Enhanced prevalence of T cells expressing TCRBV8S2 and TCRBV8S3 in hearts of chronically Trypanosoma cruzi-infected mice.

abstract：:Development of active TB is accompanied by immune suppression and the underlining mechanisms have been explored extensively in recent years. MDSCs are a heterogeneous group of immature and progenitor myeloid cells with strong immunosuppressive ability for both natural and adaptive immunity. In our analysis of CD244 (2...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Yang B,Wang X,Jiang J,Zhai F,Cheng X

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, several investigators have shown that transfer of dendritic cells (DC) prevents diabetes development in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice. Accumulating evidences showing that DC cultured in medium containing fetal calf serum (FCS) can induce a dominant unspecific immune response in tumor models after i.v....

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kadri N,Potiron N,Ouary M,Jegou D,Gouin E,Bach JM,Lieubeau B

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of global mortality due to infectious diseases. Expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) acts as an important influencing factor favoring bacillary survival during TB infection. In this study, we investigated the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins recognized by sera from TB patient ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Zhao JW,Sun ZQ,Zhang XY,Zhang Y,Liu J,Ye J,Chen CC,Samten B,Wang HH,Guo XK,Zhang SL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that the capacity of highly malignant B16BL6 murine melanoma cells to induce cell death in naive syngeneic lymphocytes stems from the absence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I glycoproteins in these melanoma cells. Our present study provides evidence that the above-mentioned...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kellman-Pressman S,Fishman D,Tsory S,Segal S

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We infected umbilical cord blood lymphocytes (CBL) with EBV in vitro. Analysis of the cell population in 3- and 6-day-old cultures showed a relative increase of B cells and outgrowth of B cells after prolonged culture period. The immunomodulator PSK was added to parallel cultures. In these cultures, B cell growth was ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Liu A,Klein G,Bandobashi K,Klein E,Nagy N

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies of the Orthoclone series were used to identify total T lymphocytes (OKT3) and their helper-inducer (OKT4) and cytotoxic-suppressor (OKT8) subsets in 25 patients with chronic Chagas' disease and 25 healthy controls. No significant difference in the number of total T cells (OKT3+) circulating in th...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Gattass CR,Albanesi Fo FM,Barcinski MA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely known that mast cells and cytokine TNF-alpha are both involved in inflammatory reactions. Therefore, we have studied whether TNF-alpha can cause histamine secretion from human adenoidal and cutaneous mast cells. The experiments were performed in vitro on mast cells isolated from tissues by enzymatic dispe...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Brzezińska-Błaszczyk E,Pietrzak A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When IL-4 mRNA was distinguished from mRNA encoding its antagonist, the splice variant IL-4delta2, it was found to correlate directly with expression of TLR2 in fresh peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from normal donors (p=0.0013). Similarly IL-4 mRNA was high when TLR2 mRNA was abundant compared to levels of...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Chang JS,Dheda K,Huggett JF,Kim LU,Zumla A,Rook GA

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-surface 5'-nucleotidase was assayed by incubating intact cells with 5' [3H]AMP in iso-osmotic buffer and measuring [3H]adenosine production. The activity of cell surface 5'-nucleotidase in small resting lymphocytes and in cells of the B cell line BCL1 was 5.7 and 1.1 nmol/min/mg protein respectively at 37 degrees...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hauschildt S,Bessler WG

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of impressive results in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic B cell leukemia (B-ALL) with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, the clinical outcome of some hematological cancers like follicular lymphoma (FL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has not been very promising likely due to immunosuppressiv...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Fallah-Mehrjardi K,Mirzaei HR,Masoumi E,Jafarzadeh L,Rostamian H,Khakpoor-Koosheh M,Alishah K,Noorbakhsh F,Hadjati J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunodeficiencies can lead to alterations of the gut microbiome that render it pathogenic and capable of transmitting disease to naïve hosts. Here, we review the role of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 5, the innate receptor for bacterial flagellin, in immune responses to the normal gut microbiota with a focus its role on a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Leifer CA,McConkey C,Li S,Chassaing B,Gewirtz AT,Ley RE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoid cell infiltration of periodontal tissues undergoing pathological destruction suggests a functional interdependence between connective tissue proteins such as collagen, fibronectin and elastin and mononuclear cells, mainly T lymphocytes. The aim of the study was to assess T lymphocyte proliferation after stimu...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Słotwińska SM,Górski A,Wierzbicka M,Dybizbański E,Mrowiec T,Iwanicka-Frankowska E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To monitor genetically-controlled cytokine-producing ability in mice in vitro, we developed a high-density cell culture system, which is preferable for inducing CD4+ T cell-dependent self-priming responses without any antigenic stimulation. When BALB/c spleen cells were cultured at high density (over 1.0 x 10(7) cells...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Sato M,Iwakabe K,Ohta A,Sekimoto M,Kimura S,Nishimura T

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuraminidases act as a virulence factors for several pathogens that invade the human body through Peyer's patch M-cells. Because of the structural similarity of Aleuria aurantia lectin (AAL) to neuraminidases, we hypothesized that AAL might also target human M-cells. In an in vitro human M-cell co-culture model signi...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Roth-Walter F,Bohle B,Schöll I,Untersmayr E,Scheiner O,Boltz-Nitulescu G,Gabor F,Brayden DJ,Jensen-Jarolim E

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Much evidence indicates that atherosclerotic lesions are largely of an inflammatory nature. Activated macrophages and macrophage-derived foam cells laden with cholesterol esters are a major constituent of these lesions and can influence lesion formation via several potential mechanisms. One such mechanism is Fcgamma r...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ratcliffe NR,Kennedy SM,Morganelli PM

