A variety of cytokines and immunologically relevant surface molecules are expressed by normal human skeletal muscle cells under proinflammatory stimuli.

abstract：:It has been shown that bronchoalveolar lavages (BALs) from patients with sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases contain abnormally increased numbers of alveolar macrophages (AM) expressing antigens found on monocytes. The aim of this study was to compare the phenotype of AM from patients with sarcoidosis wit...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Barbosa IL,Gant VA,Hamblin AS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) was able to inhibit T cell proliferation induced in an autologous mixed lymphocyte reaction (AMLR). The effect of CD4 MoAb on cellular proliferation appears to be directly exerted on CD4+ T lymphocytes, and to be due to inhibition of a post-activation event, since the CD4+ T cell prolife...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Sakane T,Takada S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is characterized by a focal periductal salivary gland infiltrate consisting mainly of T and B lymphocytes. Most of the T cells bear the memory CD4+ Th1-like phenotype and express high levels of class II, though CD8+ cells are also present. We have studied 17 labial salivary gland and 15 periphe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brookes SM,Cohen SB,Price EJ,Webb LM,Feldmann M,Maini RN,Venables PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive immunotherapy with in vitro expanded antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) may be an effective approach to prevent, or even treat, Aspergillus (Asp) infections. Such lines can be generated using monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DC) as antigen-presenting cells (APC) but requires a relatively high vo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhu F,Ramadan G,Davies B,Margolis DA,Keever-Taylor CA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA phenotype of fifty-four patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) was compared to that of 600 controls. When male and female patients were compared separately with the control group, HLA-B12 was increased in MG males (P less than 0-023) and HLA-A1, B8 in MG females (P less than 0-023). In addition, HLA-A1, B8 was c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gross WL,Krüger J,Gröschel-Stewart U,Friedrich H,Kunze K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oestradiol and the selective oestrogen receptor modulator (SERM) raloxifene have been shown to ameliorate collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in rats and in mice. One aim was to investigate if raloxifene exerts its anti-arthritic and anti-osteoporotic effects during the induction or effector phase of arthritis. A second ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jochems C,Islander U,Erlandsson M,Engdahl C,Lagerquist M,Ohlsson C,Nandakumar KS,Holmdahl R,Carlsten H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of steroids and immunosuppressive treatments in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) hints at the implication of immune cells in the pathophysiology of the disease. Toll-like receptor (TLR) dysfunctions are involved in many kidney diseases of immune origin, but remain little described in INS. We investigat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jamin A,Dehoux L,Dossier C,Fila M,Heming N,Monteiro RC,Deschênes G

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of salivary proteomics has led to the identification of potential biomarkers for diagnosing patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). Here we sought to identify differentially produced salivary metabolites from pSS patients and healthy controls (HCs) that might be used to characterize this...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kageyama G,Saegusa J,Irino Y,Tanaka S,Tsuda K,Takahashi S,Sendo S,Morinobu A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemorrhage produces alterations in macrophage, T and B cell function. In order to better define the mechanism for the effects of blood loss on immune response, we examined function of and cytokine production by purified T cells, CD4+ and CD8+ subpopulations after blood loss. Whereas T and CD4+ cells from control, unh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Abraham E,Chang YH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature atherosclerosis has been observed during the course of different systemic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and sytemic lupus erythematosus. Remarkably, relatively few studies have been published on the occurrence of accelerated atherosclerosis in patients with vasculitis. In giant cell arte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tervaert JW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay for complement-dependent antibody-mediated cytolysis of Plasmodium yoelii infected mouse erythrocytes was designed. By means of a rat hyperimmune serum to P. yoelii the presence of parasite associated antigens was demonstrated on erythrocytes from P. yoelii infected mice. Tests with such erythrocytes fraction...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gabriel J,Berzins K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influx of monocytes and neutrophils into the inflamed tissue could be an important aspect in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A membrane protein involved in the monocyte/neutrophil adherence to endothelium is CD11b/CD18 or alpha M beta 2 (complement receptor type 3 = CR3). In the present study...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Palmen MJ,Dijkstra CD,van der Ende MB,Peña AS,van Rees EP

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that immunization with dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with hepatitis B virus core antigen virus-like particles (HBc-VLP) packaging with cytosine-guanine dinucleotide (CpG) (HBc-VLP/CpG) alone were able to delay melanoma growth but not able to eradicate the established tumour in mice. We tested whether, by ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Song S,Zhang K,You H,Wang J,Wang Z,Yan C,Liu F

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:We describe the usefulness of a fast (48-h) limiting dilution assay (LDA) for the enumeration of human alloreactive helper T lymphocytes (HTL) in the peripheral blood, in relation to histologically defined rejection grades after heart transplantation. HTL frequencies (HTLf) in pretransplant samples varied from patient...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vaessen LM,Daane CR,Maat AP,Balk AH,Claas FH,Weimar W

