background: mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) with their potential to differentiate into mesodermal and non-mesodermal lineages have several immunomodulatory characteris-tics. these properties make them promising tools in cell and gene therapy. objective: to evaluate the potential therapeutic applications of autologous msc in improving clinical manifestations of ms patients. methods: ten patients w...

background: dendritic cells (dcs) are potent antigen presenting cells for triggering of the immune reaction post transplantation. these cells are centrally involved in the initiation of t cell-dependent immune responses. objective: to compare the level of dc maturation and function in liver transplant recipients with healthy controls. methods: in this study, twelve peripheral blood samples were...

background: repeated implantation failure (rif) is one of the most intricate obstacles in assisted reproduction. the cytokine and chemokine composition of uterine cavity seem to play important roles in the implantation process. objective: to compare the cytokine profile in the endometrium of normal fertile women and those with repeated implantation failure. methods: after enzymatic digestion of...

objective(s) doxorubicin (dox), a widely used chemotherapeutic agent can give rise to serve cardiotoxicity by inducing apoptosis. curcumin, the active compound of the rhizome of curcuma longa l. has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-proliferative activities. curcumin has been identified to increase cytotoxicity in several cancer cell lines in combination with dox, but there is no study ab...

background: cytoadherence of plasmodium falciparum - infected red blood cells to endothelial cells is an important mechanism for parasite survival and a major trigger for diseases pathology. here, we de­scribe a new adhesion assay in which different cell types (cho, cho/cd36 and cho/icam-1) are at­tached to cytodex beads in a mini-column format to measure the relative sizes of various binding s...

conclusions the inhibition of tregs is a novel therapeutic approach to cure chronically hbv infected patients. however, further studies are needed to investigate the safety and efficacy of this approach. results considering the increased levels of regulatory cytokines and also regulatory t cells (tregs) during chb, it seems that these cells are deeply involved in chb infection. the inhibition o...

background : cancer stem cells are a subgroup of tumor cells that have the capability for self-renewal and differentiation and are characterized by multiple markers. several studies have been conducted to identify these cells in colorectal cancer, including stem cell marker cd24. this study has evaluatedtheassociation of cd24 expression with clinicopathologic features and survival in an immunoh...

activated macrophages have been classified into classical (m1) and alternative (m2) macrophages. we aimed to establish a method to yield enough number of macrophages to analyze their molecular, biological and immunological functions. we used drugs; adjuvant albumin from chicken egg whites—imject alum (ova- alum) and ova complete freund adjuvant (ova-cfa), to induce macrophages to m2 and m1 resp...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is an inflammatory demyelinating and neurodegenerative disorder of  the  central  nervous  system (cns), which mainly affects  young adults. activated t lymphocytes promote the neuro-inflammatory cascade of ms by secreting pro-inflammatory cytokines and play a significant role in its pathogenesis. t  lymphocytes may trigger the inflammation, which in turn leads to axonal...

research about potential use of stem cells for the development of germ line cells in vitro had been challenged. in the present study, we reported a novel protocol consisting of cocktail growth factor addition for germ cell differentiation followed by transfection. the cells were purificated based on the expression on the cell surface of a protein. this protein is not present in normal cells of ...