The 4-day wave is an eastward moving quasi-nondispersive feature with period near 4 days occurring near the winter polar stratopause. This paper presents evidence of the 4-day feature in Microwave...
The effects of Mycobacterium vaccae on allergen-induced airway responses in atopic asthma (2003)
Camporota, L., Corkhill, A., Long, H., Lordan, J., Stanciu, L., Tuckwell, N., ...
T-helper (Th)2 cytokines play a central role in asthma. Therefore, a double-blind randomised study was conducted to investigate whether heat-killed Mycobacterium vaccae (SRL172), a potent...
Laser Mirror Technology. (1998)
Bennett,H. E., Stanford,J. L., Bennett,J. M., Westmacott,K. H., Burge,D. K.
The effects of microroughness, crystalline imperfections, and thin film deposition conditions on the absorption of infrared radiation by laser mirrors are discussed. New instruments described include...
Converse, P. J., Dannenberg, A. M., Shigenaga, T., McMurray, D. N., Phalen, S. W., Stanford, J. L., ...
This report elucidates four aspects of the immunology of pulmonary tuberculosis produced in rabbits: (i) the virulence of bovine-type tubercle bacilli, strain Ravenel S, (ii) systemic factors...
Serological and Bacteriological Investigation of Mycobacterium ranae (fortuitum)
Stanford, J. L., Gunthorpe, W. J.
Twenty strains of a species of fast growing Mycobacterium, some named M. fortuitum and others said to be similar to the strain of M. peregrinum, in the possession of the National Collection of Type...
Studies of mycobacterial antigens, with special reference to Mycobacterium leprae.
Kronvall, G, Stanford, J L, Walsh, G P
Eight individual antigens were detected in soluble antigen preparations from Mycobacterium leprae bacilli by using pools of serum samples from lepromatous leprosy patients as antibody reagents in...
Histometric studies on cellular infiltrates of tuberculin tests in patients with sarcoidosis.
Lowe, J G, Gibbs, J H, Potts, R C, Stanford, J L, Swanson Beck, J
The density and microanatomical location of CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes and of monocytes/macrophages at the site of a tuberculin test were measured in 13 patients with sarcoidosis, and the results were...
Lowe, J G, Beck, J S, Gibbs, J H, Brown, R A, Potts, R C, Grange, J M, ...
The response to skin testing with tuberculins extracted from various species of mycobacteria was studied in 49 patients from Dundee with chronic obstructive airways disease. Seventeen had never been...
McIndoe, R A, Stanford, J L, Gibbs, M, Jarvik, G P, Brandzel, S, Neal, C L, ...
Linkage of a putative prostate cancer-susceptibility locus (HPC1) to chromosome 1q24-25 has recently been reported. Confirmation of this linkage in independent data sets is essential because of the...
Evidence for a rare prostate cancer-susceptibility locus at chromosome 1p36.
Gibbs, M, Stanford, J L, McIndoe, R A, Jarvik, G P, Kolb, S, Goode, E L, ...
Combining data from a genomic screen in 70 families with a high risk for prostate cancer (PC) with data from candidate-region mapping in these families and an additional 71 families, we have...
Analysis of chromosome 1q42.2-43 in 152 families with high risk of prostate cancer.
Gibbs, M, Chakrabarti, L, Stanford, J L, Goode, E L, Kolb, S, Schuster, E F, ...
One hundred fifty-two families with prostate cancer were analyzed for linkage to markers spanning a 20-cM region of 1q42.2-43, the location of a putative prostate cancer-susceptibility locus (PCAP)....
Breast cancer incidence in young women by estrogen receptor status and race.
A population-based study was utilized to calculate breast cancer incidence rates in White and Black women, ages 30 to 54, according to tumor estrogen receptor status. Both racial groups had higher...
Converse, P. J., Dannenberg, A. M., Shigenaga, T., McMurray, D. N., Phalen, S. W., Stanford, J. L., ...
This report elucidates four aspects of the immunology of pulmonary tuberculosis produced in rabbits: (i) the virulence of bovine-type tubercle bacilli, strain Ravenel S, (ii) systemic factors...
