abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) is a diagnostic hallmark of HT. The aim of our study was to evaluate the avidity of TgAb in sera from HT patients with different thyroid functional status. Sera from 50 patients with newly diagnosed HT ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Gao Y,Li M,Xie L,Huang Y,Gao Y,Guo X

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by clonal B cell attack of the exocrine glands and dysregulated expression of B cell-activating factor (BAFF). Based upon the current data of increased rates of lymphoid malignancy, as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is associated with SS, we propose the dete...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Guzmán LM,Castillo D,Aguilera SO

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies against proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA) are used as diagnostic tools for patients with small vessel vasculitis (AASV). We have produced chimeric mouse/human PR3 molecules and investigate changes in reactivity over time and the possible relationship between epitope specificity and clinica...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Selga D,Segelmark M,Gunnarsson L,Hellmark T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cellular stresses and inflammatory stimuli can activate p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), a serine/threonine kinase in the MAPK family. The different stimuli act via different receptors or signalling pathways to induce phosphorylation of the cytosolic protein p47(phox), one subunit of the nicotinamide ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lu HW,He GN,Ma H,Wang JK

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper type 1 (Th1)-type polarization plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD). The differentiation of T cells into this subtype is dictated by the nature of the donor naive CD4(+) T cell-host antigen presenting cell (APC) interaction. Suppressors of cytokine signalling...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhao J,Zhang T,He H,Xie Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are powerful antigen-presenting cells capable of maintaining peripheral tolerance. The possibility to generate tolerogenic DCs opens new therapeutic approaches in the prevention or remission of autoimmunity. There is currently no treatment inducing long-term tolerance and remission in type 1 diab...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Marin-Gallen S,Clemente-Casares X,Planas R,Pujol-Autonell I,Carrascal J,Carrillo J,Ampudia R,Verdaguer J,Pujol-Borrell R,Borràs FE,Vives-Pi M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that the functional state of the immune system at birth is predictive of the kinetics of immune maturation in early infancy. Moreover, this maturation process can have a major impact on early vaccine responses and can be a key determinant of risk for communicable and non-communicable disea...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van den Biggelaar AH,Holt PG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on studies in animal models, viral infections, in particular by enteroviruses, can accelerate or halt type 1 diabetes (T1D) development. Among factors that determine the outcome are the degree of viral replication in the target organ (viral titres), the tropism of the virus for beta cells, and the precise time-p...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Filippi CM,von Herrath MG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have evaluated the effects of cyclophosphamide on the development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in four EAE rodent models: monophasic EAE in Lewis rats, protracted relapsing (PR)-EAE in DA rats, myelin oligodendrocyte protein (MOG)-induced EAE in C57Bl/6 mice and proteolipid protei...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mangano K,Nicoletti A,Patti F,Donia M,Malaguarnera L,Signorelli S,Magro G,Muzio V,Greco B,Zaratin P,Meroni P,Zappia M,Nicoletti F

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review the authors discuss the evidence for T helper type 17 (Th17) cells as pathogenic T cells in autoimmunity. Studies with cytokine-deficient mice or blocking of interleukin (IL)-17, IL-21 and IL-22 have resulted in a conflicting data set. Although in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model the ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Koenders MI,van den Berg WB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease associated with aberrant activation of T and B lymphocytes for the production of inflammatory cytokines and autoreactive antibodies. Animal studies of SLE have indicated that Toll-like receptors (TLR) are important in the pathogenesis of murine lupus....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wong CK,Wong PT,Tam LS,Li EK,Chen DP,Lam CW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) were reported to cause hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome (HIES). The present study investigates T helper type 17 (Th17) responses triggered by the relevant stimuli Staphylococcus aureus and Candidia albicans in five 'classical' HIES patients, and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： van de Veerdonk FL,Marijnissen RJ,Joosten LA,Kullberg BJ,Drenth JP,Netea MG,van der Meer JW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) are uncommon, chronic and severe disorders of the immune system in which patients cannot mount a sufficiently protective immune response, leading to an increased susceptibility to infections. The treatment of choice for PID patients with predominant antibody deficiency is intravenous ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ballow M,Notarangelo L,Grimbacher B,Cunningham-Rundles C,Stein M,Helbert M,Gathmann B,Kindle G,Knight AK,Ochs HD,Sullivan K,Franco JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with allergic rhinitis have traditionally been placed into 'seasonal' and 'perennial' categories, which do not account for the subclinical inflammatory state that exists in many patients. In subjects with seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis, even subthreshold doses of allergen have been found to cause in...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Canonica GW,Compalati E

