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The Structure and Evolution of Transplantation Antigens
Our laboratory has been interested for the past ten years in the strategies complex multigenic families, such as antibodies, employed for dealing with extremely large amounts of information (Hood and Prahl, 19...
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Clonal Selection and Network Regulation
This article will be concerned with the process of diversification during the ontogenic development of the immune system. We shall advance the thesis that diversification is not only a problem of the phylogene...
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Role of Serum Lipoproteins in the Transport of Cellular Cholesterol
The subject of this presentation is the role of serum lipoproteins in the transport of cellular cholesterol. The donors of cellular cholesterol originate mostly in the liver and the pathways of their synthesis...
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Immune Response Region Associated (Ia) Antigens. Some Structural Features
Ia antigens form an integral part of the lymphocyte cell membrane, and are direct gene products of the I- or Immune Response Region of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of the mouse. Twenty one serologic...
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Two Immunological Worlds: Antibody Molecules and Lymphoid Cell-Surfaces. An Overview of the Mosbach Colloquium
My assignment in this meeting is to summarize the proceedings of the past two days. Most of the talks were themselves summaries. To compress them further might well result in gibberish. Nevertheless, I intend ...
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Effects of Low Dose Phytosterols on Cholesterol Absorption in Man
The plasma cholesterol lowering action of phytosterols has been known for many years (1 – 3). It has generally been thought that large doses of phytosterols are required to obtain a significant reduction in pl...
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Sitosterol in Type II Hyperlipoproteinemia
In 1951, PETERSON reported that the increase of plasma cholesterol levels in chickens caused by cholesterol feeding can be prevented by including 1 % soybean sterols in the diet (18). Since then, numerous inve...
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Human Postheparin Plasma Lipolytic Activities
Human postheparin lipolytic activities (PHLA) are considered to bemajor factors in the removal of triglycerides from circulating plasma lipoproteins (1). It was assumed, that this glycerol ester hydrolase acti...
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Molecular Association of Lipids and Proteins in the Plasma Lipoproteins: A Review
In blood, the plasma lipoproteins represent the major vehicle for the transport of triglyceride, cholesterol, both free and esterified, and phospholipid. In addition, these macromolecular complexes are also su...
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Reversible Activation-Deactivation of Hormone-Sensitive Lipase and Observations on its Relation to Lipoprotein Lipase
The rate of release of free fatty acids (FFA) from adipose tissue is stimulated by catecholamines, glucagon, ACTH, and many other so-called lipolytic hormones.The increase in FFA release from intact tissue cor...
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Structure and Specificity of Immunoglobulins
In this presentation we will briefly review our results on the study of the amino acid sequence and the three-dimensional structure of the Fab fragment from a human myeloma protein, IgG1 New (λ, Gm 1+, 3-, 4-,...
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Metabolism of Very Low Density Lipoproteins
The plasma lipoprotein system is traditionally separated into several lipoprotein families defined by physical, chemical, and immunochemical methods. Yet, during the last few years, it has been shown that all ...
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Recognition and Allostery in the Mechanism of Antibody Action
The binding equilibria of antibody and hapten are usually characterized by a single step mechanism. This simple mechanism enabled the detailed analysis of molecular recognition in kinetic terms. Still this mec...
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The Composition, Structure, and Metabolism of High Density Lipoprotein
The purpose of this report is to review recent advances in the understanding of high density lipoprotein (HDL) composition, structure, and metabolism. HDL appears to serve as a carrier for cholesterol, mainly ...
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Genetic Control of T and B Cell Receptor Specificity in the Mouse
The function of the immune system is based on a large variety of receptor molecules whose combining sites can recognize virtually every antigenic substance in the universe. This capacity is reflected in a pron...
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Differentiation of Immunoglobulin Genes
Recent advances in the technology of nucleic acid biochemistry, in particular the availability of highly purified, light and heavy chain mRNAs from mouse plasmacytomas, have enabled several groups of researche...
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Characteristics of B Lymphocytes and Their Mechanism of Activation
The function of the lymphoid system is to defend the individual against otherwise lethal microbial infections. Although the important cells in the system — the small lymphocytes — are all morphologically simil...
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Tumors of Immunoglobulin-Producing Cells and Thymus-Derived Lymphocytes
The immunoglobulin-producing cells differentiate so that one specialized cell and its progeny by mitosis are limited to produce immunoglobulin molecules with a single binding specificity. The binding specifici...
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The Major Histocompatibility Complex and Its Biological Function
It was one of the very early findings in transplantation research that the survival of grafted organs was largely dependent on the degree of genetic similarity between donor and recipient. Selective breeding i...
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Lipid Composition of the Major Human Serum Lipoprotein Density Classes in Different Types of Hyperlipoproteinemia
The six types of hyperlipoproteinemia recognized in the WHO memorandum (1) are based upon criteria that take into consideration the concentration of very low density (VLDL) and low density (LDL) lipoproteins.T...