abstract：:Rats primed with bovine myelin (BM) in complete Freunds adjuvant, develop acute experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). We have previously described that intraperitoneal administration prior to the active induction of the disease of a bovine synaptosomal fraction (BSF) and BM were effective ways of suppressin...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Degano AL,Ditamo Y,Roth GA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of infections like sepsis and meningitis, especially in immunocompromised hosts. Human macrophages are able to phagocytose and digest L. monocytogenes but IL-4 prevents human macrophages from killing the bacteria, the mechanisms of which are unknown. In the present study, ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Neumann K,Eppler E,Filgueira L,Groscurth P,Gasal E,Schaffner A,Schoedon G,Schneemann M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells play a pivotal role in the immune system and are responsible for the synthesis and release of immunoglobulins. Numerous in vitro culture experiments on the yolk sac demonstrated the generation of mature cells of the myeloid and lymphoid lineages under appropriate culture conditions. However, there are no ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Kanayama N,Suganuma N,Terao T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a highly prevalent, complex disease, usually caused by cigarette smoke. It causes serious morbidity and mortality and costs the global community billions of dollars per year. While chronic inflammation, extracellular matrix destruction and increased airway epithelial cell apopt...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Hodge S,Hodge G,Scicchitano R,Reynolds PN,Holmes M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ikaros, Aiolos and Helios encode zinc finger transcription factors that are important regulators of lymphoid development and differentiation. These proteins are involved in the control of gene expression and when associated with nuclear complexes, participate in nucleosome remodeling. Because differential splicing pro...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rebollo A,Schmitt C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kunjin replicon was used to express a polytope that consisted of seven hepatitis C virus cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes and one influenza cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitope for vaccination studies. The self-replicating nature of, and expression from, the ribonucleic acid was confirmed in vitro. Initial vaccinations w...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ward SM,Tindle RW,Khromykh AA,Gowans EJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many specific antiviral and antitumour immune responses have been attributed to the protective effects of antigen-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Recognition of virus infected or tumour cells by CTL requires presentation of at least one peptide epitope from a virus or tumour-specific antigen by the releva...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Khammanivong V,Liu XS,Liu WJ,Rodda SJ,Leggatt GR,Tindle RW,Frazer IH,Fernando GJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to further characterize the interaction between an abundant urinary glycoprotein, Tamm-Horsfall protein, and complement 1q to determine the robustness of this reaction under different environmental conditions (particularly pH) and to begin to determine the specificity of this reaction. The i...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Rhodes DC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are multifunctional cells that participate in numerous biological processes; they actively phagocytose foreign particles and cell debris. Embryonic tissue macrophages are present at early stages of mammalian development; their ontogeny and function is still under investigation. Our study used immunohistoch...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： El-Nefiawy N,Abdel-Hakim K,Yamashita A,Kanayama N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa ocular infection causes extensive corneal neovascularization. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of the angiogenic factors macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the regulation of corneal neovascularization during P. a...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Xue ML,Thakur A,Willcox M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haematopoietic-specific RhoGTPase, Rac2, has been indirectly implicated in T-lymphocyte development and function, and as a pivotal regulator of T Helper 1 (T(H)1) responses. In other haematopoietic cells it regulates cytoskeletal rearrangement downstream of extracellular signals. Here we demonstrate that Rac2 defi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Croker BA,Handman E,Hayball JD,Baldwin TM,Voigt V,Cluse LA,Yang FC,Williams DA,Roberts AW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PVG rats are resistant to actively induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and this appears to be directly related to high and sustained systemic levels of reactive nitrogen intermediates(RNI) following sensitization for EAE when compared to the highly susceptible Lewis rat. An apparent cellular basis ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Staykova MA,Cowden W,Willenborg DO

