Cytoskeletal function in the immune system

The Effects of Opium Addiction on the Immune System Function in Patients with Fungal Infection

Background: The use of narcotics such as opium exposes addicts as susceptible targets of different diseases so that they might easily be exposed to different diseases such as fungal infections. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of addiction to opium and fungal infection on plasma levels of certain cytokines including interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-6, IL-17, Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) a...

The effect of Ramadan fasting on the function of the immune system

Fasting is one of the most important Islamic acts of worship ordered by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), the great Imams, and Muslim philosophers. Fasting has a tremendous effect on various aspects of human beings, including physical and mental health, cholesterol level control, and triglyceride level control, reducing the dimensions of depression, psychosis, anxiety, obsession, i...

Powering the Immune System: Mitochondria in Immune Function and Deficiency

Mitochondria are critical subcellular organelles that are required for several metabolic processes, including oxidative phosphorylation, as well as signaling and tissue-specific processes. Current understanding of the role of mitochondria in both the innate and adaptive immune systems is expanding. Concurrently, immunodeficiencies arising from perturbation of mitochondrial elements are increasi...

The Immune System Drugs in Fish: Immune Function, Immunoassay, Drugs

Fish is a heterogeneous group of different organisms which include the agnathans (hagfishes and lampreys), condryctians (sharks and rays) and teleosteans (bony fish). Like in all vertebrates, fish have cellular and humoral immune responses, and central organs whose the main function is involved in immune defence. Fish and mammals show some similarities and some differences regarding immune func...

Evaluation of the effects of Zataria multiflora, Geranium pelargonium, Myrth and Lemon essences on immune system function in experimental animals