Type I interferons (IFNs), including IFN-α, -β, and -ω, play a critical role in innate immune responses against viral infection. IFN-λ, including IL-29, IL-28A, and IL-28B, recently identified as a new subfamily of IFN named type III IFN, has also been demonstrated to suppress virus replication in vitro and in vivo. However, the molecular mechanisms that regulate the induction of type III IFNs ...

To study prokaryotic expression and subcellular localization of α-13 giardin in Giardia lamblia trophozoites, α-13 giardin gene was amplified and cloned into prokaryotic expression vector pET-28a(+). The positive recombinant plasmid was transformed into E. coli BL21(DE3) for expression by using IPTG and autoinduction expression system (ZYM-5052). The target protein was validated by SDS-PAGE and...

The complete coding sequence of Wild Argali ISG15 cDNA was generated by rapid amplification of cDNA ends. The ISG15 cDNA was 642 bp with an open reading frame of 474 bp, which encoded a 17.47 kDa protein composed of 157 amino acids. Its amino acid sequence shared 97.9%, 80.8%, 91.4%, 94.3%, 78.3% identity with those of ISG15cDNA from Ovis aries (accession no. NM001009735.1), Capra hircus (acces...

La presente investigación pretende contribuir al estudio del mensaje populista en Instagram, red social ya consolidada como herramienta digital de difusión política periodos electorales. Mediante el empleo un análisis contenido que combina metodologías tanto cuantitativas cualitativas, se han analizado las publicaciones (N = 386) subidas a la cuenta oficial Instagram los principales candidatos ...

Background: More than 768 million people have been affected by COVID-19. Identifying lymphocyte subsets and cytokine level abnormalities in COVID-19 patients is essential to gain new insights data on immunity mechanisms against viral infections. Objectives: We used flow cytometry determine the relationship between disease severity, distribution, alterations patients. Methods: Totally 94 (32 mil...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the most common acute infectious diseases. To date, incidence CAP among children was decreased significantly worldwide, mainly due to increasing use effective preventive measures. Nevertheless, remains a cause childhood morbidity and mortality. Pneumonia may develop at any age, but often it occurs in young children, who are more likely have severe co...

Introduction: Astrocytes are the most abundant glial cell type. In addition to their neurological roles, astrocytes also have immune functions. They have been involved in antigen presentation in the central nervous system (CNS). Activated astrocytes express adhesion molecules, chemokines and release several inflammatory mediators, pro-inflammatory cytokines, neurotrophic and neuroprotective fac...

Clostridium Botulinum Type E neurotoxin heavy chain consists of two domains: the translocation domain asthe N-terminal half and the binding domain as the Cterminal half (Hc). One effective way to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin is to inhibit binding of this toxin to neuromuscular synapses with antibodies against binding domain. Two synthetic genes, coding for Hc (the full length binding d...

The impending influenza virus pandemic requires global vaccination to prevent large-scale mortality and morbidity, but traditional influenza virus vaccine production is too slow for rapid responses. In this study, bacterial system has been developed for expression and purification of properly folded HA1 antigen as a rapid response to emerging pandemic strains. Here, a recombinant H5N1 (A/Indone...

introduction: astrocytes are the most abundant glial cell type. in addition to their neurological roles, astrocytes also have immune functions. they have been involved in antigen presentation in the central nervous system (cns). activated astrocytes express adhesion molecules, chemokines and release several inflammatory mediators, pro-inflammatory cytokines, neurotrophic and neuroprotective fac...