in order to study the seroprevalence of pestivirus infection in small ruminants of ahvaz at khouzestan province of iran, 148 sheep sera and 143 goat sera were randomly collected and tested by seroneutralization. seroneutralization was performed by nadl strain of bovine viral diarrhea virus genotype 1. the results indicated the overall seroprevanelces of 46.62% in sheep and 32.871% in goats. pre...

patients with turner’s syndrome (ts) are at an increased risk of developing autoimmune thyroid disease (atd). the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-tpo) antibodies and atd in children and adolescent girls with ts. it also assessed the influence of karyotype on the development of thyroid disease. sixty eight patients with ts were compared with 68 a...

nutrition is an important factor that influences immunity, and nutritional deficiencies can impair resistance to infections. malnutrition is the most common cause of immunodeficiency worldwide. trace elements such as zinc, selenium, iron, and copper can influence several components of immunity. primary antibody deficiency disorders are a group of disorders characterized by an unusual susceptibi...

by immunizing mice with killed whole bacterial cells of brucella abortus s (99), a panel of six hybridomas producing monoclonal antibodies (mab) specific for the surface antigens of this bacterium were produced. elisa was used to screen the hybridoma supernatants. immunoblots of the cell extract indicated that three mab were specific for s-lps (ba-1, ba-2, ba-3) and three others were reactive w...

the first description of an autoimmune encephalitis dates back to 1888, when hermann oppenheim described a patient with neurological symptoms but no underlying brain pathology. the field of autoimmune encephalitides associated with antibodies targeting cell-surface antigens is rapidly expanding and new antibodies are discovered frequently. autoimmune encephalitis is a difficult clinical diagnos...

r-phycoerythrin (r-pe), a fluorescent protein from phycobiliprotein family, is isolated from red algae. conjugation of antibodies to r-pe facilitates multiple fluorescent staining methods. in the present study polyclonal antibodies and polyclonal f(ab')2 fragment antibodies were conjugated to r-pe by two different methods. the efficiency of the methods was evaluated using immunocytochemistry (i...

to study the humoral immune response to entamoeba histolytica infection, sera prepared from different cases of amoebiasis from gastroenterology ward of b.h.u hospital, including15 cases with amoebic liver abscess (ala), 10 cases with acute amoebic dysentery (ad) and 10 controls were examined by enzyme linked immuno sorbent assay (elisa), using crude amoebic antigen prepared from entamoeba histo...

background : production of monoclonal antibodies to leishmania antigens assists the identification and characterization of these organisms. objective: production of monoclonal antibodies against epitopes on the gp63. methods: two murine monoclonal antibodies to gp63 were produced and characterized. the reactions of both antibodies with soluble leishmanial antigens, purified gp63 and truncated r...

background: evidences suggest an association between the prevalence of thyroid peroxidase (anti-tpo) and anti thyroglobulin (anti-tg) with recurrent abortions and infertility. iodine deficiency was once endemic in iran and little data is available about the prevalence of these antibodies in different groups of fertile or infertile individuals. objective: this case control study was designed to ...