更新日期：2001-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:ITIM-bearing receptors, a family which only recently has been recognized, play a key role in the regulation of the ITAM-induced activation of immune competent cells. The mechanism of ITM-mediated regulation in various cells was recently clarified. The present review focuses on ITIM bearing membrane proteins that negat...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Gergely J,Pecht I,Sármay G

更新日期：1999-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were exposed to restraint stress for 3h. During this period, low body temperature (hypothermia, 39 degrees C-->less than 37 degrees C) and high blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia, 150 mg/dl-->up to 220 mg/dl) were simultaneously induced. Reflecting a stress-induced phenomenon, blood levels of catecholamines incr...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Watanabe M,Tomiyama-Miyaji C,Kainuma E,Inoue M,Kuwano Y,Ren H,Shen J,Abo T

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum antibodies reactive with intermediate filaments of the cytoskeleton (anti-IF antibodies) are often present in infectious mononucleosis, some other viral diseases, and rheumatoid arthritis. The mechanism of their production is not known, but it is possible that the formation of this and other autoantibodies resul...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Mortazavi-Milani SM,Stierle HE,Holborow EJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenic and poorly angiogenic tumor variants were obtained by an intraperitoneal inoculation of cells from clones of polyoma-virus transformed BALB/c 3T3 cells into syngeneic mice. The angiogenic tumor cells expressed a higher tumorigenicity phenotype and a higher capacity to produce artificial pulmonary metastases...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Sagi-Assif O,Traister A,Katz BZ,Anavi R,Eskenasy M,Witz IP

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wistar rats submitted to 3 intravenous (i.v.) or intraperitoneal (i.p.) immunizations with saline extract of rat male accessory glands (RAG) associated to liposomes developed a delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response to RAG after the first immunization, a remission state after the second immunization and a specif...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Correa SG,Riera CM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells are important effector cells in IgE-associated immune responses, but also can contribute to host defense in certain examples of bacterial infection. We found that genetically mast cell-deficient WBB6F1-Kit(W)/Kit(W-v) mice exhibited more bacterial CFUs per spleen by 6 days after intraperitoneal injection of...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Chatterjea D,Burns-Guydish SM,Sciuto TE,Dvorak A,Contag CH,Galli SJ

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature B cells express a single immunoglobulin Fc receptor, FcgammaRIIB, that functions to block downstream signaling by co-aggregated antigen receptors. Co-aggregation of receptors is essential because BCR activated kinases must phosphorylate FcgammaRIIB to recruit SHIP and mediate inhibitory signals. Pre-B cells als...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Brauweiler AM,Cambier JC

更新日期：2004-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating lymphocytes were enumerated in 25 patients with coeliac disease and in 24 healthy donors by immunofluorescent staining using monoclonal antibodies for T cell surface phenotypic markers T11 (mature), T4 (helper) and T8 (suppressor) or polyvalent antisera for surface immunoglobulins (B cells). Proportions of...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Vĕtvicka V,Tlaskalová-Hogenová H,Fric P,Brochier J

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several components of the microbial wall of gram-positive bacteria and fungi possess immunostimulatory properties, their pathogenetic role remains incompletely evaluated. The purpose of this study was to assess the basic immune status of patients susceptible to infections and their capability for cytokine pro...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tsigou E,Aloizos S,Myrianthefs P,Gourgiotis S,Tsakris A,Baltopoulos G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African swine fever (ASF) virus has been reported to infect cells of the monocyte family, probably macrophage-like cells, but there is variation in the apparent susceptibility of these cells. We have demonstrated that the phenotype and activity of porcine monocytic cells varies between different isolations and also up...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： McCullough KC,Schaffner R,Fraefel W,Kihm U

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of pretreatment with interferon (IFN) on subsequent IFN synthesis was investigated in macrophage cultures of DBA/2 and C57BL/6 mice. The doses of IFN alpha/beta for pretreatment ranged from 10,000 U/ml to 100 U/ml and the incubation time was between 18 and 2 h. No blocking effect was observed for chemica...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Giese M,Kirchner H

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Others have reported that a monoclonal anti-human IL-2 receptor antibody (anti-CD25) specifically binds a membrane receptor on Xenopus laevis PHA-induced and paraformaldehyde-fixed splenic blasts. In this paper, we present evidence suggesting that this binding is an artifact of membrane damage. Specifically, significa...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Haynes L,Moynihan JA,Cohen N

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In murine models, challenge with different viral and parasitic infection is closely associated with the production of type I interferons (IFN-alpha/beta) and NK cell production of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Therefore, we wished to determine if IFN-alpha/beta had a role in the regulation of NK cell production of IFN...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hunter CA,Gabriel KE,Radzanowski T,Neyer LE,Remington JS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel mutant strain of rats, LEC, exhibits an arrest of T-cell maturation from CD4+CD8+ to CD4+CD8- but not the CD4-CD8+ cells in the thymus. Nevertheless, CD4+T cells arise in lymph nodes of LEC rats, implying extrathymic T-cell maturation. We analyzed the variable (V) and junctional region diversity of T-cell rece...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Muramatsu Y,Agui T,Sakai T,Yamada T,Matsumoto K

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:To study the pathogenic importance of the rheumatoid factor (RF) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to identify genes differentially expressed in patients and healthy individuals, total RNA was isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from eight RF-positive and six RF-negative RA patients, and s...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Bovin LF,Rieneck K,Workman C,Nielsen H,Sørensen SF,Skjødt H,Florescu A,Brunak S,Bendtzen K

更新日期：2004-05-15 00:00:00