scholarly journals Comparison of the Antibodies in Lymphocyte Supernatant and Antibody-Secreting Cell Assays for Measuring Intestinal Mucosal Immune Response to a Novel Oral Typhoid Vaccine (M01ZH09)

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1127-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. D. Kirkpatrick ◽  
Matthew D. Bentley ◽  
Anette M. Thern ◽  
Catherine J. Larsson ◽  
Cassandra Ventrone ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Antibody-secreting cell (ASC) and antibodies in lymphocyte supernatant (ALS) assays are used to assess intestinal mucosal responses to enteric infections and vaccines. The ALS assay, performed on cell supernatants, may represent a convenient alternative to the more established ASC assay. The two methods, measuring immunoglobulin A to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi lipopolysaccharide, were compared in volunteers vaccinated with a live-attenuated typhoid vaccine M01ZH09. The specificity of the ALS assay compared to the ASC assay was excellent (100%), as was sensitivity (82%). The ALS assay was less sensitive than the ASC assay at ≤42 spots/106 peripheral blood lymphocytes.

1982 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1887-1893 ◽  
Author(s):  
D F Ranney ◽  
A J Quattrone

Abstract Several common metabolites and drugs in the serum in of patients with inflammatory, infectious, autoimmune, immunodeficient, neoplastic, and toxicant-induced diseases can produce artifactual suppression of the [methyl-3H]-thymidine assay, which is widely used to evaluate lymphocyte responsiveness. We have developed a sensitive, semiautomated, fluorescence-enhancement assay in which true immunosuppressors are measured in the presence of absence of such interfering substances. Peripheral blood lymphocytes are activated with mitogens in standard microtiter culture trays. Changes in lymphocyte DNA content are quantified with a reagent formulation containing mithramycin, the fluorescence of which is enhanced on binding to DNA in the presence of MgCl2. We solubilize cells within the intact microtiter tray by using an automated, inverted "Array Sonicator," and measure fluorescence with an automated, photon-counting fluorometer. With this system, immune response modulation can be accurately assessed in the presence of patients' sera and other complex test substances (e.g., supernates from hybridomas, fermentation vats, viral preparations, and macrophage cultures.


2003 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 4808-4814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firdausi Qadri ◽  
Edward T. Ryan ◽  
A. S. G. Faruque ◽  
Firoz Ahmed ◽  
Ashraful Islam Khan ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Gut-derived lymphocytes transiently migrate through the peripheral circulation before homing back to mucosal sites and can be detected using an ELISPOT-based antibody secreting cell (ASC) assay. Alternatively, transiently circulating lymphocytes may be cultured in vitro, and culture supernatants may be assayed for antigen-specific responses (antibody in lymphocyte supernatant [ALS] assay). The ALS assay has not been validated extensively in natural mucosal infection, nor has the ALS response been compared to the ASC assay and other cholera-specific immunological responses. Accordingly, we examined immune responses in 30 adult patients with acute cholera in Bangladesh, compared with 10 healthy controls, measuring ALS-immunoglobulin A (IgA), ASC-IgA, and serum and fecal IgA responses to two potent Vibrio cholerae immunogens, the nontoxic B subunit of cholera toxin (CtxB) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and a weaker V. cholerae immunogen, the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA). We found significant increases of anti-CtxB, anti-LPS, and anti-MSHA IgA in supernatants of lymphocytes cultured 7 days after onset of cholera using the ALS assay. We found that ALS and ASC responses correlated extremely well; both had comparable sensitivities as the vibriocidal responses, and both procedures were more sensitive than fecal IgA measurements. An advantage of the ALS assay for studying mucosal immune responses is the ability to freeze antibodies in supernatants for subsequent evaluation; like the ASC assay, the ALS assay can distinguish recent from remote mucosal infection, a distinction that may be difficult to make in endemic settings using other procedures.


