objective(s) using herbal medicines as a complementary treatment method is increasing in wide variety of diseases. ms14-an herbal-marine preparation-is reported to have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities; however, the mechanism underlying its therapeutic effect is not known. macrophages play an important role in host defense mechanisms and carry out their role by producing variou...

background & aim: cutaneous infection caused by protozoa the genus leishmania are a major worldwide health problem, with high endemicity in developing countries including middle east, africa and latin america. in the absence of a vaccine, there is an urgent need for effective drugs to replace and supplement those in current use. experimental: in this study, the in vivo efficacy of artemisia...

background: limiting dilution assay is considered as the gold standard method for quantifying the number of parasites in the animal model of leishmania infection. nowadays, real-time pcr is being increasingly applied to quantify infectious agents. in the present study , a real-time pcr assay was developed to estimate para­site burdens in lymph nodes of leishmania major infected balb/c mice. enu...

Objective(s) Quinazolinones are heterocyclic compounds, with biological and pharmacological activities, such as inhibiting some proteins, enzymes and reducing blood lipids. Materials and Methods Following previous results of our group, effects of two new derivatives of quinazolinones 9(3)-quinazolinone-2-propyl-2-phenylethyl (QPPE) and 9(3)-quinazolinone-2-ethyl-2-phenylethyl (QEPE) on liver...

Neonatal thymectomy (NTx) induces autoimmune gastritis (AIG) in BALB/c mice, a model for human type A chronic atrophic gastritis, but not in DBA/2 mice and rarely in CDF1 mice (a hybrid of BALB/c and DBA/2 mice). The aim of this study was to clarify the mechanisms of AIG-resistance in mice bearing the dominant trait of DBA/2. Linkage groups associated with, and cells related to AIG resistance w...

In the present study, we used a dry maze task to assess the spatial learning ability of C57BL/6N and BALB/cA mice besides the water maze task. In Experiment 1, the performance of C57BL/6N and BALB/cA mice in the water maze task and dry maze task were investigated. In the former task, the mice had to learn the position of a hidden platform submerged below the water surface and they had to learn ...

The effect of environmental enrichment in the form of a cage shelf on the behaviour of male C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice was compared. Male C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice were randomly allocated into 12 cages per strain. The mice were kept in control conditions or exposed to a cage shelf for two, four, six or eight weeks, and thereafter assessed with the elevated plus maze. C57BL/6 mice displayed a trend o...

The specificity of recognition of H-2 antigens by various subsets of Tc cells was investigated with respect to the two separate molecules known to be coded in the H-2D(d) region (a) D which carries the private specificity H-2.4 and (b) D'which carries the public specificity H-2.28. BALB/c.H-2(db) mutant mice express D but not D' on their cell surfaces, whereas wild-type BALB/c mice express both...