human snake bitten poisoning is a serious threat in many tropical and subtropical countries such as iran. the best acceptable treatment of envenomated humans is antivenoms; however they have a series of economic and medical problems and need more improvements. in this study a combinatorial human immunoglobulin gene library against some of iranian snakes venoms was constructed. total rna prepare...

Mucosal surfaces are protected by polymeric immunoglobulins that are transported across the epithelium by the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR). Only polymeric IgA and IgM containing a small polypeptide called the "joining" (J) chain can bind to the pIgR. J chain-positive IgA consists of dimers, and some larger polymers, whereas only IgM pentamers incorporate the J chain. We made domain ...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of official soccer competition on saliva cortisol, testosterone and immunoglobulin a in male players. for this purpose, 14 fixed players (age: 28.24±4.3 years) were equally selected from two opponent teams in 2009 elimination cup. saliva samples at the rest and immediately after the first half time, before and after the second half time wer...

long-term intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) infusion is an effective treatment for children with humoral immunodeficiencies, already be complicated by systemic ad¬verse effects. in order to determine the adverse effects of intravenous immunoglobulin inpatients with antibody deficiency, 45 immunodeficientpatients receiving intravenous immunoglobulin were studied during a 36-month period at child...

Breast-feeding plays a potentially significant role in mother to child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The additional transmission risk attributable to breast-feeding and the factors that enhance or inhibit transmission are presently unknown. One mechanism by which breast milk might inhibit HIV-1 transmission is the presence of specific antibodies directed against H...

An in vitro mucus assay was developed to study the role of mucus gel and secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) in preventing attachment of Campylobacter jejuni to INT 407 cells. An overlay of rabbit small intestinal mucus was found to impede the attachment of C. jejuni to a monolayer of INT 407 cells. Mucus from rabbits previously colonized with C. jejuni was found to completely inhibit bacterial a...