Factors involved in the development of a human oncornavirus vaccine are discussed. The isolation and purification of subviral gp69/71 antigenic components enhance the feasibility of developing safe vaccine. The recent isolation of a C-type virus (the HL-23) from a human leukemic patient and its similarity to the simian sarcoma virus presents us with a unique opportunity to test the safety and p...

Hydatid cyst, the larval stage of cestodes Echinococcus spp., is recognized as a zoonotic infection in the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently classified echinococcosis in a group of neglected tropical diseases.The prevalence of Echinococcus granulosus infection is high in Iran due to the presence of various intermediate hosts in this country. Considering the rising trend of...

The rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides is used as food and traditional Chinese medicine for its hypoglycemic effect. The aim of this study was to investigate the isolation, purification and hypoglycemic activity of Anemaran as the active component. The influence factors (isolation duration, ratio of residuals to water and extracting times) during the isolation process were evaluated. The opti...

Introduction: The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a group of cell surface proteins that are essential for recognizing foreign molecules in human and other mammals. The physiologic function of MHC molecules is the presentation of peptides to T cells. In this study, we evaluated the purification of a class II MHC molecule (HLA-DR) from a human Burkitt′s lymphoma cell line; Daudi...

nanocrystalline sio2–hclo4, as a newly reported catalyst, has been used as an efficient and reusable catalyst for the synthesis of pyrimidine derivatives. the procedure can be successfully applied to the efficient synthesis of mono substituted pyrimidine derivatives, using triethyl orthoformate, ammonium acetate, methyl ketone derivatives. in practice, this method is a combination of a satisfac...

Fermentations of the marine fungus Hypoxylon oceanicum (LL-15G256) were found to have potent antifungal activity. Isolation and purification of the antifungal agents provided two classes of compounds, macrocyclic polylactones and the lipodepsipeptides 15G256 gamma (1), 15G256 delta (2) and 15G256 epsilon (3). The isolation and structure elucidation of the lipodepsipeptides, all containing D-glu...

Solving many immunological problems we need highly purified immunoglobulin prepara tions. First of all, IgG and their Fc fragments, IgM, IgA, IgE, IgD, immunoglobulin λ and κ chains are widely used as immunogens. On the other hand, these biomolecules are necessary to obtain immunosorbent for the binding of cross reactive antibodies; they are also needed for the affinity chromatography purificat...

The bioassay-guided purification of Zanthoxylum paracanthum (Rutaceae) extracts led to the isolation of three new alkaloids, namely 1-hydroxy-10-methoxy-7H-dibenzo[de,g]quinolin-7-one (zanthoxoaporphine A, 2), 1-hydroxy-7H-dibenzo[de,g]quinolin-7-one (zanthoxoaporphine B, 3) and 1,8-dihydroxy-9-methoxy-7H-dibenzo[de,g]quinolin-7-one (zanthoxaporphine C, 4), and a known lignan identified as sesa...

The knowledge of the metabolism and biological function of myoglobin remains very limited. In 1932, Theorell (1) described the crystallization of myoglobin from perfused horse heart. Rossi-Fanelli and Aragona (2) isolated this same protein from a number of domestic animals. Although the purification and crystallization of myoglobin of large mammalian species and the human (3) have been successf...