Science ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 142 (3596) ◽  
pp. 1185-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hirschhorn ◽  
F. Bach ◽  
R. L. Kolodny ◽  
I. L. Firschein ◽  
N. Hashem

2016 ◽  
Vol 196 (3) ◽  
pp. 1060-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tâm D. Quách ◽  
Nely Rodríguez-Zhurbenko ◽  
Thomas J. Hopkins ◽  
Xiaoti Guo ◽  
Ana María Hernández ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Loreto Gesualdo ◽  
Vincenzo Di Leo ◽  
Rosanna Coppo

Abstract The precise pathogenesis of immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is still not clearly established but emerging evidence confirms a pivotal role for mucosal immunity. This review focuses on the key role of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) in promoting the onset of the disease, underlying the relationship among microbiota, genetic factors, food antigen, infections, and mucosal immune response. Finally, we evaluate potential therapies targeting microbes and mucosa hyperresponsiveness in IgAN patients.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huijia Zhao ◽  
Ling Li ◽  
Qi-fa Ye

Abstract Background: Acute rejection (AR) is one of common and critical complications after kidney transplantation, which gives rise to an increasing of allograft loss and even death. However, the potential mechanisms of AR remain incompletely understood at present. This study aimed to reveal the underlying mechanisms and identify core biomarkers of AR.Methods: The AR gene expression profile GSE1563 involving 6 renal transplant patients undergoing AR and 9 patients with well-functioning transplant with no clinical evidence of rejection was selected to analyze the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from purified RNA of peripheral blood lymphocytes. DAVID was used to carry out Gene ontology (GO) and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analyses. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was built to display the interactions among these DEGs. To get further reliable significant genes and mechanisms, gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was applied to evaluate the hub gene analyzing via PPI network.Results: A total of 347 DEGs were captured, including 301 upregulated genes and 46 downregulated genes. Go and KEGG pathway analysis showed the DEGs were particularly enriched in immune response, inflammatory response to antigenic stimulus, RNA transport and protein stabilization. The PPI network indicated 3 modules were also mainly involved in immune response and RNA transport. 18 hub genes were selected in PPI network, among which there were 6 core genes evaluated by DAVID. By the way of GSEA, Oxidative stress was another potential mechanism besides immunity and ncRNA transport. Conclusion: Our analysis uncovered the immune response including humoral and cellular immunity, ncRNA transport as well as oxidative stress was the major mechanisms of AR associated respectively with MAPK8, CCL5, HMGB1, NCBP2, XPO1 and APP, which could be novel noninvasive biomarkers in peripheral blood for early diagnosis and could be helpful to the treatment of AR.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huijia Zhao ◽  
Ling Li ◽  
Qifa Ye

Abstract Background: Acute rejection (AR) is one of common and critical complications after kidney transplantation, which gives rise to an increasing of allograft loss and even death. However, the potential mechanisms of AR remain incompletely understood at present. This study aimed to reveal the underlying mechanisms and identify core biomarkers of AR.Methods: The AR gene expression profile GSE1563 involving 6 renal transplant patients undergoing AR and 9 patients with well-functioning transplant with no clinical evidence of rejection was selected to analyze the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from purified RNA of peripheral blood lymphocytes. DAVID was used to carry out Gene ontology (GO) and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analyses. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was built to display the interactions among these DEGs. To get further reliable significant genes and mechanisms, gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was applied to evaluate the hub gene analyzing via PPI network.Results: A total of 347 DEGs were captured, including 301 upregulated genes and 46 downregulated genes. Go and KEGG pathway analysis showed the DEGs were particularly enriched in immune response, inflammatory response to antigenic stimulus, RNA transport and protein stabilization. The PPI network indicated 3 modules were also mainly involved in immune response and RNA transport. 18 hub genes were selected in PPI network, among which there were 6 core genes evaluated by DAVID. By the way of GSEA, Oxidative stress was another potential mechanism besides immunity and ncRNA transport. Conclusion: Our analysis uncovered the immune response including humoral and cellular immunity, ncRNA transport as well as oxidative stress was the major mechanisms of AR associated respectively with MAPK8, CCL5, HMGB1, NCBP2, XPO1 and APP, which could be novel noninvasive biomarkers in peripheral blood for early diagnosis and could be helpful to the treatment of AR.


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