BACKGROUND Little is known about the clinical and immunological features of coeliac disease patients with neurological disorders. In a large series of adult coeliac disease patients, we investigated the prevalence of neurological disorders and anti-neuronal antibodies, along with the clinical course. METHODS Neurological symptoms were investigated in 160 consecutive patients (120 F, 40 M) wit...

background: premature ovarian failure (pof) is a disorder of multi causal etiology. autoimmunity has been proposed as a mechanism for some cases of ovarian follicle dysfunction which is evident in pof. the aim of this study was to identify the level of auto-antibodies in pof and familial pof patients. materials and methods: in this study, auto-antibodies including anti-ovarian antibody (aoa), a...

In the present study, two cases of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis (PLE) associated with small cell lung cancer were reported. Using avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase methods, purified recombinant HuD western blotting and Euroline Neuronal Antigens Profile 2 immunoglobulin G western blotting, it was found that the well-characterized anti-Hu and anti-amphiphysin onconeuronal antibodies were pres...

The presence of the antibodies against the main thyroid antigens, which include thyroid peroxidase (TPO) or microsomal antigen, thyroglobulin (Tg) as well as thyrotropin receptor or Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Receptor (TSH-R), is a hallmark and symbol of the autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs) as one of the most common autoimmune diseases (AD) around the world. The prevalence of the thyroid pe...

how to cite this article: allahdin s, khademvatan s, rafiei a, momen aa, rafiei r. frequency of toxoplasma and toxocara sp. antibodies in epileptic patients, in south western iran. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015;9(4):32-40. abstract objective epilepsy is a disorder of the brain characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate seizures. infectious agents are mentioned in its etiology. w...

Background: Invariant natural killer cells (iNKT) are an important immunoregulatory T cell subset. Currently several flow cytometry-based approaches exist for the identifi-cation of iNKT cells, which rely on using the 6B11 monoclonal antibody or a combina-tion of anti-Vα24 and anti-Vβ11 antibodies. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the ability of two flow cytometry-based methods f...