conclusion serum cyfra21-1 is useful as a measure in differentiating malignant from benign pleural effusion. results there was statistically significant difference between mean of serum cyfra21-1 levels of benign (3.9±7.6) and malignant(19.5± 30) pleural effusion (p=0.01). in addition the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of serum cyfra21-1 at the...

epidemiological and clinical studies indicate a close relationship between obesity and asthma. here, we determined the impact of diet-induced obesity on the expression levels of il-1β, irak-1 and traf-6 mrna as well as il-1β protein level and pathological changes in male wistar rat’s lung after sensitization with ovalbumin (ova). twenty male wistar rats divided into four groups, control with no...

conclusions the results of the present study will increase our knowledge about molecular cloning and expression of the l. infantum kmp-11 gene, and this may be used as an effective target for controlling visceral leishmaniasis. results the kmp-11 gene was successfully subcloned in pcdna3 as a eukaryotic expression vector. recombinant kmp-11 protein was confirmed by the reverse transcriptase pol...

objective: the global hiv epidemic continues to expand and exceeding previous predictions. an effective vaccine represents the best hope to curtail the hiv epidemic. dna vaccines induce humoral and cellular responses and mimic live vaccines without their pathogenic potential. the importance of cd8+ ctl responses in controlling hiv and siv viremia has led to production of a series of vaccine can...

scince 1990 research on clover has been commenced in karaj and other field stations of seed and plant improvement institute, iran. one of the achievements of this initiative is selection, improvement and release of alborz 1 crimson clover cultivar. new crimson clover cultivar, alborz 1 was primarily selected from clover germplasm received from food and agriculture organization (fao), the united...