background , despite numerous studies over a decade, it still remains controversial about the biological effects of rf emf emitted by mobile phone telephony. objective , here we investigated the effect of 900 mhz gsm on the induction of oxidative stress and the level of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ros) in human mononuclear cells, monocytes and lymphocytes as defence system cells. met...

background: this study was conducted to assess the validity and reliability of ankle?brachial index (abi) by oscillometric blood pressure (bp) measurement as compared with an automated abi as a gold standard. materials and methods: this study was conducted at golden jubilee medical center, thailand. all the data were collected from 303 patients at risk of peripheral arterial disease (pad) who w...

in this center, from 1991 to 2002, 89 chronic myelogenous leukemic (cml) patients, age ranging between 8-48 years with a median age of 29, underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. eighty-eight patients were in the first chronic phase of disease. twenty-three patients received bone marrow transplantation (bmt) and 66 patients received peripheral blood stem cell transplantations (pbsct)...

The differential white cell counts produced by the Technicon H*1 Autoanalyser in profoundly leucopenic specimens were compared with those carried out by manual differential counting by light microscopy of peripheral blood smears stained with May-Grünwald-Giemsa stain. The correlation achieved allowed the H*1 derived differential count to be reported with confidence.

BACKGROUND Systemic sclerosis is a disease of unknown origin which often occurs in women after their childbearing years. It has many clinical and histopathological similarities to chronic graft-versus-host disease. Recent studies indicate that fetal stem cells can survive in the maternal circulation for many years post partum. This finding suggests that fetal cells persisting in the maternal ci...

atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects the arterial wall. oxidized low- density lipoprotein (ox-ldl) seems to have an important role in atherosclerotic plaque formation. this study was performed to investigate the effects of ox-ldl as well as pha on proliferation and gene expression of  peripheral blood  mononuclear  cells (pbmcs) in patients with atherosclerosis compa...

AIMS--(1) To assess the diagnostic relevance of peripheral blood immunocytochemistry in hairy cell leukaemia (HCL); (2) to compare the immunostaining of bone marrow biopsy specimens with bone marrow and peripheral blood cytospins; (3) to evaluate the sensitivity of the different markers used; (4) to identify the ultrastructural localisation of DBA.44 in HCL variant. METHODS--Immunoenzymatic sta...

This study was undertaken to determine the proportions and in vitro immune capacities of lymphocyte populations in the bone marrows of normal humans. Relatively pure mononuclear cell suspensions were obtained from bone marrow aspirates by linear sucrose gradient centrifugations. Simultaneous peripheral blood and bone marrow specimens from each individual were assayed for lymphocyte surface mark...

The immunohistology of synovium from a tender, swollen knee and peripheral blood cellular immune function were correlated in 24 clinically similar patients with active, seropositive rheumatoid arthritis who were not taking cytotoxic or long-acting antirheumatic drugs. The patients were classified as anergic (n = 6) or nonanergic (n = 18) on the basis of peripheral blood mononuclear cell prolife...