background & objective: lichen planus is a mucocutaneous disease which is relatively common and in 30-70% of patients, mucosal lesions can be seen and known as a precancerous lesion but its etiology is not completely understood. desmogleins i and iii are the main desmosomal transmembrane proteins. these proteins have been identified as the autoantigen of the autoimmune disease. the aim of t...

The injection into one rabbit (with Freund's adjuvants) of a specific precipitate made with antibodies from the serum of another rabbit is usually followed by the appearance in the serum of the first rabbit of antibodies which precipitate the serum of certain rabbits but not of others. It was found that the antigen (or one of the antigens) concerned in the reaction of these anti rabbit serum an...

FEW QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES of cystine in human serum protein fractions have been recorded in the literature, since cystine cannot be determined easily by microbiologic assay or paper chromatography. Brand and his coworkers (1, 2, 3) have reported the amount of cystine and cysteine in a few protein fractions using phosphotungstate and iodometric methods, but few results have been given using the ...

over a period of 5 months for comparison with levels in people who develop mlyocardial infarction. We have studied 107 normal men for 7 years. Among these 11 developed infarction and 6 angina pectoris. Little change in lipid levels was associated with these events. Electrophoretic patterns early after infarction showed certain relatively characteristic changes, especially increase in a-2 and /3...

Thyroid hormone (TH) effects are dependent on the quantity of the hormone that reaches the tissues, hormone activation and the availability of unaltered TH receptors in the cells nuclei and cytoplasm. Since TH enters the cell unbound, the concentration of free rather than total hormone reflects more accurately the activity level of TH-dependent processes. Under normal conditions, changes in fre...