introduction: measles is a severe contagious disease preventable by vaccination. besides the prevalence of measles in iran, ministry of health conducted a nation-wide vaccination against measles for all the 5-25 years old population in 2003. this study was done to evaluate the anti measles igg antibody among the medical students from baqiyatallah university of medical science. materials & metho...

An attempt to determine the clinical significance of anti-Bga was performed by transfusing 51Crlabelled red blood cells (RBC) from HLA-B7 positive donors to four patients who had histories of anti-Bga. Pre-and post-transfusion samples showed no change in antibody titer scores, haptoglobin or complement levels. Three of the patients were then transfused with 51Cr-labelled RBC from HLA-B7 negativ...

Human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) is a prevalent virus that affects large proportion of the population worldwide. Natural Killer (NK) cells are essential immune play crucial role in controlling hCMV infection. Despite wide spread infection, there still not enough data related to association between innate and adaptive immunity. This study investigated coordination some NK cell markers expression hum...

objectives: ctxb (cholera toxin b subunit) contributes to a vaccine's efficacy by stimulating production of the anti-ctxb antibody. various attempts have been made to increase production of this antibody. chitosan is a mucoadhesive polysaccharide that has tremendous potential for oral vaccine delivery in terms of its exclusive features that include biocompatibility, biodegradability, high charg...

background & aim: a feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effect of periodically use of garlic on growth ‎performance, and antibody titer to newcastle and infectious bursal diseases in broiler ‎chickens. experimental: ross broiler chicks randomly allocated into the 10 dietary treatments ‎for 6 weeks. a 3 × 4 factorial experiment was used as three periods of feeding (starter, grower...

A 28-year-old woman was admitted during the eighth week of her pregnancy because clinical course consistent with rapid progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN). Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody (anti-GBM Ab) and myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic (MPO-ANCA) were positive, anti-GBM Ab titer being extremely high. She treated hemodialysis, plasma exchange prednisolone. survived ill...

A 40-year-old Korean man presented with painful swelling and tenderness of both ankle joints as well as the plantar surfaces of both feet, along with inflammatory back pain, and a purulent discharge from the urethral orifice. The patient also complained of sicca-like symptoms including dry eyes and dry mouth. An immunological analysis revealed a high titer of rheumatoid factor, positive results...

Central to the humoral theory of transplantation is production of antibodies by the recipient against mismatched HLA antigens in the donor organ. Not all mismatches result in antibody production, however, and not all antibodies are pathogenic. Serologic HLA matching has been the standard for solid organ allocation algorithms in current use. Antibodies do not recognize whole HLA molecules but ra...