background: major depression disorder (mdd) is a common disorder with preva-lence of 15% among men and up to 25% among women. in recent years the association of immune system alterations and mdd has been investigated. assessments of immu-nologic and inflammatory responses in these patients enhance our knowledge of the eti-ology and pathogenesis of this disease. objective: to investigate the cha...

Background: Although consumption of three or less than three meals per day (gorging regimen) is usual in some communities, in western population there is an inclination towards many small meals a day (nibbling regimen). Up to now the effects of meal frequency on serum immunoglobulins have not been investigated in laboratory animals. There is also some controversy information about the effect of...

CLINICALCHEMISTRY, Vol.33,No.7, 1987 1291 four patients with the Farmos or the Boot-Ceiltech assay, in both of which mouse serum or mouse immunoglobthins are included. The Behring assay, which includes rat serum, showed no interference with the three sera that over-reacted in the Serono assay. However, the rat serum was unable to neutralize immunoglobulin-bmnding substances in the serum of pati...

OBJECTIVE This cross-sectional study determined the CD4, CD8 counts and serum immunoglobulins in transfusion dependent b - thalassemic patients, and correlated them with anti-HIV, anti-HCV and HBsAg status, number of transfusions, iron overload and splenectomy. METHODS Patients with acute or chronic diseases (except HIV, Hepatitis B and C), on immunosuppressive drugs or vaccinated within one ...

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1977 305 captoethanol was used per liter. We consider that this is due to the known tendency of mercaptoethanol to form aggregates with immunoglobulins, mainly IgG3 and 1gM (3-5). This observation was confirmed when we investigated the effect of two concentrations of mercaptoethanol (2.5 X i0 and 4.0 X 10 mol/liter) on the serum proteins, including immunoglob...

Penicillamine has been used in the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis with variable clinical response (Jaffe, 1963; Camus, Guillien, Crouzet, Schaeffer, and Lievre, 1970; Zuckner, Ramsey, Dorner, and Gantner, 1970; Golding, Wilson, and Day, 1970). Moreover, observations on the effect of this drug on serum immunoglobulins and rheumatoid factor titres have yielded conflicting and ind...