J. E. Balow

Publication List Details

Period

1995 - 2008

Number

31

Co-Authors

Long-term effects of combination treatment with fludarabine and low-dose pulse cyclophosphamide in patients with lupus nephritis (2007)

Illei, G. G., Yarboro, C. H., Kuroiwa, T., Schlimgen, R., Austin, H. A., Tisdale, J. F., ...

Objectives. To determine the safety and efficacy of a short course of fludarabine combined with cyclophoshamide in lupus nephritis. Methods. A phase I/II open label pilot study. Thirteen patients...

Long-term effects of combination treatment with fludarabine and low-dose pulse cyclophosphamide in patients with lupus nephritis (2007)

Illei, G. G., Yarboro, C. H., Kuroiwa, T., Schlimgen, R., Austin, H. A., Tisdale, J. F., ...

Objectives. To determine the safety and efficacy of a short course of fludarabine combined with cyclophoshamide in lupus nephritis. Methods. A phase I/II open label pilot study. Thirteen patients...

Long-term effects of combination treatment with fludarabine and low-dose pulse cyclophosphamide in patients with lupus nephritis (2007)

Illei, G. G., Yarboro, C. H., Kuroiwa, T., Schlimgen, R., Austin, H. A., Tisdale, J. F., ...

Objectives. To determine the safety and efficacy of a short course of fludarabine combined with cyclophoshamide in lupus nephritis. Methods. A phase I/II open label pilot study. Thirteen patients...

Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever (1997)

Aksentijevich, I., Centola, M., Deng, Z. M., Sood, R., Balow, J. E., Wood, G., ...

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a recessively inherited disorder characterized by dramatic episodes of fever and serosal inflammation. This report describes the cloning of the gene likely to...

High-risk features of lupus nephritis: importance of race and clinical and histological factors in 166 patients (1995)

Austin, H. A., Boumpas, D. T., Vaughan, E. M., Balow, J. E.

Background The pleomorphic nature of lupus nephritis has confounded efforts to refine estimates of prognosis. Consideration of interactions among prognostic factors may help to identify high-risk...

Model for studying virus attachment: identification and quantitation of Epstein-Barr virus-binding cells by using biotinylated virus in flow cytometry.

Inghirami, G, Nakamura, M, Balow, J E, Notkins, A L, Casali, P

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was purified and biotinylated without significant loss of its cell-transforming activity. The use of biotinylated virus in conjunction with antibodies specific for selected...

Dexamethasone inhibits human interleukin 2 but not interleukin 2 receptor gene expression in vitro at the level of nuclear transcription.

Boumpas, D T, Anastassiou, E D, Older, S A, Tsokos, G C, Nelson, D L, Balow, J E

Glucocorticosteroids have an inhibitory effect on the expression of interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interleukin 2 receptor (IL-2R) genes. To determine the mechanisms of this inhibition, human T lymphocytes...

Cyclophosphamide suppression of established cell-mediated immunity. Quantitative vs. qualitative changes in lymphocyte populations.

Balow, J E, Hurley, D L, Fauci, A S

The characteristics of cyclophosphamide-induced suppression of established ccll mediated immunity were studied in guinea pigs previously senstized to tuberculin. Cyclophosphamide treatment for 5 days...

Human bone marrow lymphocytes. Cytotoxic effector cells in the bone marrow of normal individuals.

Fauci, A S, Balow, J E, Pratt, K R

This study was undertaken to determine the capability of lymphocytes in the bone marrow of normal individuals to mediate nonspecific killer cell functions in assays of phytohemagglutinin...

Model for studying virus attachment: identification and quantitation of Epstein-Barr virus-binding cells by using biotinylated virus in flow cytometry.

Inghirami, G, Nakamura, M, Balow, J E, Notkins, A L, Casali, P

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was purified and biotinylated without significant loss of its cell-transforming activity. The use of biotinylated virus in conjunction with antibodies specific for selected...