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general criterion is formulated to decide if the recycling of B cells exists in germinal centre (GC) reactions. The criterion is independent of the selection and affinity maturation process and based solely on total centroblast population arguments. An experimental test is proposed to verify whether the criterion is...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Meyer-Hermann M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have associated carriage of HLA-DRB1*1501, DQA1*0102 and DQB1*0602 (DR15, DQ6) with dominant resistance to type 1 diabetes and have concluded that one or more of the component HLA class II molecules mediate this effect. Mechanisms for MHC class II-mediated resistance to diabetes have been proposed fro...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Price P,Cheong KY,Boodhoo A,Witt CS,McCann V,Christiansen FT,Allcock RJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that SRBC can be opsonized with untreated human serum such that lysis by active complement components is minimal but sufficient opsonization occurs to permit high rates of complement-mediated phagocytosis. Phagocytosis of SRBC opsonized with 2% whole human serum by human monocyte-derived...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chan HT,Kedzierska K,O'Mullane J,Crowe SM,Jaworowski A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to model the mechanism by which leucocytes may be actively repulsed by a beta-chemokine signal. This model is used to interpret an apparent paradox in chemokine biology, whereby high levels of a T-cell chemoattractant, stromal cell derived factor-1 (SDF-1), are present in bone marrow and thymic tissues despi...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Zlatopolskiy A,Laurence J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate activation of p34cdc2 kinase has been shown to occur during apoptosis induced by cytotoxic T-cell derived perforin and fragmentin. We analysed the effect of two inhibitors of p34cdc2 kinase on alloreactive Tc-cell-mediated lysis and DNA fragmentation of P815 and L1210 target cells. Olomoucine, a specific...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Waring P,Müllbacher A

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a common and complex inflammatory disease of the airways that remains incurable. Current forms of therapy are long term and may exhibit associated side-effect problems. Major participants in the development of an asthma phenotype include the triggering stimuli such as the allergens themselves, cells such as ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ramshaw HS,Woodcock JM,Bagley CJ,McClure BJ,Hercus TR,Lopez AF

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular interactions between the T-cell receptor (TCR) and peptide-MHC (pMHC) have been elucidated in recent years. Nevertheless, the fact that binding of only slightly different ligands by a TCR, or ligation of the same pMHC at different developmental stages of the T cell, can have opposing consequences, contin...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Regner M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little evidence that cutaneous dendritic cells (DC), including epidermal Langerhans cells (LC), can induce immunity to UV radiation (UVR)-induced skin tumours. Here, it is shown that cells within skin can induce protective antitumour immunity against a UVR-induced fibrosarcoma. Transplantation of the skin ove...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Sluyter R,Yuen KS,Halliday GM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early pregnancy factor (EPF), an extracellular chaperonin 10 homologue, has immunosuppressive and growth factor properties. In order to carry out more extensive studies on the in vivo characteristics of EPF, a recombinant form of the molecule has been prepared. Recombinant human EPF (rEPF) was expressed in Escherichia...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Morton H,McKay DA,Murphy RM,Somodevilla-Torres MJ,Swanson CE,Cassady AI,Summers KM,Cavanagh AC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known today that the immune system is influenced by various types of psychological and physiological stressors, including physical activity. It is well known that physical activity can influence neuropeptide levels both in the central nervous system as well as in peripheral blood. The reported changes of immune ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Jonsdottir IH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The review articles in this special feature reflect the current status of knowledge in the field of exercise immunology, with a focus on how exercise affects the human immune system and the health implications for resistance to infections and neoplastic diseases. In an Olympic year, the emphasis of exercise immunology...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Gleeson M

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) are ligand-activated transcription factors. There are three genes that code for the PPAR isoforms: PPARalpha, PPARbeta and PPARgamma. In the present review, studies characterizing the various PPAR isoforms are discussed. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Roberts-Thomson SJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influx of Ca2+ via Ca2+ channels is the major step triggering exocytosis of pituitary somatotropes to release growth hormone (GH). Voltage-gated Ca2+ and K+ channels, the primary determinants of the influx of Ca2+, are regulated by GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) through G-protein-coupled intracellular signalling systems....

