Role of tissue transglutaminase in gliadin binding to reticular extracellular matrix and relation to coeliac disease autoantibodies.

abstract：:Epitopes for > 95% stimulating thyrotropin receptor autoantibodies (TSHRAbs) causally implicated in Graves' disease (Basedow's disease or primary hyperthyroidism) have been identified on on the N-terminal portion of the TSHR extracellular domain, residues 8-165. If the stimulating TSHRAb activity is solely dependent o...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kohn LD,Harii N

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although costimulatory molecules have been shown to play crucial roles in the immune response, their involvement in the pathogenesis of Sjögren's syndrome is incompletely understood. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between the severity of spontaneous Sjögren's syndrome-like autoimmune sialadenitis in MRL/...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Saito K,Mori S,Date F,Ono M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by extensive fibrosis, vasculopathy and activation of the immune system. Fibrosis can be caused by profibrotic cytokines, such as transforming growth factor-beta (TGFbeta), interleukin-4 (IL-4), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), and connective tissue growth factor. Vascul...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sakkas LI

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-6 is a paracrine and autocrine cytokine, which acts in the regulation of immunological and inflammatory processes. Its production can be observed in different cell types, as well as thyrocytes. The purpose of the study was to examine the serum IL-6 levels between the patients with Graves' disease (N = 47) and witho...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Molnár I,Balázs C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in available biological data pertaining to autoimmunity research. This includes a tremendous quantity of sequence data (biological structures, genetic and physical maps, pathways, etc.) generated by genome and proteome projects plus extensive clinical and epidemiological...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Petrovsky N,Brusic V

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is preceded by the presence of antibodies against islet proteins including a protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) designated IA-2. Recently, we cloned a novel PTP named IAR which shares 43% sequence identity with IA-2 and is recognised by antibodies from a majority of patients ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Schmidli RS,Colman PG,Cui L,Yu WP,Kewming K,Jankulovski C,Harrison LC,Pallen CJ,DeAizpurua HJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MRL/lpr model of SLE resembles human lupus in its various immunopathologic characteristics including the presence of high-level IgG and anti-DNA antibody production and multisystem organ involvement (nephritis, arthritis, and vasculitis). Our previous studies have shown that IL-1 overactivity in B cells plays a po...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mao C,Singh AK

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a pleiotrophic proinflammatory cytokine that augments adaptive immunity by linking it to innate immunity. Experimental autoimmune gastritis is an animal model of human autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anaemia. We have previously shown that GM-CSF is expre...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Alderuccio F,Biondo M,Toh BH

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantigen-reactive T lymphocytes have been implicated in the pathogenesis organ-specific autoimmune disease. Thyroglobulin (Tg) is one of the primary autoantigens associated with autoimmune lymphocytic thyroiditis (LT). These experiments investigated the pathogenicity of a lymphocyte line derived from spontaneously-...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Allen EM,Thupari JN

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymic medulla is a complex microenvironment which plays a crucial role in central tolerance induction. Using a quantitative histological analysis of non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, we show that the medulla undergoes several structural modifications during the course of the disease in NOD mice. Indeed, the majority...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Atlan-Gepner C,Naspetti M,Valéro R,Barad M,Lepault F,Vialettes B,Naquet P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocarditis, often initiated by viral infection, may progress to autoimmune inflammatory heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Although cardiac myosin is a dominant autoantigen in animal models of myocarditis and is released from the heart during viral myocarditis, the characterization, role and sig...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Mascaro-Blanco A,Alvarez K,Yu X,Lindenfeld J,Olansky L,Lyons T,Duvall D,Heuser JS,Gosmanova A,Rubenstein CJ,Cooper LT,Kem DC,Cunningham MW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaemia is commonly observed in chronic inflammatory conditions, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), where ∼50% of patients display clinical signs of anaemia. Mutation at the aspartate residue 18 of the three prime repair exonuclease 1 (TREX1) gene causes a monogenic form of cutaneous lupus in humans and the...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Rego SL,Harvey S,Simpson SR,Hemphill WO,McIver ZA,Grayson JM,Perrino FW

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine profile and occurrence of apoptosis during experimental melanin-protein induced uveitis (EMIU) were investigated and compared with that of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU). EMIU or EAU was induced in Lewis rats. Eyes were collected at different time points after immunization. Cytokine mRNA expr...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Li Q,Sun B,Matteson DM,O'Brien TP,Chan CC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of contemporary research in pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus is to achieve and maintain clinical remission without corticosteroids. Recent advances of knowledge on pemphigus autoimmunity scrutinize old dogmas, resolve controversies, and open novel perspectives for treatment. Elucidation of intimate ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Grando SA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concordance rate of Graves' disease in pairs of identical twins of 30 to 60% points to the influence of environmental factors, and infections have often been incriminated in the pathogenesis. More than 15 years ago we demonstrated an increased frequency of antibodies to Yersinia enterocolitica (Y. ent.) serotype 3...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Bech K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to identify new autoantibodies that could be useful for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using immunoblotting on synovial membrane proteins which represent the best source of candidate RA autoantigens. A new target protein with a molecular weight of 26 kDa was found to be reco...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Robert-Pachot M,Desbos A,Moreira A,Becchi M,Tebib J,Bonnin M,Aitsiselmi T,Bienvenu J,Fabien N

