conclusions antipospholipid antibodies based on number of abortions and gestational age of abortions were increased. mean antipospholipid and anticardiolipin antibodies in all patients remained in high level just in first 5 years post abortion and then began to fall. results mean age of participants was 24-39 years old. the average rate of antiphospolipid antibodies in patients with normal anti...

A total of 154 human serum samples (32 acute-phase and 22 convalescent-phase serum samples obtained within a week and between days 8 and 26 after the onset of rash, respectively, and 100 samples drawn from healthy immune adults) were processed by an immunofluorescence assay for the detection of immunoglobulin M (IgM), total immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4 measles virus-specif...

Strategies to optimize formulations of multisubunit malaria vaccines require a basic knowledge of underlying protective immune mechanisms induced by each vaccine component. In the present study, we evaluated the contribution of antibody-mediated and cell-mediated immune mechanisms to the protection induced by immunization with two blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate antigens, apical membrane ...

We investigated the influence of the macromolecular form of an epitope on the structure of antibody variable and constant regions expressed by the B cell population participating in an immune response to that epitope. Hybridomas were constructed from strain A/J mice undergoing either primary or secondary immune responses to p-azophenylarsonate conjugated to Brucella abortus (Ars-Bruc). We deter...

Combinatorial objects called rigged configurations give rise to q-analogues of certain Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. The Kostka-Foulkes polynomials and twocolumn Macdonald-Kostka polynomials occur as special cases. Conjecturally these polynomials coincide with the Poincaré polynomials of isotypic components of certain graded GL(n)-modules supported in a nilpotent conjugacy class closure i...

Human antibodies specific for the Haemophilus influenzae b polysaccharide (Hib PS) frequently express a cross-reactive idiotype (CRI), and commonly utilize a VL region that is the product of the V kappa II gene A2. To examine further anti-Hib PS V region expression and to determine whether CRI expression is correlated with the V kappa IIA2 chain, we isolated a monoclonal antibody (MAb) reactive...

background: monoclonal antibodies have been employed extensively for the identification of leishmania species, development of diagnostic tests and in the characterization of defined leishmanial antigens. objectives: identification and characterization of  leishmania spp. directly from cutaneous lesions of infected individuals. methods: an immunoperoxidase test (avidin-biotin technique) using mo...