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophils, added to fibronectin (FN)-coated polystyrene wells and exposed to tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), were found to exhibit a prolonged production of superoxide anion (O2-) after a lag period of approx 30 min. The O2- production, but not the cell adherence to FN, was completely inhibited by tw...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dapino P,Dallegri F,Ottonello L,Sacchetti C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF-1 plays an important role in female reproduction and normal embryo development. To understand further CSF-1 function in normal and, especially, in compromised pregnancy, we studied the pattern of its mRNA expression as well as expression of its receptor (c-fms) in the uteroplacental units of mice with induced (cyc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gorivodsky M,Torchinsky A,Shepshelovich J,Savion S,Fein A,Carp H,Toder V

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory, hyperproliferative skin disease, in which autoimmunity plays a great role. Natural killer T cells (NK T cells), are suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of different autoimmune diseases. To examine the involvement of CD3+CD56+ NK T cells in the pathogenesis of psoriasis, w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koreck A,Surányi A,Szöny BJ,Farkas A,Bata-Csörgö Z,Kemény L,Dobozy A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) preparations are efficacious and safe products in use world-wide. Although rare, side-effects of IVIG may be serious, even life-threatening, and clinicians should be aware of their potential occurrence. This article summarizes most of the adverse experiences with IVIG reported in the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Duhem C,Dicato MA,Ries F

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:The F1 hybrid mouse strain, from B10Q and DBA/1 parentals (the QD strain), is highly susceptible to induction of type II collagen-induced arthritis, an experimental model for rheumatoid arthritis. Males are more susceptible than females. Oophorectomy enhances susceptibility to arthritis and treatment with physiologica...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Jansson L,Holmdahl R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3b-coated immune complexes adhere to the complement receptor 1 (CR1, CD35) on human erythrocytes. This multi-valent binding might be favoured by the known clustering of CR1 and by the multiple C3b-binding sites on each CR1. The size of the CR1 clusters correlates directly with the number of CR1/erythrocytes, and the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Madi N,Paccaud JP,Steiger G,Schifferli JA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), inflammation is sustained by an exaggerated response of lymphocytes. This results from enhanced expression of anti-apoptotic B cell lymphoma (BCL-2) and BCL-XL associated with a diminished turnover. Azathioprine (AZA) directly targets BCL-2 family-mediated apoptosis. We investigate...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Weder B,Mozaffari M,Biedermann L,Mamie C,Moncsek A,Wang L,Clarke SH,Rogler G,McRae BL,Graff CL,Ruiz PA,Hausmann M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of perinatal infection in the newborn is difficult; there may be few clinical signs and current tests are slow or non-specific. Detection of organisms, antigen or specific antibody to common pathogens often requires repeat samples and does not give immediate results. Haematological parameters, although relie...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hodge S,Hodge G,Flower R,Han P

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The La/SSB autoantigen is a major target of long-term humoral autoimmunity in primary Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) and systemic lupus erythematosus. A majority of patients with linked anti-Ro60/Ro52/La responses target an NH2-terminal epitope designated LaA that is expressed on Ro/La ribonucleoprotein complexes and the sur...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Thurgood LA,Arentz G,Lindop R,Jackson MW,Whyte AF,Colella AD,Chataway TK,Gordon TP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro IgG synthesis by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) from patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) was studied. In addition, the effect of pokeweed mitogen (PWM), polyadenylic-polyuridylic acid complexes (poly A:U) and thymosin fraction 5 on IgG synthesis was determined. Unstimulated cultures of PBM fro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mutchnick MG,Lederman HM,Missirian A,Johnson AG

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EAU is a model of ocular inflammatory disease. EAU resembles another T cell-mediated autoimmune disease--experimental allergic encephalomyelitis--since both have increased expression of MHC class II molecules in the target tissue, can be adoptively transferred by activated CD4+ T cells and are inhibited by cyclosporin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Calder VL,Lightman SL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) promotes CD4(+) T-cell proliferation both directly and indirectly through dendritic cell (DC) activation. Although human TSLP-activated DCs induce CD8(+) T-cell proliferation, it is not clear whether TSLP acts directly on CD8(+) T cells. In this study, we show that human CD8(+...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Akamatsu T,Watanabe N,Kido M,Saga K,Tanaka J,Kuzushima K,Nishio A,Chiba T

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both CC- and CXC-chemokines are known to be potent leucocyte activators and chemoattractants and play important roles in inflammatory responses. However, chemokine response to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection remains incompletely defined. In this study, we investigated human CC- [macrophage-derived chemokine (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Luo Y,Chen X,O'Donnell MA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common primary glomerulonephritis, with various pathological phenotypes. Our previous study suggested that aberrant glycosylation of serum IgA1 was associated with different pathological phenotypes of IgAN, and substantial evidence indicated that deglycosylated IgA1 had an increased ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yan Y,Xu LX,Zhang JJ,Zhang Y,Zhao MH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00