abstract：:Peripheral blood leucocytes from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and from normal individuals were tested for their interferon (IFN) producing capacity after stimulation in vitro with various lectins and viruses. The lectins, Con A, PHA and PWM, induced IFN-gamma. In a kinetic study, the response to Con A revealed its...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vervliet G,Carton H,Meulepas E,Billiau A

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 2.5-40 mg/kg nandrolone decanoate (ND) on the development and growth of mononuclear cell infiltrations in the submandibular glands of NZB/W (B/W) mice have been studied using a quantitative histological method. Injections with ND for 9 months, once every 3 weeks, starting at 4 weeks of age, reduced the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schot LP,Verheul HA,Schuurs AH

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that the peanut agglutinin (PNA) receptor and/or its co-ordinate structures on the surface of leukaemia cells might be recognized by lectin free crude interleukin-2 (IL-2) activated human peripheral blood lymphocytes (LAK) was investigated. Analysis was undertaken of the correlation between the sensiti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Gotoh YI,Minegishi M,Yamaguchi Y,Konno T,Tada K

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of guinea-pig major histocompatibility antigens (class I and II) has been investigated on guinea-pig epididymal spermatozoa. Specific alloantisera (anti-B1, anti-B3, anti-Ia2,4 and anti-Ia1,3,7) were obtained by cross-immunization of strains 2, 13 and BIO-AD animals with relevant spleen cell membranes. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Thyphronitis G,De Almeida M,Neveu T,Voisin GA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been proposed that theophylline activates T suppressor systems in vivo and this evidence is further supported by the ability of the drug to attenuate the allograft rejection in humans and in experimental animals. In this study the acute effects of aminophylline on human peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pardi R,Zocchi MR,Ferrero E,Ciboddo GF,Inverardi L,Rugarli C

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for culturing intact human thyroid follicles, based on the study of 40 thyroidectomy specimens from normal (n = 18) and diseased glands (n = 22). Reversal of the normal polarity of thyrocytes, whereby the microvilli move from the colloid edge to the vascular pole of the cells, occurs gradually wh...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hanafusa T,Pujol-Borrell R,Chiovato L,Doniach D,Bottazzo GF

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using OKT monoclonal antibodies; OKT3(pan T), OKT4(inducer/helper), OKT8 (suppressor/cytotoxic) and OKIa1, T lymphocyte subsets were examined in lymphocytes of patients with tuberculosis both before and after in vitro stimulation with purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD). In freshly obtained lymphocytes ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shiratsuchi H,Tsuyuguchi I

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of normal human peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leucocytes on in vitro multiplication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites was investigated. It was shown that normal neutrophils were able to phagocytose parasitized erythrocytes and free parasites and thus inhibit in vitro multiplication of the para...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kharazmi A,Jepsen S

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewis rats were immunized with bee venom allergen in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) or with FCA only. Animals immunized with bee venom developed specific IgG antibodies but no specific IgE antibodies were detected. Lymphocytes from lymph nodes when cultured with antigen in vitro showed an increased stimulation index...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schneider H,Urbanek R

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system has been established to produce in vitro IgG specific for cell wall determinants of S. aureus by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). PBMC of healthy individuals, of patients with S. aureus infections and of patients with other bacterial infections were cultured for 12 days. In the culture superna...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hauser C,Wilhelm JA,Matter L,Schopfer K

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) have been postulated to contribute to the development of secondary complications in diabetes mellitus. In this study, CIC were measured in control rats and both insulin deficient and insulin treated streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. CIC were more prevalent in both groups of diabe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Abrass CK

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Km for AMP for 5' nucleotidase was increased in lymphocytes from patients with common variable (CVH) and sex linked (XLH) hypogammaglobulinaemia and from patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL): the Vmax of the latter was low. The kinetic constants for cord blood lymphocytes are similar to adults and the K...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Shah T,Webster AD,Peters TJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural characteristics of autologous red blood cell (ARBC) receptors on human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) were examined. Tunicamycin, which is known to be a blocker of the protein glycosylation of N-glycosidic type glycoprotein, significantly inhibited the production...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hyodo S,Kishi T,Kashiwa H,Kittaka E,Suzawa T,Tanaka Y,Sakano T,Usui T

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The depressed cell-mediated immunity in rheumatoid arthritis was investigated in vivo by cutaneous hypersensitivity responses to seven antigens including tuberculin PPD, and in vitro by lymphocyte transformation to the latter antigen. In vivo 40% of rheumatoid patients were anergic compared to 2% of controls (P less t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Emery P,Panayi GS,Nouri AM

