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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    High-Dose Survival in the Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Infection Is Accompanied by Suppressed DTH but Unaffected T-Cell Cytotoxicity (1985)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Scandinavian journal of immunology 21 (1985), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-3083
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Provided that intracerebral inoculation is applied, an increase in the virus dose from 102to 104 LD50 of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) leads to strikingly reduced mortality. To analyse the background for this autointerferencc, we measured several virologic and immunologic variables in mice infected with these doses of virus. In the high-dose mice we found generally higher organ virus titres and serum interferon titres than in the low-dose mice. Since we could demonstrate that virus-specific T-cell cytotoxicity in spleen, peripheral blood, and meningeal exudate was similar after intracerebral infection with large and small virus doses, and since the LCMV infection in the brain qualitatively and quantitatively was independent of the size of virus inoculum, the explanation for the survival of the high-dose animals is obviously not lack of possibilities for interaction between cytotoxic T cells and infected sensitive targets in the central nervous system. On the other hand, high doses of virus caused a clear suppression of the LCMV-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity(DTH). In addition, when splenocytes from high-dose animals were transferred either intravenously or locally into the footpad of newly virus-challenged mice. DTH was markedly suppressed as compared with the response after transfer of spleen cells from low-dose mice. We therefore conclude that autointerferencc in the LCMV infection is due to a selective suppression of Td function. Large amounts of persistent virus late after infection with high doses of virus suggest a central role for Td function also in virus clearance. Finally, our results indicate the existence of two subsets of K, D region-restricted T cells, one mediating cytotoxicity and the other mediating DTH. This possibility is discussed.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3083.1985.tb01406.x
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  • 2
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    Why Do Some Individuals Produce Autoreactive Antibodies against Receptors and/or Their Ligands? A Possible Answer to the Question (1986)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Scandinavian journal of immunology 24 (1986), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-3083
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3083.1986.tb02123.x
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  • 3
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    Localisation of oxytocin, vasopressin and parts of precursors in the human neonatal adrenal (1986)
    Springer
    Histochemistry and cell biology 84 (1986), S. 401-407 
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    ISSN: 1432-119X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Being a possible alternative source for the production of vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT), a study was undertaken of the fetal adrenal. The concentrations of these peptides within the fetal adrenal turned out to be low, viz., approx. 1 pg/mg in the rat and within the pg/g range in the human. Immunocytochemistry was performed either on conventional autopsy material kept till 12 years in paraffin blocks, or on more recently obtained formalin or glutaraldehyde-paraformaldehyde fixed material. In both types of material staining was good. In order to localize AVP cells, anti-AVP, an antibody against its associated neurophysin (anti-NSN) or an antibody raised against the c-terminal glycopeptide part of the AVP precursor (anti-GP) was used. OXT cells were localized by means of anti-OXT or an auto-antibody of a multiple sclerosis patient (auto-MS) probably recognizing OXT-neurophysin. The antibodies were characterized on human and rat brain material. In the external zone of the definitive cortex, apart from parenchyma cells, anti-AVP, anti-NSN and anti-GP stained fibre-like structures running in the connective tissue septa and around parenchyma cells and the cytoplasma of these cells. Anti-OXT and auto-MS stained droplets in the cytoplasm of the fetal zone cells. Similar distinct staining patterns for AVP and OXT cells were obtained in human anencephalics. These observations show that the peptides are not derived from the fetal brain, but are rather produced in the fetal adrenal cortex. Future research will have to determine the physiological meaning of the presence of these peptides in the fetal adrenal, e.g., in their contribution to amniotic fluid peptides, their possible role in fetal stress, steroidogenesis etc. The presence of an alternative source of these peptides in the fetus makes it necessary, further-more, to reconsider their possible functions in the process of labour.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00482970
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    Epidermal growth factor receptor expression on oral mucosa dysplastic epithelia and squamous cell carcinomas (1992)
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    European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology and head & neck 249 (1992), S. 243-247 
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    ISSN: 1434-4726
