Millions of patients with leprosy suffer from nerve damage resulting in disabilities as a consequence of Mycobacterium leprae infection. However, mechanisms of nerve damage have not been elucidated because of the lack of a model that maintains M. leprae viability and mimics disease conditions. A model was developed using viable M. leprae, rat Schwann cells, and Schwann cell-neuron cocultures in...

After BMT, donor T cells are activated which can display GvHD as well as GvL activities. In order to study this GvL-specific T-cell response in vitro, proliferative T-cell clones from post-BMT PBMCs were generated by stimulation with a patient's leukemic cells. One CD4+ T-cell clone (designated M-33) displayed strong proliferative activity against the patient's leukemic cells but not against th...

IL-33 modulates both innate and adaptive immune responses at tissue sites including lung and may play critical roles in inflammatory lung disease. Although IL-33 expression can be altered upon NF-Kappa B activation, here we examine regulation by Oncostatin M, a gp130 cytokine family member, in mouse lung tissue. Responses were assessed in BALB/c mouse lung at day 7 of transient overexpression u...

AMA Grase MO, M. Elhafez H, Abdellatif M, Genedi A, Mahmoud Effect of instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization versus kinesiotape for chronic mechanical low back pain: a randomized controlled trial. Physiotherapy Quarterly. 2023;31(2):27-33. doi:10.5114/pq.2023.125742. APA Grase, O., Elhafez, H., Abdellatif, M., Genedi, A., & Mahmoud, (2023). Quarterly, 31(2), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.5114...

Abstract This study aims to know the impact of peeling machine type and clearances on some qualitative characteristics Mashkhab (M-33) cultivar rice production. It was observed from this that S-KB40 significantly superior Y-ST50 in all studied characteristics, while it achieved highest results with a clearance 0.9cm, except for husking efficiency 0.5 cm. The experiments were conducted factorial...