Specific HLA antigens were also found in other forms of uveitis such as Reiter's disease (HLA-B 27), Behcet's syndrome (HLA-B 5), VKH syndrome (HLA-Bw 22J) and ocular histoplasmosis (HLA-B 7).
In order to test indirectly the hypothesis that Behçet's syndrome is caused by a virus, lymphocytes from eighty-six patients were evaluated for two parameters consistent with persistent virus infection: chromosomal abnormalities and decreased ability to herpes simplex virus type I (HSV) to grow in lymphocyte cultures stimulated by PHA.
Frequency of HLA-A, B, and C antigens was studied in 184 patients with Behçet's disease to investigate the immunogenetically determined predisposition to this disease.
Augmented IL-6 production was found in inflammatory synovium not only in RA but also in other kinds of synovitis, including psoriatic arthritis and Behçet's disease.
These results indicated that the primary and primordial gene(s) responsible for the susceptibility to BD, especially related to ocular lesions, were not located in the HLA class II gene region but were in or very close to the HLA-B locus in the class I region.
These results indicated that a non-HLA gene located around the TNF gene region centromic of the HLA-B gene was a candidate to control the genetic susceptibility to Behçet's disease.
These results indicated that a non-HLA gene located around the TNF gene region centromic of the HLA-B gene was a candidate to control the genetic susceptibility to Behçet's disease.
Ninety Japanese patients with Behçet's disease (BD) were typed for human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1, -DQA1-, -DQB1, and -DPB1 alleles by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method and for HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR, and -DQ antigens by conventional serologic typing.
Ninety Japanese patients with Behçet's disease (BD) were typed for human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1, -DQA1-, -DQB1, and -DPB1 alleles by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method and for HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR, and -DQ antigens by conventional serologic typing.
To address the possibility that a non-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene closely linked to the HLA-B gene, such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, TNF-beta, or ECl (the locus that determines the susceptibility to alloreactive natural killer [NK] cells), is involved in the susceptibility to Behçet's disease, NcoI and EcoRI restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the TNF-beta gene and the susceptibility to lysis by alloreactive NK cells were investigated in Behçet's patients.
Ninety Japanese patients with Behçet's disease (BD) were typed for human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1, -DQA1-, -DQB1, and -DPB1 alleles by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method and for HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR, and -DQ antigens by conventional serologic typing.
One of the HLA-B molecules investigated here, HLA-B*5101, is associated with Behçet's disease, a multisystemic inflammatory disease affecting various organs.