Hungarian Immunology - 2003;2(02)

Hungarian Immunology

APRIL 20, 2003

[Immunophenotyping of mature cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas with leukemic clinical manifestation - newer approaches]

PÁLÓCZI Katalin, NÉMETH Julianna, BÁNYAI Anikó, GOPCSA László

[Immunophenotyping is commonly used in evaluating malignancies of the lympho-hemopoietic system and its use in various disease states of mature lymphoid leukemias and related non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas is reviewed here. The major goals of immunophenotyping in mature lymphoid neoplasias are the assignment of abnormal cells to the B or T/NK linkage, their maturational analysis, and the characterization of specific phenotypes which might be helpful for the subclassification of disease. There is not... tovább »

HUN 2003;2(02)

Hungarian Immunology

APRIL 20, 2003

[Immune complex clearance in systemic lupus erythematosus]

KÁVAI Mária, SZEGEDI Gyula

[Impaired clearance of immune complexes is regarded as a central factor in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Receptors for IgG (FcγRs) are expressed on phagocytes and madiate binding and endocytosis of IgG immune complexes. At first the binding of the ligand to the receptor of monocytes was determied with reaction kinetic method and microscopically. The results demonstrated that the binding of monomeric IgG is higher but that of immune complexes is lower to receptors of... tovább »

HUN 2003;2(02)

Hungarian Immunology

APRIL 20, 2003

[Biologic therapies in the vasculitides]

SZÁNTÓ Antónia

HUN 2003;2(02)

Hungarian Immunology

APRIL 20, 2003

[The outcome of the renal involvement in primary Sjögren’s syndrome]

POKORNY Gyula, IVÁNYI Béla, SONKODI Sándor, KOVÁCS LÁSZLÓ, KOVÁCS Attila, CSÁTI Sándor, LÁZÁR Máté, MAKULA Éva

[OBJECTIVE - Kidney function re-evaluation in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (P-SS) patients years after the first signs of renal involvement. PATIENTS - Of 75 primary SS patients followed up for various periods between 1990 and 1999, 11 had overt kidney involvement. The mean age of these 11 at the time of diagnosis of renal manifestations (first examination) was 39.6 years. In nine of the 11, the renal function was re-examined (second examination: NH4CL loading, determination of urinary... tovább »

HUN 2003;2(02)

Hungarian Immunology

APRIL 20, 2003

[Autoantibodies against α-fodrin in patients with Sjögrens’s syndrome]

SZÁNTÓ Antónia, CSÍPŐ István, ZEHER Margit

[INTRODUCTION, PATIENTS AND METHODS - In this study, the authors examined the presence of the IgA and IgG type autoantibodies against the 120 kDa α-fodrin in the sera of patients affected with primary and secondary Sjögren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, being treated in the Department of Clinical Immunology of the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Debrecen. As a control population, the sera of healthy blood donors were used. RESULTS -... tovább »

HUN 2003;2(02)

Hungarian Immunology

APRIL 20, 2003

[Molecular biology of 70 kD heat shock protein and its role in certain immunological processes]

KOCSIS Judit, FÜST György, PROHÁSZKA Zoltán

[Heat-shock proteins, or stress proteins play important role in cellular survival owning to their protective function. Their highly conserved structure renders them ideal messengers of cellular stress response. One of the best known representative of these proteins is the 70 kDa heat-shock protein (Hsp70), there is increasing amount of data about the intraand extracellular functions of this stress protein. In the present review the regulation of hsp70 gene expression, and hsp70 polimorfisms,... tovább »

HUN 2003;2(02)