Development of new tuberculosis vaccine will be an important strategy to eliminate tuberculosis in kwashiorkor. Previous research showed that 38-kDa Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein is one of the potent immunogen. However, the role of oral immunization with 38kDa Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein to the number of lymphocytes in the rat model of kwashiorkor is still unknown. We used kwashiork...

The relationship between the percent phagocytosis of platelets by differentiated THP-1 cells was examined using flowcytometry and the peripheral platelet counts as well as platelet-associated IgG (PAIgG) in 36 patients with secondary dengue virus (DV) infections. The percent phagocytosis and the levels of PAIgG were significantly increased in these patients during the acute phase compared with ...

Comprehensive understanding of mechanisms of epigenetic regulation requires identification of molecules bound to genomic regions of interest in vivo. We have developed a novel method, insertional chromatin immunoprecipitatin (iChIP), to isolate specific genomic regions retaining in vivo molecular interaction in order to perform non-biased identification of interacting molecules. Here, we develo...

We consider axiomatically the problem of estimating the strength of a conditional dependence relationship PY |X from a random variables X to a random variable Y . This has applications in determining the strength of a known causal relationship, where the strength depends only on the conditional distribution of the effect given the cause (and not on the driving distribution of the cause). Shanno...

The authors report a case of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma associated with tuberous sclerosis in a 15-year-old boy. Computed tomographic scans showed a large intraventricular mass with peritumoral calcification and a cyst in the left lateral ventricle. Left dominant unilateral hydrocephalus was also revealed. Magnetic resonance images clearly demonstrated the lesion. The tumor was subtota...

Concern about the side effects of liver cancer treatment has driven studies on anticancer to find compounds from plants that can act as chemotherapy. The activity Chromolaena odorata against colorectal cancer, lung leukemia, cervical breast and been proven. However, this plant’s mechanism inhibit cell growth is still undetermined. This study aims investigate C. HepG2 cells. Extraction leaves wa...

Central nervous system infiltration by acute leukemia is a poor prognosis variable, and conventional cytology the gold standard for its diagnosis; technique highly specific but not sensitive. To improve diagnosis, flow cytometry has been used in different studies, showing greater sensitivity detection of leukemic cells. This study aimed to evaluate presence tumor cells flowcytometry cytology, c...

objectives: the study of erythropoiesis needs to develop the methods for erythroid progenitor cells (epcs) culture using stem cell potency to differentiate into variety of hematopoietic cells lineages. in this study, we induced differentiation of cord blood stem cells into erythroid progenitor cells in a semisolid culture media. materials and methods: cord blood mononuclear cells were isolate...