L C Tsai, H M Chen, S H Yeh, C C Yuan, D Tsao, S H Han
{"title":"Localization of human colorectal carcinoma xenografts in mice using radiolabeled monoclonal antibody to carcinoembryonic antigen.","authors":"L C Tsai, H M Chen, S H Yeh, C C Yuan, D Tsao, S H Han","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A mouse IgG1 monoclonal antibody (MAbC27) with high affinity for human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) has been used in vitro and in vivo for study of human colorectal carcinoma (CRC). After introduction to tumor-bearing mice, the distribution of radiolabeled MAbC27 and its F(ab')2 fragments was analyzed by direct measurement of radioactivity in the tumor and in normal organs as well as by whole-body scanning. Radiolabeled MAbC27 and its F(ab')2 were used successfully in localizing tumor xenografts in mice 40 and 20 hr after inoculation, respectively. A tumor as small as 60 mg (4.2 mm in diameter) was visualized by labeled F(ab')2. Circulating CEA, up to 200 micrograms per mouse did not prevent successful tumor imaging. This study indicates that the MAbC27 is highly useful in detection and localization of CRC in mice.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 6","pages":"332-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14349071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S F Kingsmore, A D Crockard, A C Fay, T A McNeill, S D Roberts, J M Thompson
{"title":"Detection of circulating immune complexes by Raji cell assay: comparison of flow cytometric and radiometric methods.","authors":"S F Kingsmore, A D Crockard, A C Fay, T A McNeill, S D Roberts, J M Thompson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several flow cytometric methods for the measurement of circulating immune complexes (CIC) have recently become available. We report a Raji cell flow cytometric assay (FCMA) that uses aggregated human globulin (AHG) as primary calibrator. Technical advantages of the Raji cell flow cytometric assay are discussed, and its clinical usefulness is evaluated in a method comparison study with the widely used Raji cell immunoradiometric assay. FCMA is more precise and has greater analytic sensitivity for AHG. Diagnostic sensitivity by the flow cytometric method is superior in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis, and vasculitis patients: however, diagnostic specificity is similar for both assays, but the reference interval of FCMA is narrower. Significant correlations were found between CIC levels obtained with both methods in SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, and vasculitis patients and in longitudinal studies of two patients with cerebral SLE. The Raji cell FCMA is recommended for measurement of CIC levels to clinical laboratories with access to a flow cytometer.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 6","pages":"289-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14349233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human IgG subclasses and their relation to carbohydrate antigen immunocompetence.","authors":"M G Scott, P G Shackelford, D E Briles, M H Nahm","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human IgG responses to carbohydrate antigens, such as those found on many infectious bacteria, are primarily restricted to the IgG2 subclass. This phenomenon, known as isotype restriction, has led us and others to examine the prevalence of IgG2 deficiency among infection-prone individuals. IgG2 deficiency (below 3 SD of the age group mean) is fairly common among patients suffering from chronic bacterial infections and suggests the utility of IgG subclass measurements in evaluating such patients. However, we also describe exceptions to isotype restriction in human responses to carbohydrate antigens. Furthermore, we describe individuals who, while responding very poorly to carbohydrate antigens, have normal IgG2 levels for their age group. These findings indicate the complexity of IgG subclass regulation and suggest that evaluation of infection-prone individuals should include measurements of both IgG subclasses and antibodies to carbohydrate antigens such as phosphocholine.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 5","pages":"241-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14409794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age-associated changes of T lymphocyte subsets.","authors":"R P Falcão, S J Ismael, E A Donadi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The percentage and the absolute number of T3, T4, T6, T8, and T10 lymphocytes of the peripheral blood were determined in 100 children (3 days to 10 years), 29 adults (18 to 59 years), and 30 elderly individuals (60 to 98 years). The percentage of the various T lymphocyte subsets and T4/T8 lymphocyte ratio for the children and elderly did not differ statistically from adults, except for the proportion of T4 lymphocytes which was higher in the subgroup with 3 days of age. The absolute number of total lymphocytes, T3 and T8 lymphocytes was increased in children up to the age of 6 years while the number of T4 lymphocytes was increased up to the age of 2 years. Increased numbers of T6 lymphocytes were detected in children from 1 to 2 years of age while the number of T10 lymphocytes was increased in children up to the age of 2 years. Finally there was no difference between the results observed in elderly individuals and adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 4","pages":"205-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14552479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Freedman, R Mazaheri, S Read, M B Garvey, J Teitel
