Linomide suppresses experimental autoimmune neuritis in Lewis rats by inhibiting myelin antigen-reactive T and B cell responses.

abstract：:The regulatory effect of prostaglandin (PG) E2 and a cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor on Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-induced macrophage cytotoxicity in a bladder cancer cell, MBT-2, was studied in vitro. BCG stimulated thioglycollate-elicited murine peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) to induce cytotoxic activity and to pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yamada H,Kuroda E,Matsumoto S,Matsumoto T,Yamada T,Yamashita U

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid peroxidase purified from porcine thyroid (pTPO) was found to induce an experimental murine thyroiditis with genetic restriction which was very different from that induced by mouse thyroglobulin (mTg). C57BL/6 and C57BL/10 (both H-2b) were good responders for thyroiditis, whereas A/J (H-2a), BALB/c (H-2d), DBA/...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kotani T,Umeki K,Hirai K,Ohtaki S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcal infections cause a large global health burden, and the search for serotype-independent vaccines continues. Existing conjugate vaccines reduce nasopharyngeal colonization by target serotypes. Such mucosal effects of novel antigens may similarly be important. CD4+ Th17 cell-dependent, antibody-independent r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Oliver E,Pope C,Clarke E,Langton Hewer C,Ogunniyi AD,Paton JC,Mitchell T,Malley R,Finn A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile illness of early childhood, in which the activation of monocytes/macrophages plays a central role in the development of vasculitis during the acute stage of disease. In this study we investigated peripheral blood T cells of 10 patients with KD, focusing on the Th1 and Th2 imba...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Matsubara T,Katayama K,Matsuoka T,Fujiwara M,Koga M,Furukawa S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work indicated that exercise stress in mice was associated with reduced splenic lymphocyte proliferation to T cell mitogens. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of acute exercise stress and exercise training on the phenotype distribution of murine lymphocytes in the spleen, lymph nodes a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman-Goetz L,Thorne R,Simpson JA,Arumugam Y

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breakpoint cluster region-Abelson murine leukaemia viral oncogene homologue 1 (BCR-ABL1), encoded by the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, is the characteristic of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and a subset of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). We demonstrated that expression of the Ik6 transcript, which lacked exons ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dong Y,Liu F,Wu C,Li S,Zhao X,Zhang P,Jiao J,Yu X,Ji Y,Zhang M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spot-ELISA technique has been used to enumerate the frequency of cells secreting tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), isolated from biopsies of normal intestine and from biopsies of children with inflammatory bowel disease. TNF-alpha production was undetectable in six out of 12...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： MacDonald TT,Hutchings P,Choy MY,Murch S,Cooke A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial fluids from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients were found to contain activated T lymphocytes that could be maintained as continuous T cell lines (CTCL) in the presence of the T cell growth factor, interleukin (IL)-2. The CTCL predominantly expressed the OKT8 phenotype and were Ia antigen positive. IL-2-depend...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wilkins JA,Olivier SL,Warrington RJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of IL-12 in host resistance to Cryptococcus neoformans using a murine model of pulmonary and disseminated infection. In this model, mice were infected intratracheally with viable yeast cells. Mice untreated with IL-12 allowed an uncontrolled multiplication of yeast cells in the lung with infiltrat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kawakami K,Tohyama M,Xie Q,Saito A

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a link between increased allergy and a reduction of some infections in western countries. Epidemiological data also show that respiratory allergy is less frequent in people exposed to orofaecal and foodborne microbes such as Toxoplasma gondii. Infection with T. gondii induces a strong cell-mediated immunity w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fenoy I,Giovannoni M,Batalla E,Martin V,Frank FM,Piazzon I,Goldman A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C4BP has a central role in regulating the classical complement (C') pathway, but it is still uncertain whether or not it is consumed during in vivo complement activation. Attempts to demonstrate changes in C4BP plasma levels in systemic lupus erythematosus and essential mixed cryoglobulinaemia have failed, probably du...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bergamaschini L,Miedico A,Cicardi M,Coppola R,Faioni EN,Agostoni A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases mediate protein phosphorylation, which is a fundamental component of cell signalling, with crucial roles in most signal transduction cascades: from controlling cell growth and proliferation to the initiation and regulation of immunological responses. Aberrant kinase activity is implicated in an increas...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Patterson H,Nibbs R,McInnes I,Siebert S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin nuclear speckled IgG deposition was noted in seven patients. The patients' clinical courses satisfied at least four of the preliminary criteria of the American Rheumatism Association for the diagnosis of systemic lupus erthematosus (SLE). Examination of approximately 700 additional biopsies from patiets with SLE,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shu S,Provost T,Croxdale MB,Reichlin M,Beutner EH

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human peripheral blood B lymphocytes, when cultured for 6 days with ovalbumin in the presence of T cells and monocytes, can differentiate into plaque-forming cells (PFC) secreting small amounts of antigen-specific IgM. Phenotype analysis using Ig-isotype and B-cell specific monoclonal antibodies revealed that the PFC ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hart LA,Heijnen CJ,Zijlstra J,Ballieux RE

