abstract：:To elucidate the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in ocular inflammation, we examined the localization of MIF in the normal anterior uveal tract of rats. Immunohistochemistry using an anti-MIF antibody revealed that MIF was present in non-pigment epithelial cells of the ciliary body and the epithel...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Matsuda A,Kotake S,Tagawa Y,Matsuda H,Nishihira J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different splice variants of the CD44 cell-surface molecule have been linked to metastasis formation in several animal and human cancers. We have used metastatic CSML-100 and non-metastatic CSML-0 mouse adenocarcinoma cell lines to determine whether variant CD44 molecules could be implicated in the different behaviour...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tkach T,Li E,Bestagno M,Burrone OR

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scid mice develop human EBV-positive B cell tumors after injection with EBV-transformed human B cells or peripheral blood lymphocytes from EBV-seropositive donors. Injection of cytotoxic T cell (CTL) lines, selectively expanded in vitro to recognize autologous EBV-transformed B cells, protected mice against developing...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Buchsbaum RJ,Fabry JA,Lieberman J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the degree of activation of the TNF alpha system and the levels of IL-8 in HIV-1 infection. TNF alpha is one of the most potent agents for the induction of IL-8. TNF alpha may be cleared rapidly from the circulation, however soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor (sTNFR) p75 which is more stable may refl...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hober D,Benyoucef S,Delannoy AS,De Groote D,Ajana F,Mouton Y,Wattré P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxy-terminus of the major merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium has been shown to be the target of protective immunity in a number of non-vivax malaria parasite species. In an effort to develop a protective vaccine for Plasmodium vivax, the most prevalent form of human malaria, we expressed in Saccharomyces ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kaslow DC,Kumar S

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A majority of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infected individuals display a rapid loss of CD4+ lymphocytes with fast progression towards overt acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, a small proportion of individuals infected by HIV-1 remain immunologically intact for many years. In order to i...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Scarlatti G,Leitner T,Hodara V,Jansson M,Karlsson A,Wahlberg J,Rossi P,Uhlén M,Fenyö EM,Albert J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of virus neutralization is a function of three variables: the antibody (Ab), the virus and the target cell. Variation in any one of these parameters may drastically affect the results of assays for neutralization. In focusing on the virus as a variable in assays for the neutralization of HIV-1, it has b...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Zolla-Pazner S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth is coupled to physiological modifications of the immune system which reaches the functional capabilities according to age-related milestones. Few data are available on the circulating immunoglobulin levels and no data exist on total immunoglobulin light chains in infant macaques. Therefore we studied by a nephe...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Pace M,D'Ovidio MC,Iale E,Strom R,Turillazzi P

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A majority of natural killer (NK) cells constitutively express intermediate affinity IL2 receptors made of beta gamma chains and respond by way of enhanced cytokine secretion. However, alterations in cytokine sensitivity of purified NK cells with respect to cytokine secretion during immunosenescence have not been exam...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Krishnaraj R,Bhooma T

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that engraftment of human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) seropositive donors in C.B-17/SCID mice is associated with a high incidence of human B cell tumors. More recently, we described a new approach enabling engraftment of human PBL in normal strains of mice or rats...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Marcus H,Burakova T,Shezen E,David M,Canaan A,Lubin I,Reisner Y

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monocytic cell line I937 was derived from U937 by sorting for cells with high expression of MHC class II molecules. Further analysis of these class II molecules revealed the presence of the HLA-DR3 subtype suggesting that the cell line was a potential candidate for testing antigen presentation to T cells restricte...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Reischl IG,Pöllabauer EM,Peiritsch S,Schlager S,Gladstone P,Vooijs WC,Woisetschläger M,Mudde GC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isogenic pair of virulent and avirulent Yersinia enterocolitica O9 strains was used to examine the influence of the virulence plasmid on the non-specific modification of the cellular immunity in BALB/c mice after experimental infection with yersiniae. The modification of contact hypersensitivity response to dinitro...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ruiz-Bravo A,Jimenez-Valera M,Roman SM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was attempted to monitor the immunological response of monoclonal antibodies directed to human alkaline phosphatase in ancient Egyptian bones from the ptolemeic period. The intactness of the respective epitopes of the bone enzyme was successfully demonstrated in an ELISA. Fortunately, the mummified bone was not con...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Etspüler H,Kaup Y,Bailyes EM,Luzio JP,Weser U

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies had shown that the clinicopathological spectrum in leprosy was associated with discrete T cell subsets in circulation, with tuberculoid patients having antigen-induced Th 1, whereas lepromatous leprosy patients with antigen-specific T cell anergy possessed Th 2 cells. The present study shows that ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Misra N,Selvakumar M,Singh S,Bharadwaj M,Ramesh V,Misra RS,Nath I

