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  • 1
    ISSN: 1365-3083
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The analysis of T lymphocytes infiltrating tissues afflicted by autoimmune diseases may provide major clues towards understanding the pathogenesis of such diseases. Currently the best approach to studying heterogeneous populations such as T lymphocytes involves long-term culture and cloning. In order to grow and clone T lymphocytes, regular restimulation with the specific antigen is essential, otherwise growth will stop and/or specificity may be lost. In autoimmune diseases the antigens involved in triggering the immunological reaction of T cells are usually unknown. Therefore an alternative way of stimulating T lymphocytes without loss of specificity is clearly needed. Here we describe the cloning and expansion of antigen-specific T cell clones from the blood of a healthy donor to sizeable numbers of cells (〉108) by means of anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody and recombinant IL-2 The results obtained showed that this approach can be used to clone and ‘expand’ T lymphocytes that retain antigen specificity over a prolonged period, in this case over 10 weeks. This technique has been used to clone and expand T lymphocytes infiltrating the affected tissues in a variety of autoimmune disorders such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Graves' disease, and rheumatoid arthritis, and is an efficient method of propagating T cells, by mimicking the antigenic Stimulus.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1365-3083
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: In order to define whether CD4+ T cells from autoimmune and non-autoimmune thyroid tissue could be classified according to their mediator production, lymphokine production was studied in 63 thyroid-derived CD4+ T-cell clones from four patients with Graves’disease, one with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and one with non-toxic goitre (9-12 clones per patient). The production of interleukin 2 (IL-2). gamma interferon (IFN-γ), tumour necrosis factor alpha(TNF-α). lymphotoxin(LT), interleukin 6 (IL-6) and transforming growth Factor β (TGF-β) was assessed at the mRNA level by slot-blot analysis in unstimulated clones as well as after activation with monoclonal anti-CD3 (OKT3) and IL-2 No lymphokine production was found in unstimulated clones, whereas 56% of the clones produced all six lymphokines simultaneously after stimuilation. In the remaining 44% usually not more than one lymphokine was missing from the complete panel Lymphokine mRNA concentrations varied between different clones and different patients, but. in this small sample, not between the diseases from which the clones were originated. There-was a significant correlation between IL-6.LT, and IL-2 mRNA levels and T-cell helper function. which was estimated by the stimulation of thyroid microsomal autoantibody production using autologous peripheral B cells. TGF-β(and IFN-γ mRNA expression was unrelated to T-cell help. The results demonstrate that intrathyroid T cells from autoimmune and non-autoimmune thyroid disorders cannot be classified according to their lymphokine production, unlike some results with in vitro-induced mouse T-cell clones, where two populations. Th1 and Th2, have been described. SingleT cells are capable of producing a whole panel of lymphokines and thus are capable of triggering a multitude of different processes.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1600-065X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Diabetes mellitus ; counter-regulatory hormones ; glucagon ; cortisol ; growth hormone ; adrenaline ; insulin ; non-esterified fatty acids ; ketone bodies
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary To evaluate the relative role of “diabetogenic” hormones as insulin antagonists in severe derangements of diabetic control, glucagon, cortisol, growth hormone and adrenaline were administered by continuous intravenous infusion, separately and in combination, to ketosis-prone insulin-dependent diabetics (n=11). The amount of insulin required for the assimilation of a 50 g glucose load during the various hormone infusions was determined by means of an automated glucose-controlled insulin infusion system and used as an index of insulin effectiveness. Raising plasma hormone concentrations acutely into the range seen in severe diabetic states (glucagon 517±70 pg/ml; cortisol 32±3 μg/dl; growth hormone 14±3 ng/ml) did not alter significantly blood glucose profile and insulin requirement (control 11.3±1.1 U; glucagon 11.6±2.0 U; cortisol 11.1±0.4 U; growth hormone 12.9±1.4U), except for adrenaline (plasma level 550±192 pg/ml), which caused a marked rise in blood glucose levels and a threefold increase in insulin demand (31.1±3.7 U). Combined infusion of all hormones did not potentiate significantly the latter effect (38.3±4.7 U). The effectiveness of metabolic control by insulin was assessed by a marked decrease in plasma non-esterified free fatty acids and ketone bodies upon its administration after glucose ingestion in all groups studied. It is concluded that from the hormones investigated within this study adrenaline exerts the strongest diabetogenic action during its short term administration followed by that of growth hormone. Whereas it may well be that over-insulinization of the patients by the glucose controlled insulin infusion system has overcome and disguised the smaller diabetogenic effects of cortisol and glucagon.
