Thiacalix[4]arene receptors with two thiourea moieties and 2-pyridyl exhibited a heteroditopic dinuclear receptor F ? Ag + ions by positive allosteric effect.

OBJECTIVES The in vitro pharmacodynamics of silver(I) and silver(II) complexes of a polydiguanide ligand, chlorhexidine, were assayed to examine the value of the bactericidal endpoint as an alternative means of evaluating their antibacterial activities against burn wound pathogens. METHODS Synthesis of silver(I) chlorhexidine [Ag(I)CHX] was accomplished by in situ precipitation of the complex...

Nanotopographical TiO₂ films (including nanorod, nanotip, and nanowire topographies) were successfully fabricated on the metallic Ti surface via hydrothermal treatment and then underwent Ag plasma immersion ion implantation to incorporate Ag with TiO₂. The surface morphology, phase component, and chemical composition before and after Ag-PIII were characterized. In view of the potential clinical...

The core antigen of the hepatitis C virus (HCV Ag) presents an alternative marker to HCV RNA when screening patients for HCV viremia. This study sought to evaluate the utility of HCV Ag as a marker to assess active HCV infection in individuals residing in an HCV-endemic area. From 298 HCV-seropositive individuals evaluated for the presence of anti-HCV antibody, HCV Ag and HCV RNA, anti-HCV anti...

The aim of this study was to investigate the roles of serum interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-8, IL-10, squamous cell cancer antigen (SCC-Ag), and cytokeratin 21-1 fragment (CYFRA 21-1) in the metastasis and prognosis of breast cancer.A total of 534 breast cancer patients admitted to our department between January 2011 and December 2014 were enrolled in this study. Besides, 452 matched healthy individua...

background and aims: the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between the hepatitis b virus surface ag (hbsag) genotypes and variations in the clinical/serological pictures among hbsag positive chronic patients from south khorasan province of iran. methods: twenty-five patients were enrolled in this study. the hbs ag gene was amplified and was directly sequenced. genotypes and nuc...

We have defined the expression of the macrophages (m phi)-specific antigen (Ag) F4/80 during differentiation in culture. The progenitor cells-the colony-forming unit in culture and cluster-forming cell-lacked Ag F4/80 but gave rise to colonies of F4/80-positive adherent m phi, as shown by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and clonal assays with L cell-conditioned medium as the source of growt...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the benefits of the detection of both circulating antibodies (Ab) and antigens (Ag) for the diagnosis of cysticercosis in people with epilepsy. Neurocysticercosis is a cause of neurological diseases world-wide, especially epilepsy. The clinical symptoms of neurocysticercosis are non-specific and diagnosis is often difficult. METHODS Serum samples were collected from subj...

materials and methods a total of 228 fecal samples were collected from residents of rural areas of hamadan, west of iran. each fecal sample was divided into two parts, one kept frozen at -20˚c for ag-capture elisa and the other in 10% formalin for the ap staining method. cryptosporidium ag-detection elisa procedure was performed according to the manual of the manufacturer. the preserved samples...

in order to study the genetic diversity of grapevine in mahneshan (zanjan) an experiment was performed during 2012 and 2013. in different phenological growth stages (bud burst, anthesis and fruit ripening) quantitative and qualitative characteristics of 12 genotypes (marageh, shahani, khalili, ag-ozom, germez keshmish, ag-keshmish, gara-keshmish, asghari, pert-pert, gezel-ozom and gandomeh) bas...