BACKGROUND specific immunotherapy for Hymenoptera Venom (VIT) is considered a life-saving treatment in insect sting allergy. A few studies with depot VIT have been published, but they are mainly focussed on patients sensitized to Apis. METHODS this retrospective study was designed to evaluate both efficacy and safety of depot VIT for Vespula. Thirty-six patients (age range 6-73 years) with a ...

Ascorbic acid (Vit C) is a reducing agent that efficiently quenches potentially damaging free radicals. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of high acute dose of Vit C on redox and antioxidative status in blood of rats. Our study included two groups of Wistar albino rats: I – untreated group (control); II – group treated with Vit C (500 mg/kg bw, i.p.). In all cases animals were sa...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to compare serum levels of interleukin-6, visfatin, and hyaluronic acid in chronic hepatitis C Egyptian patients who received standard of care (SOC) therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) consisting of pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) and in those who received SOC with vitamin D (vit D) for 48 weeks in HCV genotype 4a subjects. DESIGN AND METHODS One...

The objective of the present study is to research the effect of dietary vitamin E (Vit E) on the antioxidative status and lipid peroxidation in laying hens as well as in egg yolks under experimentally induced oxidative stress conditions via Dexamethasone (DEX) administrations. A total of 60 Egyptian local strain (Gimmizah) laying hens at 36 weeks of age were housed in individual cages in an ope...

This study was undertaken to compare between the human amniotic membrane (HAM) and intraperitoneal vitamin E (Vit E) and selenium in prevention of postoperative adhesions in dogs. A total of 18 apparently healthy adult Mongrel dogs were divided into three equal groups and the group (I) was treated with a sterile solution of 0.9% sodium chloride intraperitoneally as a control. Group II was treat...

The current studies were designed to characterize type IIb sodium-phosphate cotransporter (NaPi-IIb) expression and to assess the effect of 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D3 (vit-D3) on NaPi-IIb gene expression during rat ontogeny. Sodium-dependent Pi absorption by intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMV) decreases with age, and NaPi-IIb gene expression also decreases proportionally with age. Vit-D...

Results: Of 31 patients with MM, 19 cases were male. The median age was 63 (Range: 49-90 years). The mean vit-D level was 11.9±7.6ng/ml, and was low in 20 of 33 cases (93%). The vit D level was significantly lower in cases whom a greater number of chemotherapy cycles was administered (p= 0.033). There was no statistically significant relationship between blood vit D level and bone fracture deve...

We previously reported that Vitamin C (Vit C) protects against doxorubicin (Dox)-induced cardiotoxicity by reducing oxidative stress, p38 mitogen-activated kinase (MAPK) and p53 activation and rescuing cell death in isolated adult cardiomyocytes. The pattern of activation and the role of oxidative stress as well as down-stream mechanisms for such protection remain elusive. Therefore the present...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary essential oil combination (sage, thyme, and mentha extracts) (EOC) and vitamin E (Vit E) supplementation on laying hens’ performance, egg quality, yolk Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substance (TBARS) values and Escherichia coli (E. coli)and Coli form bacterium counts in excreta. One-hundred and twenty Lohmann white layers (36 we...

We report on a 33-year-old female patient with indolent systemic mastocytosis and urticaria pigmentosa who died of an anaphylactic reaction after a yellow jacket sting. As she had no history of previous anaphylactic sting reaction, there was no testing performed in order to detect hymenoptera venom sensitization. But even if a sensitization had been diagnosed, no venom immunotherapy (VIT) would...