OBJECTIVES To determine the presence of immunoglobulin E-rheumatoid factor in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and to correlate it with clinical and laboratory parameters. METHODS A multicenter prospective study was carried out from January 1993 to January 1999 with the enrollment of 3 centers of pediatric rheumatology. Ninety-one children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnos...

Because immunoglobulin (Ig)-b (CD79b) is required for immunoglobulin allelic exclusion, we examined the CD79b expressed by four chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) samples that expressed more than one immunoglobulin heavychain allele and five samples that had normal immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion. All leukemia cell samples stained poorly with monoclonal antibodies specific for extr...

The objective of this study was to investigate the diagnostic significance serum protein electrophoresis and immunofixation detection in diagnosis multiple myeloma (MM). One hundred five patients were investigated. rate M by better (105 cases, 100%) than that (101 96.19%, p<0.001). band not detected four cases (3.81%), among which one case (0.95%) identified as IgA type 3 (2.86%) light chain af...

Immunoglobulin G4-related sclerosing cholangitis is histologically characterized by the infiltration of immunoglobulin G4-positive plasma cells and sclerosing change. Moreover, several cases of carcinoma accompanied by immunoglobulin G4-positive cells in tissue and increased serum immunoglobulin G4 levels have been reported, but the association between cancer-associated immunity and an immunogl...

INTRODUCTION Idiopathic sclerosing orbital inflammation is a rare and ill-defined heterogeneous entity, and a distinct subset of orbital inflammation. Recently, attention has been focused on immunoglobulin G4-related disease complicated with fibrotic changes in some other organs with high serum immunoglobulin G4 levels. This report presents a case of suspected idiopathic sclerosing orbital infl...

Intravenous immunoglobulin replacement therapy represents the standard treatment for hypogammaglobulinemia secondary to B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders. Subcutaneous immunoglobulin infusion is an effective, safe and well-tolerated treatment approach in primary immunodeficiencies but no extensive data are available on their use in secondary hypogammaglobulinemia, a frequent phenomenon occur...

The half disappearance time for detectable plasma membrane-associated and cytoplasmic immunoglobulin after treatment of continuously growing diploid lymphocytes with inhibitors of protein and RNA synthesis was studied. Also, the amount of plasma membrane-associated and cytoplasmic immunoglobulin of synchronized cells in the G(1) phase of the cell cycle has been studied. Plasma membrane-associat...

Because immunoglobulin (Ig)-beta (CD79b) is required for immunoglobulin allelic exclusion, we examined the CD79b expressed by four chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) samples that expressed more than one immunoglobulin heavy-chain allele and five samples that had normal immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion. All leukemia cell samples stained poorly with monoclonal antibodies specific for ...

Objectives Elevated immunoglobulin levels have been strongly linked to the development and progression of inflammatory disorders such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. This study aimed to evaluate circulating immunoglobulin levels and to identify other metabolic factors that influence humoral immune response among Ghanaian subjects with type 2 diabetes. Methods A comparative cross-sectional stu...