@article{WillBlankRoellinghoffetal.1992,
  author    = {Will, Antje and Blank, Christine and R{\"o}llinghoff, Martin and Moll, Heidrun},
  title     = {Murine epidermal Langerhans cells are potent stimulators of an antigen-specific T cell response to Leishmania major, the cause of cutaneous leishmaniasis},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-45872},
  year      = {1992},
  abstract  = {Cutaneous leishmaniasis is initiated by the bite of an infected sandfly and inoculation of Leishmania major parasites into the mammalian skin. Macrophages are known to playa central role in the course of infection because they are the prime host cells and funetion as antigen-presenting eells (APC) for induetion of the eell-mediated immune response. However, in addition to maerophages in the dermis. the skin eontains epidermal Langerhans eells (LC) which ean present antigen (Ag) to T cells. Therefore, using a murine model of cutaneous leishmaniasis, we analyzed the ability of epidermal cells to induce a T eell response to L.major. The results demonstrated that freshly isolated LC, but not cuItured LC, are highly active in presenting L.major Ag in vitro to T cells from primed mice and to a L.major-specific T cell clone. Furthermore, freshly isolated LC had the ability to retain L.major Ag in immunogenic form for at least 2 days. Their efficiency was much greater than that of irradiated spleen cells, a standard population of APC. LC stimulated both T cell proliferation and production of the Iymphokines interleukin (IL)-2 and IL-4. The response was Ag specific and could be induced by lysate of L. major parasites and by live organisms. The data suggest that epidermal LC are important APC in eutaneous leishmaniasis. They may perform a critical funetion by eapturing L.major Ag in the skin and presenting it either to quiescent T eells circulating through the draining lymph node or locally to T effector cells infiltrating the cutaneous lesion.},
  subject      = {Immunologie},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{SolbachBogdanMolletal.1989,
  author    = {Solbach, W. and Bogdan, C. and Moll, Heidrun and Lohoff, M. and R{\"o}llinghoff, M.},
  title     = {Parasit{\"a}re Evasionsmechanismen: Beispiel Leishmanien},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-30920},
  year      = {1989},
  abstract  = {Leishmanien besitzen eine Vielzahl von Mechanismen, die humorale und zellul{\"a}re Immunabwehr effektiv zu unterlaufen. Diese h{\"a}ngen eng mit der Expression von haupts{\"a}chlich zwei Glykokonjugaten auf der Parasitenoberfl{\"a}che zusammen, dem gp63 und dem Lipophosphoglykan. Die Parasiten sind einerseits schlechte Aktivatoren des alternativen Komplementweges und umgehen damit ihre eigene extrazellul{\"a}re Lyse. Oberfl{\"a}chengebundene Komplementfaktoren f{\"o}rdern andererseits die Aufnahme der Leishmanien durch Makrophagen. Solange diese nicht durch T-Zellen aktiviert sind, dienen sie den Parasiten als "Refugium". Dies gilt insbesondere, als Leishmanien in der Lage sind, 1. den "oxidative burst" zu hemmen; 2. toxische Sauerstoffmetaboliten zu entgiften; 3. abbauende lysosomale Enzyme zu hemmen und 4. das saure Milieu in den Lysosomen f{\"u}r ihren eigenen Metabolismus auszunutzen. Schließlich unterlaufen Leishmanien die zellul{\"a}re Immunabwehr des Wirts, indem sie die Aktivierung von T-Lymphozyten hemmen und die Expansion von T-Zell-Sub-populationen bewirken, die f{\"u}r ihr eigenes {\"U}berleben n{\"u}tzlich sind.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{MollBoesingSchneider1988,
  author    = {Moll, Heidrun and B{\"o}sing-Schneider, Rita},
  title     = {The transplantation barrier of nude mice},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-46045},
  year      = {1988},
  abstract  = {Syngeneic memory cells can be stimulated to yield a secondary immune response after their transfer into irradiated euthymie recipients as well as into young thymusless nude mice. It is shown that nude mice older than twelve weeks of age are not permissive towards memory cell activation as it is found in non-irradiated euthymie animals. This barrier to isogeneie or congeneic cells seems to be caused by a pool of cyclophosphamide-sensitive cells. Since young nude mice could be rendered as unpermissive as older nude mice by pretreatment with either PNA-agglutinable thymus cells or nylon-wool passed spleen cells, it is suggested that an increased number of precursor T cells in older nude mice might induce this effect. Further experiments with monoclonal antibodies against the Lyt-l, Lyt-2, and L3T4 marker on T cells indicate that T -helper/inducer activity might be required to establish the "isogeneie barrief" in nude mice.},
  language  = {de}
}