The aim of our study was to investigate the association between common polymorphisms in interleukin-12 (IL-12) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk using meta-analysis. A search was conducted in the PubMed database, covering all papers published by October 14, 2015. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used to evaluate the strength of this association. Publication bias was asse...

INTRODUCTION ES-62, a phosphorylcholine (PC)-containing immunomodulator secreted by the parasitic worm Acanthocheilonema viteae, protects against nephritis in the MRL/Lpr mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, ES-62 is not suitable for development as a therapy and thus we have designed drug-like small molecule analogues (SMAs) based around its active PC-moiety. To provide p...

One of the main characteristics of HIV-1 infection is persistent systemic immune activation. This immune activation and dysregulation is characterized by a specific pattern of cytokine production, expression of membrane activation molecules on the cells of the immune system, and changes in the levels of several immune parameters in blood. Therefore, the aim of the present work was to evaluate t...

67 www.ijntr.org Abstract—Genome-wide association studies of psoriasis identified interleukin (IL)-12B and IL-23R as significantly associated loci with psoriasis, thus emphasizing to the important role of these genes in the pathogenesis of this disease and have influenced the development of medications that specifically target these key immunological players. Here we report an association study...

HCV is a major cause of liver disease worldwide. IL-12 plays an essential role in the balance of T helper 1 (Th1) differentiation versus a T helper 2 (Th2) driven response from its naïve precursor. Linkage disequilibrium measures the degree to which alleles at two loci are associated and the non-random associations between alleles at two loci. Haplotypes of the three IL-12B loci studied were de...

The decay of the 21.47-MeV stretched resonance in 13C, arising from p3/2→d5/2 nucleon excitation coupled to maximum spin, was investigated a (p,p′) experiment at 135 MeV proton bombarding energy, performed Cyclotron Centre Bronowice (CCB) IFJ PAN Krakow. First experimental information on and neutron branches this state obtained by using coincidence measurement protons inelastically scattered 13...

The excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) play essential roles in regulating the synaptic concentration of the neurotransmitter glutamate in the mammalian central nervous system. To date, five subtypes have been identified, named EAAT1-5 in humans, and GLAST, GLT-1, EAAC1, EAAT4, and EAAT5 in rodents, respectively. In this paper, we present the design, synthesis, and pharmacological evalua...

It is shown in rat that antiserum alpha 12B/18 specifically labels a new lamellar organelle that is exclusively located in dendritic appendages. These dendritic lamellar bodies occur in a restricted number of brain regions, which include areas like the inferior olive, area CA1 and CA3 of the hippocampus, dentate gyrus, olfactory bulb, and cerebral cortex. In these regions the neurons with lamel...