{"title":"Humoral and cellular immune abnormalities in adult hemophiliacs followed over a 2-year period.","authors":"J Freedman, R Mazaheri, S Read, M B Garvey, J Teitel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immune function was assessed in 93 adult hemophiliacs in the 2 years prior to HTLV-III antibody testing of blood donors and routine heat treatment of coagulation factor concentrates. Parameters of humoral and cellular immunity studied included serum complements, immunoglobulins, immune complexes, blood cell counts, lymphocyte subsets, lymphocyte transformation, 2-5A synthetase, serology for HTLV-III and hepatitis B, skin tests, and clinical status. HTLV-III seropositivity was significantly more prevalent in patients treated with factor VIII concentrate; seropositive patients had a higher proportion of abnormal test results and were more symptomatic. Although many subjects had abnormal test results, specific test results generally did not correlate with type of blood component received or time of preceding treatment. The proportion of tests abnormal in individual patients was correlated with the intensity of factor replacement therapy when the time interval from the last treatment was a covariate. While T8+ lymphocytes were increased and T4/T8 ratios were decreased in many patients, significantly reduced T4+ lymphocytes were seen only in seropositive patients and in those treated with factor VIII concentrate. Neither seropositivity nor presence of symptoms correlated with abnormal lymphocyte mitogenic response or 2-5A synthetase levels, but synthetase levels were increased in 65% of patients tested. Over the 2-year study period, no significant deterioration of clinical or laboratory variables was observed in the patients. Abnormalities of immune function were found to be common in hemophiliacs regardless of type of treatment or of evidence of HTLV-III infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 1","pages":"30-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13585387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L Varga, Z Miszlay, E Czink, K Pálóczi, G Szegedi, G Füst, S R Hollán
{"title":"Study of the immune complex precipitation-inhibiting capacity of sera of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.","authors":"L Varga, Z Miszlay, E Czink, K Pálóczi, G Szegedi, G Füst, S R Hollán","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two procedures measuring the capacity of different sera to prevent the precipitation of nascent immune complexes were compared: a kinetic method with a constant immune complex/serum ratio and a new procedure--the increasing immune complex load method--using different immune complex/serum ratios. Immune complex precipitation inhibition is known to depend on complement. The sera of 25 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and the sera of nine healthy blood donors were compared with the two procedures. The kinetic method discriminated poorly between the patients' sera and the control sera, whereas the increasing immune complex load method showed a highly significant difference between the two groups. Sera with low C4 level had the lowest immune complex precipitation-inhibiting activity. Interestingly, however, in the increasing immune complex load method not only hypocomplementaemic but also normocomplementaemic sera from CLL patients were found to be markedly defective. This finding suggests that the CLL patients' sera contain a factor which modulates complement-dependent inhibition of immune complexes.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 3","pages":"129-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14447045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"T-cell morphology in nodular follicular center cell lymphomas.","authors":"M J Bonar, P E Hurtubise, S H Swerdlow","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>T cells are known to be frequently numerous in follicular lymphomas but are generally considered to be a homogeneous population of small, round, \"resting\" lymphocytes. Although immunologic studies have suggested the presence of some \"activated\" T cells in these B-cell neoplasms, virtually no attention has been paid to the T-cell morphology. Wright-stained cytocentrifuged sheep erythrocyte (SRBC) rosette preparations from 20 cases of nodular follicular center cell lymphomas were therefore examined and the morphologic appearance of the SRBC rosetting cells was categorized. A mean of 19% (range 11-33%) of the SRBC-positive cells present were medium or large in size (diameter greater than two SRBCs, approximately 10 micron). A mean of 62% of SRBC-positive cells had round nuclei; 18% had indented nuclei and 20% had irregularly shaped nuclei. These data provide supportive morphologic evidence for some T-cell \"activation\" in certain follicular lymphomas. In addition to having possible functional and biologic implications, the previously undescribed presence of enlarged and sometimes \"atypical\" T cells in uncomplicated follicular lymphomas has implications for interpreting the histopathology of these B-cell neoplasms and the reported occurrence of composite T-cell/follicular center-cell lymphomas.