abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been shown that antigen presentation by resting B cells can induce tolerance to intravenously administered protein antigens, but the role of resting B cells in the induction of oral tolerance is unclear. METHODS:Mice continuously treated since birth with rabbit anti-mouse IgM serum for 5 weeks were d...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Peng HJ,Chang ZN,Kuo SW,Lee CC,Tzau YY

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association of pollinosis with allergy to plant foods occurs in up to 70% of tree pollen-allergic patients. In recent years, some of the relevant cross-reacting proteins have been characterized at the molecular and immunological level. Api g 1 has been identified as the celery homologue of the major birc...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Hoffmann-Sommergruber K,Ferris R,Pec M,Radauer C,O'Riordain G,Laimer Da Camara Machado M,Scheiner O,Breiteneder H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various methods have been devised to assay eosinophil chemotaxis. In this review, we introduced a rapid and sensitive eosinophil chemotactic assay system based on eosinophil peroxidase (EPO) determination. Eosinophils were semipurified by dextran sedimentation followed by Percoll gradient centrifugation. Eosinophil mi...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Nagase H,Yamaguchi M,Jibiki S,Yamada H,Ohta K,Kawasaki H,Yoshie O,Yamamoto K,Morita Y,Hirai K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence indicates that eotaxin is the primary mediator of tissue eosinophilia. In the present study, we analyzed the mechanisms of eotaxin generation by Th1-/Th2-derived cytokines in vitro. METHODS:Human dermal fibroblasts, human umbilical vein endothelial cells and A549 human bronchial epithe...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Miyamasu M,Misaki Y,Yamaguchi M,Yamamoto K,Morita Y,Matsushima K,Nakajima T,Hirai K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We evaluated the effect of the 45-kD protein of Trichinella spiralis (gp45), purified by affinity chromatography, on random migration and chemotaxis, the oxidative metabolism of human neutrophils and on the CD11b upregulation induced by formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (f-MLP). METHODS:Donor neutrophils incub...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Bruschi F,Carulli G,Azzarà A,Homan W,Minnucci S,Rizzuti-Gullaci A,Sbrana S,Angiolini C

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of fungal allergens in the development of allergic diseases in a desert environment is uncertain. This study evaluated the prevalence of IgE sensitization to moulds among patients with allergic respiratory diseases in Kuwait - a desert country. METHODS:A total of 810 patients (male:female rat...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Ezeamuzie CI,Al-Ali S,Khan M,Hijazi Z,Dowaisan A,Thomson MS,Georgi J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A role of bacterial superantigens in several chronic inflammatory diseases has previously been proposed. Many of these diseases are associated with an imbalance of the T helper cell subsets and their cytokine production. METHODS:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy donors were incubated with vari...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Weber AK,Wahn U,Renz H

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previously we have shown that intranasal administration of ovalbumin (OVA) together with cholera toxin (CT) abrogates nasal tolerance to OVA, resulting in the induction of specific IgE antibody (Ab) responses, and that intraperitoneal injection of OVA coupled with liposomes (OVA-liposomes) induces a selectiv...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Yoshikawa T,Uchida T,Naito S,Horino A,Taneichi M,Kato H,Komuro K,Nakano Y,Mori M,Nishinohara S,Chiba J,Kurata T,Tamura S

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mouse models have been established mirroring key features of human bronchial asthma including airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). Acute airway obstruction in response to an allergen challenge, however, remains to be demonstrated in these models. OBJECTIVE:A mouse model of allergic lung inflammation was employ...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Neuhaus-Steinmetz U,Glaab T,Daser A,Braun A,Lommatzsch M,Herz U,Kips J,Alarie Y,Renz H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural rubber latex proteins have been implicated in severe allergy in individuals exposed to latex products, particularly health care workers. Until recently, only crude antigens were available to study the immune response in these patients. In recent years a number of relevant allergens have been purified...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Johnson BD,Kurup VP,Sussman GL,Arif SA,Kelly KJ,Beezhold DH,Fink JN

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In vivo, all blood vessels are lined by a single layer of flattened noncycling endothelial cells. We tested the hypothesis that the maintenance of such a quiescent endothelial monolayer depends on homotypic contacts between not yet defined growth-inhibitory molecules located at interendothelial junctions. M...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Halama T,Staffler G,Hoch S,Stockinger H,Wolff K,Petzelbauer P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate whether repeated exposure to subclinical doses of cat allergens, not inducing asthma symptoms, could affect eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) levels in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) or in peripheral blood, without the appearance of clinical symptoms. Twelve patients with mild as...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： de Blay F,Krieger P,Spirlet F,Moreau L,Duvernelle C,Kassel O,Kopferschmitt MC,Gasser B,Demangeat C,Pauli G,Frossard N

