Studies have shown that symptomatic improvement of cryptosporidiosis in immunocompromised patients is possible following treatment with" hyperimmune" colostrum containing anti-sporozoite antibodies from cattle immunized with Cryptosporidium parvum antigens. The contribution to immunity of antibodies developed during Cryptosporidium infection is unclear, however. Previously, we showed that ...

Background: Platelets can activate B cells and stimulate them for the production of antibodies. Since platelet microparticles (PMPs) originate from platelets, they may have the same virtue. In the present study, the effect of PMPs was investigated on the production of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-specific antibody from B cells in vitro. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, HLA-D...

a hybridoma clone designated 6g5 has been selected by fusion of mouse myeloma cell line ag. 8653 with spleen cells from mice immunized with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc). the antibody produced by this clone was found to be strongly reactive with four human b-cell lines in the conventional immunological assays. despite the fact that expression of most b cell-associated markers ...

hepatitis b virus (hbv) is considered as a global health concern and hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) is the most immunogenic protein of hbv. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the expression of hbsag on the cell surface of human embryonic kidney cell line (hek293t). after transformation of expression vector pcdna/hbsag to e.coli top10f’, plasmid was extracted and digested with bglii....

celecoxib, a specific cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) inhibitor, has been shown to possess antitumor activity in a variety of cancer cells. however, the antitumor activity of two synthesized cox-2 inhibitor derivatives ( a and b ) on human myeloid leukemia (k562) and breast adenocarcinoma (mcf-7) cancer cells has not been well established. this study was designed to investigate the morphological chang...