The combination of immunosuppressive drugs is part of the treatment regimen of patients undergoing kidney transplantation (RT). Thymoglobulin®, a rabbit immunoglobulin directed against human thymocytes, is the most commonly agent used for induction therapy in RT in the US. In Brazil, Thymoglobulin® is approved by ANVISA for the use in patients who underwent kidney transplantation and despite be...

Macroautophagy is a highly regulated intracellular degradation process which has been extensively studied over the last decade. This pathway has been initially described as a non selective process inducing the degradation of parts of the cytoplasm as well as organelles at random. Nevertheless, over the last few years, new research highlighted the existence of a more selective autophagy pathway ...

Cells from leukemia L1210 and a subline resistant to methylglyoxal-bis(guanylhydrazone) elicited a demonstrable humoral antibody response in DBA/2Ha-DD mice. Using paired-label 7-globulin mixtures containing '3 ' I-labeled normal and '2 5I-labeled immune 7-globulin, we showed that the specific uptake of antiresistant L1210 cell 7-globulin by resistant L1210 cells was consistently higher than th...

This research study employed a mixed-methods approach to investigate the test takers’ perceptions and anx- iety in relation to an English language proficiency test called Community English Program (CEP). This study also evaluated the direct and semi-direct modes for speaking module of this test. To this end, 300 Eng- lish as Foreign Language (EFL) students were recruited in the study as test ta...

BACKGROUND The therapeutic efficacy of horse antilymphocyte globulins (ALG) or of rabbit antithymocyte globulins (ATG), used for both the prevention and treatment of allograft rejection has been well documented. However, clinical use of these heterologous antibodies can result in the production of antibodies against horse or rabbit proteins and in the development of serum sickness via circulati...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The 11S globulin Sin a 2 is a marker to predict severity of symptoms in mustard allergic patients. The potential implication of Sin a 2 in cross-reactivity with tree nuts and peanut has not been investigated so far. In this work, we studied at the IgG and IgE level the involvement of the 11S globulin Sin a 2 in cross-reactivity among mustard, tree nuts and peanut. MET...

Cells from leukemia L1210 and a subline resistant to methylglyoxal-bis(guanylhydrazone) elicited a demonstrable humoral antibody response in DBA/2Ha-DD mice. Using paired-label 7-globulin mixtures containing '3 ' I-labeled normal and '2 5I-labeled immune 7-globulin, we showed that the specific uptake of antiresistant L1210 cell 7-globulin by resistant L1210 cells was consistently higher than th...

A 32 year old Indian female was referred to our hospital at 32 weeks of gestation because of difficulty in blood group determination and further antenatal care. The results of cell and serum grouping of her blood sample were suggestive of Bombay (O(h)) Rh (D) negative phenotype. An indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) using a pool of red cells from two Bombay Rh (D) positive blood donors gave negat...

Background: Until now, the comparison of the rK39 strip test (RKT) and direct ag-glutination test (DAT) for detection of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is exclusively based on either positive or negative qualification of the reaction outcome. Objective: In this study, we compared the diagnostic performance of RKT and DAT for VL both qualitatively and semi-quantitatively. Methods: For comparison ba...

ONSIDERABLE TIME AND EFFORT has been devoted to the problem of fractionating serum protein simply, reliably, and rapidly, and at the same time in conformity with the free electrophoretic separation into albumin and a-, fi-, and 7-globulins. Much progress has been made, but discrepancies remain, especially in connection with aand -gIobulins. A few years ago Wolfson, Cohn, et at. (1) devised a re...