BACKGROUND The diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection with a tuberculin skin test (TST) in children is complicated by the potential influence of prior exposure to Bacille Calmette Geurin (BCG) vaccination or environmental mycobacteria. A whole blood assay has recently been developed to quantitatively measure interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) production by lymphocytes specific...

Background: The diagnosis of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection with a tuberculin skin test (TST) in children is complicated by the potential influence of prior exposure to Bacille Calmette Geurin (BCG) vaccination or environmental mycobacteria. A whole blood assay has recently been developed to quantitatively measure interferon gamma (IFN-c) production by lymphocytes specific to...

it has been investigated the in vitro antioxidant properties of ethanol extracts of the contained-allantoin plants in this study. contained-allantoined plant samples plantago lanceolata, plantago major, robinia pseudoacacia, platanus orientalis and aesculus hippocastanum were tested at different concentrations. the antioxidant activities of plant samples were analysed by 1,1- diphenyl-2-picrylh...

BACKGROUND Accurate and precise quantification of mRNA in whole blood is made difficult by gene expression changes during blood processing, and by variations and biases introduced by sample preparations. We sought to develop a quantitative whole-blood mRNA assay that eliminates blood purification, RNA isolation, reverse transcription, and target amplification while providing high-quality data i...

there are many studies related to the production of a elisa kit for diagnosing virus infections. however, production of most kits depends on purification of whole virus particles, which involves the use of costly equipment and reagents. the purpose of this study was to check out if the anti-cp42 antibodies could be used as a diagnostic assay for detection of grapevine fanleaf virus (gflv). in t...

The pharmacological screening of some crude extracts obtained from different marine algae collected the Mediterranean in Alexandria region Egypt has been conducted. methanol, butanol, and ethyl acetate Pterocladia capillacea, Ulva lactuca Corallina mediterranea showed inhibitory activity against growth Lemna minor plant. methanol petroleum ether (VII) exhibited significant antioxidant 92.2 84.6...