Immunologically, there are two important phases in a child in-utero and postnatal. In the 18th week of gestation, TH (T helper) cells appear in the blood. These cells prepare the child’s immune system for postnatal life. When there is a balance between TH1 and TH2 cells, interleukin-2 (IL-2), interferon-y, tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and natural killer (NK) cells-which give protection against ...

BACKGROUND Workers in slaughterhouses are exposed to a wide range of biological contaminants, such as bacteria and fungi, due to their working environment. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of respiratory disorders among workers in slaughterhouses. METHODS This study was conducted on 81 workers in slaughterhouses and 81 healthy office workers as a reference group. The American Thoraci...

 Gastrointestinal disorders: abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting.  General disorders and administration site conditions: malaise, peripheral edema, pyrexia.  Immune System Disorders: Drug hypersensitivity to include facial edema, urticaria, angioedema and laryngeal edema.  Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders: myalgia  Nervou...

OBJECTIVES Summarizing the knowledge status, including the morphology, possible etiological factors, and clinical expression of aluminum potroom asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease related to aluminum potroom exposure. METHODS A review of the literature from the last two decades as it appears in PubMed. RESULTS There is substantial evidence for the existence of potroom asthma, ...

In addition to its critical role in purine metabolism, xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) has been implicated in the development of tissue oxidative damage in a wide variety of respiratory and cardiovascular disorders such as acute lung injury, ischemia-reperfusion injury, atherosclerosis, heart failure, and arterial hypertension. Although much remains to be clarified about the regulation and signal...

asthma is a common respiratory disorder which often exacerbated during sleep. this study was done to determine sleep disorders among patients suffered from asthma. in this cross-sectional descriptive study, 95 asthmatic patients were selected using convenient sampling method. a questionnaire consisting of both demographic information and global sleep assessment was employed to gather data. resu...

It was aimed to retrospectively examine the clinical and survival results of patients who were consulted with hematology clinic due hematological disorders related severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).

The potential of formaldehyde to produce chronic respiratory tract disease remains a controversial issue. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the respiratory effects, if any, of long term occupational exposure to formaldehyde. This cross-sectional study was carried out at a local melamine-formaldehyde resin producing plant. The study population consisted of seventy exposed and 24 ...

SEVERAL years ago as I began to work through my voluminous files on American folk medicine, I became interested in some of the unusual remedies that have been employed to combat respiratory ailments in the United States and Canada. This interest was considerably heightened in 1964 when two Virginia scholars called attention to the use of grist mills in the treatment of whooping-cough in their o...