Dexamethasone inhibits human interleukin 2 but not interleukin 2 receptor gene expression in vitro at the level of nuclear transcription.

Boumpas, D T, Anastassiou, E D, Older, S A, Tsokos, G C, Nelson, D L, Balow, J E

Glucocorticosteroids have an inhibitory effect on the expression of interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interleukin 2 receptor (IL-2R) genes. To determine the mechanisms of this inhibition, human T lymphocytes...

Cyclophosphamide suppression of established cell-mediated immunity. Quantitative vs. qualitative changes in lymphocyte populations.

Balow, J E, Hurley, D L, Fauci, A S

The characteristics of cyclophosphamide-induced suppression of established ccll mediated immunity were studied in guinea pigs previously senstized to tuberculin. Cyclophosphamide treatment for 5 days...

Human bone marrow lymphocytes. Cytotoxic effector cells in the bone marrow of normal individuals.

Fauci, A S, Balow, J E, Pratt, K R

This study was undertaken to determine the capability of lymphocytes in the bone marrow of normal individuals to mediate nonspecific killer cell functions in assays of phytohemagglutinin...

Characterization of the direct effects of cyclophosphamide on cell-mediated immunological responses.

Balow, J E, Parrillo, J E, Fauci, A S

The direct immunosuppressive effects of cyclophosphamide were examined by incubating normal guinea-pig mononuclear cells with activated cyclophosphamide prepared from the serum of separate animals...

Regulation of immunoglobulin secretion by factor H of human complement.

Tsokos, G C, Inghirami, G, Tsoukas, C D, Balow, J E, Lambris, J D

As human B lymphocytes and macrophages carry surface receptors for Factor H (B1H), we investigated the possibility that this complement component regulates their function. Factor H inhibits...

Concanavalin-induced suppressor cells: characterization on the basis of corticosteroid and radiation sensitivity.

Tsokos, G C, Christian, C B, Balow, J E

Experiments were performed to examine whether the concanavalin A (Con A)- induced suppressor cells of several in vitro T- and B-lymphocyte functions constitute a functionally unique cell population....

Serologic markers of lupus nephritis in patients: use of a tissue-based ELISA and evidence for immunopathogenic heterogeneity.

Bernstein, K A, Kahl, L E, Balow, J E, Lefkowith, J B

In order to assess the ability of various serologic assays to correlate with lupus nephritis, we analysed sera obtained from 60 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Patients were...

Lymphocyte activation markers in idiopathic myositis: changes with disease activity and differences among clinical and autoantibody subgroups.

Miller, F W, Love, L A, Barbieri, S A, Balow, J E, Plotz, P H

We studied the immunologic correlates of disease activity and differences among subgroups of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy by analysing phenotypic and activation marker expression on...

Effect of plasmapheresis on T anc B lymphocyte functions in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a double blind study.

Tsokos, G C, Balow, J E, Huston, D P, Wei, N, Decker, J L

Nine patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus entered a double-blind randomized trial to study the therapeutic effect of vigorous versus sham reinfusion plasmapheresis. Four of them received...

Natural killer cells and interferon responses in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Tsokos, G C, Rook, A H, Djeu, J Y, Balow, J E

Natural killer (NK) cell activity was studied in 23 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The overall NK activity was lower in patients with SLE than in normal female individuals....

Decreased interleukin 2 inhibitor in sera of patients with autoimmune disorders.

Djeu, J Y, Kasahara, T, Balow, J E, Tsokos, G C

The lymphokine, interleukin 2 (IL-2), is an important modulator of cell-mediated immune (CMI) responses. We report here the detection of an inhibitor of IL-2 in normal sera by measuring the...

Linkage disequilibrium mapping places the gene causing familial Mediterranean fever close to D16S246.

Levy, E. N., Shen, Y., Kupelian, A., Kruglyak, L., Aksentijevich, I., Pras, E., ...

This report presents refined genetic mapping data for the gene causing familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), a recessively inherited disorder of inflammation. We sampled 65 Jewish, Armenian, and Arab...