Background: Dendritic cells (DC) induce tumor or pathogen-specific T cell responses in humans. Several laboratories have developed culture systems, including maturation factors for human DC from peripheral blood monocytes. We comprehensively compared standard maturation stimulus, an autologous monocyte-conditioned medium (MCM), with heparin for their ability to promote uniformly mature DC that ...

The current outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)in China threatened humankind worldwide. The coronaviruses contains the largest RNA genome among all other known RNA viruses, therefore the disease etiology can be understood by analyzing the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2. In this study, we used an ab-intio based computational tool VMir to scan the complete geno...

background: effect of seasonal changes in human reproduction has been intensively researched. some studies acknowledge influences of seasonal variation on natural conception, while others can not confirm them. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of seasonal changes on different stages of assisted reproductive technology (art) in tehran. materials and methods: this study was carr...

If these statements are taken literally (which the theory allows us to do), they imply that God modified the design of the universe after the Fall (cf. Rom. 8:20−22). If he carried this through consistently, so that all parts of the universe conformed to the new design, then, after the Curse, the universe would again have been a going concern, and would again have appeared to have a history tha...

Le tératome rétro péritonéal de l'adulte est une entité très rare, sa découverte tardive s'explique par la pauvreté des signes cliniques et sa localisation rétro péritonéale profonde. Nous rapportons le cas d'une jeune patiente de 40 ans qui a consulté dans notre établissement pour des lombalgies gauches, sensation de pesanteur et une voussure abdominale, l'examen clinique retrouve une patiente...

A four-year-old boy presented with constipation and mild abdominal distention for one year. Radiologic investigations showed a multiloculated cystic lesion in the caudate lobe of liver with focal calcification in the wall. The child underwent laparotomy with marsupialization of the cystic lesion. Histopathologic examination showed mature teratoma of liver.

Three cases are described that illustrate new ways in which developmental research is informing the study of cognition in adults: statistical learning, neural substrates of cognition, and extended concepts. Developmental research has made clear the ubiquity of statistical learning while also revealing is limitations as a stand-alone way to acquire knowledge. With respect to neural substrates, d...