The ability of antibodies to interfere with anterograde transmission of herpes simplex virus (HSV) from neuronal axons to the epidermis was investigated in an in vitro model consisting of human fetal dorsal root ganglia innervating autologous skin explants in a dual-chamber tissue culture system. The number and size of viral cytopathic plaques in epidermal cells after axonal transmission from H...

background: cigarette smoking has been linked with the suppression of immune responses and increased susceptibility to numerous infections in humans. tetanus is also a major public health problem in many countries. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the serum levels of anti-tetanus toxin antibodies in c igarette smoking and healthy non-smoking people .   materials and methods: a total...

background: anti-hla-antibodies are known to affect the allograft survival in transplant recipient patients. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between anti-hla antibodies and kidney allograft outcomes, particularly in recipients with concur-rent donor bone marrow cell infusion (dbmi). methods: between june 2006 and may 2007, forty living unrelated donor kidney tra...

background: we have previously reported that a 31 kda protein was screened from the excretory-secretory (es) proteins of tichinella spiralis muscle larvae (ml) by immunoproteomics using early infection sera, and the gene encoding a 31 kda protein from t. spiralis was cloned and expressed in an e. coli expression system. in this study, the recombinant 31 kda antigens were used for detection of a...

objective: pseudomonas aeruginosa is the major cause of septicemia and wound infection in burned patients. immunotraphy is the best practical way for prevention and treatment of these infections. flagella as one of the most important bacterial virulence factors has important role in attachment, motility, chemotaxis and tlr-5-dependent immune response so that it propounded as a vaccine candidate...