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Opinions are divided as to how far fluorescentlabeled antibodies (F.A.) lend themselves to the elucidation of the immunological conditions pres ent with malignant tumors. It is, therefore, of in terest to discuss the results achieved up to the present, especially because the specificity of the method has recently caused much discussion. Only a few investigators have used fluorescent antibodies ...

mune phages the c markers of phages j3 and y failed to segregate from the imm markers which determine the specificity of lysogenic immunity in these phages. The factor which directs the synthesis of diphtherial toxin during infection of appropriate corynebacterial hosts by toxinogenic corynebacteriophages is designated tox+. It was possible to show that the tox+ determinant of phage ,B behaves ...

Pancreas Transplantation aims at providing Beta cells replacement in diabetic patients, especially for type 1 diabetes recipients in whom Beta cells had been destroyed by an autoim‐ mune process. The final achievement is to restore a normal physiological control of glucose metabolism in order to halt or reverse the secondary complications of diabetes i.e. retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, m...

The direct anti-globulin test was performed at random on 310 hospitalized patients with various diseases. Thirty-three patients were positive to anti-globulin test without any evidence of manifest autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Hematologic and erythrokinetic studies on these patients with latent autoim mune hemolytic syndrome revealed that their slight anemia was secondary anemia due to their bas...

background and objective: the outer membrane protein w ( ompw ) of vibrio cholerae is involved in stimulating the im- mune response via induction of protective immunity. it also plays an important role in bacterial pathogenesis by increasing the adaptability of pathogenic strains. in this study we aimed to clone v. cholerae ompw gene in the strain x-33 of pichia pastoris. materials and methods:...

dendritic cells (dcs) are antigen presenting cells with unique capability to take up and process antigens in the peripheral blood and tissues. they subsequently migrate to draining lymph nodes where they present these antigens and stimulate naive t lympho-cytes. during their life cycle, dcs go through two maturation stages and are referred to as immature and mature cells, respectively. while im...

Naturally occurring antigens of biologic importance (e.g., bacteria, viruses, bacterial toxins) in general contain numerous antigenic determinants. An understanding of the control of antibody formation to such antigens thus requires a knowledge of the behavior of multiple antigenic determinants when presented simultaneously. I t is well known that the simultaneous presentation of two antigens m...