Akabane (AKA) virus is an arthropod-borne virus belonging to the Simbu group of the genus Bunyavirus. Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against AKA virus were prepared, and the neutralizing epitopes of the virus were defined by competitive binding assay. Five distinct antigenic domains were identified and were designated A, B, C, D, and E. Domains A and C consisted of two epitopes each....

This paper presents inductance simulators using the voltage differencing differential input buffered amplifier (VD-DIBA) as an active building block. Three types of simulators, including floating lossless inductance, series inductance-resistance, and parallel inductance-resistance are proposed, in addition to their application 4th order elliptic lowpass ladder filter. The simple design procedur...

A major mouse T-lymphoma surface glycoprotein (gp180) has been identified by labeling cells with 125I and [3H]glucosamine. After ligand-induced receptor patching and/or capping, the amount of gp 180 in the membrane-associated cytoskeleton fraction increases in direct proportion to the percentage of patched/capped cells. There is a parallel increase in the amount of fodrin in the membrane-associ...

An exact assessment of the animal health situation in a country is an essential element in formulating eradication and control programmes, and in regulating international trade in animals and animal products from that country. Due to a lack of human and technical resources, Veterinary Services in developing countries often lack precise knowledge on disease occurrence. Since the collection and t...

OBJECTIVE To search whether xanthine oxido-reductase (XOR) present in the synovium is also liberated, to determine its activity in synovial fluid and to establish a possible relationship between XOR levels in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and non-RA patients. METHODS This study was carried out in the Laboratory of Immunology, University Ferhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria from 2001-2008. This study is a...

Nucleolin is the major nucleolar phosphoprotein of exponentially growing eukaryotic cells and is presumably involved in pre-rRNA transcription and ribosome biogenesis. Monoclonal antibodies against nucleolin were selected by a differential dot-immunobinding assay. Nucleolin expression during T lymphocyte activation was monitored by the specific antibody. Results showed that nucleolin fluctuated...

soybean mosaic virus (smv) which belongs to the virus family potyviridae, causes a disease in soybean that is present in soybean-growing areas of the world, and is widely distributed in northern iran. detection of smv is very important for disease management. in the present study several serological and molecular (nucleic acid- based) methods of rapid virus detection were compared. serological ...

A major secretory protein of the human epididymis that is taken up by maturing spermatozoa is homologous to the leukocyte antigen CD52. The epididymis was shown to be the sole source of CD52 in seminal fluid, since CD52 could be detected in seminal plasma from sperm-containing ejaculates and not in ejaculates of vasectomized patients by Western blot analysis. The glycoprotein is not expressed i...

Inter leukin 3 is a 2 6 2 8 kD glycoprotein produced by antigenand lectinstimulated T lymphocytes, and constitutively released in culture by the mouse tumor cell line WEHI-3 (i). Ik-3 was purif ied to homogenei ty f rom material obtained f rom WEHI-3 cells (2), and the gene encoding it was isolated (3, 4). rIL-3 and IL-3 purif ied to homogenei ty have been shown (5-7) to p romote growth of prec...