A new haemolytic assay for the second component of complement (C2) in human serum.

abstract：:Autoantibodies characteristic for anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are anti-β2 -glycoprotein I (β2 GPI) antibodies and anti-DNA antibodies, respectively, and almost half of APS cases occur in SLE. Anti-β2 GPI antibodies are recognized to play a pivotal role in inducing a prothrom...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Virachith S,Saito M,Watanabe Y,Inoue K,Hoshi O,Kubota T

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory response, probably to a range of initiating causes. Chronic infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae (C.pn) has been suggested as one cause, but the nature of the association is controversial, in large part due to lack of an identified mechanism to link infection with the atherosclerotic ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Clancy R,Ren Z,Pang G,Fletcher P,D'Este C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high affinity form of the human IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) has two known components, the IL-2R alpha (p55) and the IL-2R beta chain (p75). We have previously shown that recombinant IL-2 (rIL-2) could induce the expression of the alpha-chain (p55) on T cells and thymocytes, and increase this expression following subopti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Reem GH,Han X,Marcelli A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) against proteinase 3 (PR3) are strongly associated with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) and are thought to be involved in its pathogenesis. Levels of PR3-ANCA do not always correspond to clinical disease activity. To investigate the relationship between functional effects of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van der Geld YM,Tool AT,Videler J,de Haas M,Tervaert JW,Stegeman CA,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG,Roos D

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New antibodies against a U3 snRNP, which were named anti-Myo 22/25 antibodies, were detected in four (8%) of 53 serum samples from patients with polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM) by RNA immunoprecipitation. In the protein immunoprecipitation analysis, all four serum samples precipitated 22 kDa and 25 kDa proteins, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kubo M,Ihn H,Kuwana M,Yamane K,Yazawa N,Tamaki K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimation of the concentration of C9, C-reactive protein (CRP) and alpha1-antitrypsin in forty sera from patients with Behcet's syndrome and recurrent oral ulcers showed significantly increased amounts of C9 and CRP in Behcet's syndrome. The concentration of C9 was also significantly raised in recurrent oral ulcerati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Adinolfi M,Lehner T

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullous pemphigoid is a blistering skin disease characterized by autoantibodies against the NC16a domain of bullous pemphigoid 180. This study was performed to characterize and map the fine specificity of T cell responses to NC16a. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from a total of 28 bullous pemphigoid patient...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pickford WJ,Gudi V,Haggart AM,Lewis BJ,Herriot R,Barker RN,Ormerod AD

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons play an important, but incompletely understood role in HIV-related disease. We investigated the effect of HAART on plasma levels of IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma, neopterin and interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) in 41 HIV-infected patients during 78 weeks of therapy. At baseline HIV-infected patients had raise...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Stylianou E,Aukrust P,Bendtzen K,Müller F,Frøland SS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cattle, infected with Fasciola hepatica metacercariae, produce antibodies against the outer glycocalyx of freshly excysted juvenile F. hepatica. Using 51Cr-release and viability assays such antibodies in the presence or absence of bovine complement did not cause discernible damage to the parasite. The presence of exce...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duffus WP,Franks D

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are uncommon, chronic and severe disorders of the immune system in which patients cannot mount a sufficiently protective immune response, leading to an increased susceptibility to infections. The treatment of choice for PID patients with predominant antibody deficiency is intravenous ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ballow M,Notarangelo L,Grimbacher B,Cunningham-Rundles C,Stein M,Helbert M,Gathmann B,Kindle G,Knight AK,Ochs HD,Sullivan K,Franco JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen cadaver kidney donors were pretreated with a rapid infusion of 5 g of cyclophosphamide and 5 g of methylprednisolone in an attempt to reduce graft immunogenicity by altering immunogenic "passenger" leucocytes. The effects of this drug infusion on peripheral lymphocytes were monitored by measuring the ability ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jeffery JR,Guttmann RD,Charpentier B

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As Q fever is associated with an inflammatory syndrome, we determined circulating levels of inflammatory cytokines, cytokine antagonists, and activation markers of leucocytes in patients with acute Q fever and Q fever endocarditis. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and IL-6, but not IL-1beta, were markedly increased compar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Capo C,Amirayan N,Ghigo E,Raoult D,Mege J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a rare disease characterized by episodes of collapse due to rapid transfer of considerable volumes of plasma from the intravascular to the extravascular compartment. The pathogenesis of this disease is unknown. The diagnosis is made largely on clinical grounds, and investigat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhang W,Ewan PW,Lachmann PJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients showing hypersensitivity to nitrofurantoin with symptoms like sudden fever, malaise, cough, pleuritis, leucocytosis and sometimes eosinophilia were analysed for immune reactions, i.e. lymphocyte transformation and specific antibodies. In addition, thirty-three individuals treated with the drug but wi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bäck O,Lidén S,Ahlstedt S