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL) 4 is a type 2 cytokine which has a negative immunoregulatory role in human infection. IL-4 suppresses the production of interferon-gamma and enhances IL-10 synthesis. However, the effect of IL-4 on proliferative response of lymphocytes remains to be elucidated. We have previously reported an increase ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Fan XG,Yakoob J,Fan XJ,Keeling PW

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between the ages of 2 to approximately 11 days mice respond to a challenge with syngeneic IgE by producing anti-IgE antibodies; by the age of 2 weeks they are unresponsive. Even adult mice, however, produce high titers of anti-IgE antibodies when immunized with a conjugate of syngeneic IgE and a foreign antigen such a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Haba S,Nisonoff A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study we have shown that, in response to electrical stimulation, there is a substantial release of noradrenaline (NA) from the sympathetic nerve terminals of the rat thymus which is of axonal, vesicular origin. In the present study neurochemical evidence was obtained that the release of NA is subject to ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Haskó G,Elenkov IJ,Vizi ES

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early thymic precursor population of adult mice (low CD4 precursor) has the potential to produce T cells, B cells and dendritic cells if transferred into the appropriate inductive environment of an irradiated recipient. To assess its developmental potential in vitro, this population was isolated and cultured, alon...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Saunders DJ,Georgiou HM,Wu L,Shortman K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data provide evidence that antigen-specific CD4+ T-cell clones or antigen-activated T-cell lines can kill antigen-presenting cells (APC). We focused our studies on monocytes acting as APC in cultures of T cells freshly isolated from peripheral blood. The presence of monocytes in culture was monitored by their a...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Pryjma J,Zembala M,Baran J,Ernst M,Flad HD

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary intraparenchymal leukocytes were purified from normal mice. By flow cytometry, 20-30% of the lymphocytes were positive for the expression of Mac1, a cell-surface antigen largely restricted to macrophages, neutrophils and natural killer (NK) cells. Sorted Mac1+ lung lymphocytes were large and had abundant cyt...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kawakami K,Teruya K,Tohyama M,Kudeken N,Yonamine Y,Saito A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of BALB/c mice (H-2d) with a mixture of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I- and MHC class II-restricted synthetic peptides emulsified in incomplete Freund's adjuvant (IFA) induced a high level of specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity. Peptides 249-260 or 252-260, derived from the circ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Renggli J,Valmori D,Romero JF,Eberl G,Romero P,Betschart B,Corradin G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological alterations observed in chronic alcoholic patients may be due to alterations of signal transduction across the lymphocyte membrane. Upon binding of mitogens or antigens to specific plasma membrane receptors, the activation of phospholipase C leads to the hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids, producin...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Hrelia S,Celadon M,Bordoni A,Castelli E,Foschi FG,Stefanini GF,Rossi CA,Biagi PL

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:A consensus motif for a bovine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecule, A20, was derived from parainfluenza type-3 (PI-3) virus-infected muscle-derived fibroblast cells and peripheral blood leukocytes by extraction of the naturally processed peptides from MHC class I molecules by treatment with TFA and...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Bamford AI,Douglas A,Friede T,Stevanovic S,Rammensee HG,Adair BM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human homologue of 4-1BB (H4-1BB) cDNA was isolated from PMA plus ionomycin-treated human peripheral T-cell cDNA libraries. The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence showed that the protein is composed of 255 amino acids with 2 potential N-linked glycosylation sites. The molecular weight of its ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Zhou Z,Kim S,Hurtado J,Lee ZH,Kim KK,Pollok KE,Kwon BS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) reacting with native (TA5, TB12) and denatured (T33, T35) plant toxin mistletoe lectin I (MLI) from Viscum album have been obtained. The interaction between mAbs and native toxin with ML isoforms (MLII, MLIII) has been investigated. An immunological cross-reaction has been shown to take pla...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tonevitsky AG,Rakhmanova VA,Agapov II,Shamshiev AT,Usacheva EA,Prokoph'ev SA,Denisenko ON,Alekseev YuO,Pfueller U