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by defective immunoglobulin production and high frequency of bacterial infections, autoimmunity and manifestations of chronic inflammation. The homeostatic chemokines CCL19 and CCL21 and their receptor CCR7 are associated with modulation...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fevang B,Yndestad A,Damås JK,Halvorsen B,Holm AM,Beiske K,Aukrust P,Frøland SS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is characterized by persistent alloreactive, infective and non-specific epithelial injury, loss of epithelial integrity and dysregulated repair. We have reported increased apoptosis of epithelial cells collected from the large airway in lung transplant recipients. As part of the...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hodge S,Hodge G,Ahern J,Liew CL,Hopkins P,Chambers DC,Reynolds PN,Holmes M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of patients with active tuberculosis (TB) and infected healthy individuals have shown that interferon (IFN)-gamma is present in sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in comparable levels. This suggests that there is a deficiency in the macrophage response to IFN-gamma in TB patients. We used recombinan...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Esquivel-Solís H,Quiñones-Falconi F,Zarain-Herzberg A,Amieva-Fernández RI,López-Vidal Y

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the airways. Increased levels of T cells are found in the lungs after the induction of an allergic-like inflammation in rats, and flow cytometry studies have shown that these levels are reduced in CD26-deficient rats. However, the precise anatomical sites where these ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Schade J,Schmiedl A,Kehlen A,Veres TZ,Stephan M,Pabst R,von Hörsten S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are of crucial importance in immune regulation and response to microbial factors. In multiple sclerosis (MS), pDCs from peripheral blood showed an immature phenotype, but its role in susceptibility to MS is not determined. Because infectious diseases are established triggers of exac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Bayas A,Stasiolek M,Kruse N,Toyka KV,Selmaj K,Gold R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is an innate immune molecule present in blood and some mucosal tissues, which can influence microbial attachment and inflammatory responses of host cells during infection. In this study MBL was found to be present at a low concentration in semen samples in the range 1.2-24.9 ng/ml. Co-incu...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Wing JB,Jack DL,Lee ME,Pacey AA,Kinghorn GR,Read RC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging role of interleukin (IL)-17 as a hallmark proinflammatory cytokine of the adaptive immune system, produced primarily by a new T helper cell subset termed 'Th17', has received considerable attention. Differentiation of Th17 cells is driven by the simultaneous presence of transforming growth factor-beta and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Nalbandian A,Crispín JC,Tsokos GC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease of children in North America. It is characterized by a massive immune activation and multi-system vasculitis, which evolves into a site-specific inflammatory response focused at the coronary arteries. Coronary artery (CA) inflammation leads to elasti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lau AC,Duong TT,Ito S,Wilson GJ,Yeung RS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical use of dendritic cells (DCs) to induce antigen-specific immune tolerance has been hampered by the lack of a widely acknowledged method for generating human regulatory DCs but even more so by the non-existence of reliable markers. Thus, we set out to find reliable markers that can be measured with simple m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Pedersen AW,Holmstrøm K,Jensen SS,Fuchs D,Rasmussen S,Kvistborg P,Claesson MH,Zocca MB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter rodentium is a murine pathogen that transiently colonizes the lumen of the large intestine. C. rodentium induces colitis, but the relative importance and temporal induction of the T helper type 17 (Th17) and regulatory T cell (T(reg)) pathways in protection from the infection and inflammation have not been...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Symonds EL,Riedel CU,O'Mahony D,Lapthorne S,O'Mahony L,Shanahan F