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-42, an autoantibody found in the sera of some patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, was isolated from sera of seven different patients. By binding of the autoantibodies to cell bound C42, the autoantibodies were purified to homogeneity and radiolabelled with 125I. Purified preparations of 125I-F-42 were bound ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Daha MR,Hazevoet HM,van Es LA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized controlled trial of treatment with thymic humoral factor (THF) in 20 children with severe complicated acute measles infection, resulted in objective benefit as evidenced by improvement in the ESR and a fall in C-reactive protein, fewer complications and a reduced incidence of secondary herpes infection. A...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Beatty DW,Handzel ZT,Pecht M,Ryder CR,Hughes J,McCabe K,Trainin N

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous injection of t-butyl hydroperoxide rapidly killed Plasmodium vinckei in mice, and caused haemolysis. The same dose seemed harmless to unparasitized mice. Many parasites disintegrated inside circulating erythrocytes, so parasite death was not simply a passive consequence of haemolysis. Injection of desferri...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Clark IA,Hunt NH,Cowden WB,Maxwell LE,Mackie EJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of T lymphocyte subsets was assessed using monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) in 44 untreated patients with multiple myeloma (MM) subdivided according to the clinical stage of the disease. A significant reduction (P less than 0.001) of T lymphocytes was observed only in stage II and III patients. The propo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lauria F,Foa R,Cavo M,Gobbi M,Raspadori D,Giubellino MC,Tazzari PL,Tura S

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune complexes (IC) in sera and synovial fluid (SF) from patients with juvenile (rheumatoid) arthritis (JA) were isolated by making use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) to precipitate IC and then using staphylococcal protein A to separate the IC. The isolated IC were compared to IC in sera analysed by sucrose density gr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Moore TL,Dorner RW,Sheridan PW,Zuckner J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into possible determinants of in vivo polyclonal B cell activation seen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we enumerated immunoglobulin secreting cells appearing in cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells that were stimulated with pokeweed mitogen (PWM) or a newly described polyclonal B cell activato...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pardo I,Carafa C,Dziarski R,Levinson AI

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saimiri sciureus monkeys have been successfully immunized against a human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, using soluble antigens purified from schizont and merozoite extracts. High levels of antibodies reacting with schizont and merozoite specific polypeptides of 140 and 200 kdaltons were detected in the sera...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Perrin LH,Loche M,Dedet JP,Roussilhon C,Fandeur T

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to the major phenolic glycolipid purified from Mycobacterium leprae have been demonstrated previously in sera of leprosy but not tuberculosis patients using an ELISA. The major antigenic determinants on this molecule were investigated using antisera raised in rabbits to the purified glycolipid and with a po...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brett SJ,Payne SN,Draper P,Gigg R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several patients with Paget's disease have been reported to have monoclonal IgM proteins in their serum. We have systematically studied 26 patients with Paget's disease severe enough to require diphosphonate therapy. Five of these patients were found to have isolated elevations of serum IgM which were well outside the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Buxbaum JN,Kammerman S

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of lymphocytes from a patient suffering from the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) to produce interleukin-2 (IL-2) was found to be comparable to that of his healthy sex partner and to that of a normal control. Addition of exogenous IL-2 to lymphocyte cultures did not improve the poor mitogen respo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hauser GJ,Bino T,Rosenberg H,Zakuth V,Geller E,Spirer Z

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both antigen specific and non-specific immunoregulation by cells have been described in jirds infected with Brugia pahangi, but the contribution of serum factors to immunoregulatory phenomena in this infection has not been examined. The present study determined the effect of serum from normal or B. pahangi infected ji...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lammie PJ,Katz SP,Anderson WH

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the immune system may be responsible for the destruction of insulin secreting cells in some types of diabetes. In order to test this hypothesis, we studied the consequences of immune-mediated reactions on the function of pancreatic islet cells in vitro. A model was set up in vitro where mous...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Boitard C,Saï P,Debray-Sachs M,Assan R,Hamburger J

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG, IgM and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) containing immune complexes (IC) were detected by the Clq and conglutinin solid phase assays in both HBsAg+ and HBsAg- groups of patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). No differences were observed between the two patient groups either in the levels of ant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Brown SE,Howard CR,Steward MW,Ajdukiewicz AB,Whittle HC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr (EB) virus serology was correlated with the results of immunological investigations of three inherited immunodeficiency diseases, in an attempt to understand the immune mechanisms controlling EB virus infection. In nine patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), the constant lack of anti-EB virus assoc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Vilmer E,Lenoir GM,Virelizier JL,Griscelli C

