Levels of soluble Fc gammaRIII correlate with disease severity in sepsis.

abstract：:Anti-cardiolipin antibodies, oxidatively modified low-density lipoproteins (oxLDL) and circulating immune complexes are humoral factors that have been linked to vascular damage. To analyse their possible role in the vascular complications in type 1 diabetes mellitus, we investigated patients with and without vascular ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ahmed E,Nityanand S,Mustafa A,Brismar K,Lefvert AK

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of neonatal sepsis is difficult, resulting in unnecessary treatment to minimize morbidity and mortality. We hypothesized that exposure to antenatal risk factors for sepsis alters the perinatal neutrophil phenotype. The study setting was a tertiary referral university-affiliated maternity and neonatal hos...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Molloy EJ,O'Neill AJ,Grantham-Sloan JJ,Webb DW,Watson RW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies against proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA) are used as diagnostic tools for patients with small vessel vasculitis (AASV). We have produced chimeric mouse/human PR3 molecules and investigate changes in reactivity over time and the possible relationship between epitope specificity and clinica...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Selga D,Segelmark M,Gunnarsson L,Hellmark T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculated globulin (total protein - albumin) is usually tested as part of a liver function test profile in both primary and secondary care and determines the serum globulin concentration, of which immunoglobulins are a major component. The main use hitherto of calculated globulin is to detect paraproteins when the le...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jolles S,Borrell R,Zouwail S,Heaps A,Sharp H,Moody M,Selwood C,Williams P,Phillips C,Hood K,Holding S,El Shanawany T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-density cells (LDC) of dendritic morphology from the blood of patients with common variable (late-onset) hypogammaglobulinaemia (CVH) did not induce allogeneic immunoglobulin production by normal B cells unlike LDC from normal blood. When LDC from patients were treated with pokeweed mitogen (PWM), a lower allogene...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Farrant J,Bryant AE,Lever AM,Edwards AJ,Knight SC,Webster AD

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the interaction of two different forms of immune glomerular damage occurring simultaneously: anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody fixation and immune elimination of bovine serum albumin (BSA). 125I-radiolabelled BSA anti-BSA immune complexes, formed in response to a single small intravenous dose...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Trevillian P,Cameron JS

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effect of the anti-thyroid drugs (ATD), propylthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (MMI) on blastogenesis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from healthy subjects was studied in 72 hr PHA stimulated cultures. PTU in therapeutic concentrations (10 micrograms/ml) suppressed blastogenesis only when add...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Goldrath N,Eisenstein Z,Bank H,Shoham J

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional integrity of the local immune system in vitamin A-deficient (A-) rats was investigated. Secretory IgA levels in the intestinal fluid of A- rats were significantly lower than in controls. This and the decrease in intensity of immunofluorescent staining for secretory component (SC) in the intestinal cells...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sirisinha S,Darip MD,Moongkarndi P,Ongsakul M,Lamb AJ

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes have been investigated in jirds (Meriones unguiculatus) infected with the filarial nematode Brugia pahangi. Two-month-old male jirds were inoculated with seventy-five B. pahangi infective larvae into the left groin. At 8 months post-infection, sera of individual animals from a group of sev...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Karavodin LM,Ash LR

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the binding properties of dendritic cells (DC) to vascular endothelium, a comparative analysis was undertaken of DC, monocytes and lymphocytes isolated from the blood of 25 healthy subjects using monolayers of human umbilical vein endothelial cells as the adherence substrate. More blood DC (mean 24% adh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brown KA,Bedford P,Macey M,McCarthy DA,Leroy F,Vora AJ,Stagg AJ,Dumonde DC,Knight SC

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human alveolar macrophages (AM) were obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage from 18 patients with a variety of conditions. For each patient the percentages of AM showing the following properties were determined: (1) staining for the enzymes non-specific esterase (NSE) and acid phosphatase (ACP); (2) in vitro phagocytosis ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gant VA,Hamblin AS

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii is a major opportunistic pathogen and leading cause of morbidity in patients with AIDS. The major surface glycoprotein (MSG) of P. carinii, represented by a family of related proteins encoded by unique genes, is highly immunogenic and contains T cell-protective epitopes. We undertook the present s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Theus SA,Smulian AG,Sullivan DW,Walzer PD

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were immunized with the cell wall of BCG suspended in an oil-in-saline emulsion, and examined against time for the emergence of T cell-mediated acquired immunity. Evidence is presented that shows that levels of acquired resistance expressed in these animals over the first month following inoculation, and which en...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Orme IM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies (ANCA) on neutrophil activation was studied by pre-incubating neutrophils with IgG and F(ab')2 prepared from ANCA patients with Wegener's granulomatosis or microscopic polyarteritis. We measured the generation of inositol triphosphate (IP3) (a product of hydrolysi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lai KN,Lockwood CM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high incidence of infections characteristic of impaired cell-mediated immunity in patients with hairy cell leukemia led us to study T lymphocyte function in sixteen patients with the lymphocyte transformation test. All patients showed imparied responses to mitogens, attributable to one or more of the following cau...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sabbe LJ,Meijer CJ,Jansen J

