INTRODUCTION In transfusion medicine, antibodies that cause RBCs positive DATs, may interfere with patients' phenotyping. Traditionally, these antibodies were removed using various antibody elution methodologies. However, the elution agents and conditions used have been only partially successful; and no one method is superior. The purpose of this study was to develop a general and efficient met...

cow’s milk allergy is one of the most common food allergies in childhood. beta- lactoglobulin (β-  lg) is  a dominant  allergen in  cow’s milk. hydrolysis is  known as  an effective method to reduce the allergenicity of proteins. thus, the objective of this study was to compare the allergenicity of β-lg and its hydrolysates using an animal model. twenty four balb/c mice were divided into three ...

effects of intra-central amygdala administration of l-arginine, a nitric oxide precursor, and ng-nitro-l-arginine methyl-ester (l name), a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, on the morphine-induced sensitization and also on the expression of morphine-induced place conditioning in rats were studied. subcutaneous (s.c.) administration of morphine (2.5, 5 and 7.5 mg/kg) induced place conditioning. r...

introduction: today the prevalence of teeth decays has considerably decreased. related organizations and institutions mention several reasons for it such as improvement of decay diagnostic equipment and tools which are even capable of detecting caries in their initial stages. this resulted in reduction of costs for patients and remarkable increase in teeth life span. there are many methods for ...

OBJECTIVE Humoral immunity has been clearly implicated in solid organ transplantation, but little is known about the relationship between humoral immunity and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This study was designed to investigate that relationship. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sensitized serum was obtained from a sensitized murine model established by allogeneic splenocyte transfusion. Sens...

This study explored the effects of microRNA-19b (miR-19b) on airway remodeling, airway inflammation, and degree of oxidative stress in a mouse model of asthma. Bioinformatics analyses and dual luciferase reporter gene assays revealed that thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is a direct target of miR-19b. An asthma model was established via ovalbumin (OVA) sensitization and challenge in 72 femal...

In the last 15 years, attention dedicated to organic conjugated systems experienced outstanding growth because of renewed interest in mechanisms involving triplet states such as singlet fission, thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and intersystem crossing enhanced phosphorescence. Photon upconversion via sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation ( sTTA) enables conversion low-energy photons...

Developing a secure anti-counterfeiting technology with more dimensional encryptions is urgently demanded. The lead-free double perovskite (DP) family represented by A2BIBIIIX6 hold great potential for applications in advanced fluorescence owing to of large-bandgap engineering via BI/BIII site transmutation or exotic dopants. Herein, Ln3+ (Ln3+ = Eu3+, Ho3+, and Yb3+)-doped Cs2Ag0.3Na0.7InCl6 D...

The effects of Ocimum basilicum (O. basilicum) and its constituent, rosmarinic acid, on total and differential blood WBC, serum levels of NO2, NO3, MDA, thiol, SOD and CAT in sensitized rats were examined. The study was performed in control animals (group C) and eight groups of sensitized rats to ovalbumin which were given drinking water alone (group S), drinking water containing three concentr...

A new strategy for enhancing the efficiency of TiO2 dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by doping foreign ion into TiO2 lattice via sol-gel process is reported. DSSCs are based on a semiconductor (i.e., TiO2), formed between a photo-sensitized anode and an electrolyte. In order to reach high conversion efficiency, it is important to increase the electron injection and optical absorption. One pro...