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:The biological basis for autoimmunity and immunoincompetence in the BB rat has yet to be localized. In spite of normal thymic histology, thymocyte subsets and blastogenesis, thymus gland products (thymosins) have yet to be studied. In the present report, thymus gland function was studied by measuring thymosin alpha 1 ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Winter WE,Robbins V,Elder M,Barrett D,Martin N,Maclaren NK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) is expressed on alveolar epithelium and participates to CO2 elimination, fluid secretion and post-capillary pH regulation. CAII is overexpressed in animal models of lung fibrosis in sites of epithelial injury. Autoantibodies directed against CAII (anti-CAII) have been described in sera fro...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Alessandri C,Bombardieri M,Scrivo R,Viganego F,Conti F,de Luca N,Riccieri V,Valesini G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with different helminth species have been observed to ameliorate a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases. Herein, we show that the natural murine helminth species, Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hp) is capable of attenuating disease severity in two different inflammatory arthritis models. Furthermore,...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Sarter K,Kulagin M,Schett G,Harris NL,Zaiss MM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under-nutrition impairs immune responses, but far less is known about the impact of over-nutrition, such as obesity, on the response to vaccines. We measured the effect of childhood overweight status on inflammatory mediators, circulating immunoglobulins and tetanus antibodies in fifteen overweight children (BMI > 85 ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Eliakim A,Schwindt C,Zaldivar F,Casali P,Cooper DM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous insulin treatment of young diabetes prone BB rats has been shown previously to suppress the development of autoimmune diabetes. In this study the hypothesis was tested that exogenous insulin may deviate the autoimmune process by acting on the Th1/Th2 cytokine balance in the pancreas. BB rats were implante...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Kolb H,Wörz-Pagenstert U,Kleemann R,Rothe H,Rowsell P,Rastegar S,Scott FW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) is postulated to be a target autoantigen in multiple sclerosis (MS). Here we investigated the encephalitogenicity of an immunodominant epitope of MOG, peptide 35-55, in various strains of mice. An MS-like disease was induced in NOD/Lt mice (H-2g7) and C57BL/6 mice (H-2b) by a ...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Slavin A,Ewing C,Liu J,Ichikawa M,Slavin J,Bernard CC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only one out of 57 A-/A- rabbits immunized with rat or guinea-pig myelin developed clinical signs suggestive of EAE. On the contrary, clinical signs of acute or chronic EAE were found in two thirds of the 102 A+/A+ and A+/A- rabbits immunized in the same way. About one third of the diseased animals had reversible acut...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Villarroya H,Dalix AM,Paraut M,Oriol R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported a patient who gave birth to 3 children with transient neonatal hypothyroidism. She had 3 different antibodies (Ab) to the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) in her serum, viz., TSH binding-inhibiting (TBIAb), thyroid-stimulating (TSAb) and an additional stimulating Ab (SAb). The SAb differed from TSAb in that its...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zakarija M,De Forteza R,McKenzie JM,Ghandur-Mnaymneh L

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non obese diabetic (NOD) mice spontaneously develop thyroiditis in addition to diabetes. Mononuclear cells begin to infiltrate the thyroid of these animals in the first month of life. The expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II (Ia) antigens by cells in the thyroid from NOD mice of various ages w...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Margolese H,O'Keefe C,Chung F,Ertug F,Wall JR,Bernard NF

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess muscle strength in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) using neuromuscular scales and isokinetic testing. METHODS:Muscle function was evaluated in 27 IIM patients being followed at the Rheumatology Unit of the University of Pisa using: (i) a modified version of the grading system...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Neri R,Mosca M,Stampacchia G,Vesprini E,Tavoni A,d'Ascanio A,Bombardieri S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is characterized by autoimmune-mediated platelet destruction and impairment of thrombopoiesis. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are proposed to exhibit immune modulatory functions in self-tolerance maintenance. In this study, we aimed to characterize phenotypically and functionally b...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Zhang D,Li H,Ma L,Zhang X,Xue F,Zhou Z,Chi Y,Liu X,Huang Y,Yang Y,Yang R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid lymphocyte RNA from a Hashimoto patient exhibiting high titre serum IgG autoantibodies against thyroglobulin (Tg) has been used to construct a Fab library in phage lambda. Screening of this library with radioiodinated Tg has permitted the cloning of an anti-Tg antibody (MH52) with an affinity of 4.5 x 10(9) mo...

journal_title：Autoimmunity

authors： Hexham JM,Furmaniak J,Pegg C,Burton DR,Smith BR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00