abstract：:We have investigated the T-cell antigen receptor constant beta and alpha chain genes (TCR-C beta, -C alpha) and the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain switch regions of patients with Graves' disease (GD) using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. No significant associations were found with RFLPs of e...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Demaine AG,Ratanachaiyavong S,Pope R,Ewins D,Millward BA,McGregor AM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic injury and sepsis reduce HLA-DR expression on monocytes. This study assessed the effect of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) on the expression of HLA-DR on monocytes taken from severely injured patients. The mononuclear layer of each blood sample was incubated with either 500 units IFN-gamma or control media. The...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hershman MJ,Appel SH,Wellhausen SR,Sonnenfeld G,Polk HC Jr

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes and endothelial cells were stimulated in co-culture with allogeneic lymphocytes to produce thromboplastin (TPL). The induction was biphasic, an early response (8-24 h) was greatly augmented by cyclosporin A (CS) (0.5-5 micrograms/ml) whereas the late response (day 3-4) was inhibited. Prednisolone inhibited b...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Carlsen E,Gaudernack G,Filion-Myklebust C,Pettersen KS,Prydz H

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the histamine release from basophils in patients suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) (median 17.2 years of age) and compared the data with an age-matched group of healthy donors. No significant differences in the basophil counts were determined between the CF and control groups. However, the absolute his...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schönfeld W,Saak A,Steinkamp G,Van der Hardt H,König W

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BB rat is a well-known animal model for the study of autoimmune thyroid disease. Antithyroglobulin antibodies can be detected in the circulation from the age of 6 weeks onwards, and accumulations of lymphoid cells occurs in the thyroid of up to 60% of animals at the age of 20 weeks and over. The rat, however, stay...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Voorby HA,Van der Gaag RD,Jeucken PH,Bloot AM,Drexhage HA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work indicated that exercise stress in mice was associated with reduced splenic lymphocyte proliferation to T cell mitogens. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of acute exercise stress and exercise training on the phenotype distribution of murine lymphocytes in the spleen, lymph nodes a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hoffman-Goetz L,Thorne R,Simpson JA,Arumugam Y

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of interleukin-2 (IL-2) by Con A-activated spleen cells (SC) progressively declined and reached negligible values during the course of infection of C57BL/6 mice with Mycobacterium lepraemurium. In addition, the capacity of cultured SC to utilize IL-2 was highly reduced, as demonstrated by the accumulati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Turcotte R,Lemieux S

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People receiving therapy with either 8-methoxypsoralen plus long wavelength ultraviolet radiation (PUVA) or medium wavelength ultraviolet radiation (UVB) have been studied to see whether their unresponsiveness to the contact sensitizer dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) is a form of immunological tolerance. It was confirmed ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Friedmann PS,White SI,Parker S,Moss C,Matthews JN

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In essential mixed, type II, cryoglobulinaemia (EMC) monoclonal autoantibodies with rheumatoid factor activity are synthesized at an accelerated rate by non-malignant B lymphocytes. In order to determine if the high cryoglobulin production rate is related to a clonal B cell expansion, cell surface markers of periphera...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Perl A,Gorevic PD,Ryan DH,Condemi JJ,Ruszkowski RJ,Abraham GN

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to test whether normal rat epiphyseal chondrocytes react with monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) detecting different markers of lymphoid cells. For this purpose, isolated chondrocyte and, for comparison, splenocyte cytosmears were exposed to a battery of different MoAbs followed by indirect immunop...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Malejczyk J,Romaniuk A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report studies undertaken to determine the contribution of seminal prostaglandins to some of the known immunosuppressive properties of human seminal plasma. Initial studies revealed that fractions of seminal plasma enriched in E series prostaglandins, obtained by reverse phase chromatography, had a pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Quayle AJ,Kelly RW,Hargreave TB,James K

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland biopsies from 12 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome and 10 controls were examined for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA by in-situ hybridization and for EBV proteins by immunofluorescence and peroxidase techniques. Viral DNA was found in biopsies from two out of 12 patients with primary Sjögren's syndr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Venables PJ,Teo CG,Baboonian C,Griffin BE,Hughes RA

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A syngeneic, monoclonal, anti-idiotype antibody, G6D9, was raised against the mouse monoclonal IgM HNK-1. G6D9, characterized as an IgG1-kappa, inhibits the binding of HNK-1 to the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). G6D9 does not interfere with the binding of various human monoclonal anti-MAG IgM to their specific ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schluep M,Page N,Burger D,Steck AJ

