among the 30 strains of moderately halophilic bacteria isolated from the salty effluents of textile industries around qom city in central iran, a gram-negative rod shape bacterium designated as strain ip8 showed a remarkable ability in decolorizing of azo dyes over wide ranges of ph (7-11) and temperature (25-45 ºc), in presence of nacl and na2so4 (0.5-1.5 m) under anaerobic and aerobic conditi...

C3d can function as a molecular adjuvant by binding CD21 and thereby enhancing B cell activation and humoral immune responses. However, recent studies suggest both positive and negative roles for C3d and the CD19/CD21 signaling complex in regulating humoral immunity. To address whether signaling through the CD19/CD21 complex can negatively regulate B cell function when engaged by physiological ...

a simple and reproducible method for the rapid extraction and determination of trace amounts of copper(ii) ions using octadecyl-bonded silica membrane disks modified by 1-(2-pyridyl azo)2-naphtol(pan) and atomic absorption spectrometry was presented. the method was based on complex formation on the surface of the envi-18 disk tm disks followed by stripping of the retained species by minimum amo...

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background: it has been hypothesized that the body's response to anesthesia techniques can increase risk of cancer recurrence and metastatic disease after surgery and also can modulate immune responses. some acute inflammatory markers have been measured to survey the immunomodulatory effect of anesthesia, but in this research, we studied the plasma level of cd30 and ykl-40 gene expression which...

The molecular mechanisms involved in the interaction of complement receptor 2 (CR2) with its natural ligands iC3b and C3d are still not well understood. In addition, studies regarding the binding site(s) of the receptor on C3 as well as the affinities of the C3 fragments for CR2 have produced contradictory results. In the present study, we have used surface plasmon resonance technology to study...

The alternative pathway of complement is important in innate immunity, attacking not only microbes but all unprotected biological surfaces through powerful amplification. It is unresolved how host and nonhost surfaces are distinguished at the molecular level, but key components are domains 19-20 of the complement regulator factor H (FH), which interact with host (i.e., nonactivator surface glyc...

BACKGROUND Immune responses to mismatched donor human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are important in the pathogenesis of chronic rejection. This study evaluated whether erythrocyte-bound C4d (E-C4d) is associated with known alloimmune and autoimmune markers of antibody-mediated rejection after human lung transplantation (LTx). METHODS Flow cytometry was used to analyze 22 LTx recipients and 15 hea...