Volume 1, Issue 4 (2005) | American Journal of Immunology

Isolation and Mutagenesis of Streptokinase Producing Bacteria

Thaer Taleb Abed Abdelghani — 2005-12-31

American Journal of Immunology, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/ajisp.2005.125.129

Of 103 β-haemolytic Streptococci (with haemolytic activity) in total were isolated from different samples of blood and biomass from infected throat, 47 isolates exhibited streptokinase (SK) activity....

Immunomodulatory Treatment of Infertility in Men with Elevated Antisperm Antibodies

Ivan Bubanovic — 2005-12-31

American Journal of Immunology, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/ajisp.2005.130.134

Possible causes of subfertility or infertility in men are still poorly defined, but one important category may be elevated level of antisperm antibodies (ASA) caused by infective and/or autoimmune dis...

Interleukin 10 Induces the Maturation of Putative Tolerogenic Monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells as Revealed by GeneArray Analysis

Marianne A. Jakobsen — 2005-12-31

American Journal of Immunology, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/ajisp.2005.135.142

IL-10 is a multifunctional cytokine with known inhibitory effect on DC maturation. In the present study, we show that the presence of IL-10 during the first 6 days of maturation of Mo-DC has severe ef...

Association Between Circulating Early Endothelial Progenitors and CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells: A Possible Cross-talk between Immunity and Angiogenesis?

Shmuel Schwartzenberg — 2005-12-31

American Journal of Immunology, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/ajisp.2005.143.147

Regulatory T-cells (Treg) are a recently defined subset of CD4+ cells that can suppress inflammation and induce tolerance. Phenotypically, T-regs are characterized by a high level of expression of the...

In vitro Activation of Human and Rat Lymphocyte and Macrophage Functions by Norepinephrine

Ricardo Gomez-Flores — 2005-12-31

American Journal of Immunology, Published online: 31 December 2005; doi:10.3844/ajisp.2005.148.153

Norepinephrine (NE) has been associated not only with increasing blood pressure, atherosclerosis, heart disease, and other life threatening conditions, but also with altering immune responses by influ...