Serological and Bacteriological Investigation of Mycobacterium ranae (fortuitum)
Stanford, J. L., Gunthorpe, W. J.
Twenty strains of a species of fast growing Mycobacterium, some named M. fortuitum and others said to be similar to the strain of M. peregrinum, in the possession of the National Collection of Type...
Studies of mycobacterial antigens, with special reference to Mycobacterium leprae.
Kronvall, G, Stanford, J L, Walsh, G P
Eight individual antigens were detected in soluble antigen preparations from Mycobacterium leprae bacilli by using pools of serum samples from lepromatous leprosy patients as antibody reagents in...
Histometric studies on cellular infiltrates of tuberculin tests in patients with sarcoidosis.
Lowe, J G, Gibbs, J H, Potts, R C, Stanford, J L, Swanson Beck, J
The density and microanatomical location of CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes and of monocytes/macrophages at the site of a tuberculin test were measured in 13 patients with sarcoidosis, and the results were...
Lowe, J G, Beck, J S, Gibbs, J H, Brown, R A, Potts, R C, Grange, J M, ...
The response to skin testing with tuberculins extracted from various species of mycobacteria was studied in 49 patients from Dundee with chronic obstructive airways disease. Seventeen had never been...
Breast cancer incidence in young women by estrogen receptor status and race.
A population-based study was utilized to calculate breast cancer incidence rates in White and Black women, ages 30 to 54, according to tumor estrogen receptor status. Both racial groups had higher...
Evidence for a rare prostate cancer-susceptibility locus at chromosome 1p36.
Gibbs, M, Stanford, J L, McIndoe, R A, Jarvik, G P, Kolb, S, Goode, E L, ...
Combining data from a genomic screen in 70 families with a high risk for prostate cancer (PC) with data from candidate-region mapping in these families and an additional 71 families, we have...
Analysis of chromosome 1q42.2-43 in 152 families with high risk of prostate cancer.
Gibbs, M, Chakrabarti, L, Stanford, J L, Goode, E L, Kolb, S, Schuster, E F, ...
One hundred fifty-two families with prostate cancer were analyzed for linkage to markers spanning a 20-cM region of 1q42.2-43, the location of a putative prostate cancer-susceptibility locus (PCAP)....
McIndoe, R A, Stanford, J L, Gibbs, M, Jarvik, G P, Brandzel, S, Neal, C L, ...
Linkage of a putative prostate cancer-susceptibility locus (HPC1) to chromosome 1q24-25 has recently been reported. Confirmation of this linkage in independent data sets is essential because of the...
Rook, G A, Onyebujoh, P, Wilkins, E, Ly, H M, Al Attiyah, R, Bahr, G, ...
An increased percentage of circulating IgG molecules that lack galactose from the oligosaccharides on the CH2 domain correlates with disease severity in tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's...
Bahr, G M, Rook, G A, Moreno, E, Lydyard, P M, Modabber, F Z, Stanford, J L
A report is given of the use of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to measure antibody to preparations of human thymocyte membranes (HTMA) and to beta 2-microglobulin. The assay described is...
Bahr, G M, Rook, G A, Stanford, J L, Lydyard, P M, Bryceson, A D
Some suppressor cells are reported to lose their activity when precultured without stimulus in vitro. We have investigated the role of such suppressors in responsiveness to mycobacterial antigens of...
Bahr, G M, Rook, G A, Stanford, J L
Soluble antigen preparations from Mycobacterium leprae are reported to inhibit the response to other stimuli, of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from lepromatous leprosy cases (BL/LL) and also...
HLA-DR and tuberculin tests in rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis.
Bahr, G M, Sattar, M A, Stanford, J L, Shaaban, M A, Al Shimali, B, Siddiqui, Z, ...
Responses to four new tuberculins were found to be significantly reduced in 46 patients with rheumatoid arthritis in comparison with a control group of 79. Except for tuberculin itself, the same was...
Skin test responsiveness to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, HLA-DR4, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Markusse, H M, Hazes, J M, Dijkmans, B A, De Vries, R R, Stanford, J L
Chao, L P, Steele, J, Rodrigues, C, Lennard-Jones, J, Stanford, J L, Spiliadis, C, ...