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chen C,Xu R,Clarke IJ,Ruan M,Loneragan K,Roh SG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper describes a comparative analysis of light chains associated with primary and secondary IgM, as well as with secondary IgG antibodies to fluorescein, undertaken in order to explore the relationship between light chain somatic hypermutation and the isotype switch. The data reveal a disparity in the fre...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： van der Keyl H,Gellad ZF,Owen JA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report provides the first extensive characterization of the OT-I TCR transgenic line, which produces MHC class I-restricted, ovalbumin-specific, CD8+ T cells (OT-I cells). These cells are shown to be positively selected in vivo in H-2b C57BL/6 mice and in bm5 mice, which express the Kbm5 mutant molecule. I...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Clarke SR,Barnden M,Kurts C,Carbone FR,Miller JF,Heath WR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut mucosal system must fulfil conflicting roles in suppressing immune responses against orally fed antigens (tolerance) while still retaining the ability to respond to potential enteric pathogens. It must also, to a large degree, not mount an immune response against commensal enteric bacteria and the administrati...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chin J,Turner B,Barchia I,Mullbacher A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent dyes are increasingly being exploited to track lymphocyte migration and proliferation. The present paper reviews the properties and performance of some 14 different fluorescent dyes that have been used during the last 20 years to monitor lymphocyte migration. Of the 14 dyes discussed, two stand out as bein...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Parish CR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term culture (LTC) system has been established that supports the continuous production of dendritic cells (DC) from haemopoietic cells present in the culture. The production of cells depends on the presence of an intact stromal cell layer containing a mixture of fibroblasts and endothelial cells. Cells are shed...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： O'Neill HC,Ni K,Wilson H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyse Th2-type immune responses in sheep by the assay of interleukin (IL)-5 in biological fluids, the ovine IL-5 gene was cloned and expressed in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 insect cells using the baculovirus expression vector system. The recombinant product was purified as BAC-OV-IL-5 from the supernatant...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bosward K,Emery DL,McWaters PW,Husband AJ,Bendixsen T

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-toxic agents that target intracellular signalling pathways in apoptosis may have potential therapeutic use in many diseases. One such agent is the transition metal Zn, a dietary cytoprotectant and anti-oxidant, which stimulates cell proliferation and suppresses apoptosis. Zn is maintained in discrete subcellular p...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Chai F,Truong-Tran AQ,Ho LH,Zalewski PD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of serum on LPS-induced activation of a murine macrophage-like cell line, WEHI-3, was examined. Foetal calf serum strongly inhibited the production of nitric oxide (NO) and TNF-alpha by LPS-stimulated WEHI-3 cells, while it enhanced the production of both by other macrophage-like cell lines, J774.1 and BAM3...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Ohki K,Amano F,Yamamoto S,Kohashi O

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central pathogenic feature of AIDS is the dramatic loss of CD4+ lymphocytes. Despite more than a decade of intense research, the exact mechanism by which HIV causes this is still not understood. A major model for T cell depletion, proposed originally by Ameison and Capron in a report published in 1991, is that HIV...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Jaworowski A,Crowe SM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years a great deal of research has examined how T cell-dependent immune responses are initiated and subsequently regulated. Ligation of the TCR with an antigenic peptide bound to an MHC protein on a professional APC provides the crucial antigen-specific stimulus required for T cell activation. Intera...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： McCoy KD,Le Gros G

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma infection may lead to various pathologies in a broad range of hosts. It has been shown that Mycoplasma may trigger cell death in cell cultures; however, the mechanism remains unknown. In the present paper we show that Mycoplasma infection of different lymphocyte and epithelial tumour cell lines leads to the...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Sokolova IA,Vaughan AT,Khodarev NN

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 120-kDa protein product of the c-Cbl proto-oncogene is a ubiquitously expressed cytoplasmic protein that is especially abundant in the thymus, indicating an important role for Cbl in thymic signalling. c-Cbl possesses a highly conserved N-terminal phosphotyrosine binding domain, a C3HC4 RING finger motif, multiple...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Thien CB,Langdon WY

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing forebrain, mounting evidence suggests that neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation is regulated by growth factors. In vitro in the presence of serum, stem cell proliferation is predominantly mediated by fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) whereas neuronal differentiation can be triggered by...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Bartlett PF,Brooker GJ,Faux CH,Dutton R,Murphy M,Turnley A,Kilpatrick TJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The germinal centre reaction (GCR) is a fundamental component of the immune response to T-dependent antigens, during which the immunoglobulin (Ig) genes of B cells experience somatic hypermutation and selection. A maximum-likelihood method on DNA sequence data from 16 individual germinal centres was used to infer that...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Radmacher MD,Kelsoe G,Kepler TB

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The iscom is a delivery system, designed for both parenteral and mucosal modes of administration, for both antigens and adjuvants, components which are interchangeable. By the parenteral route a prominent systemic Th1 type of response is evoked, but the mucosal immunoglobulin A (IgA) response was insignificant. Intran...

journal_title：Immunology and cell biology

authors： Morein F,Bengtsson KL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00