abstract：:Drug abuse has become a global health concern. Understanding how drug abuse modulates the immune system and how the immune system responds to pathogens associated with drug abuse, such hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), can be assessed by an integrated approach comparing proteomic analys...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Reynolds JL,Mahajan SD,Aalinkeel R,Nair B,Sykes DE,Schwartz SA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematological disorders like Aplastic anemia are quite frequent in Pakistan. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system, have been implicated in the development of Aplastic anemia in various population-based studies, The aim of this study was to determine the role of the HLA Class I and Class II alleles in genetic susceptib...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Rehman S,Saba N,Khalilullah,Munir S,Ahmed P,Mehmood T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of peripheral antigens in the thymus, known as promiscuous gene expression, has been implicated in T cell tolerance and autoimmunity. Here we identified thymic epithelial cells (TECs) as the main cell type that expresses a diverse range of tissue-restricted antigens (TRAs). The TECs of a common autoimmu...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Chen J,Yang W,Yu C,Li Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many proteins of various origins are able to form complexes with Immunoglobulin G using reaction sites formed by residues of constant domains. Studies of IgG complexes of non-immune nature are important as biologically active proteins could escape from the circulation forming complexes with IgG as well as with other s...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Nezlin R,Bengtsson AA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromelain has been reported to have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. However, the anti-inflammatory mechanism of bromelain is unclear. Therefore, we investigated the effect of bromelain on cytokine production from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and mo...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Huang JR,Wu CC,Hou RC,Jeng KC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the T cell costimulatory molecules CD2 and CD28 are enriched within the immunological synapse (IS), it has been suggested that costimulatory molecules need not be localized to the contact site between a T cell and an antigen-presenting cell (APC) in order to costimulate T cell activation. To determine whether...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Watson CL,Furlong SJ,Hoskin DW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives were to determine the prevalence and clinical significance of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Anti-CCP antibodies were checked by ELISA in 68 children with JIA, 38 males and 30 females with mean age of 10.6 (+/-4.02) years and...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Habib HM,Mosaad YM,Youssef HM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal mortality due to loss of lymphocyte-promoted endometrial angiogenesis is being investigated as a major cause of litter reductions during pregnancy in pigs. This review discusses immune mechanisms influencing porcine endometrial angiogenesis as well as additional signalling molecules that may play important ro...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Linton NF,Wessels JM,Cnossen SA,Croy BA,Tayade C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research was undertaken to test the in vitro anti-inflammatory action of 5,7,4'-trimethoxy-4-phenylcoumarin and 5,7-dimethoxy-4-phenylcoumarin produced by Streptomyces aureofaciens CMUAc130. The effects of the two coumarins were investigated on the formation of NO, PGE2, and TNF-alpha and also on inducible nitric...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Taechowisan T,Tuntiwachwuttikul P,Lu C,Shen Y,Lumyong S,Taylor WC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restriction of antigen presentation of a single mucin1 (MUC1) variable number of tandem repeats peptide (VNTR1) was examined by generating cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) derived from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated with a single repeat MUC1 peptide presented b...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Orr MK,Burnside JS,Phillips CA,Philip R,Dombrowski KE,Wright SE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive immunotherapy is an attractive cancer treatment modality due to its capacity to target primary and metastatic lesions with large numbers of tumor-reactive, cytotoxic lymphocytes. The inability of fully armed lymphocytes to traffic into sites of tumor has been proposed as a causal factor for the minimal succes...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Skitzki JJ,Muhitch JB,Evans SS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometric analyses of immune cell proliferation, differentiation, and function are limited by the number of different fluorochromes that can be resolved simultaneously. Additional colors to expand functional analytic capability will facilitate higher dimensional analyses of heterogeneous cell populations by basi...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Bantly AD,Gray BD,Breslin E,Weinstein EG,Muirhead KA,Ohlsson-Wilhelm BM,Moore JS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of ICAM-1 in contact activation of the bronchial epithelial cells is elucidated. Direct contact between epithelial cells and leukocytes is required to change transepithelial electrical resistance (TER) of the epithelium. Migration of human neutrophils across the layers of cultured human airway epithelial cell...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Choi H,Fleming NW,Serikov VB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many investigators have demonstrated alteration of gastric mucins in H. pylori infected individuals. The inflammatory environment induced by H. pylori leading to aberrant glycosylation of MUC1 and demasking of core peptide MUC1 epitope could enhance immune responses to MUC1. IgG and IgM immune response to MUC1 in pati...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Klaamas K,Kurtenkov O,von Mensdorff-Pouilly S,Shljapnikova L,Miljukhina L,Brjalin V,Lipping A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tumors often progress and spread in spite of the presence of large numbers of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells with activated or memory cell phenotypes. The T cells in the microenvironment of human lung tumors fail to be activated in response to stimulation via the T cell receptor and CD28 under conditions that fully activ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Broderick L,Bankert RB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter region of the CD14 gene at position 159 has been implicated in susceptibility to infectious diseases. We sought to determine the association between CD14 C-159 T functional promoter polymorphism and brucellosis in Western Iranian population where the disease is endemic....