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosslinking of the B-cell receptor (BCR) for antigen to low-affinity receptors for IgG (Fc gamma RII) inhibits B-cell activation induced by BCR aggregation. The cell-triggering properties of the BCR depend on tyrosine-containing activation motifs (TAM), in the intracytoplasmic domain of its Ig alpha and Ig beta subun...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Daëron M,Malbec O,Latour S,Espinosa E,Pina P,Fridman WH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukemia-derived factor (ADF)/human thioredoxin (TRX) has thiol-dependent reducing activities and is known to have regulatory roles on the DNA-protein interaction and cell activation. Inducive effect of ultraviolet (UV) has been indicated because of the enhanced expression of ADF/TRX in epidermal cells of...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Sachi Y,Hirota K,Masutani H,Toda K,Okamoto T,Takigawa M,Yodoi J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During their differentiation, thymocytes are subjected to two rounds of selection. First, CD4-8- double-negative (DN) thymocytes with a functional TCR-beta chain express a alpha-beta+ CD3 complex on their surface and, as a consequence, are selected to mature to the CD4+8+ double-positive (DP) stage. This round ends af...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Eichmann K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD4+ T-lymphocyte absolute count (CD4ac), CD4+ T-lymphocyte percentage (CD4%) and total lymphocyte count (Løac) were assessed in HIV-seropositive intravenous drug users (IVDU) with reference to their correlation with the clinical categories A, B, and C as stipulated by the Centre of Disease Control and Prevention,...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Norazmi MN,Suarn S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibody response in humans naturally primed to a malaria vaccine candidate antigen (Pf155/RESA) is genetically regulated. Here, the impact of antigen presenting cells (APC) on the control of in vitro T-cell responses induced by Pf155/RESA or synthetic peptides corresponding to its major Pf155/RESA epitopes was st...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Troye-Blomberg M,Lepers JP,Sjöberg K,Rahalimalala L,Larsson A,Olerup O,Perlmann P

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction characteristics of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) after footpad immunization were studied. Primary CTL were generated in the regional lymph nodes of C57Bl/6 mice by footpad injection with 10(7) irradiated (2000 rad) spleen cells from MHC class I muta...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Azhipa OYa,Brondz BD

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the effect of PHA activation on the phosphatase activity of CD45 has been investigated in human leukemic T-cell lines. It has been found that in vivo activation of the cells with PHA resulted in 2-4-fold increase in enzyme activity. Addition of PHA to the postnuclear supernatant of cell lysates also resu...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Monostori E,Hartyani Z,Ocsovszky I,Hegedus Z,Oravecz T,Kalman M,Ando I

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of latex beads by peritoneal macrophages was examined by means of flow cytometry (FCM). This assay revealed that adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) suppressed phagocytosis in a dose-dependent manner. ACTH (1-24) was more suppressive than ACTH (1-39). Control phagocytosis was partially suppressed in Ca(2+)...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Ichinose M,Sawada M,Maeno T

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence for the role of basophils in allergic bronchial asthma. We studied the potential role of basophils in the pathogenesis of post-exercise-induced bronchoconstriction by measuring the histamine release from basophils both spontaneously and following ConA, FMLP, anti-IgE and TPA treatment. Two...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Kivity S,Schwarz I,Agami O,Topilsky M,Fireman E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibody (mAb) UN2 was generated upon immunization of a Balb/c mouse with human thymocytes. mAb UN2 recognized an antigen expressed by a subpopulation of human thymocytes and peripheral blood lymphocytes. In thymus, mAb UN2 recognized cortical cells; its expression was higher on CD3bright than on CD3dim...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tassone P,Bonelli P,Tuccillo F,Turco MC,De Rosa G,Morrone G,Cecco L,Cerra M,Petrella A,Nigro M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 envelope protein contains several regions with amino acid homology to HLA class I and class II molecules. We evaluated possible changes in antibody responses to those regions during vaccination with rgp 160 produced in a baculovirus system. Forty asymptomatic HIV-infected patients with CD4 cell counts above ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Lundholm P,Wahren M,Sandström E,Volvovitz F,Wahren B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structures of cyclosporin A complexed with cyclophilin A or Fab fragment of a monoclonal antibody were compared. In these two complexes conformations of the fragment D-alanine8-N-methylvaline11 in cyclosporin A were in a good agreement. In addition, cyclophilin A and the Fab fragment had related ...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Denesyuk AI,Lundell J,Zav'yalov V,Korpela T

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of protein antigens into earthworms Lumbricus terrestris and Eisenia foetida induces the formation of antigen-binding protein (ABP) with the maximum response occurring between days 4 and 8. High proteolytic activities observed both in coelomocytes and in coelomic fluids cause rapid antigen degradati...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Tucková L,Bilej M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recent findings indicate that mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMC) express RNA encoding interleukin-4 (IL-4) and secrete detectable amounts of IL-4 in response to cross-linking of Fc epsilon RI receptors, Fc gamma R receptors, or to ionomycin. We investigated the desensitization of BMMC from the view po...

journal_title：Immunology letters

authors： Nakamura M,MacGlashan D Jr

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00