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    Journal of molecular medicine 60 (1982), S. 823-828 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Diabetes mellitus ; Plasma norepinephrine ; Blood pressure regulation ; Diabetes mellitus ; Plasmanoradrenalin ; Blutdruckregulation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Das Verhalten von Blutdruck, Plus und Plasmanoradrenalin während verschiedener Stimulationsmanöver sympathisch nervöser Aktivität sowie das vaskuläre Reaktionsvermögen auf infundiertes Noradrenalin (50, 100 und 200 ng/kg−1/min−1,t=15 min) wurde bei 17 Diabetikern und 6 gesunden Probanden untersucht. Unterschieden wurden Diabetiker 1) ohne Zeichen autonomer Dysfunktion und ohne periphere Neuropathie (n=6), 2) ohne Zeichen autonomer Dysfunktion jedoch mit schwerer peripherer Neuropathie (n=6) und 3) mit autonomer Dysfunktion, mit (n=3) und ohne (n=2) peripherer Neuropathie. Während eines „Cold pressor tests“ (2 min), mechanischer Hautirritation (10 min) und Orthostase (10 min) zeigten Diabetiker ohne klinische Zeichen autonomer Dysfunktion ein den gesunden Kontrollpersonen vergleichbares Verhalten von Blutdruck, Plus und Plasmanoradrenalin, während Diabetiker mit autonomer Dysfunktion unabhängig vom Bestehen einer peripheren Neuropathie während der Orthostase, nicht jedoch während des „Cold pressor tests“ und mechanischer Hautirritation eine deutlich herabgesetzte Noradrenalinfreisetzung (P〈0.05) aufwiesen. Normalpersonen und Diabetiker ohne autonome Dysfunktion unterschieden sich bezüglich ihres Blutdruckverhaltens während Noradrenalininfusion nicht, während Diabetiker mit autonomer Dysfunktion auf die Verabreichung von exogenem Noradrenalin (200 ng/kg/min) mit einem gegenüber Normalpersonen verstärkten (P〈0.05) Blutdruckanstieg reagierten. Störungen der Noradrenalinfreisetzung und der adrenergen Blutdruckregulation scheinen somit, unabhängig vom Bestehen einer peripheren Neuropathie, nur bei Diabetikern mit klinischen Zeichen autonomer Dysfunktion aufzutreten. Der Nachweis derartiger Störungen gelingt jedoch nur bei Anwendung von Stimuli größerer Intensität wie Orthostase oder Infusion einer hohen Noradrenalindosis.
    Notes: Summary Changes in blood pressure (BP) and plasma norepinephrine (NE) following various stimuli of the sympathetic nervous system were studied in six healthy subjects and in 17 diabetic patients. The latter were subdivided in three groups: (1) six patients with neither peripheral neuropathy nor autonomic dysregulation, (2) six patients with severe peripheral neuropathy without autonomic dysregulation, and (3) five patients with autonomic dysregulation, three of whom suffered also from peripheral neuropathy. The following procedures were performed: (1) cold pressor test (2 min), (2) mechanical irritation of the skin by suction (0.75 kg/cm2, 10 min), (3) orthostasis (10 min), and (4) i.v. infusion of NE (50, 100, 200 ng kg−1 min−1 for 15 min each). Both the stimulated endogenous plasma NE levels and BP response to exogenous NE were the same in normal subjects, in diabetic controls and in diabetics with peripheral neuropathy without autonomic dysregulation. In contrast, diabetics with postural hypotension showed a less pronounced release of NE to standing (P〈0.05), but not to cold pressor test and mechanical skin irritation. Furthermore, they showed increased vasoreactivity to the highest dose (P〈0.05), but not to the lower doses of exogenous NE. Thus NE release and adrenergic BP regulation seem to be altered only in diabetics with clinical signs of autonomic dysregulation. These alterations can only be evaluated when patients are exposed to stimuli of higher intensity, such as orthostasis or infusion of a high NE dose.
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