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Haidari M,Hajilooi M,Rezazadeh M,Rafiei A,Alavi SA,Keramat F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g) is the primary bacterial agent in many forms of chronic periodontitis. Since polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) are first-line responders to P.g.- induced inflammation, and fibrinogen is important for in vivo PMN in this disease, we have studied the effect of N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-p...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Sahingur SE,Boehm TK,Sojar HT,Sharma A,De Nardin E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a continuing need for alternatives to current human adjuvants. Recombinant protein vaccines, which target antigen to human Fc gamma receptor type I (hFcgammaRI) on hFcgammaRI-expressing antigen presenting cells, provide one potential alternative. Using a recombinant anti-hFcgammaRI-antigen fusion protein and ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Adamova E,Walsh MC,Gosselin DR,Hale K,Preissler MT,Graziano RF,Gosselin EJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-body hyperthermia (WBH) has been used as an adjunct approach to radio-/ chemotherapy for tumor therapy for many years. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the enhancement of tumor control is not clearly understood. It has been hypothesized that WBH might activate immune system by inducing the expression ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Zhang H,Wang W,Zhang S,Huang W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woodchucks infected with woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) represent the closest natural animal model to study the immunopathogenesis of liver injury caused by essentially noncytopathic, highly human specific hepatitis B virus (HBV). The importance of antiviral T cell response in induction of hepatitis and in control of...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Gujar SA,Michalak TI

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether phospholipase D1 (PLD1) is involved in autoimmune damage to the eyes, we used Western blotting and immunohistochemistry to examine the expression and distribution of PLD1 in the retinas of Lewis rats with experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU). Western blot analysis showed that the level of...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kang J,Ahn M,Moon C,Min DS,Matsumoto Y,Shin T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a method combining mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) using a carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE)-labeling technique, intracellular cytokine immunofluorescence staining (ICIS), and multiparameter flow cytometry for simultaneous determination of proliferation and cytokine-secreting activity in...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Tanaka Y,Ohdan H,Onoe T,Asahara T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjuvant interleukin (IL)-2 immunotherapy has been used in the treatment of different malignant dieseases. However, clinical results have been rather disappointing. Therefore, further investigations on IL-2-induced mediators of cytotoxicity seem to be necessary in order to possibly create cytokine cocktails which coul...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mauz-Körholz C,Banning U,Körholz D

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy is an important and common health issue, and there is a need to identify and characterize the sensitizing mechanisms. One of the common causes of food allergy is ovalbumin (OVA), a dietary antigen from eggs. We hypothesized that OVA-induced food allergy in the gut involves the activation of the chemokine ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Lee JB,Matsumoto T,Shin YO,Yang HM,Min YK,Timothy O,Bae SJ,Quan FS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue viruses (DV) infection is an important public health issue all over the world. Although the pathogenesis remains unclear, the overwhelmingly triggered immune responses have been consistently observed. Recently, we and other researchers demonstrated that the natural hosts for DV are dendritic cells (DC), the pri...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Ho LJ,Shaio MF,Chang DM,Liao CL,Lai JH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum CTL epitope minigenes containing HLA-A2 and HLA-B7 subtype supermotifs were cloned into a plasmid expression vector; this expression was measured in eight human HLA class I molecule specific cell lines. Three assays for in vitro antigen presentation analysis were developed to examine the cross-bi...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Tang Y,Lin Y,Mao Y,Dong M,Wang H

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-characterized recombinant anti-idiotype to an anti-DNA antibody can be useful for studies of the regulation of anti-DNA-producing B cells. Using a hybridoma technique, a monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibody, designated O2F3, was obtained, and its scFv gene was constructed. O2F3 single chain Fv (scFv) was produced...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Kwon MH,Lee MS,Kim KH,Park S,Shin HJ,Jang YJ,Kim HI