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercuric chloride (HgCl(2)) has been proposed to be a mitogen for human blood lymphocytes in vitro. In our previous study, we demonstrated that HgCl(2) preferentially stimulates the CD4+ T cell subset to blast transformation and DNA synthesis and that the reaction is dependent on CD14+ accessory cells. In order to cha...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Loftenius A,Ekstrand J,Möller E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium and Aspergillus species have been identified as prevalent indoor airborne fungi that are associated with extrinsic bronchial asthma. We have recently analyzed the IgE-binding components in 8 prevalent Penicillium and Aspergillus species (P. citrinum, P. notatum, P. oxalicum, P. brevicompactum, A. fumigatus...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Shen HD,Tam MF,Chou H,Han SH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cry j 1 and Cry j 2 are thought to be the major allergens of Japanese cedar pollen. HLA class II types capable of presenting T-cell epitopes in both allergens and their role in induction of T-cell subsets are not well known. METHODS:CD4+ T (Th)-cell clones (TCCs) specific to either Cry j 1 or Cry j 2 were g...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Sone T,Morikubo K,Shimizu K,Komiyama N,Tsunoo H,Kino K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The downstream signaling components of high-affinity IgE receptor (FcepsilonRI) were studied using yeast two-hybrid screening of the cDNA library constructed from RBL-2H3 cells. The cytoplasmic part of the gamma-chain but not that of the beta-chain was found to interact with pyruvate kinase in the yeast. The in-vitro-...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Oak MH,Cheong H,Kim KM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Segmental allergen challenge is a powerful tool to study inflammatory reactions in asthmatic airways. There is little information on the early events at 5 min and 4 h after allergen challenge with respect to the cell influx and the chemokine interleukin-8 (IL-8). METHODS:Seven mild to moderate allergic asth...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Nocker RE,Out TA,Weller FR,Mul EP,Jansen HM,van der Zee JS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eosinophils develop from bone marrow (BM) progenitors, and interleukin-5 (IL-5) and eotaxin may act in expansion and mobilisation of BM eosinophils in asthma. METHODS:We have examined phenotypic changes as CD34+ cells develop to the eosinophil lineage in vitro, and have evaluated BM eosinophils from asthmat...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Robinson DS,North J,Zeibecoglou K,Ying S,Meng Q,Rankin S,Hamid Q,Tavernier J,Kay AB

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that the asthma process is 'driven' and maintained by persistence of a subset of chronically activated T memory cells, sensitized against allergenic, occupational or viral antigens which 'home' to the lung after antigen exposure or viral infection. In general, allergens induce a CD4 T help...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Kon OM,Kay AB

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-linking of FcepsilonRI on mast cells elicits positive signal transduction cascades that lead to the release of a variety of proinflammatory mediators. Mouse mast cells also express gp49B1 on their surface, an immunoglobulin superfamily member that bears two immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motifs in its ...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Katz HR

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Allergic reactions occur rarely in patients with chronic helminth infections, although FcepsilonRI-bearing cells are sensitized with anti-parasite IgE and are exposed to antigen. The inhibition of allergic reactivity is due to 'blocking antibodies', predominantly IgG4. IgG4 antibodies represent 50-95% of ant...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Agresti A,Vercelli D

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aetiological factors underlying the worldwide increase in the prevalence of asthma and the international patterns of the prevalence of asthma are not well understood. This has led to consideration of factors such as fetomaternal health which may programme the initial susceptibility to allergic sensitisat...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Beasley R,Leadbitter P,Pearce N,Crane J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We reported on the constitutive interferon-gamma receptor (IFN-gammaR) expression on eosinophils. But signal transduction through IFN-gammaR on eosinophils remains to be elucidated. In this study, we examined the involvement of the Jak/Stat pathway in the signaling of eosinophils after IFN-gammaR conjugation...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Ochiai K,Ishihara C,Tomioka H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been reported that protein tyrosine phosphorylation is essential for cytokine production in mouse Th1 cells but not in Th2 cells. However, little is known about the difference of signal transduction between human antigen-specific Th1 and Th2 cell clones. METHODS:Purified protein derivative-specific T...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Minoguchi K,Yamashita N,Oda N,Takeno M,Kaneoka H,Sakane T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:L-selectin (CD62L) and Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18) play a crucial role in the infiltration of eosinophils. However, changes in CD62L and CD11b expression on eosinophils after stimulation with cytokines were little studied. METHODS:Eosinophils in peripheral blood of healthy volunteers were purified and cultured with ...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Momose T,Okubo Y,Horie S,Takashi S,Tsukadaira A,Suzuki J,Isobe M,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morbidity and mortality of elderly onset asthma have recently been on the increase. To evaluate the allergic status of the elderly onset asthmatics, we performed skin tests for allergens and estimated serum total IgE levels of the patients. The proportion of the skin-test-positive patients among the elderly onset ...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Atsuta R,Akiyama K,Shirasawa T,Okumura K,Fukuchi Y,Ra C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While searching for antigliadin and anticasein antibodies in sera from coeliac patients we investigated more than 20 persons suffering from this enteropathy. In some of sera, we registered antibodies against gliadin and in parallel the appearance of anticasein antibodies. A high percentage of glutamic acid h...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Paranos S,Nikolic G

