Correlations between concentrations of interleukin (IL)-17A, IL-17B and IL-17F, and endothelial cells and proangiogenic cytokines in systemic lupus erythematosus patients.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease of multifactorial pathoaetiology. Different organs and blood vessels may be affected by chronic inflammation. A direct cause of the disease has not yet been found, so research is being carried out to this effect.

Circulating endothelial cells and angiogenic proteins in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

The aim of our study was to assess absolute counts of different subpopulations of circulating endothelial cells (CEC) in patients with active and inactive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We have also investigated a potential correlation of CEC numbers with serum levels of angiogenic proteins as well as with clinical and laboratory symptoms of the disease. For the first time in SLE, CEC were enumerated directly, by the 'single platform' method.

[Drug-induced lupus erythematosus and systemic lupus erythematosus--differences and similarities].

Drug-induced lupus (DIL) is a lupus-like syndrome. Its clinical and laboratory features are very similar to idiopathic lupus. First description of DIL is from 1945.

[The role of endothelial cells in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus].

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting connective tissue. It is characterized by a variety of clinical symptoms. In the pathogenesis of SLE, genetic as well as environmental and hormonal factors are considered to be responsible for the development of multiple immunological phenomena.

The immobilization of microbial cells, subcellular organelles, and enzymes in calcium alginate gels. Reprinted from Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol. XIX, No. 3, Pages 387-397 (1977).

Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, Kluyveromyces marxianus cells, inulase, glucose oxidase, chloroplasts, and mitochondria were immobilized in calcium alginate gels. Ethanol production from glucose solutions by an immobilized preparation of S. cerevisiae was demonstrated over a total of twenty-three days, and the half-life of such a preparation was shown to be about ten days.