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature atherosclerosis has been observed during the course of different systemic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and sytemic lupus erythematosus. Remarkably, relatively few studies have been published on the occurrence of accelerated atherosclerosis in patients with vasculitis. In giant cell arte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Tervaert JW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ani s 7 is currently the most important excretory/secretory (ES) Anisakis simplex allergen, as it is the only one recognized by 100% of infected patients. The allergenicity of this molecule is due mainly to the presence of a novel CX(17-25)CX(9-22)CX(8)CX(6) tandem repeat motif not seen in any previously reported prot...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Anadón AM,Romarís F,Escalante M,Rodríguez E,Gárate T,Cuéllar C,Ubeira FM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between allergic airway inflammation and pneumococcal pneumonia is not well understood. We assessed susceptibility to experimental pneumococcal pneumonia in mice with and without allergic airway inflammation. Susceptibility to pneumococcal pneumonia was evaluated by challenging mice with a bioluminesc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kang CI,Rouse MS,Patel R,Kita H,Juhn YJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of human mucosal lymphoid follicles are rare and have been limited to children's Peyer's patches, which are visible at endoscopy. We investigated lymphoid follicles in ileum biopsies of 87 patients and surgical colon specimens from 66 cancer patients, and examined phenotype and function of isolated follicular ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Junker Y,Bode H,Wahnschaffe U,Kroesen A,Loddenkemper C,Duchmann R,Zeitz M,Ullrich R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pituitary hormones are known to affect immune function, treated hypopituitarism is not a recognized cause of immune deficiency in humans. We set out to assess integrity of baseline and stimulated immune function in severely hypopituitary adults. Twenty-one panhypopituitary adults (group 1), on stable pituitar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Mukherjee A,Helbert M,Ryder WD,Borrow R,Davis JR,Shalet SM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractalkine (FKN/CX3CL1) has been detected in synovial fluids from osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Additionally, low-level expression of the FKN receptor, CX3CR1, has been demonstrated in OA synovial lining. This study aimed to determine a biological function for this ligand/receptor pair in OA and to assess a potential...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Klosowska K,Volin MV,Huynh N,Chong KK,Halloran MM,Woods JM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunopathological mechanisms are speculated to underlie haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by Hantaviruses. CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells (T(regs)), a subset of CD4+ T cells, expressed high levels of CD25 and the forkhead box transcription factor P3 (FoxP3), plays an important role in the down-regula...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Zhu LY,Chi LJ,Wang X,Zhou H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele variants in the L-carnitine (LCAR) transporters OCTN1 (SLC22A4, 1672 C --> T) and OCTN2 (SLC22A5, -207 G --> C) have been implicated in susceptibility to Crohn's disease (CD). LCAR is consumed in the diet and transported actively from the intestinal lumen via the organic cation transporter OCTN2. While recogniz...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fortin G,Yurchenko K,Collette C,Rubio M,Villani AC,Bitton A,Sarfati M,Franchimont D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rheumatoid arthritis (RA) there are currently no good indicators to predict a clinical response to rituximab. The purpose of this study was to monitor and determine the role of peripheral blood cytokine profiling in differentiating between a good versus poor response to rituximab in RA. Blood samples were collected...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fabre S,Guisset C,Tatem L,Dossat N,Dupuy AM,Cohen JD,Cristol JP,Daures JP,Jorgensen C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxin produced by enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (BFT) has been associated with mucosal inflammation and diarrhoeal diseases. In this study, the anti-inflammatory molecular mechanism of 5,7-dihydroxy-3,4,6-trimethoxyflavone (eupatilin) was characterized in an HT-29 intestinal epithelial cell line stimulate...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Kim JM,Lee DH,Kim JS,Lee JY,Park HG,Kim YJ,Oh YK,Jung HC,Kim SI

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) can be identified among epithelial cells in systemic mucosal tissues. Although intestinal IELs play a crucial role in mucosal immunity, their bronchial counterparts have not been well studied. The purpose of this study was to determine the immunological functions of human bronchial I...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Hirosako S,Goto E,Fujii K,Tsumori K,Hirata N,Tsumura S,Kamohara H,Kohrogi H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CCL2/CCR2 chemokine/receptor axis directs the chemotaxis of infiltrating monocytes/macrophages and T cells and plays a pivotal role in tissue damage and fibrosis in kidney diseases. The eradication of the activated leucocytes should diminish the production of inflammatory mediators, limit tissue damage and amelior...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： McIntosh LM,Barnes JL,Barnes VL,McDonald JR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a link between increased allergy and a reduction of some infections in western countries. Epidemiological data also show that respiratory allergy is less frequent in people exposed to orofaecal and foodborne microbes such as Toxoplasma gondii. Infection with T. gondii induces a strong cell-mediated immunity w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Fenoy I,Giovannoni M,Batalla E,Martin V,Frank FM,Piazzon I,Goldman A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are considered to be immunologically mediated disorders that share certain features with murine models of colitis. Whether any of these models are physiologically relevant to the human condition remains controversial. The hypothesis is that increased amounts of antibodi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Ebert EC,Panja A,Das KM,Praveen R,Geng X,Rezac C,Bajpai M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I diabetes (T1D) is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease characterized by loss of tolerance to islet autoantigens, leading to the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells. Peripheral tolerance to self is maintained in health through several regulatory mechanisms, including a population of CD4+CD25hi naturally ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Lawson JM,Tremble J,Dayan C,Beyan H,Leslie RD,Peakman M,Tree TI

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of disease progression in Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is still unclear. Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb), a diagnostic hallmark of HT, is principally of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype, and it appears to be a response to thyroid injury. The aim of our study was to evaluate the distribution of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental immunology

authors： Xie LD,Gao Y,Li MR,Lu GZ,Guo XH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00