A plaque assay that detects human mononuclear blood cells producing immunoglobulin (Ig)M antibody to sheep erythrocytes was investigated for its usefulness in studying B-cell activation and regulation in 24 patients with humoral immunodeficiency. Cells from 3 of 15 patients with common variable agammaglobulinemia produced some plaques (range 40--160/10(6) cells; normal range 80--1240/10(6)), bu...

DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome (DIDS) is a combined immunodeficiency characterized by recurrent viral infections, severe atopy, and early onset malignancy. Genetic studies revealed large, unique deletions in patients from different families and ethnic backgrounds. Clinical markers of DIDS include atopic dermatitis, allergies, cutaneous viral infections, recurrent respiratory tract infections, ...

Introduction Very high levels of one or more classes of immunoglobulins can be found in children with various clinical conditions. Diagnostic protocols have been developed for defined forms of IgG, IgM or IgE hypergammaglobulinemia, which could be the expression of both chronic inflammatory disease and primary immunodeficiency syndromes. In contrast, except for well described conditions such as...

in this paper rst we dene the notions of positive implicativehyper mv -ideals of types 1,2,3 and 4 in hyper mv -algebras and we investigatethe relationship between of them . then by some examples we show that thesenotions are not equivalent. finally we give some relations between these notionsand the notions of (weak) hyper mv -ideals and (weak) hyper mv -deductivesystems of hyper mv -algebras.

Several genetic defects in class switch recombination, which lead to a hyper-IgM syndrome, have been described recently in humans. In addition to the well known role of CD40-ligand-CD40 interaction, these pathologies demonstrate definitively the requirement of CD40-mediated nuclear factor kappa B activation and the essential role of a recently described molecule, the activation-induced cytidine...