    Keywords: Epidermal growth factor receptor expression ; Normal oral mucosa ; Dysplastic epithelia ; Squamous cell carcinomas ; Immunohistochemistry
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The expression of the receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been determined on oral squamous cell carcinomas. Immunoreactive receptor was localized using a monoclonal anti-EGF-receptor antibody which reacts with sequences in the external domain of the receptor. Frozen sections were studied from 40 patients with squamous cell carcinomas. In 16 sections from the patients with the squamous cell carcinomas, normal differentiated oral mucosa was included and in 7 of these the patients had received preoperative radiotherapy. Sections from 6 other patients with squamous cell carcinoma contained dysplastic epithelia. EGF-receptor-positive cells were present in the basal cell layer on normal differentiated oral mucosa. In sections from patients receiving preoperative radiotherapy the EGF-receptor-positive cells were also found in the spinous cells. In dysplastic epithelia nearly all cells stained for the receptor. The distribution and staining intensity of the EGF receptor varied in the oral squamous cell carcinomas, 36 were positive. The staining pattern in the carcinomas obtained from patients receiving preoperative radiotherapy was not altered qualitatively. Nearly all poorly differentiated cells were stained, but when the tumor was moderately to well differentiated a reduction in the extent of staining in certain areas was seen, paralleling the findings observed in the differentiated upper layers of the normal oral mucosa. This was most pronounced for the epithelial pearls, where the EGF-receptor-positive cells were localized to the undifferentiated cells in the periphery. The results of the present investigation confirm the presence of the EGF receptor on undifferentiated cells, with the extent of the staining reaction on oral squamous cell carcinomas varying inversely with cellular differentiation.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00714485
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    Immunocytochemical localization and characterization of mammalian thyrotropin-like material in the pituitary of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri (1998)
    Springer
    Cell & tissue research 294 (1998), S. 515-523 
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Key words Mammalian-type thyrotropin ; Pituitary ; Immunocytochemistry ; Australian lungfish ; Neoceratodus forsteri (Dipnoi)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The binding sites of polyclonal antisera raised against the β-subunit of human thyroid-stimulating hormone (hTSHβ), hTSH, and ovine TSH (oTSH) have been localized in the pituitary gland of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, using light microscopy. Reactivity toward anti-TSH antiserum was demonstrated in a slightly elongated and irregularly-shaped distinct cell type forming clusters in the dorso-central and ventral regions of the distal lobe. Their granules react with alcian blue (AB), and with periodic acid–Schiff (PAS), and after AB-PAS-orange G they stain blue or purple. The specificity of the different antisera was established by liquid-phase absorptions and confirmed in positive and negative tissue control systems. Our observations confirm that dipnoan (Neoceratodus) TSH shares a number of antigenic determinants with those of mammalian TSHβ and support the concept that mammalian TSHβ, or part of it, was established early in evolution, and that dipnoans (Neoceratodus) as living sarcopterygians may have an ancestor in common with the early amphibians. The mapping and detailed description of TSH-like immunoreactive cells may furnish a background to facilitate current and future analysis of the ontogeny and time course of TSH production and release in Neoceratodus in relation to different physiological conditions.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004410051202
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    Ultrastructural immunocytochemical localization of vitellogenin in the fat body of the blowfly, Calliphora vicina Rob.-Desv. (erythrocephala Meig.) by use of the unlabeled antibody-enzyme method (1980)
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    Cell & tissue research 208 (1980), S. 445-455 
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Calliphora ; Fat body ; Vitellogenin ; Immunoelectron microscopy ; Hormone regulation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The unlabeled antibody-enzyme method was used to demonstrate ultrastructurally the specific localization of vitellogenin in the fat body of Calliphora. In control flies the binding sites to vitellogenin were localized in secretory granules situated in the Golgi complex, and in larger bodies named composite secretory granules. These composite granules appear to be formed when a part of a Golgi complex containing secretory granules and a number of small vesicles become surrounded by a common membrane. Ovariectomized flies, which apparently do not produce secretory granules, exhibited no immunocytochemical staining. Ovariectomized flies in which the administration of ecdysterone induced formation of secretory granules, also revealed specific staining on these granules. This is the first ultrastructural evidence of: (a) the specific localization of vitellogenin in secretory granules of the fat body of an insect; (b) the relationship between the presence of the ovary, and of ecdysterone, and the synthesis of vitellogenin by the fat body.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00233876
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