brucellosis, caused by brucella spp., is an important zoonotic disease that causes abortion and infertility in cattle and undulant fever in humans. various studies have examined cell-free native and recombinant proteins as candidate protective antigens in animal models. among brucella immunogenes, antigen based on ribosomal preparation has been widely investigated. in this study, the immunogeni...

methods the current study generated two recombinant lentiviruses, plex-gcn and plex-gcp, bearing noxa and puma, respectively. transduction of both genes to hepatocarcinoma (hepg2) was verified using fluorescent microscopic analysis, western blotting, and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (pcr). to evaluate the potential of noxa and puma to initiate apoptosis, a caspase-9 real-tim...

The soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) is one of the world’s most important sources food, feed, and fuel due to its high protein value oil content. However, there exists a lack genotypes suitable for growth in diverse conditions as breeders have developed their own varieties specific purposes within unique environments. This, therefore, creates need different objectives experiment described her...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of exposure to emissions from sugar cane burning on inflammatory mechanisms in tissues of the trachea and lung parenchyma in Wistar rats after different periods of exposure. Methods: This was an experimental open randomized study. The animals were divided into four groups: a control group (CG) underwent standard laboratory conditions, and three experimental ...

mdma generally known as ecstasy, have deleterious effects on the serotonergic neurotransmitter system. recent findings suggest that the liver and brain are major target organs of mdma-related toxicities. although most research is being dynamically performed on brain, however, the molecular mechanisms by which mdma elicits adverse effects in both organs are poorly undrestood.the present study wa...

background 3-4methylenedioxymethamphetamine (mdma) is a synthetic and psychoactive drug, which is known popularly as ecstasy and has toxic effects on human organs. objectives considering the potential toxic interaction, this study was performed to quantify the expression of bax and bcl2 genes in mdma-induced hepatotoxicity on rat liver. subsequently, we evaluated pentoxifylline as a possible pr...

rapid detection and differentiation of infectious bronchitis virus (ibv) involved in the disease outbreak is very important for controlling disease and developing new vaccines. in the present study, three regions of the genome of ibv vaccine and field isolates including s1 gene, gene 3 and nucleocapsid (n) gene along with 3' untranslated region (3' utr) were amplified and subjected to restricti...