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the effects of acute psychological stress on the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by human phagocytic cells and the interplay between subjectively perceived stress, mediating hormones, variations in the number of peripheral leukocytes and ROS production. We measured psychological ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Atanackovic D,Brunner-Weinzierl MC,Kröger H,Serke S,Deter HC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial superantigen Staphylococcal enterotoxin-A (SEA), produced by some strains of Staphylococcus aureus, causes proliferation of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes and cytokine production in vivo. SEA has been shown to be highly efficient for antibody-targeted superantegen immunotherapy for different tumor models. A can...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Mondal TK,Bhatta D,Biswas S,Pal P

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of apoptosis observed in lymphoid cells from HIV+ subjects is an important factor contributing to their massive depletion. Several studies have identified nitric oxide (NO) as one of the molecules involved in the apoptosis phenomenon observed during HIV infection. It has been shown that HIV-derived gp12...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： García M,del Llano AM,Cruz-Colón E,Saavedra S,Lavergne JA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunoassay (EIA) is described and evaluated which quantitates human antibodies to serotype specific S. pneumoniae polysaccharide (PnPs) in human sera. Based on the observations previously described by Koskela (1), native PnPs are used as coating antigens and sera are absorbed with a soluble pneumococ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Quataert S,Martin D,Anderson P,Giebink GS,Henrichsen J,Leinonen M,Granoff DM,Russell H,Siber G,Faden H,Barnes D,Madore DV

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Champedak (Artocarpus integer) lectin-M is a lectin with high specificity and affinity for the core-mannosyl residues of the N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins. We have studied the interaction of the champedak seed lectin with human serum glycoproteins that were resolved by 2-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophore...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Hashim OH,Ahmad F,Shuib AS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loading of dendritic cells (DCs) with whole tumor cell lysates may circumvent the facts that few tumor-specific antigens have been identified in human solid tumors. The present study was designed to investigate whether ovarian cancer cells lysate-pulsed DCs activate T cell responses against autologous ovarian tumo...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Zhao X,Wei YQ,Peng ZL

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lectin from Amaranthus leucocarpus (ALL) is specific for N-acetyl-D-galactosamine and inhibits phagocytosis of Leishmania mexicana promastigotes in Balb/c mice peritoneal macrophages by 38%. The lipophosphoglycan (LPG) purified from L. mexicana inhibits penetration of promastigotes into peritoneal macrophages by 3...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Gorocica P,Hernández P,Perez A,Chávez R,Baez R,Zenteno E,Lascurain R

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD44 comprises a family of type I transmembrane glycoproteins that is expressed on a wide range of cells including those of epithelial, lymphoid and myeloid lineage. Although expression of CD44 in the small intestine is typically localised in the crypts of Lieberkuhn, we have reported the expression of CD44 on mature,...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Reid SD,Pockley AG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to laboratory animals poses a hazard for development of occupational allergy. Identification of antigenic determinants of allergenic proteins may be valuable for immunotherapeutic purposes. Overlapping peptides of the major allergen in rat urine, Rat n 1.02, corresponding to the protein alpha2u-globulin were ...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Bayard C,Siddique AB,Berzins K,Troye-Blomberg M,Hellman U,Vesterberg O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent studies, using a swine model of single lung transplantation, we demonstrated that IRI alone increased MHC II expression in the host's peripheral T lymphocytes. The inhibition of increased MHC II expression with TCV-309, a specific platelet-activating factor (PAF) antagonist suggested that PAF might play a ro...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Nikbakht-Sangari M,Qayumi AK,Keown P,Duronio V,Horley K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study has demonstrated that both interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were needed to induce the production of nitric oxide (NO) in BNL CL.2 cells, murine embryonic liver cells. We here demonstrate that when BNL CL.2 cells were cultured with serum-free medium, they were induced to produc...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Pae HO,Yoo JC,Choi BM,Paik SG,Kim YH,Jin HS,Chung HT

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White cell infiltration of solid tumors is an important prognostic indicator in malignant disease. Although macrophage infiltration is associated with good outcome in colorectal cancer, a high macrophage content is associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer. Suppressor macrophages prevent T cell activation in nor...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Toomey D,Harmey J,Condron C,Kay E,Bouchier-Hayes D

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies, D2A1 and D5G3 were elicited by immunization with a preparation of chicken egg riboflavin carrier protein which had been reduced and carboxymethylated. Epitopes recognised by the monoclonal antibodies were mapped using the Pepscan method. Epitopic determinants for D2A1 as well as D5G3 were id...

journal_title：Immunological investigations

authors： Lobo SC,Karande AA,Adiga PR

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00