Antibodies to the staphylococcal antigens peptidoglycan, beta-ribitol teichoic acid, and lipoteichoic acid, as well as to the peptidoglycan epitopes L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala, L-Lys-D-Ala, and pentaglycine, were found over a wide range of concentrations in sera from both blood donors and patients with verified or suspected staphylococcal infections. The patient group was heterogeneous with regard to bo...

Haemophilus influenzae type b and nontypeable H. influenzae have been reported to bind human immunoglobulin D (IgD). IgD myeloma sera from five patients were tested for the ability of IgD to bind to H. influenzae. Serotype b strains bound human IgD in four of the five sera tested. IgD in the fifth serum bound strongly to type b strain MinnA but poorly to other type b strains. Additionally, IgD ...

The complement system is a humoral effector in the innate immune system. Three activation pathways exist in the complement system, known as the classical pathway, the lectin pathway and the alternative pathway. Dysfunction of lectin pathway activation is caused by MBL deficiency. MBL deficiency in a cohort of healthy Caucasian blood bank donors was investigated with MBL genotyping and MBL plasm...

A competitive-inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (cELISA) for detection of antibodies to the surface envelope (SU) of caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV) was recently reported (L. M. Herrmann, W. P. Cheevers, T. C. McGuire, D. Scott Adams, M. M. Hutton, W. G. Gavin, and D. P. Knowles, Clin. Diagn. Lab. Immunol. 10:267-271, 2003). The cELISA utilizes CAEV-63 SU captured on micr...

H e t e r o p h i l e , H a n g a n u t z i u D e i c h e r (H-D) a n t i g e n w a s s t u d i e d in p a t h o l o g i c s era b y m e a n s o f inh ib i t i on o f a g g l u t i n a t i o n o f b o v i n e e r y t h r o c y t e s b y H-D ant ibod ie s . H-D a n t i g e n w a s d e m o n s t r a t e d in 38% o f r a n d o m c a n c e r sera , 25% o f l y m p h o m a or l e u k e m i a sera , ...

L'article se penche sur l''histoire de L'Afrique explorée et civilisée, revue internationale géographie coloniale fondée à Genève par Gustave Moynier, la lumière des dernières découvertes archivistiques. Une attention particulière sera portée les origines revue, reliées au projet colonial Léopold II, roi Belges, en Afrique centrale, mais aussi d''autres aspects, comme l''analyse allégorique son...

Lung disease is defined by increased airway responsiveness to environmental stimuli and reversible airflow restriction as a long-term inflammatory condition of the lungs. Using serum measure antioxidant enzyme activity erythrocytes (packed cells) separate purify Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase enzyme, researchers studied 50 lung patients treated with inhaled salbutamol another healthy people. This w...

Hantaviral antibodies were detected in the sera from Apodemus (A.) agrarius and A. peninsulae captured in Ningxia province, China by several different serological diagnostic methods. A total of 409 sera from rodent and insectivore species were collected in 1999 and examined by indirect immunofluorescent antibody assay (IFA). Among them, 19 of 191 (9.9%) sera of A. agrarius and 1 of 13 (7. 7 %) ...

We investigated the effects of weaning or fasting of 21- or 35-d-old swine by monitoring serum mitogenic activity, circulating insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and its binding proteins using L6 myoblast bioassays, RIA and ligand blotting techniques. Serum samples were collected from 21- or 35-d-old animals just before and 36 h after weaning or fasting. Sera from 21- and 35-d-old weaned anim...

The binding of 10 different lectins to the surface of microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti has been investigated. Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and Helix pomatia lectin (HPA) bound specifically to the sheathed microfilariae indicating the presence of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine respectively on the surface. Exsheathed microfilariae did not react with any of the lectins. Tr...