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of cytokine mRNA species was determined in liver biopsies from six normal subjects, 18 patients with PBC and 14 patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive CHB using a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. cDNA, obtained by reverse transcription using oligo d(T) pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shindo M,Mullin GE,Braun-Elwert L,Bergasa NV,Jones EA,James SP

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system has been established to produce in vitro IgG specific for cell wall determinants of S. aureus by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). PBMC of healthy individuals, of patients with S. aureus infections and of patients with other bacterial infections were cultured for 12 days. In the culture superna...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hauser C,Wilhelm JA,Matter L,Schopfer K

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the adhesion molecule, CD146/MCAM/MelCAM, on T cells has been associated with recent activation, memory subsets and T helper type 17 (Th17) effector function, and is elevated in inflammatory arthritis. Th17 cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritide...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wu C,Goodall JC,Busch R,Gaston JS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immunity with interferon gamma production could have a role in protection from hepatitis C virus (HCV). Interleukin (IL)-12 is a key cytokine in promoting such anti-viral T helper 1 (Th1) responses. We hypothesized that a genetic background able to promote cellular responses may be associated with apparent pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hegazy D,Thurairajah P,Metzner M,Houldsworth A,Shaw S,Kaminski E,Demaine AG,Cramp ME

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perivascular infiltrates of inflammatory cells are a hallmark of lesional skin in scleroderma. We have explored the potential for scleroderma fibroblasts to modulate mononuclear leucocyte migration across endothelial cell monolayers in tissue culture, and to regulate expression of endothelial cell adhesion molecules. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Denton CP,Shi-Wen X,Sutton A,Abraham DJ,Black CM,Pearson JD

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the immune response following primary human hookworm infection, an adult volunteer was infected with 50 L3 larvae of Necator americanus, reinfected 27 months later and followed for a further 6 months. Clinical signs, blood picture, ex-vivo peripheral blood cytokine production (IFN-gamma, IL-5, IL-13, I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wright V,Bickle Q

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of human monocytes form long needles of fibrin on their surfaces when they are briefly exposed to human plasma. A number of coagulation factor deficient plasmas (II, V, VII, VIII, von Willebrand, IX, X, XI and XII) were tested for their ability to promote formation of this fibrin. Monocytes failed to make...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hogg N

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by clonal B cell attack of the exocrine glands and dysregulated expression of B cell-activating factor (BAFF). Based upon the current data of increased rates of lymphoid malignancy, as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is associated with SS, we propose the dete...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Guzmán LM,Castillo D,Aguilera SO

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement C6 has a common charge polymorphism designated A and B with gene frequencies of 0.65 and 0.35. The probable molecular basis for this is a Glu (C6A) for Ala (C6B) substitution at amino acid position 98, and is detected by digestion with the restriction enzyme Dde I of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplif...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fernie BA,Hobart MJ,Delbridge G,Potter PC,Orren A,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A is a cytokine whose multiple functions have yet to be fully determined. In this study, the role of proinflammatory cytokines in regulatory control of activin A production was shown in synoviocytes and chondrocytes. Additional facets of functional inflammation-related activities of activin A were also determi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yu EW,Dolter KE,Shao LE,Yu J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible role of tryptophan metabolism in immune regulation of primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) the serum concentrations of tryptophan and its metabolite kynurenine were measured by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in 103 patients with pSS, 56 patients with sicca symptoms ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pertovaara M,Raitala A,Uusitalo H,Pukander J,Helin H,Oja SS,Hurme M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-1 acts on many cells as an inflammatory mediator. Its two forms, IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta, are regulated differentially within hyperproliferative inflammatory skin conditions, such as psoriasis. While IL-1 alpha is down-regulated within psoriatic lesions, the levels of IL-1 beta are increased. However, some investi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schön M,Behmenburg C,Denzer D,Schön MP

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of subjects during acute (0-3 days) and convalescent (2-3 weeks) phase of recurrent herpes labialis (RHL), and other subjects seropositive or seronegative for herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) antibody without any history of RHL, were tested for the appearance of cell-mediated cytotoxic responses by stimulati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tsutsumi H,Bernstein JM,Riepenhoff-Talty M,Cohen E,Orsini F,Ogra PL

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG subclass distribution of thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb) has been studied in Hashimoto and Graves' patients by several investigators with conflicting results, in part explainable by methodological problems. We have recently developed a quantitative ELISA to measure in absolute terms the serum concentration of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Caturegli P,Kuppers RC,Mariotti S,Burek CL,Pinchera A,Ladenson PW,Rose NR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between mannan-binding lectin (MBL) status and severity of lung function impairment in cystic fibrosis (CF) has been found in several studies, but not in others. To explore the possible basis for discrepancies in the literature, we related both MBL and L-ficolin concentrations to lung function and exami...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Muhlebach MS,MacDonald SL,Button B,Hubbard JJ,Turner ML,Boucher RC,Kilpatrick DC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmunity may contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Studies have identified disease-specific autoantibodies (DSAAbs) in COPD patients, but natural autoantibodies (NAAbs) may also play a role. Previous studies have concentrated on circulating autoantibodies, but lung-associa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Daffa NI,Tighe PJ,Corne JM,Fairclough LC,Todd I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00