Symposium 5 focused on research approaches that are aimed at understanding common patterns of immunological and neurological dysfunction contributing to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD. The session focused on genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors that might act in concert to influence autism risk, severity and co-morbidities, and immunological and neurobiological t...

The successful development of vaccines depends on the knowledge of the immunological mechanisms associated with the elimination of the pathogen. In the case of schistosomes, its complex life cycle and the mechanisms developed to evade host immune system, turns the development of a vaccine against the disease into a very difficult task. Identifying the immunological effector mechanisms involved ...

Epidemiological data highlight prostate cancer as a significant global health issue, with high incidence and substantial impact on patients’ quality of life. The prevalence this disease is associated various factors, including age, heredity, race. Recent research in genetics has identified several genetic variants that may be an increased risk developing the disease. However, despite significan...

beta thalassemia major patients receive repeated transfusions in order to compensate anemia and use desferal to remove iron overload. comparing immunoglobulins and complement components in the serum of these patients with normal range shows a significant increase (p<0.001) in igg, iga and igm and a decrease in c3c and c4. the regression analysis confirms a relation between the numbers of transf...

background: toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite, which infects one-third population of world. humans and animals acquire infection by ingesting oocytes from feces of cats or by meat of other animals having cysts that may lead to congenital, ocular or cephalic toxoplasmosis. either it is important to detect t. gondii from meat of food animals from retail shops or directly at slaughter...

the final treatment for diabetes is transplantation of islets of langerhans. one of the new proposed methods for immunological preservation of transplanted cells is coating of cell surface by polyethylene glycol. in this study, the surface of islets of langerhans was coated by cyanuric chloride activated methoxy polyethylene glycol. the effect of polymer coating, at two different reaction times...