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-articular injection of highly purified or recombinant interleukin 1 (IL-1) into the rabbit knee induces a transient synovitis with leucocytic infiltration into the synovial lining and joint cavity and loss of proteoglycan from articular cartilage. Tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), which has many of the a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Henderson B,Pettipher ER

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:The effects of various cytokines on synthesis and microheterogeneity of carbohydrate structure of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor (PI) and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) in the human hepatoma cell lines Hep 3B and Hep G2 were studied. In both lines, crude cytokine preparations from LPS-activated human monocytes (CM) and several...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mackiewicz A,Schultz D,Mathison J,Ganapathi M,Kushner I

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies done in the last 10 years demonstrate the importance of iron in regulating the expression of T lymphoid cell surface markers, in influencing the expansion of different T cell subsets and in affecting different immune cell functions in vitro. It has been argued that some of the results obtained coul...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Sousa M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles-specific IgA antibody titres were determined by radioimmunoassay (RIA) for serial serum, saliva and tear samples obtained from 21 children with measles infection, from onset of rash until up to 14 months later. Serum IgA titres rose rapidly after onset of illness and remained detectable throughout the follow-u...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Friedman MG,Phillip M,Dagan R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T and B cell function, in particular IgD production in vitro, were studied across the spectrum of HIV infection in homosexual men and compared with seronegative homosexual and heterosexual male controls. Proliferation to phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) was reduced most strikingly in symptomatic HIV infection; it was also im...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rogers LA,Forster SM,Pinching AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal anti-dermatan sulphate antibodies were produced with hybridization after immunizing BALB/c mice with dermatan sulphate (DS). These antibodies were tested for cross-reactivity to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) and heat-denatured DNA (ssDNA). Five clones had binding activity to DS, dsDNA and ssDNA in enzyme-link...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ohnishi K,Sagawa A,Nakabayashi T,Ohmoto A,Megumi,Yoshikawa M,Watanabe I,Mukai M,Yasuda I,Nakagawa S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural study of mucosal eosinophils in a case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis involving stomach, duodenum and ileum showed an altered structure in ulcerated duodenal areas. The electron core density of eosinophil granules was inverted or disappeared and tubulovesicular structures occurred. Using immunogold st...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Torpier G,Colombel JF,Mathieu-Chandelier C,Capron M,Dessaint JP,Cortot A,Paris JC,Capron A

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production in vitro of antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen by peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy volunteers was studied after each of the three doses of hepatitis B vaccine. An in vitro hepatitis B surface antigen antibody response was successfully induced in 12% of the specimens taken over a 7 mont...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Filion LG,Saginur R

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goodpasture (GP) antigens, protein components reactive with human autoantibodies against glomerular basement membrane (GBM), were identified in human alveolar basement membrane (ABM) using an enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA), Western blotting and immunoprecipitation. All six anti-GBM antisera studied, three obtained ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Yoshioka K,Iseki T,Okada M,Morimoto Y,Eryu N,Maki S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of polyclonal and monoclonal anti-human IgE sera reacted with a panel of 11 selected IgA and IgM producing B lymphoblastoid cell lines (BLCLs) in cytoplasmic fluorescence, ELISA and immunoprecipitation assays. The reactions were discordant between the BLCLs and the individual antisera. The panel of 11 BLCLs w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hendriks RW,Thompson A,Kraakman ME,Drayer AL,Schuurman RK

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty sera which gave ring-like nuclear staining in immunofluorescence on rat liver tissue sections were characterized. Using immunoprecipitation and Western blotting we showed that 10 of the sera contained antibodies to 200 kD polypeptide(s) of nuclear envelope. Clinical and biological data were available for nine of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lassoued K,Guilly MN,Andre C,Paintrand M,Dhumeaux D,Danon F,Brouet JC,Courvalin JC

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPIV), a T cell enzyme, has been implicated in the regulation of lymphocyte proliferation in response to lectins and allogeneic cells. A sensitive fluorimetric assay has been established for the enzyme and used to investigate DPIV activity, kinetics and the subcellular localization in lymphocy...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Harland C,Shah T,Webster AD,Peters TJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A blood sample was taken from children aged 13-15 years immediately before BCG vaccination and 8 weeks after. The children were tuberculin skin-test negative to PPD-S before vaccination and positive after. Mononuclear cells were separated from the blood, infected with Mycobacterium microti at a low bacterium/monocyte ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Cheng SH,Walker L,Poole J,Aber VR,Walker KB,Mitchison DA,Lowrie DB

