrotropin receptor stimulatory autoantibodies cause hyperthyroidism. Cytokines play a crucial role in modulating immune response in both disorders. The aim of study ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mikos H,Mikos M,Rabska-Pietrzak B,Niedziela M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinase 3 (PR3)-specific antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (PR3-ANCA) recognize conformational epitopes on PR3. This study evaluates PR3-ANCA target epitopes utilizing a novel recombinant PR3 (rPR3) produced to accommodate manipulations of the N-terminal domain. The rPR3 molecule contains an N-terminus six ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Farrag L,Pendergraft WF 3rd,Yang JJ,Jennette JC,Falk RJ,Preston GA

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disorder of the peripheral nervous system. However, GBS patients frequently display a psychosyndrome, indicating an accompanying involvement of the central nervous system (CNS), although the cause is not understood. Hepatic encephalopathy is possibly the best characterize...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Görtzen A,Schlüter S,Veh RW

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious agents have been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of various vasculitides via numerous and overlapping mechanisms including direct microbial invasion of endothelial cells, immune complex mediated vessel wall damage and stimulation of autoreactive B and/or T cells through molecular mimicry and superantigen...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Lidar M,Lipschitz N,Langevitz P,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of the immunosuppressive effect of antithyroid drugs has been a subject of controversy. It has been claimed that these agents exert a direct effect on the immune system, although we and others have suggested that the drugs affect the thyroid cells primarily with consequent reduced thyrocyte-immunocyte signa...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Aguayo J,Michaud P,Iitaka M,Degroot LJ,Row VV,Volpé R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A minor subset of murine MHC class I-restricted T cells which express both the alphabeta form of the T cell receptor and a NK lineage marker, termed NKT cells, is capable of secreting significant amounts of Interleukin-4 and Interferon-y upon activation. As such NKT cells may play a role in development of Th1 and Th2 ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Frey AB,Rao TD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the dysfunction of T cells, B cells, and dendritic cells and by the production of antinuclear autoantibodies. This editorial provides a synopsis of newly discovered genetic factors and signaling pathways in lupus pathogenesis that ar...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Perl A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a myocardial disease characterized by progressive depression of myocardial contractile function and by ventricular dilatation. Abnormalities of the cellular and humoral immune system are present in patients with myocarditis and DCM. Various circulating cardiac autoantibodies have been d...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Felix SB,Staudt A,Friedrich GB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms in the upstream regulatory region of the HLA class II DQA1 gene are currently defined by 10 different alleles. Two of them carrying a Y-box mutation are associated with susceptibility to oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (OA-JIA). We investigated allele-dependent differences in HLA-DQA1 gene e...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Haas JP,Metzler M,Frank C,Haefner R,Wassmuth R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On different tissue sections, binding of gliadin to reticular matrix components was observed which was Ca2+-dependent, inhibited by Cu2+ and Zn2+ ions, by putrescine, and by preincubation with antibodies against tissue transglutaminase (tTG) suggesting that binding of gliadin is mediated by tTG. tTG was able to bind t...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Uhlig H,Osman AA,Tanev ID,Viehweg J,Mothes T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLA) were discovered during the course of Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) caused by Rickettsia conorii and characterized by endothelial cell (EC) damage resulting from this organism's tropism for EC. In two MSF patients, two types of aPLA were identified: antiphosphatidylethanolamine an...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sotto A,Bérard M,Bessis D,Porneuf M,Jourdan J,Boffa MC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial antigens were purified from rat liver and characterized by immunoblotting. Sera from 19 well defined patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) reacted with two mitochondrial polypeptides of 68 Kd and 45 Kd. Antibodies to these antigens were not detected in any of the sera of patients with cirrhosis o...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zurgil N,Konikoff F,Bakimer R,Slor H,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that the nephritogenicity of antibodies to dsDNA and nucleosomes confers to binding of glomerular membrane-associated nucleosomes, and not to cross-reacting glomerular antigens. There is no known parameter that determines antibody pathogenicity aside from specificity for dsDNA/nucleoso...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mjelle JE,Kalaaji M,Rekvig OP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, multi-level complex behavior and reactive nature of biological systems, has been a focus point for the biomedical community. We have developed a computational approach, termed Reactive Animation (RA) for simulating such complex biological systems. RA is an approach for describing the dynamic char...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Vainas O,Harel D,Cohen IR,Efroni S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are crucial for the recognition of invading pathogens and for the activation of both innate and adaptive immunity. Upon stimulation, TLRs recruit various protein kinases via several adaptor molecules, such as MyD88, leading to the activation of NFkB. The identification of TLR signaling...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Toubi E,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the MRL/lpr murine model of spontaneous lupus to investigate three questions in infection immunity: (1) does mycobacterial infection have any effect on the mortality of the autoimmunity-prone lpr mice?; (2) does the infection modify the progression of kidney disease of lpr lupus?; and (3) does the lpr gen...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Castro AP,Esaguy N,Aguas AP

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) accumulation in the retrobulbar space of patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) has been documented in a number of immunohistochemical studies. In order to gain further insight into possible immunopathogenic mechanisms, the influence of humoral immunity on retrobulbar fibroblasts...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kahaly G,Stover C,Otto E,Beyer J,Schuler M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid component P (SAP) are well-characterised ligands for dying and dead cells, while facets of their physiological function still need to be unravelled. We partially characterised CRP and SAP from different species with similar acute-phase systems. Human, rabbit and porcine...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mattecka S,Bock C,Vogt B,Yapici G,Schrödl W,Janko C,Schindler R,Sheriff A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00