background and objective: lowering serum glucose and lipid levels in diabetic patients by using natural materials is of great importance. in this study, the effect of oral consumption of fumaria parviflora lamwas was assessed on serum glucose and lipid levels in streptozocin diabetic rats. materials and methods: in this experimental study, 32 male wistar rats were divided into four groups of co...

genus leishmania is a protozoan parasite that causes different severe diseases. fetal calf serum (fcs) is the major part of the leishmania culture media, for mass cultivation and the most expensive ingredient in these media. in the present work, the efficacy of chicken serum was evaluated in leishmania culture media. the results indicated that, the (10%) chicken serum enriched culture medium su...

how to cite this article: kheradmand z, yarali b, zare a, pourpak z, shams s, ashrafi mr. comparison of serum zinc and copper levels in children and adolescents with intractable and controlled epilepsy. iran j child neurol. 2014; 8(3):49-54.   abstract objective trace elements such as zinc and copper have physiological effects on neuronal excitability that may play a role in the etiology of int...

poultry spermatogonial stem cells (sscs) have the potential to serve as a model for studying the basic biology of ssc and they can also be used for biotechnological purposes. however, the small number of sscs and the presence of the testicular somatic cells with sscs have limited their applications. therefore, this study was undertaken for the first time to investigate the effect of a serum-fre...

Several humoral immune factors were studied in a group of cultured halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.). The serum protein and IgM concentration was comparable to levels seen in other teleost species. A strong antibody activity against TNP-BSA was observed but not against other antigens tested. Lysozyme and anti-protease activity was detected and showed variable heat sensitivity. Unlike the a...

the aim of this study was to compare the total protein levels in serum of veteran exposure to sulfur mustard (sm) which was used in the iran-iraq war. in this study, 35 patients exposed to mustard gas (case group) and 35 healthy subjects (control group) were evaluated. the total protein concentration was measured by bradford method. the average amount of protein in serum exposure to sulfur must...

Rapid and sensitive quantification of protein based biomarkers and drugs is a substantial challenge in diagnostics and biopharmaceutical drug development. Current technologies, such as ELISA, are characterized by being slow (hours), requiring relatively large amounts of sample and being subject to cumbersome and expensive assay development. In this work a new approach for quantification based o...

During the past 5 years, several procedures for inducing antibodies capable of reacting with nucleic acids have been developed. These include immunization with phage lysates, ribosomes, purines, and pyrimidines or derivatives thereof coupled to proteins and polypeptides, denatured DNA or oligodeoxynucleotides complexed with methylated bovine serum albumin, and Gram-negative bacteria. It is now ...

Either active immunization with trehalose-6, 6'-dimycolate (cord factor)-methylated bovine serum albumin complex or passive transfer of rabbit anti-cord factor serum induced in mice an enhanced resistance against infection with virulent human Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This suggests that the anti-cord factor antibody exerts an infection-protecting effect by neutralizing the toxic action of cor...