Interaction forces between biological molecules such as antigen and antibody play important roles in many biological processes, but probing these forces remains technically challenging. Here, we investigated the specific interaction and unbinding forces between human IgG and rat anti-human IgG using self assembled monolayer (SAM) method for sample preparation and atomic force microscopy (AFM) f...

Background: Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease with high seroprevalence worldwide. Several immunological methods have been described for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis. Objective: To determine the parasitemia period in patients infected with toxoplasma using PCR and comparing serological data with molecular results. Methods: 154 serum samples from patients with toxoplasmosis were examined. Presenc...

In 76% of 149 patients with neurosyphilis local production of treponema-specific IgG antibodies in the central nervous system (CNS) was determined by estimating the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-to-serum ratio of TPHA-IgG titre per mg total IgG. With this formula synthesis of treponema-specific IgG antibodies in the CNS could be detected independently of the function of the blood-CSF barrier. A sel...

Rabbit antibodies for Candida albicans, reacting in agglutination and fluorescent-antibody reactions, were present in both IgM and IgG protein fractions. The two types of immune globulins were separated from ammonium sulfate-precipitated gamma-globulin either by filtration through a column of Sephadex G-200 or by diethylaminoethyl column chromatography performed by stepwise elution with various...

specific antibody deficiency lias been recognized as an immunodeficiency. in order to investigate an antipolysaccliaride antibody defect as a cause of rcccttrent infections, 30 children were studied. patients who had been identified to have a major immunodeficiency or structural abnormality or a disease known to cause infection were excluded. tliirty patints, aged i to 13.8 years (mean age, 5.8...

We have demonstrated in vitro and in vivo the specific binding of a monoclonal antibody to the rat nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor. Previous work had shown that this antibody, designated 192-IgG, does not compete with NGF for binding to the NGF receptor of PC12 cells, but instead interacts with the receptor to increase NGF binding to PC12 cells (Chandler, C. E., L. M. Parsons, M. Hosang, and...

Background. Trichinellosis is a parasitic zoonosis transmitted to humans by consumption of raw or undercooked meat from animals infected by worms of the Trichinella genus. Every year seropositive cases are found among the human population and thus trichinellosis still remains an epidemiologically important disease in Poland. The usefulness of ELISA for anti−T. spiralis IgG detection in pigs is ...

Antibody responses to a 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine for Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 6B, 14, 19F, and 23F in 84 patients with chronic pulmonary diseases over a 2-year period after vaccination were examined by using a third-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Of these patients, 28 (31%) were low responders who had developed increases of at least twofold in the levels of seroty...