Correspondence: Anastasios Dontas, Hellenic Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Athens, Greece 9 Afroditis Str., Athens, 105 58, Greece Tel 0030 210 3245 090 Fax 0030 210 3245 090 Email hagg@otenet.gr Abstract: There are now several scientifi c studies that relate this traditional dietary pattern with the incidence of coronary heart disease, various types of cancer, and other diseases. T...

Consider a CIA agent who wants to authenticate herself to a server, but does not want to reveal her CIA credentials unless the server is a genuine CIA outlet. Consider also that the CIA server does not want to reveal its CIA credentials to anyone but CIA agents – not even to other CIA servers. In this paper we first show how pairing-based cryptography can be used to implement such secret handsh...

Detection of antiphospholipid antibodies represents the first-line approach for diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). In this study, we evaluated the clinical performance of a novel chemiluminescence assay (CIA) in detection of IgG/IgM/IgA anti-cardiolipin (aCL) and IgG/IgM/IgA anti-β2 glycoprotein 1 (aβ2GP1) antibodies and to compare it with commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay...

OBJECTIVE Injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has both promotion and inhibition effects on the autoimmune disease. Given the variable roles of LPS in autoimmune diseases, the role of LPS played in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA, autoimmune disease) model remains to be further determined. MATERIALS AND METHODS CIA was induced by intradermal injection of collagen type II (CII) in DBA/1 mice ...

background: the effectiveness of t cell vaccination has been demonstrated in a variety of animal models of both induced and spontaneous autoimmune diseases. objective: the purpose of this study was to test the t cell vaccination protocol to treat and prevent collagen induced arthritis (cia) in a rheumatoid arthritis model. methods: cia was induced by an intradermal injection of an artheritogen ...

Background: IL-4 is a cytokine that induces differentiation of naive helper T cells into Th2 cells. Once activated by IL-4, Th2 cells subsequently produce additional IL-4. Objective: To examine the effect of IL-4 on IL-17 production and its effect in Collagen- Induced Arthritis (CIA) mice. Method: In this study, a chicken collagen-II-induced experimental arthritis (CIA) model was used in DBA/1 ...

We characterize the natural killer (NK) cell colony-inhibiting activity (CIA) produced in supernatants from cultures of human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) with NK-sensitive target cell lines, and study its relationship with NK cell-derived cytotoxic factor (NKCF). Using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific for NK cells or other lymphocyte populations, we unambiguously identify NK cells as...

Recipient strains of Streptococcus faecalis produce a trypsin sensitive, heat resistant, nuclease resistant factor, designated clumping-inducing agent (CIA) which causes strains carrying certain conjugative plasmids to aggregate. RNA and protein synthesis but not DNA synthesis are required for aggregation to occur. Recipient filtrates that contain CIA activity also induce donors to mate at high...