Báo cáo y học: "Altered dendritic cell distribution in patients with common variable immunodeficiency" pot

... lymphocytes of patients with com- mon variable immunodeficiency (CVI) produce reduced levels of interleukin-4, interleukin-2 and interferon-gamma, but pro- liferate normally upon activation by ... for dendritic cells (DCs) in the generation of immunoglobulin-secreting plasma cells. In the work reported herein, we analyzed the frequency of peripheral blood plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... stained with combinations of the following antibodies: anti-CD25-phycoerythrin (PE)–cyanin (Cy) 5.5, anti-CD4-peridinin chlorophyll protein, anti-CD8- allophycocyanin (APC), anti-CD3-APC-Cy7, ... Regulatory T cell levels by week in interferon-a 2b-treated patients with melanoma.(A) Individual regulatory T cell (Treg) levels by week in the 22 patients with melanoma treated w...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... issues jointly; that is, to investigate plasma homocysteine levels in patients with MS and depression. Accordingly, the present study was designed in order to assess Hcy plasma levels in MS patients ... Hcy increases were observed in MS patients with vitamin B12 deficiency [7,18,19]. Our results, in agreement with Vrethem et al. [8] and Ramsaransing et al. [9], indicate...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... YG, Christen WG, Foster SC: Correlation of metal- loproteinase-2 and -9 with proinflammatory cytokines inter- leukin-1β, interleukin-12 and the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in patients with ... inflammation, resulting in fibrosis. MMP-9 can trigger inflammation directly, by tissue destruction, or indirectly, by generation of an inflammatory signal or recruitment of inflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... increases in pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-6 have been observed following non-tissue-damag- ing painful stimulation in healthy adults [15,16], patients with juvenile RA [17], and patients with ... Proinflammatory cytokines mediating burn- injury pain. Pain 2008, 135:98-107. 54. Geiss A, Varadi E, Steinbach K, Bauer HW, Anton F: Psychoneu- roimmunological correlates of pers...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... and NSP cells was induced in monolayer cultures employing induction and maintenance media as pre- viously described by Pittenger and colleagues [17]. Briefly, 1 × 10 3 cells were seeded in 24-well ... Sox9 staining patterns were mainly nuclear in normal cartilage (Figure 2), but Sox9 staining in OA clusters was present in both the cytoplasm and nucleus, or Figure 3 Stem cell mark...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... Wtb2-SOD1 grown in glucose + doxycyclin; (4) Wtb2-SOD1 grown in galactose + doxycyclin; (5) Wtb2-SOD1 grown in glucose ) doxycyclin; (6) Wtb2-SOD1 grown in galactose ) doxycyclin. (A) SOD activities ... presence of doxycyclin. At t ¼ 0, cells were washed and transferred in the same medium in the absence of doxycyclin. At the indicated times, aliquots of 200 cells were plated on YP...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... the disease-modulating activity of fractalkine in RA, administration of anti-fractalkine antibodies ameliorated experimental RA [9]. With regard to diseases involving the kidneys, a viral fractalkine antagonist ... for leukocyte subsets, which exert cytotoxic effector functions. Fractalkine may also lead to increased interferon-γ, tumor necrosis factor-α and granulo- cyte monocyte colony...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... well as both pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines by these modulating cells also influences the genetic and phenotypic chara cteristics of tumor cells. Such cytokines include IL-1 and TGF-b which ... observed a cyclical increase in EPC mobilization fol- lowing a rise in estrogen and VEGF levels duri ng men- strual cycling in uterine tissue [50,51]. Recently, the role of estrogen in tum...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... A phase II study indicated a lower rate of anemia induced by viramidine than ribavirin. However, its efficacy remains to be determined by ongoing clinical trials. Several types of HCV-specific ... of patients: those in whom therapy is widely accepted, those in whom therapy should be individualized and, those in whom therapy is contraindicated [32]. Based on these guidelines, the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:51