erythropoietin (epo) was first known as a factor for red blood cell proliferation and differentiation. recent studies show the effects of epo on immune system. in this study the antihuman leukocyte antibody (anti-hla) titer were determined in five groups of rats, which had been sensitized with human lymphocyte. also, the effects of stimulation's frequency and dose of recombinant human eryt...

Vitamin E and selenium are considered as immune boosting agents. The present study was designed to evaluate effect of vitamin E and selenium on antibody titer against to hemorrhagic septicemia (HS) vaccine. Twenty unvaccinated buffalo calves (two to four month old) were randomly selected and divided into four groups (group A, B, C and D); and each group contain five calves. Group A was control;...

background: selective antibody deficiency with normal immunoglobulins (sadni) may be identified as part of distinct primary or secondary immunodeficiency disorders. the clinical manifestations include recurrent, often severe or prolonged, upper or lower respiratory tract infections. objectives: to evaluate sadni in patients with recurrent sinopulmonary infections and its relation to igg subclas...

background: toxoplasmosis is a world wide parasitic disease infecting human by oocyst, tissue cyst or tachyzoites in raw meat, water or congenitally during pregnancy. toxoplasmosis can cause abortion in pregnant women. the current seroepidemiological study was designed to assess toxoplasmosis in pregnant women with or without the history of abortion. methods: in a case–control study the antibod...

Antiphospholipid antibodies (APLA) may be detected in normal pregnancies and also may cause thrombosis, recurrent fetal loss, placental infarction and preeclampsia. In the present study the possible differences in APLA titer between healthy pregnant women and preeclampsia cases without history of thrombosis was examined. The APLA titer in 50 healthy pregnant women with 50 preeclampsia cases wit...

BACKGROUND Anti-Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibodies are detected in various demyelinating diseases, such as pediatric acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), recurrent optic neuritis, and aquaporin-4 antibody-seronegative neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. We present a patient who developed anti-MOG antibody-positive ADEM following infectious mononucleosis (IM) due to...

Epidemiological studies of zoonotic influenza and other infectious diseases often rely upon analysis of levels of antibody titer. In most of these studies, the antibody titer data are dichotomized based on a chosen cut-point and analyzed with a traditional binary logistic regression. However, cut-points are often arbitrary, particularly those selected for rare diseases or for infections for whi...

To investigate the utility of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) anti-feline coronavirus (FCoV) antibody test for diagnosis of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), the antibody titers were tested in CSF and sera from 271 FIP-suspected neurological cats. CSF antibody was detected in 28 cats, which were divided into 2 groups; 15 with CSF titer of 1:80 or lower and 13 with CSF titer of 1:640 or higher. In ...