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation with thymosin fraction 5, (TMS F5 at 300 micrograms/ml) a partially purified thymic factor, reduced the steroid binding activity of human infant thymocytes from 9.6 +/- 2.1 fmole/ml to 5.0 +/- 2.0 fmole/ml. The glucocorticoid receptor activity in normal infant thymocytes was found to be 2,146 +/- 726 (s.d.)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ma DD,Ho AH,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral large granular lymphocytes (LGL) were enumerated in normal subjects and patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases. In normal subjects, the percentage of LGL was significantly lower in women (mean +/- s.d., 17.0 +/- 3.6%; n = 35; P less than 0.05) than in men (19.5 +/- 5.3%; n = 20). In untreated patients wi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Iwatani Y,Amino N,Kabutomori O,Mori H,Tamaki H,Motoi S,Izumiguchi Y,Miyai K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the presence of a T lymphocyte subpopulation in germinal centres of lymph follicles. This subpopulation is defined by reactivity with Leu 7 antibody, in addition to OKT11, OKT1, OKT3 and OKT4 positivity. The functional activity of this T lymphocyte subpopulation is a matter of discussion and has ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Poppema S,Visser L,De Leij L

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 26 hybridomas secreting anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies, two reacted with murine brain and spinal cord extracts but not other tissues. Both antibodies (5H7 and 3H3) had identical isotypes (IgM) and specificities as judged by western blotting. Antigens of molecular weight 58,000 and 37,000 in mouse brain and spina...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Snary D,Flint JE,Wood JN,Scott MT,Chapman MD,Dodd J,Jessell TM,Miles MA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological cell functions were evaluated during 24, 48 and 96 h O2 exposure in C57Bl/6 mice. A normobaric O2 exposure resulted in depression of delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) to oxazolone and Staphylococcus aureus antigens. This effect was proportional to the duration of O2 exposure. The antibody response of s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Levacher-Place M,Gougerot-Pocidalo MA,Rouveix B,Kraus L,Pocidalo JJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopsy specimens from patients with treated or untreated polymyositis and muscular dystrophy controls were examined by indirect immunoperoxidase staining with a panel of monoclonal antibodies to human leucocyte antigens. In untreated polymyositis, helper/inducer T cells were the predominant T cell subset. In treated c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Rowe D,Isenberg DA,Beverley PC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing speculation about the meaning of reported imbalances in subpopulations of T lymphocytes in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). This study compared two techniques for producing T cell enriched subpopulations from both patients with CLL and normal individuals and the effects of these tech...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Dickinson AM,George S,Proctor SJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoregulatory role of histamine is presumably mediated by specific receptors on the plasma membrane of lymphocytes. However, using murine spleen cells and a whole cell assay commonly applied in hormone receptor studies, specific histamine receptors with an affinity higher than that of non-specific binding could...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wang Y,Kristensen F,Joncourt F,Slauson DO,De Weck AL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaphylatoxins C5a and C3a and their des Arg derivatives inhibited C2 production by mononuclear phagocytes. C5a and C5adesArg which were approximately equipotent (IC50 = 10(-10) mol/l) were more effective than C3a (IC50 = 5 X 10(-8) mol/l) which was approximately 10-20-fold more potent than C3adesArg IC50 = 5 X 10(-6)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lappin D,Damerau B,Whaley K

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-lymphocyte autoantibody response to irradiated lethal Plasmodium berghei malaria parasites in normal mice was significantly reduced when recipients were pre-treated with splenic T cells from mice recovered from a non-lethal Plasmodium yoelii infection. Suppression was specific for the autoantibody and did not...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： de Souza JB,Playfair JH

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrated that NK resistant Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) carrying human lymphoblastoid cell lines become sensitive to NK cell-mediated destruction following induction of the viral cycle by superinfection with the P3HR-1 substrain of EBV or chemicals. In the present report we analysed the cellular membr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Blazar BA,Fitzgerald J,Sutton L,Strome M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum concentrations of C1q, C4, C4 binding protein (C4bp), C3 and C2 haemolytic activity have been measured in 110 samples from 20 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Significant reductions in comparison to normal levels were found in the mean serum concentrations of C4, C3 and C4bp as well as C2 haemol...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Daha MR,Hazevoet HM,Hermans J,van Es LA,Cats A

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00