Antibody-mediated CD4 crosslinking results in increased tyrosine phosphorylation and tyrosine kinase activity of the associated p56" . Treatment with anti-CD4 and anti-Ig also induced the phosphorylation of p56kk in a CD45mutant cell line, indicating that the increase in phosphotyrosine content of p56kk is not the result of being sequestered from CD45 protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) . Ant...

Bacterial superantigens induce peripheral unresponsiveness in CD4 1 T cell populations that express appropriate V b chains. We have used V b 3/V a 11 T cell receptor transgenic (Tg) mice and the V b 3-specific superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) to further investigate the mechanisms that contribute to such unresponsiveness. As in other models, in vivo exposure to SEA rendered the Tg...

The title compound, (EtMe(3)N)(2)[Cd(Se(4))(2)], which has been prepared by reaction of CdI(2), K(2)Se(4) and EtMe(3)NI in dimethyl-formamide, is the first example of a [Cd(Se(4))(2)](2-) anion stabilized by alkyl-ammonium counter-ions. The Cd atom in the complex [Cd(Se(4))(2)](2-) anion is tetra-hedrally coordinated by two chelating tetra-selenide ligands, and both CdSe(4) rings exhibit an env...

Proportional changes of lymphocyte subsets in the peripheral blood were monitored by two-color flow-cytometry in seven leukemia patients who had received allogenic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Lymphocyte counts, and proportions of T and B-cells returned to normal ranges between the 2nd and 12th months after BMT. Activated T-cells prominently increased after BMT, and the values gradually r...

We present four patients with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) derived from a novel T-cell subset (CD4-, CD8[doublenegative, DN], T-cell receptor [TCR] &). In the ATL cells of these patients, neither gene nor surface expression of CD4 and CD8 antigens was detected. Clinical and laboratory data showed no difference between DN-ATL and CD4+ATL patients. In contrast to typical CD4+ATL cells, DN-ATL cell...