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion molecules of microvascular endothelial cells play a key role in the inflammatory processes involved in nonallergic sinusitis. We investigated the cytokine-regulated expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), E-selectin and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), and the effect of dexamethas...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Yamamoto Y,Ikeda K,Watanabe M,Shimomura A,Suzuki H,Oshima T,Imamura Y,Ohuchi K,Takasaka T

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the costimulatory signal via CD28/B7 interaction is required for causing allergic inflammation, we examined the effect of administration of CTLA4-Ig, a fusion protein of the extracellular domain of CTLA4 and human IgG1-constant region, at the time of sensitization, on antigen-induced eosinophil in...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Kasai M,Kumano K,Kurasawa K,Nakao A,Saito Y,Iwamoto I

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that pulmonary surfactant protein (SP)-A plays a potential role in modifying inflammation and immune function. To see whether SP-A could modify IL-8 production and release by eosinophils stimulated with ionomycin, SP-A purified from surfactant recovered from patients with alveolar prot...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Cheng G,Ueda T,Nakajima H,Nakajima A,Kinjyo S,Motojima S,Fukuda T

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mercury causes in mouse strains of the H-2s haplotype an autoimmune syndrome with antibodies to the nucleolar protein fibrillarin and systemic immune complex (IC) deposits. Other strains, like BALB/C (H-2d), develop only IC deposits, and most strains are resistant. However, mercury activates the murine immun...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Johansson U,Hansson-Georgiadis H,Hultman P

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both oral and intravenous inhibitors of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) 3 and PDE4 have been shown to have bronchodilator and/or pulmonary antiallergic effects but their adverse effects limit the clinical use. The purpose of the present study was to assess the bronchoprotective effect of intrabronc...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Fujimura M,Tachibana H,Myou S,Kita T,Matsuda T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural rubber latex proteins are a well-recognized cause of type-I allergic reactions that increasingly afflict health-care workers, housekeeping personnel, and other persons using latex gloves or latex products. More than a dozen individual latex allergens have been identified of which eight have received an interna...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Breiteneder H,Scheiner O

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 46-year-old man with a chronic cough with sputum eosinophilia (atopic cough) caused by Trichosporon cutaneum serotype II (Trichosporon asahii) is reported. The diagnosis was made with the inhalation challenge test with T. asahii antigen. He was admitted for the diagnosis and treatment of a severe nonprod...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Ogawa H,Fujimura M,Amaike S,Nishiura Y,Nakagawa-Yoshida K,Suga M,Ando M,Matsuda T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of evidence suggests that proinflammatory cytokines play a role in allergic inflammation by attracting and activating inflammatory cells. In this study, we have investigated the relationship between interleukin-8 (IL-8) in nasal lavage fluid and the local activation of eosinophils and neutroph...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Jacobi HH,Poulsen LK,Reimert CM,Skov PS,Ulfgren AK,Jones I,Elfman LB,Malling HJ,Mygind N

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactobacillus casei is a nonpathogenic gram-positive bacterium widely used in dairy products and has been shown to enhance the cellular immunity of the host. METHODS:To examine the inhibitory effect of L. casei on IgE production, splenocytes obtained from ovalbumin (OVA)-primed BALB/c mice were restimulated...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Shida K,Makino K,Morishita A,Takamizawa K,Hachimura S,Ametani A,Sato T,Kumagai Y,Habu S,Kaminogawa S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the Th1/Th2 concept has become of prime importance in the understanding of heterogeneous responses of the immune system and implications thereof for infectious and autoimmune diseases. Originally established on the basis of different cytokines produced by T cell clones, it is now known that the Th1/Th...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Lohoff M,Gessner A,Bogdan C,Röllinghoff M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils participate in the inflammatory response seen in allergy and helminthic infestation. Their release of granule-bound cationic proteins may play a role in these diseases. Therefore, we investigated mechanisms involved in the release of eosinophil cationic protein (ECP). Serum-opsonized zymosan was phagocytos...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Egesten A,Blom M,Calafat J,Janssen H,Knol EF

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are central regulators and mediators of allergic sensitisation and disease. The house dust mite allergens are a biochemically diverse group of proteins which are present in extracts and the environment in a wide range of concentrations. Here the importance of ascertaining the contribution of the different alle...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Thomas WR,Smith W,Hales BJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchial asthma, characterized by eosinophilic inflammation in airways, may involve Th2-type cytokines such as interleukin-5 (IL-5). IL-12, a newly established cytokine, induces IFN-gamma production, which may have a regulatory effect on the production of Th2-type cytokines. We examined the effects of IL-12 on the pr...

journal_title：International archives of allergy and immunology

authors： Okano Y,Nakamura Y,Sano T,Azuma M,Sone S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00