Inflammatory neuropathies may be due to infection (with a specific casual agent identified) including Lyme disease, HIV, Leprosy, Herpes Zoster, Hepatitis B & C. The other group of are Autoimmune or possibly infectious (but with no specific causal infectious agent identified) including sarcoidosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome/ acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( AIDP), chronic in...

background: although a simple and direct method does not exist for the detection of chlamydial infections, there are situations in which reliable serological tests, with sensi-tivity related to a specific antigen, could be helpful. objective: the aim of this study was to clone the first 1100 bp of the c. trachomatis outer membrane protein 2 (omp2) gene in order to prepare a recombinant protein ...

Background: VP4 protein is as spikes on rotavirus outer capsid shell which is responsible for virus attachment to the host. VP4 induces production of neutralizing antibodies which could be used for serotyping of different isolates. Methods: Simian rotavirus SA11 gene 4 cDNA was cloned into a cloning plasmid pDONRTM by recombination reaction using clonase II enzyme mix. The resulting clone was c...

this study was designed to evaluate serum and milk amyloid a (saa) as an inflammatory indicator in inflammatory diseases. twenty clinically healthy cows and 100 cows with various inflammatory diseases were selected for this study. blood samples were collected from the coccygeal vein of both healthy and diseased groups. milk samples were taken from four quarters of both groups. milk samples of f...

One critical step of apoptosis is the release of mitochondrial proteins through the outer mitochondrial membrane. Recent work shows that two pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins, Bax and Bid, as well as the mitochondrion-specific lipid cardiolipin may cooperate in chemically defined liposomes to generate a protein-permeable conduit, relaunching the debate on the identity of the pore responsible ...

introduction: ischemic stroke is a serious neurological disease and a leading cause of death and severe disability in the world. a key component of the mediterranean diet is olive oil, which contains compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. in this regard, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of olive oil on the ischemic damages and the inflammatory pathwa...