background: neutrophils have an important role in the rapid innate immune response, and the release or active secretion of elastase from neutrophils is linked to various inflammatory responses. purpose of this study was to determine how the human neutrophil elastase affects the interleukin-10 (il-10) response in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc). materials and methods: in this prospecti...

Human serum albumin has been used as a model protein for protein folding and ligand binding studies over many decades. Due to its long life period and high concentration in plasma, HSA is highly sensitive to glycation. It is reported that 175 mg/dL glucose concentration is a threshold of kidney activity for the beginning of excretion of glucose. pH denaturation of HSA in absence and presence of...

  Objective(s): Echis carinatus is one of the venomous snakes in Iran. The venom of Iranian Echis carinatus is a rich source of protein with various factors affecting the plasma protein and blood coagulation factor. Some of these proteins exhibit types of enzymatic activities. However, other items are proteins with no enzymatic activity.   Materials and Methods: In order to study the mechanism ...

Background: Most cancer cells become resistant to anti-cancer agents. In the last few years, a new approach for targeted therapy of human cancer has been developed using immunotoxins which comprise both the cell targeting and the cell killing moieties. Methods: In the present study, the recombinant Shiga toxin A1 subunit fused to human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (A1-GM-CSF...

protein tyrosine phosphatases (ptpases) regulate the tyrosine phosphorylation of target proteins in volved in several biological activities including cell proliferation and transformation. protein tyrosine phosphatase e (ptpe) contains duplicated ptpase-like domains and a short extracellular region. us ing the fluorescence in situ hybridization method, the gene encoding ptpe (locus symbol ptpre...

in current study, protein hydrolysates were produced using microbial proteases of alcalase, protamex and flavourzyme from yellowfin tuna viscera. the results indicated that, protein hydrolysate from alcalase, had significantly higher protein content, nitrogen recovery and degree of hydrolysis than the others (p 0.05). the results of amino acids composition revealed that all hydrolysates were al...

introduction: endometrial receptivity towards embryo implantation involves several dynamic changes, i.e. “the plasma membrane transformation of the luminal epithelium”. this includes the appearance of large projections on the apical surface of the epithelial cells, which their function(s) has not been clearly known in humans. this study is designed to identify the potential physiological roles ...