To determine whether evidence of rheumatoid inflammation, in the form of free rheumatoid factor, might be found in the teeth-supporting tissues of patients with known rheumatoid disease, tissues from the dental periap...
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To determine whether evidence of rheumatoid inflammation, in the form of free rheumatoid factor, might be found in the teeth-supporting tissues of patients with known rheumatoid disease, tissues from the dental periapical lesions of one group of 50 rheumatoid and 23 control patients, and from the marginal gingivae of a second group of 58 rheumatoid patients were examined by the direct immunofluorescence technique that employed fluroesceinisothiocyanate (FITC)-labelled aggregated human IgG. The gingival tissues contained no free rheumatoid factor. Free rheumatoid factor-producing plasma cells were, however, detected in the dental periapical lesions of 3 of the 50 rheumatoid patients, i.e. in 6%, and in 1 of the control patients i.e., in 4%. This control patient had suffered from nephritis 10 months prior to the investigation. Because free rheumatoid factor did occur, albeit infrequently, in the dental periapical lesions of rheumatoid patients, a search for IgG rheumatoid factor, known to occur in greater abundance than the IgM type although "hidden", was indicated.
The secondary immune responses in mouse popliteal lymph nodes to horseradish peroxidase (HPO) were studied by a combination of electron microscopic autoradiography and electron microscopic immunohistochemistry in orde...
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The secondary immune responses in mouse popliteal lymph nodes to horseradish peroxidase (HPO) were studied by a combination of electron microscopic autoradiography and electron microscopic immunohistochemistry in order to clarify the relationship between antibody-producing and DNA-synthesizing capacities of the plasmacytic series. The anti-HPO antibody-containing cells, which increased in number 72 h after the secondary antigenic stimulation, were mainly immunoblasts and immature plasma cells. Immunoblasts containing anti-HPO antibody incorporated [ 3 H]thymidine more actively than did immature plasma cells containing anti-HPO antibody. In 144 h after the secondary antigenic stimulation, antibody containing cells consisted mainly of mature plasma cells and immature plasma cells. Immature plasma cells containing the anti-HPO antibody incorporated a little [ 3 H]thymidine, but mature plasma cells containing anti-HPO antibody did not incorporate any [ 3 H]thymidine.
Lungs were obtained from 16 Thoroughbred horses, aged 1 day to 2 years, which had died or been humanely killed for reasons unrelated to disease of the lower respiratory tract. The lungs were then subjected to a histol...
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Lungs were obtained from 16 Thoroughbred horses, aged 1 day to 2 years, which had died or been humanely killed for reasons unrelated to disease of the lower respiratory tract. The lungs were then subjected to a histological and immunohistochemical examination of the humoral immune system. At birth there was no evidence of organized lymphoid tissue, and lymphocytes and plasma cells were virtually absent in all tissue compartments in the first week of life. However, by 12 weeks;foals exhibited well developed bronchus-and bronchiole-associated lymphoid tissue, but this had regressed progressively at and 2 years of age. Plasma cells were present in large numbers in the walls of bronchi and bronchioles in foals aged 8 to 12 weeks. IgA-producing plasma cells were common in the lower respiratory tract of these young horses, in addition to IgG- and Ig;IgM-producing plasma cells. (C) 1999 W.B. Saunders Company Limited.
Amplification of human immunoglobulin has many potential applications such as analysis of clonality, isolation of immunogenic antigens and antigen-specific immunotherapy. Here we describe a method for amplification of...
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Amplification of human immunoglobulin has many potential applications such as analysis of clonality, isolation of immunogenic antigens and antigen-specific immunotherapy. Here we describe a method for amplification of human immunoglobulin heavy and light chains from single B lymphocytes or plasma cells. Cells are isolated by FACS, and Ig is amplified by semi-nested RT-PCR. The method is versatile, sensitive and reliable: it provides appropriately paired heavy and light chains, requiring as little as 2 days to produce amplified Fab DNA from human tissues.
A new monoclonal antibody (MUM1p) was used to study the cell/tissue expression of human MUM1/IRF4 protein, the product of the homologous gene involved in the myeloma-associated t(6;14) (p25;q32), MUM1 was expressed in...
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A new monoclonal antibody (MUM1p) was used to study the cell/tissue expression of human MUM1/IRF4 protein, the product of the homologous gene involved in the myeloma-associated t(6;14) (p25;q32), MUM1 was expressed in the nuclei and cytoplasm of plasma cells and a small percentage of germinal center (GC) B cells mainly located in the "light zone." Its morphologic spectrum ranged from that of centrocyte to that of a plasmablast/plasma cell, and it displayed a phenotype (MUM1(+)/Bcl-6(-)/Ki67(-)) different from that of most GC B cells (MUM1(-)/Bcl-6(+)/Ki57(+)) and mantle B cells (MUM1(-)/Bcl-6(-)/Ki67(-)). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of single MUM1(+) cells isolated from GCs showed that they contained rearranged Ig heavy chain genes with a varying number of VH somatic mutations. These findings suggest that these cells may represent surviving centrocytes and their progeny committed to exit GC and to differentiate into plasma cells. MUM1 was strongly expressed in lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and approximately 75% of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLCL-B), Unlike normal GC B cells, in which the expression of MUM1 and Bcl-6 were mutually exclusive, tumor cells in approximately 50% of MUM1(+) DLCL-B coexpressed MUM1 and Bcl-6, suggesting that expression of these proteins may be deregulated, In keeping with their proposed origin from GC B cells, Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin's disease consistently expressed MUM1. MUM1 was detected In normal and neoplastic activated T cells, and its expression usually paralleled that of CD30. These results suggest that MUM1 is involved in the late stages of B-cell differentiation and in T-cell activation and is deregulated in DLCL-B. (C) 2000 by The American Society of Hematology.
Supports B. Weynand and colleagues' description of the CD34 expression in calcifying fibrous pseudotumor in the peritoneum. CD34-positive cell differentiation toward CD34-negative collagenous fibroblasts.
Supports B. Weynand and colleagues' description of the CD34 expression in calcifying fibrous pseudotumor in the peritoneum. CD34-positive cell differentiation toward CD34-negative collagenous fibroblasts.
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