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In recent years, certain anesthetics have been shown to have protective effects against acute inflammation in experimental animals, an observation that may yield new options for adjunctive treatment of acute inflammation. In this study, we investigated the effects of chloral hydrate (CH) on the acute inflammatory response in BALB/c mice using lipopolysaccharide/D-galactosamine (LPS/D-GalN)-indu...

PURPOSE The current study aimed to elucidate the role of peritoneal fluid IL-17A in septic mice, and the effects of intraperitoneal or intravenous blockade of the IL-17A pathway by anti-IL17A antibody on survival, plasma, and peritoneal cavity cytokine profile in a murine caecal ligation and puncture (CLP) sepsis model. The main source of peritoneal fluid IL-17A in septic mice was identified. ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease that utilizes nonbiologic and biologic drugs for appropriate management. However, high cost, adverse effects, reduced effectiveness, risk of infection have stimulated the search safer more efficacious therapeutic strategies. In present study, we aimed to evaluate anti-inflammatory analgesic properties eucalyptol in experimental model arthriti...

Infectious catarrh of chickens (fowl coryza of slow onset) was not transmissible to mice or rats by nasal instillation of the specific coccobacilliform bodies. Exudates were also inactive in both rodents on foot pad injection. The infectious catarrhs of the mouse and the rat were reciprocally transmissible by the nasal injection of exudates or tissue cultures of the respective coccobacilliform ...

Chronic inflammatory conditions during peritoneal dialysis (PD)-treatment lead to the impairment of peritoneal tissue integrity. The resulting structural and functional reorganization of the peritoneal membrane diminishes ultrafiltration rate and thereby enhances mortality by limiting dialysis effectiveness over time. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and its receptors TNFR1 and TNFR2 are key player...

the aim of this study was to evaluate antitumour activity of the roots of hibiscus tiliaceus linn. against dalton’s ascitic lymphoma (dal) in swiss albino mice. a significant enhancement of mean survival time (mst) of h. tiliaceus treated tumour bearing mice was found with respect to control group. h. tiliaceus treatment was found to enhance peritoneal cell counts. when these h. tiliaceus treat...

We previously reported that B lymphocyte chemoattractant (BLC; CXCL13) was highly and ectopically expressed in aged (NZB x NZW)F1 (BWF1) mice developing lupus nephritis, and that B1 cells were preferentially chemoattracted toward BLC. We demonstrate in this study that B1 cells fail to home to the peritoneal cavity in aged BWF1 mice developing lupus nephritis, and that they are preferentially re...

The effect on mouse typhoid infection of a 3-day treatment of female virgin mice with 1 mg/day of female sex hormones (estrogen or progesterone), maintaining the same hormonal levels observed in pregnant mice for 30 days, was investigated in order to clarify the mechanisms of altered resistance during pregnancy. Estrogen-exposed mice were more susceptible to the intraperitoneal challenge with S...

Statistically significant alterations were observed in protein fractions of sera and peritoneal fluids of Ehrlich ascitos tumorbearing mice and mice immunized to this tumor when they were compared to normal mice. Of special interest is the in creased y-globulin fraction found in immune mouse sera and peritoneal fluid. The increased y-globulin in peritoneal fluid occurs without any significant a...