abstract：:The Latin American Group for Primary Immunodeficiencies, formed in 1993, presently includes 12 countries. One goal was to study the frequency of primary immunodeficiencies in various regions of the American continent and to enhance knowledge about these diseases among primary-care physicians, as well as allergist-immu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Zelazko M,Carneiro-Sampaio M,Cornejo de Luigi M,Garcia de Olarte D,Porras Madrigal O,Berrón Perez R,Cabello A,Rostan MV,Sorensen RU

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral tolerance is the immunologic mechanism by which the mucosal immune system maintains unresponsiveness to the myriad of antigens in the mucosal environment which might otherwise induce untoward immune responses. Recent studies have shown that it is mediated by several distinct, yet interacting mechanisms including ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Strober W,Kelsall B,Marth T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat T lymphoblasts arrested in the G1 phase of the cell cycle by interleukin-2 (IL-2) deprivation can be forced to proceed to the S phase when they are stimulated with IL-2 or the phorbol ester phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu). When PDBu is used as a stimulus, extracellular regulated kinase 2 (ERK2) is activated by thr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Lisbona C,Alemany S,Fernández-Renart M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular analysis of complement components (C3, C4, and factor B) in human saliva was performed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. Complement C3 was detected as a molecule composed of a 115-kDa alpha-chain linked to a 70-kDa beta chain by disulfide bonds, and C3 levels ranged from 0.52 to 15.0 micrograms/ml (n = 15). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Andoh A,Fujiyama Y,Kimura T,Uchihara H,Sakumoto H,Okabe H,Bamba T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of natural antibodies has long been a subject of controversy. Polyreactive natural antibodies recognize multiple ligands and are thought to arise from B1 B cells. Natural antibodies against carbohydrate antigens such as Gal alpha 1-3Gal or against blood groups A and B are thought to be "elicited" by gut bac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Parker W,Yu PB,Holzknecht ZE,Lundberg K,Buckley RH,Platt JL

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine hematopoietic tissues contain cells which, upon injection into lethally irradiated mice, produce nodules on the surface of their spleen (colony-forming unit--spleen; CFU-S). The exact hierarchical level of the hematopoietic progenitors which give rise to CFU-S is not fully established; however, cell populations...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Rezzoug F,Tocci A,Safsafi K,Vivier G,Touraine JL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver infiltrating lymphocytes (LIL) were isolated from HCV-positive (+) and HCV-negative (-) end-stage livers. Phenotypic analysis and functional studies using proliferative and lymphocytotoxic assays were performed with the isolated LIL. Two CD3+ lymphocyte populations were found in LIL using FITC anti-CD3 monoclona...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Jin Y,Fuller L,Carreno M,Zucker K,Roth D,Esquenazi V,Karatzas T,Swanson SJ 3rd,Tzakis AG,Miller J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response of 42 gastrointestinal and ovarian cancer patients at 1 month after exposure to murine monoclonal antibodies (B72.3 and CC49) reactive with the tumor-associated antigen TAG-72 was studied. The incidence of human anti-mouse antibody response was 89% to B72.3 and 70% to CC49. To evaluate the antiidio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Blanco I,Kawatsu R,Harrison K,Leichner P,Augustine S,Baranowska-Kortylewicz J,Tempero M,Colcher D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of tumor cells to lysis by natural killer (NK) and interleukin-2 (IL-2)-activated killer (LAK) cells was studied in three ovarian carcinoma cell lines (2780.9S, SKOV-3, and CHOAUXB1), four multidrug-resistant (MDR) variants, and a melphalan-resistant line. The antitumor activity of LAK cells was evalua...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Savas B,Cole SP,Tsuruo T,Pross HF

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological differences between lymphocytes separated from thymoma patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and those separated from thymoma patients without MG was examined. We investigated whether lymphocytes in thymoma (Th-L) of patients with and without MG could react to interleukin-2 (IL-2) to develop cytolytic ac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Takahashi K,Monden Y,Saito S,Kamamura Y,Uyama T

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year health follow-up study of 159 initially healthy blood donors with a severe deficiency of serum IgA ( < 0.05 x 10(-3) g/L) and of 45 donors with decreased serum IgA (0.05 x 10(-3)-0.8 g/L) was carried out. The findings indicate that persons with a severe deficiency of and decreased serum IgA who are healthy a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Koskinen S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a growing body of evidence suggesting that CD4+ Th1/Th2 cell responses participate in pathologic and immunologic processes in infectious disease. Bacterial meningitis is a fatal disease of children and is associated with a spectrum of clinical syndromes. This study provides evidence of CD4+ enhanced int...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Raziuddin S,el-Awad ME,Telmesani AW,Bilal NE,al-Janadi M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The staphylococcal enterotoxins have been termed superantigens based on their ability to stimulate polyclonal proliferative responses of murine and human T lymphocytes expressing particular T-cell receptor V beta gene products. Certain of these toxins have been shown both to activate and to induce anergy in reactive T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Gelfand EW,Saloga J,Lack G