Hybridomas have been prepared from active B cells in lymphoid tissue draining lesions of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), by fusion of fresh mesenteric lymph node suspensions with...
HLA-DR3 associated genetic control of response to multiple skin tests with new tuberculins.
Van Eden, W, De Vries, R R, Stanford, J L, Rook, G A
Multiple skin testing with mycobacterial antigenic preparations reveals distinct reaction patterns, which might be relevant to the development of mycobacterial disease in man. Previous work has shown...
Absence of antibodies to muramyl dipeptide in patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.
Bahr, G M, Modabber, F Z, Rook, G A, Mehrotra, M L, Stanford, J L, Chedid, L
The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELisa) was used to detect the presence of antibodies to muramyl dipeptide (MDP) in serum of patients with leprosy or tuberculosis. Using a conjugate of...
Bahr, G M, Rook, G A, Stanford, J L
The response to soluble mycobacterial antigens of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, from most normal donors, tuberculosis patients or cases of tuberculoid leprosy (TT/BT) was enhanced by the...
Rook, G A, Carswell, J W, Stanford, J L
Lymphocyte-transformation responses to mycobacterial antigens have been studied, using paired blood and lymph node samples from 'normal' Ugandans, (hernia repairs or orthopaedic cases) or from...
Bahr, G M, Rook, G A, Shahin, A, Stanford, J L, Sattar, M I, Behbehani, K
Using sera from 75 healthy donors, 68 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, and 85 tuberculosis (TB) patients, we have examined the level of antibody of the three major classes binding to seven...
Bahr, G M, Rook, G A, Al-Saffar, M, Van Embden, J, Stanford, J L, Behbehani, K
We previously reported DR2 and DR7-associated regulation of antibody binding to mycobacteria in rheumatoid arthritis sera (RA), but not in tuberculosis (Tb). An extensive analysis of antibody to...
Fine, P E, Gruer, P J, Maine, N, Ponnighaus, J M, Rees, R J, Stanford, J L
In order to test a published claim that the inclusion of Mycobacterium leprae antigens with a tuberculin skin test reagent can suppress delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to tuberculin in both...
I-A restricted activation by T cell lines of anti-tuberculosis activity in murine macrophages.
Rook, G A, Champion, B R, Steele, J, Varey, A M, Stanford, J L
Tuberculosis and leprosy remain two of the world's most significant diseases. Immunity involves the activation of macrophages by lymphokines but the details are unknown because there has been no...
Rook, G A, Steele, J, Barnass, S, Mace, J, Stanford, J L
Live mycobacteria are more efficient vaccines against mycobacterial disease than killed ones. A possible explanation is the existence of important protective antigens released by live bacilli, which...
Germ-line BRCA1 mutations in selected men with prostate cancer.
Langston, A. A., Stanford, J. L., Wicklund, K. G., Thompson, J. D., Blazej, R. G., Ostrander, E. A.
Khoo, S. H., Wilkins, E. G., Fraser, I. S., Hamour, A. A., Stanford, J. L.
BACKGROUND: T cell response to mycobacterial antigens may be directed against those antigens common to all mycobacteria (group i), those restricted to slow (group ii) or fast growers (group iii), or...
Tuberculosis and HIV: light after darkness.
Grange, J M, Stanford, J L, Rook, G, Onyebujoh, P, Bretscher, P A
Development of IgG responses to mycobacterial antigens.
Pilkington, C, Costello, A M, Rook, G A, Stanford, J L
Recent studies link mycobacterial and human heat shock protein antigens with autoimmune diseases. Little is known about the development of antibody responses to these antigens in children. IgG...
Risk of breast cancer in relation to the interval since last full term pregnancy.
Cummings, P., Stanford, J. L., Daling, J. R., Weiss, N. S., McKnight, B.
OBJECTIVE--To examine whether the risk of breast cancer is increased by a recent term pregnancy. DESIGN--Population based case-control study. SETTING--Eight areas in the United States....