Background: In addition to Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) compatibility, gene polymorphisms in cytokines might also be important in the quality of allogeneic immune response. Objective: To evaluate the influence of HLA-DR matching and a number of cytokine gene polymorphisms on acute rejection after living-unrelated donor (LURD) kidney transplantation. Methods: A total of 42 renal transplants pe...

Determination of neopterin in urine, plasma, and serum is increasingly used in transplantation medicineas a sensitivemarker ofimmunologicalcomplications(forreviews,see 1-3). In a recent Technical Brief, Myara et al. (4) made a significant and important contribution to these issues; showing that, in recipients of heart allografts, simultaneous determination of concentrations of neopterin and of ...

Abstract The membranes can be synthesized from organic and inorganic materials. One of the based materials used was a cellulose acetate membrane banana peel. Banana peel comprised 65% cellulose, therefore it had potential to processed into membrane. Cellulose are using mixture skin with 55% acetone 27% dimethylformamide phase inversion technique. SEM results pictured porous pore size about 5 μm...

Everyday stressors of teenage girls are considered. The purpose the study: development and testing questionnaire everyday for adolescents; determination intensity various spheres life; revealing ratio stress tension life satisfaction. Methods: author’s adolescents, perception scale ShVS-10 (V.A.Ababkov et al.), satisfaction (E.Diener al.). Factorization made it possible to single out 7 blocks e...

in the present work, the effects of operating conditions including ph, transmembrane pressure, oil concentration, and temperature on fouling resistance and the rejection of turbidity for a polymeric membrane in an ultrafiltration system of wastewater treatment were studied. a new modeling technique called evolutionary polynomial regression (epr) was investigated. epr is a method based on regres...

patients and methods we investigated the timing and frequency of acute rejection episodes related to long-term patient-graft survival in taleghani hospital between 1990 and 2011. recipients were divided into three groups as group-1 (no rejection), group-2 (early acute rejection [ear]: less than 3-months) and group-3 (late acute rejection [lar]: after 3 months of transplant). conclusions lar had...

Background: Noma, mostly identified in malnourished young children the world’s low-income countries, causes severe orofacial disfigurement and significant mortality morbidity. The majority of noma patients surviving with aesthetical effects are exposed to stigmatization social rejection. Studies focusing on socio-psychological impact survivors have rarely been done. Our study aimed identify dif...

Although rejection sensitivity may be an important feature of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), no studies have examined rejection sensitivity in a clinical sample and compared types of rejection sensitivity in individuals with BDD. Personal and appearance-based rejection sensitivity scores in forty-six patients diagnosed with BDD were compared with published norms. Associations between rejection...

the goals of post-transplant management are to manage and treat postoperative complications, and develop a balanced long-term immunotherapy regimen that minimizes infection and side effects but controls rejection. while modern immunosuppressant regimes have reduced rates of graft loss due to rejection, they impart major risks for infection, growth failure, metabolic complications, and malignanc...

The present study applied a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to assess the role of intraindividual variability of cyclosporin A (CsA) drug exposure in predisposing renal transplant recipients to the occurrence of chronic rejection, as well as to increased health care costs using a resource-based economic analysis. Two hundred and four adult renal transplant recipients were treat...