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tertiary lymphoid structure (TLS) provides a local and critical microenvironment for both cellular and humoral immunity and supports effective antigen presentation and lymphocyte activation. However, the gene expression profile and prognostic significance of TLS in oral cancer remain largely unrevealed. In this study,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Li K,Guo Q,Zhang X,Dong X,Liu W,Zhang A,Li Y,Yan J,Jia G,Zheng Z,Tang W,Pan L,An M,Zhang B,Liu S,Fu B

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid autoantigens require internalization and processing by antigen-presenting cells to induce immune responses. Besides pinocytosis, antigen uptake can be receptor-mediated. The mannose receptor (ManR) has a cysteine rich domain (CR) and eight carbohydrate recognition domains (CRD) that bind glycosylated proteins....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chazenbalk GD,Pichurin PN,Guo J,Rapoport B,McLachlan SM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different genetic mutations have been described in complement component C7 deficiency, a molecular defect which is clinically associated with an increased susceptibility to neisserial recurrent infections, although some cases remain asymptomatic. In this work we report the genetic bases of C7 deficiency in one Spanish...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vázquez-Bermúdez MF,Barroso S,Walter K,Alvarez AJ,Alarcón A,López-Trascasa M,Wichmann I,Aguilar F,Núñez-Roldán A,Sánchez B

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-EBV T cell response was studied in a severe combined immunodeficiency patient (PS) who received two transplants of fetal liver cells. His peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were incubated with EBV and cultured during 15 days. Eleven colonies were derived from the T lymphocytes causing the regression of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Plotnicky H,Touraine JL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory B (Breg ) cells are characterized by various membrane markers and the secretion of different inhibitory cytokines. A new subset of Breg cells was identified as CD5hi Fas-ligand (FasL)hi . Their main reported role is to suppress anti-viral and anti-tumour immune responses, and, hence they have been dubbed 'k...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Eiza N,Zuckerman E,Carlebach M,Rainis T,Goldberg Y,Vadasz Z

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant numbers of syncytial cells were observed in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of a 42-year-old patient who had SLE with interstitial pneumonia. Electron microscopic study of the BALF cells and positive reverse transcriptase activity in the supernatant of the cultured cells revealed unknown retroviral...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tamura N,Sekigawa I,Hashimoto H,Yamamoto N,Kira S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephritic factor was detected in an individual whose serum showed a selective decrease in the third component of complement (C3) during and subsequent to an illness resembling disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI). As is characteristic of C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF), its activity was heat stable, was associated with...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gewurz AT,Imherr SM,Strauss S,Gewurz H,Mold C

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major obstacles in dissecting the mechanism of pathology in human primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) has been the absence of animal models. Our laboratory has focused on a model in which mice, following immunization with a xenobiotic chemical mimic of the immunodominant autoepitope of the E2 component of pyruv...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shimoda S,Tsuneyama K,Kikuchi K,Harada K,Nakanuma Y,Nakamura M,Ishibashi H,Hisamoto S,Niiro H,Leung PS,Ansari AA,Gershwin ME,Akashi K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pulmonary infection is known to constitute a major complication of cystic fibrosis (CF). In order to determine whether a defect of antibody formation is associated with this clinical finding, we have investigated antibody production on the cellular level by using a haemolytic plaque forming cell (PFC) assay. T...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Götz M,Zielinski CC,Ahmad R,Eibl M

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the VH gene repertoire of the J558 family was done in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated resting cells and in vivo activated cells derived from C57Bl/6-lpr mice (IghCb). Using a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) based on digestion with the restriction enzyme Pstl, the expression of the subfa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Alarcón-Riquelme ME,Fernández C

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:The chemotactic responsiveness of peripheral blood monocytes was evaluated in three groups of subjects: 32 patients with multiple myeloma, 27 subjects with benign monoclonal gammapathy, and 64 normal controls. Monocyte chemotactic responsiveness was significantly depressed both in multiple myeloma patients (P less tha...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dammacco F,Miglietta A,Ventura MT,Bonomo L

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the name given to a clinically heterogeneous group of hypogammaglobulinaemic immunodeficiency states. Bronchiectasis is a feature of this disease and is believed to be the result of recurrent bacterial infection affecting the respiratory tract. Bronchiectasis is also a featur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sansom ME,Ferry BL,Sherrell ZP,Chapel HM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a chronic dermal complication that occurs usually after recovery from visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The disease manifests into macular, papular and/or nodular clinical types with mono- or polymorphic presentations. Here, we investigated differences in immunological response...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kaushal H,Bras-Gonçalves R,Avishek K,Kumar Deep D,Petitdidier E,Lemesre JL,Papierok G,Kumar S,Ramesh V,Salotra P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have defined the capacity of ragweed pollen extract (RWA) to activate human complement (C) in fluid phase through the classical pathway and have ascertained a strong correlation between the extent of complement activation and the severity of symptoms of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis during the ragweed ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hidvégi T,Berrens L,Varga L,Marañon F,Schmidt B,Kirschfink M,Füst G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00