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing a rat model of semiallogeneic intestinal transplantation, recipients were evaluated for accumulation of donor-specific cytotoxic T cells in spleen, mesenteric lymph nodes, Peyer's patches, lamina propria, and intraepithelial lymphocytes using limiting dilution analysis. Naive animals exhibited a low frequenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Sirinek LP,O'Dorisio MS,Dunaway DJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apart from cellular immunity and immunopathology, various cytokines have been implicated in malaria-associated immunosuppression. In this study, serum levels of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) were determined with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 37 patients with acute Plasmodium falciparum malaria p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Wenisch C,Parschalk B,Burgmann H,Looareesuwan S,Graninger W

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in the shedding of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors in endotoxemia was investigated. The appearance of the soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors was assessed in four healthy volunteers following an intravenous injection of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and in eight chimpa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Jansen J,van der Poll T,Levi M,ten Cate H,Gallati H,ten Cate JW,van Deventer SJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are powerful mediator and communication molecules capable of regulating a wide spectrum of biologic functions, including immune responses. Although the role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of human disease is not yet understood, assays for cytokines have become a common feature in research and clinical labo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Whiteside TL

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an enzyme-linked immunoassay we tested the sera of 71 patients with digestive system cancer, 35 patients with various nonmalignant disorders, and 28 normal individuals for anti-CEA activity. Antibodies were found in the sera of 51% of the patients. Most of the patients positive for the antibodies (70%) had no ev...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Konstadoulakis MM,Syrigos KN,Albanopoulos C,Mayers G,Golematis B

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catecholamines have been suggested to be responsible for altered cellular immunity after stress. This study was performed to determine the effects of adrenaline and noradrenaline on lymphocyte subpopulations and NK cell functions. Subjects were given a subcutaneous injection of either NaCl, adrenaline (5 micrograms/kg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Schedlowski M,Falk A,Rohne A,Wagner TO,Jacobs R,Tewes U,Schmidt RE

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-antibody flow cytometry was used to search for distinctive populations of peripheral blood lymphocyte immunophenotypes in multiple sclerosis (MS). Using monoclonal antibodies to the cell surface markers CD3, CD4, and CD8, T cell subsets were quantified on a cohort of 31 MS patients (not treated with corticoster...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Munschauer FE,Stewart C,Jacobs L,Kaba S,Ghorishi Z,Greenberg SJ,Cookfair D

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional stress is often followed by increased susceptibility to infections. One major role in the immediate immune response to infection is played by natural killer (NK) cells. This study was designed to establish whether acute psychological stress influences cellular immune functions and to elucidate the role of en...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Schedlowski M,Jacobs R,Stratmann G,Richter S,Hädicke A,Tewes U,Wagner TO,Schmidt RE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes of 18 patients meeting the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) case definition for the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), 10 similar, chronically fatigued patients not fully conforming to the CDC case definition, and 17 matched, healthy individuals were studied to determine the presence of abnormalities of peri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Straus SE,Fritz S,Dale JK,Gould B,Strober W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic enteroviral meningoencephalitis is a well-recognized complication in patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA). The majority of published cases refers to its occurrence in patients on no replacement therapy or on only intramuscular immunoglobulin. The advent of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) in the ea...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Misbah SA,Spickett GP,Ryba PC,Hockaday JM,Kroll JS,Sherwood C,Kurtz JB,Moxon ER,Chapel HM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the mechanisms of hepatocyte injury, we examined serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) level in acute hepatitis patients. Based on their clinical features, these patients were divided into three groups, acute hepatitis (AH), severe acute hepatitis, and fulminant hepatic failure (FHF). The present study demonstrated that...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Sun Y,Tokushige K,Isono E,Yamauchi K,Obata H

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune response of 56 colorectal cancer patients to a single infusion of 1 mg of radiolabeled (111In) mouse B72.3-GYK-DTPA immunoconjugate was examined using a double-antigen radiometric assay system. The incidence of antibody response was 48% to polyclonal mouse IgG, 71% to mouse B72.3, and 62% to chimeric B72.3....

