Interleukin (IL)-17 is exclusively produced by CD4 helper T-cells upon activation. It most often acts as a pro-inflammatory cytokine, which stimulates the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). In this study, we studied the in-vitro IL-17 response to specific antigens and a variety of mitogens and compared the IL-1...

Most infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic infiltrations from the mucosal tract. Nowadays, the use of vaccines has been widely investigated for the prevention of different infectious diseases, infertility, immune disorders, malignancies, and allergies. Broad-spectrum adjuvant substances have been studied for immune system stimulation with a greater efficiency against specific antigens. V...

Abstract Background and Objectives The main antigens of the Rh blood group system (D,C,c,E,e) after the ABO system, are the most immune antigens. Due to existence of donor's red blood cells in the patient's circulation serologic methods can not accurately detect blood group antigens in patients with chronic blood transfusions, but molecular methods can overcome many of these limitations.   ...

background: to use different methods for serodiagnosis of ruminants' haemonchosis is important because detection of egg in the faeces is not so reliable. methods: peptide bands of 5 different crude antigens of intestine, uterus, cuticle, whole male and whole female of hae­monchus contortus were determined using sds-page and western blotting. five lambs were infected with 10,000 third stage larv...

background: sparganosis is caused by the invasion of spirometra sparganum into various tissues/organs. subcutaneous sparganosis can be diagnosed by biopsy , while visceral/cerebral sparganosis is not easy to be diagnosed. the diagnosis de-pends largely on the detection of specific anti-sparganum antibodies. t he specific-ity of the elisa could be increased by using s. mansoni sparganum excretor...