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Anti-IgA antibodies in IgA-deficient children (1988)

Sennhauser, F. H. ; Hosking, C. S. ; Jones, C. L. ; [et al.]

Springer

Journal of clinical immunology 8 (1988), S. 356-361

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ISSN: 1573-2592

Keywords: IgA deficiency ; anti-IgA antibodies

Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Topics: Medicine

Notes: Abstract IgG and IgM isotype antibodies to polyclonal human IgA, myeloma IgA1, and myeloma IgA2 were estimated in 38 IgA-deficient children aged between 0.9 and 15 years. All children had IgM anti-IgA antibodies. IgG antibodies against either polyclonal IgA, IgA1, or IgA2 were present in 63% of the IgA-deficient children. IgG anti-IgA antibodies were detected against all three antigens in 8 of 11 severely IgA-deficient children and in 7 of 27 partially IgA-deficient children, but in only 1 of 23 healthy adult controls. The proportion of children with IgG anti-IgA antibodies was significantly greater in the severely IgA-deficient group in comparison with the partially IgA-deficient group and the adult controls (chi-square test,P〈0.01 andP〈0.005, respectively). There was a strong correlation within each IgG subclass between antibody responses toward each of the three IgA antigens. Twenty-four children were followed over a period ranging from 0.9 to 11 years (mean, 2.3 years). Three children who were initially IgG anti-IgA antibody negative became antibody positive and three who were antibody positive became antibody negative. Five children with severe IgA deficiency remained severely IgA deficient and IgG antibodies to IgA persisted in all five at follow-up. The presence of IgG anti-IgA antibodies did not influence the normalization of serum IgA at follow-up in 14 of 19 children who were initially partially IgA deficient.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00917151

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A novel hollow-fiber reactor with reversible immobilization of lactase (1988)

Jones, C. K. S. ; Yang, R. Y. K. ; White, E. T.

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell

AIChE Journal 34 (1988), S. 293-304

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ISSN: 0001-1541

Keywords: Chemistry ; Chemical Engineering

Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000

Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology

Notes: Experimental and theoretical studies on a backflush hollow-fiber enzymatic reactor (HFER) were conducted in this work for a lactose/lactase system. An A. niger lactase was chosen, from the four lactases tested, for reversible immobilization in the sponge layers of the fibers. An enzyme loading procedure was developed that allowed reliable and reproducible operation of the hollow-fiber reactor and produced industrially significant conversions without apparent change in the activity or stability of the lactase used. This reversible immobilization scheme also permitted easy replacement of the enzyme used. The performance of the backflush HFER was investigated and a large number of data concerning its operation were obtained and interpreted. Momentum and mass transports in such a HFER were analyzed, and mathematical models that took the experimental findings into consideration were also developed and solved analytically and/or numerically. Predictions from the computer model developed in this work were found to be in excellent agreement with the experimental data collected, suggesting the possibility of a priori design of a process-scale backflush HFER. With minor modifications, the models developed are expected to be applicable to hollow-fiber reactors with a wide selection of immobilized cells, organelles, and other enzymes.

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