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 1","pages":"14-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14620017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interleukin-2 receptor levels are increased in blood of heart transplant patients during infections.","authors":"V Stolc, J R Krause","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increased levels of soluble interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor were found in plasma of six patients after the heart transplantation. The levels peaked the first week after transplantation and then gradually decreased to normal levels. The moderate episodes of heart transplant rejection did not affect the IL-2 receptor levels in comparison to transplant recipients without the rejection episodes. However, the transplant patients with pneumonia had the IL-2 receptor levels ten times higher than healthy controls. Hence, the IL-2 receptor levels in plasma might be a valuable indicator of the dynamics of the acute infection in heart transplant recipients.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 4","pages":"171-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14253602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CD4 and CD8 subsets defined by dual-color cytofluorometry which distinguish symptomatic from asymptomatic blood donors seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus.","authors":"H E Prince, L Arens, S H Kleinman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As part of a larger study to characterize immune alterations in blood donors seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), we measured subsets of CD4 (T helper/inducer) and CD8 (T suppressor/cytotoxic) cells by 2-color cytofluorometry. Alterations observed in asymptomatic seropositive donors (ASP) included: 1) decreased mean levels of Leu 8+ CD4 cells, although the proportion of Leu 8+ cells within the CD4 population was unchanged; 2) a selective increase in Leu 8- CD8 and Leu 18- CD8 cell levels; and 3) increased levels of both CD8 subsets defined by Leu 7, Leu 17, or HLA-DR expression. Alterations observed in symptomatic seropositive donors (SSP) were: 1) a further decrease in Leu 8+ CD4 cell levels, with a decrease in the proportion of Leu 8+ CD4 cells; 2) decreased levels of both Leu 18- and Leu 18+ CD4 subsets; 3) selective increases in Leu 8- and Leu 18- CD8 cell levels; and 4) increases in Leu 7+ CD8, Leu 17+ CD8, and HLA-DR+ CD8 subsets but not the reciprocal negative CD8 subsets. Thus, changes merely reflective of HIV infection included decreased levels of Leu 8+ CD4 cells and increased levels of Leu 8- CD8, Leu 18- CD8, Leu 7+ CD8, Leu 17+ CD8, and HLA-DR+ CD8 cells. Development of symptoms were associated with a further, preferential loss of Leu 8+ CD4 cells, proportional losses of both CD4 subsets defined by Leu 18 expression, and a return to normal levels of Leu 7- CD8, Leu 17- CD8, and HLA-DR- CD8 cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 4","pages":"188-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14097519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection and characterization of circulating immune complexes in HIV-related diseases.","authors":"C Carini, R D'Amelio, I Mezzaroma, F Aiuti","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using an ultracentrifugation technique human immunosuppressive virus (HIV) (GP15 and GP41), anti-HIV (anti-GP15 and anti-GP41) immune complexes were detected in the sera of 3 (1 Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), 1 AIDS related complex (ARC), 1 Lymphadenopathy syndrome (LAS] out of 6 patients studied. Evidence for presence of HIV immune complexes was provided by: 1) demonstration of GP15 anti-GP15 and GP41 anti-GP41 immune complexes at neutral pH (pH 7.2); and 2) presence of free HIV antigen and specific HIV antibodies after dissociation of immune complex-like material with acid buffer. Formation of specific immune complexes in the sera of AIDS and ARC patients may be responsible for failure to detect free HIV antibodies in some of these patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":77705,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and clinical immunology","volume":"5 3","pages":"135-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14604373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}