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to intratracheal immunization and aerosolization with soluble antigen plus murmayl-dipeptide (MDP) induces the development of plaque-forming cells in the pulmonary draining lymph nodes of two of three inbred mouse strains. Splenectomy before immunization led to a heightened plaque-forming cell response in the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Allen EM,Abramoff P,Fink JN,Calvanico NJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new assay for the detection of circulating immune complexes, the polyethylene glycol precipitation-complement consumption assay (PEG-CC), is described. The test is both simple and sensitive, and exhibits a high degree of specificity. Immune complexes are first isolated from serum by precipitation in 2.5% polyethylen...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harkiss GD,Brown DL

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs can develop systemic lupus erythematosus syndromes that are clinically similar to those seen in humans. In contrast, previous observations suggest differences in their autoantibody reactivity patterns against histones and DNA which are components of the nucleosome in chromatin. The objective of this study was to ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Monestier M,Novick KE,Karam ET,Chabanne L,Monier JC,Rigal D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune T cell responses directed against insulin-producing β cells are central to the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Detection of such responses is therefore critical to provide novel biomarkers for T1D 'immune staging' and to understand the mechanisms underlying the disease. While different T cell assays ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mallone R,Mannering SI,Brooks-Worrell BM,Durinovic-Belló I,Cilio CM,Wong FS,Schloot NC,T-Cell Workshop Committee, Immunology of Diabetes Society.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful T cell activation via the T cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex requires at least one contact-dependent second signal delivered by costimulatory molecules, including the B7/BB1 molecule, that are present on antigen-presenting cells (APC). SLE is characterized by multiple complex lymphocyte abnormalities of unde...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sfikakis PP,Oglesby R,Sfikakis P,Tsokos GC

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:Autoantibody production increases with ageing. However, the pathological significance of this increase as well as the corresponding underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. To further our understanding of the role that ageing plays in the development of autoantibody responses, we used a novel nonhuman primate mode...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Attanasio R,Brasky KM,Robbins SH,Jayashankar L,Nash RJ,Butler TM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human antibodies to the repeat regions of the Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stage antigen Pf155/RESA interfere with parasite growth in vitro, but the significance in this respect of antibodies to non-repetitive epitopes is less clear. In this study the levels of antibodies to a non-repetitive part of Pf155/RESA ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Siddique AB,Ahlborg N,Warsame M,Perlmann P,Berzins K

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Donor-specific CTL present within the cardiac allograft during a rejection episode are distinct from those that populate the cardiac allograft in the absence of rejection. Whereas the former generally have a high avidity for donor cells, the latter mainly have a low avidity for donor cells. This observation made us re...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Van Emmerik NE,Daane CR,Knoop CJ,Hesse C,Vaessen LM,Balk AH,Mochtar B,Claas FH,Weimar W

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus (Af) is a fungus associated with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and other allergic diseases. Immune responses in these diseases are due to T and B cell responses. T cell activation requires both Af-specific engagement of the T-cell-receptor as well as interaction of antigen indepe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barrios CS,Johnson BD,D Henderson J Jr,Fink JN,Kelly KJ,Kurup VP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticardiolipin antibodies (ACA) belong to a heterogeneous group of antibodies directed against negatively charged phospholipids. In patients with rheumatic disorders, their presence has been correlated to the occurrence of thromboembolic complications, thrombocytopenia, abortions and other disease manifestations. Sev...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rubbert A,Bock E,Schwab J,Marienhagen J,Nüsslein H,Wolf F,Kalden JR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated numbers of peripheral T cells expressing the activation associated antigen T9 are found in patients with active Crohn's disease. Expression of T9 is found to be correlated to the activity of the disease. However the presence of activated peripheral T cells is not restricted to Crohn's disease, but could also ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Raedler A,Fraenkel S,Klose G,Thiele HG

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of T lymphocyte subsets was assessed using monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) in 44 untreated patients with multiple myeloma (MM) subdivided according to the clinical stage of the disease. A significant reduction (P less than 0.001) of T lymphocytes was observed only in stage II and III patients. The propo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lauria F,Foa R,Cavo M,Gobbi M,Raspadori D,Giubellino MC,Tazzari PL,Tura S

更新日期：1984-06-01 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