purpose: in the present work, clinical symptoms, serum immunoglobuline alteration and eosinophil count were investigated in the patients infected with giardia lamblia. materials and methods: in this regard, 50 persons infected with giardia and 50 healthy individuals were selected as the study and control groups respectively in tehran. sera of the groups were tested for igg, ige, iga levels and...

the coexistence of waldenstromâ´s macrglobulinemia and cryptogenic cirrhosis has been rarely reported.we describe a 72-year-old man with compensated cryptogenic cirrhosis whose major clinical presentation was hyperviscosity syndrome. serum protein electrophoresis revealed the presence of an igm-kappa spike. lambda light chain was found in urine. bone marrow biopsy was performed, which showed at...

B-cell recognition of microbial antigens may be limited by masking of epitopes within three-dimensional structures (cryptotopes). Here we report that unmasking of cryptotopes by unfolding whole cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigen preparations with the chaotropic reagent Urea and probing with immune sera from healthy individuals (n = 109) increased ELISA signals by 36% in comparison to folded CMV anti...

Solanine is a toxic compound produced in nightshades family as potato,tomato and eggplant when exposed to light.The current study was carried out on 18 femal postmenopausal albino rats to investigate the effect of solanine on the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.Animals were classified into 3 groups feeding on balanced diet only (GI) or replaced by twothird with small pieces of diseased potatoe...

Imaging of infection and inflammation is an important issue in nuclear medicine as it may have relevant implication for the management of patients with infections or inflammatory diseases. In this regard the synthesis of human polyclonal immunoglobuline G (IgG) radiolabeled with technetium-99m (99mTc) by a novel method, via a nicotinamide hydrazine derivative, was performed. The biologica...

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imaging of infection and inflammation is an important issue in nuclear medicine as it may have relevant implication for the management of patients with infections or inflammatory diseases. in this regard the synthesis of human polyclonal immunoglobuline g (igg) radiolabeled with technetium-99m (99mtc) by a novel method, via a nicotinamide hydrazine derivative, was performed. the biological beha...