Background: Some antigens of H. pylori are excreted into the stool of infected people. These antigens can be used to detect the infection by immunoassays such as ELISA. Our aim was to identify these antigens by immunoblotting and affinity chromatography techniques. Methods: Four different antigenic preparations, namely, whole cell sonicate (WCS), outer membrane proteins (OMPs), cytoplasmic anti...

background: some antigens of h. pylori are excreted into the stool of infected people. these antigens can be used to detect the infection by immunoassays such as elisa. our aim was to identify these antigens by immunoblotting and affinity chromatography techniques.   methods: four different antigenic preparations, namely, whole cell sonicate (wcs), outer membrane proteins (omps), cytoplasmic an...

ulcerative colitis is an acute or chronic inflammatory bowel disease that diffusely involves the colonic mucosa. the etiology of ulcerative colitis is unknown. the involvement of genetic factors in ulcerative colitis is suggested by some reports of familial occurence anil the immune abnormalities found in patients and their unaffected female relatives. a number of disease with unknown etiology,...