objective: leishmaniasis is one of the significant causes of morbidity and mortality in several countries. it is an important problem in endemic areas such as iran. the goal in treatment of leishmaniasis is to reduce the disease period and leave no evidence of any remaining scars or lesions. a derivative of artemisinin is artemether. scientists believe that the strong action of artemether again...

background: myelodysplastic syndrome is a mixed clonal disorder of bone marrow progenitor cells. understanding the pattern of the different lineage-specific, immature, and mature markers in myelodysplastic syndrome will help in setting-up the frame of reference to diagnose. patients and methods: we compared 60 bone marrow samples from 30 newly-diagnosed patients with myelodysplastic syndrome an...

background: although the pathogenesis of diabetes type 1 (t1d) is not fully elucidated. different clusters of lymphocytes such as cd4+ and cd8+ t cells are involved in it. moreover, the mechanism of how stem-cell therapy results in significant therapeutic outcomes in diabetes remains obscure. in the current study, we aimed to analyze lymphocyte subsets in patients with t1d before and after trea...

background: invariant natural killer cells (inkt) are an important immunoregulatory t cell subset. currently several flow cytometry-based approaches exist for the identifi-cation of inkt cells, which rely on using the 6b11 monoclonal antibody or a combina-tion of anti-vα24 and anti-vβ11 antibodies. objective: the aim of this study was to compare the ability of two flow cytometry-based methods f...