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Khazaeli MB,Saleh MN,Liu T,Kaladas PM,Gilman SC,LoBuglio AF

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with T- and B-cell dysfunction. Immunoglobulin (Ig) production is under the control of T cells and their derived cytokines such as interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-4. Herein we studied the regulation of the production of immunoglobulins and cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Briolay J,Dechanet J,Blanchard D,Banchereau J,Miossec P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using fresh whole blood or isolated lymphocytes, the activity of in vivo generated cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) was measured as the OKT3-specific lysis of HL-60 targets, in a cross-sectional study of 53 HIV (+) patients. CTL activity in the entire HIV(+) group was two to three times higher than in HIV(-) controls, wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Vanham G,Kestens L,Penne G,Goilav C,Gigase P,Colebunders R,Vandenbruaene M,Goeman J,van der Groen G,Ceuppens JL

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five common variable immunodeficiency (CVI) patients were analyzed for expression of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes. In the pokeweed mitogen (PWM)-induced Ig-production assay, the combination of T and B cells showed that all patients' T cells had normal helper functions and all patients' B cells had profound defects. The d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Kaneko H,Kondo N,Motoyoshi F,Mori S,Kobayashi Y,Inoue Y,Orii T

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined sera from 160 HIV-infected individuals for antibodies reactive to HIV-1 gp160 epitopes defined by seven synthetic peptides. Seropositive individuals were placed into three groups based upon levels of circulating CD4+ cells. These groups consisted of individuals with (1) more than 400 CD4+ cells, (2) 200-40...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Warren RQ,Wolf H,Zajac RA,Boswell RN,Kanda P,Kennedy RC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of seven immunoglobulin isotypes (IgA, IgE, IgM, IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4) were measured in the sera of 207 Finnish blood donors, and they were allotyped with anti-Gm antibodies: anti-f, anti-a, anti-x, and anti-n. The above population could be divided into 12 phenotypes, and significant differenc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Sarvas H,Rautonen N,Mäkelä O

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first description of the hybridoma technology in 1975 seemed to hold enormous promise for the treatment of a variety of human disease. The ability to produce monoclonal antibodies led to the availability of large amounts of homogeneous and predictable preparations of antibody. The potential to renew indefinitely a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Pirofski L,Casadevall A,Rodriguez L,Zuckier LS,Scharff MD

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxin production by regional lymph node cells was examined in 25 patients with uterine cervical cancer and 10 patients with uterine myoma. The patients in stage I had significantly increased spontaneous release of cytotoxins compared with that in stages II, III, and IV. The spontaneous release in stages III an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Matsunaga K,Mashiba H,Kurano A,Jimi S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) induces proliferation of freshly isolated peripheral blood T cells only in the presence of monocytes/macrophages and requires binding of the Fc portion of antibody to monocytes/macrophages. In this investigation, we examined whether monocytes process anti-CD3 similar to any soluble ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Vayuvegula B,Ohira K,Gollapudi S,Gupta S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because binding of antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) is central to the definition of the antigenic epitope targeted by aPLs, we examined the binding of aPL-positive SLE sera to PE under various conditions. No serum bound to PE uncontaminated with lysophosphatidylethanolamine (1PE), but m...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Qamar T,Gharavi AE,Levy RA,Lockshin MD

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic bone marrow-engrafted adults immunized with meningococcal types A and C and pneumococcal type 14 polysaccharide antigens showed only low antibody titers of the IgM class, no antibody titers of the IgG or IgA classes, and no bactericidal activity in vitro. The analytical isoelectrofocusing showed the appeara...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Quinti I,Velardi A,Le Moli S,Guerra E,D'Amelio R,Mastrantonio P,Martelli MF,Aiuti F

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the role of phospholipid fatty acids in binding of antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) in ELISA, we tested aPL binding to phospholipids containing fatty acids of varying chain length and degree of saturation using direct ELISA and inhibition methods. Polyclonal IgG and IgM human aPL's bind to C18:1 phosphatidyl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Levy RA,Gharavi AE,Sammaritano LR,Habina L,Lockshin MD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied immunological functions of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I)-seropositive healthy carriers in vitro. Proliferative responses of PBL to T-cell and B-cell mitogens such as concanavalin A (Con A), pokeweed mitogen (PWM), and Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Tanaka Y,Oda S,Nagata K,Mori N,Sakamoto H,Eto S,Yamashita U

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased levels of serum IgD can be found in single patients with a variety of clinical syndromes and in the disease entity designated hyper-IgD syndrome which is associated with periodic fever and lymphadenopathy. We investigated 17 patients, both children and adults, with high serum IgD levels ranging from 220 to 5...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Hiemstra I,Vossen JM,van der Meer JW,Weemaes CM,Out TA,Zegers BJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of serum IgG and IgM antibodies to polyclonal IgA (IgAp), IgA1, and IgA2 were determined by enzyme immunoassay in 31 patients with IgA nephropathy and 30 healthy controls. Patients with IgA nephropathy had significantly raised concentrations of serum IgA compared to controls (Mann-Whitney U test, P ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Jones CL,Hosking CS,Kincaid-Smith P,Powell HR,Richardson SC,Sennhauser FH,Roberton DM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for the presence of multiple shared epitopes on the target cellular antigens was found when 290 anti-Sm and anti-U1-RNP lupus sera were analyzed by immunoblotting. Forty-eight different immunoblot patterns were observed with the sera. Studies with selected antigen-affinity-purified antibodies confirmed the pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical immunology

authors： Francoeur AM

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00