Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complicated CNS syndrome. Looking beyond the CNS, recent studies suggest that peripheral blood mononuclear cells could cause and/or exacerbate PTSD. This review summarizes the literature, describes associations between circulating peripheral blood cells and PTSD, proposes a novel mechanism, and analyzes several biomarkers that appear to associate with ...

Introduction: According to the cumulative evidence, genes encoding GABA receptors inhibit neurotransmitters in CNS and are intricately involved in the pathogenesis of mood disorders. Based on this hypothesis, these genes may be expressed in bipolar patients. As a result, we evaluated the gene expressions of GABA-β3 and HT1D receptors to assess their associations with bipolar mood disorder....

Abstract BACKGROUND The application of DC-CIK in the field cancer immunotherapy has been shown to be an effective treatment. However, cost treatment is prohibitive for many patients, and lack standard manufacturing processes strategies are main limitations. METHODS Our experiments used tumor lysate instead cell line as tumor-associated antigen source with DCs co-culture. We provide most efficie...

HTLV-1 is the causative agent for a neurologic disease named HTLV-I- associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Paraparesis of the lower limbs which appears gradually is the most common clinical feature of this disease. The indirect involvement of the nervous system by lymphocytes is more probable than the direct attack of the virus to the neurons. The proviral load (PVL) is ...

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a T cell mediated autoimmune disease with unknown etiology. Appropriate MS therapeutic strategies need thorough understanding of both disease etiology and pathogenesis mechanisms. Ligation of TLR-2 and TLR-4 stimulates the production of several cytokines leading to CNS autoimmunity and neurodegenerative diseases. Objective: To find a relationship between M...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complicated CNS syndrome. Looking beyond the CNS, recent studies suggest that peripheral blood mononuclear cells could cause and/or exacerbate PTSD. This review summarizes the literature, describes associations between circulating peripheral blood cells and PTSD, proposes a novel mechanism, and analyzes several biomarkers that appear to associate with ...

Single cell trapping is demonstrated on superhydrophobic–superhydrophilic patterned microarrays. Superhydrophilic spots that are twice the size of cells to be trapped found optimal for obtaining single trapping. The based exclusivity instead heavy dilution suspension and relying Poisson statistics. superhydrophobic areas array very resistant toward unwanted adhesion thus cleaning steps not need...

The study of pathogenic systems involved in multiple sclerosis (MS) is essential for the development new therapies. Objective : to determine contribution B-lymphocytes production IL-17 MS with an assessment ability B-cells induce differentiation Th17 and own by this pathology. Material methods . A total 81 subjects were examined, 68 whom patients diagnosed MS, 13 healthy individuals. concentrat...