OBJECTIVES Acute limb ischaemia is a common and often lethal clinical event. Reperfusion of an ischaemic limb has been shown to induce a remote gut injury associated with transmigration of endotoxin into the portal and systemic circulation, which in turn has been implicated in the conversion of the sterile inflammatory response to a sepsis syndrome, after lower torso ischaemia-reperfusion injur...

42 human sera showing in vitro cytotoxic activity of restricted or broad HL-A specificities with test human lymphocytes were studied for the molecular and immunoglobulin class of cytotoxic antibody using sucrose gradient separations, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, and Sephadex G-200 gel filtration. Sera originated from patients with previous multiple pregnancies (19), multiply transfused patien...

BACKGROUND Millions of patients are treated with therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (Tmabs) for miscellaneous diseases. We investigated sera from six patients who received immune globulin, from one patient with refractory anti-neutrophil-cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) who developed two episodes of acute cholestatic liver disease, one after treatment...

The protein of human serum, tentatively designated beta(1C)-globulin, was shown to possess serological activity and to be related to the complement system. Another serum protein (beta(1A)-globulin) was identified as the inactivated form of beta(1C)-globulin. Incubation of fresh serum with various immune precipitates or with soluble gamma-globulin aggregates at 37 degrees C. resulted in the remo...

The serological characteristics of gammaA-anti-A and anti-B were studied using, as a source, either colostrum, or fractions relatively rich in gammaA obtained from selected potent antisera. gammaA-anti-A and anti-B were never hemolytic nor did they sensitize red cells to agglutination by anticomplement globulin sera. gammaA-anti-A, like gammaG-anti-A and unlike gammaM-anti-A was unaffected by h...

The relative susceptibility of neonatal and adult murine splenocytes to induction of B-cell tolerance was studied in vitro. Adult cells required approximately 1,000-fold more trinitrophenyl-human gamma globulin to be rendered tolerant than did cells from 9- to 12-day-old neonates. The potential effects of suppressor T cells were excluded by pretreating the cultured B cells with anti-Thy-1 and C...

CONTEXT Preventing acute rejection (AR) after kidney transplantation is of utmost importance because an AR can have a negative impact on long-term allograft survival. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Google Scholar, PubMed, EBSCO, and Web of Science have been searched. RESULTS At the moment this can be done by using rabbit anti-thymocyte globulins (rATGs) as an...