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new antimitochondrial antibody (AMA) against an outer membrane associated antigen on liver mitochondria was detected by ELISA in sera from patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). This antibody was named anti-M9. There is evidence that it is a partial organ-specific antibody as shown by absorption studies usin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Klein R,Berg PA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferative responses by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and rat spleen cells were measured to Pneumocystis carinii in a blastogenic assay using organisms obtained from rat lungs and propagated in tissue culture as the antigen. Responses occurred only in subjects with known prior exposure to P. carinii and ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hagler DN,Deepe GS,Pogue CL,Walzer PD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement activation may play an important role in renal injury associated with glomerular deposition of IgA immune complexes. The ability of naturally occurring human IgA immune complexes (IgA-IC) and covalently cross-linked human IgA oligomers (X-IgA) to activate complement were examined in vitro and in vivo. Large...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Imai H,Chen A,Wyatt RJ,Rifai A

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG and IgA subclass distribution of specific antibodies as well as the distribution of total and specific IgE in 15 patients with schistosomiasis was determined in consecutive samples before and after initiation of treatment. An adult worm antigen preparation and a soluble egg antigen preparation were used as ant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Evengård B,Hammarström L,Smith CI,Johansson SG,Linder E

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In autoimmune diseases, mitogen-induced IL-2 production in vitro is generally considered to be diminished despite evidence of lymphoid hyperactivity in vivo. HgCl2 is known to cause T-dependent polyclonal B cell activation in Brown-Norway (BN) rats, resulting in autoimmune disease. We show here that the IL-2 producing...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Baran D,Lantz O,Dosquet P,Sfaksi A,Druet P

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-labelling immunofluorescence analysis within the CD4+ cell subset was carried out in 27 bronchoalveolar lavage fluids and 11 peripheral blood samples of sarcoidosis patients with anti-TQ1, anti-2H4 and anti-4B4 monoclonal antibodies. Helper/inducer CD4+TQ1-/4B4+ cells were strongly increased in the lung and sli...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gerli R,Darwish S,Broccucci L,Minotti V,Spinozzi F,Cernetti C,Bertotto A,Rambotti P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two DNA-binding monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) derived from lupus mice were examined for their effects on kidney function. Antibody IV-228, reactive with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) but not double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) significantly altered kidney function in some MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr (MRL/lpr) mice with lupus glomerulonephrit...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lake RA,Staines NA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve patients, ten with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia and two with hypogammaglobulinaemia secondary to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), have been taught to self-infuse their intravenous immunoglobulin replacement therapy. Follow-up of these patients has shown that regular self-infusion at home is feasib...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Chapel H,Brennan V,Delson E

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sensitive IL-1-dependent T cell clone we estimated interleukin 1 (IL-1)-like activity in a variety of synovial fluids (SF). Although we demonstrate that SF contains potent inhibitors of endogenous and exogenous IL-1 we were able to estimate that samples from rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and other arthr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hopkins SJ,Humphreys M,Jayson MI

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B (HB) vaccine is very promising for the prevention of HB infection. There exist, however, some non-responders to current vaccination trials. In this study, taurine, parotin and lithium were selected as adjuvants which can be administered orally. The mechanisms of these three materials as adjuvants and their...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kuriyama S,Tsujii T,Ishizaka S,Kikuchi E,Kinoshita K,Nishimura K,Kitagami K,Yoshikawa M,Matsumoto M

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A positive Mitsuda skin test for delayed type hypersensitivity to Mycobacterium leprae is associated with a high level of protection against lepromatous leprosy, while the value of tuberculin sensitivity in leprosy is less pronounced. Cutaneous lymphocytes, isolated from the Mitsuda reaction of a PPD-positive individu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Roberts PP,Dockrell HM,McAdam KP

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied immunological, serological and clinical abnormalities in 264 HIV-positive and HIV-negative drug abusers. Ninety percent of the 264 drug addicts (mean age 26 +/- 0.8 years) were found to have HIV antibodies and there was a significant increase (P less than 0.01) in the frequency of HIV antibody positivi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fernandez-Cruz E,Fernandez AM,Gutierrez C,Garcia-Montes M,de la Morena MT,Rodriguez-Villanueva J,Longo N,Zabay JM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma exchange (PE) and ex vivo immunoadsorption (IA) may be applicable to the removal of anti-insulin antibodies (AI-Ab) from diabetic patients. However, the removal of antibodies may prompt an increase in their rate of synthesis and an overshoot of antibody levels which may be deleterious to the patient. The effect...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Charlton B,Antony G,Cooper SG,Schindhelm K

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00