background: occupational exposure to cotton dust, fibers, metal fumes and different chemicals used in the apparel manufacturing industries cause a wide range of physical and psychological health problems in the garment workers that may also affect their immune function. objective: to assess the immune system function in garment workers. methods: a total of 45 workers of a garment factory, and 4...

Mice that recovered from Ehrlichia risticii infection were immune to a challenge dose of 100 50% lethal doses. Immune or normal mouse serum was passively transferred to mice challenged with E. risticii. Clinical signs of ehrlichiosis were completely prevented in 22 of 24 recipients of immune serum, and the onset of signs of illness was delayed in the remaining two mice compared with the onset o...

objective: active and passive smoking lead to the production of a number of oxidants and antioxidants with various adverse health effects compromising the immune system. tobacco use increases the production of free radicals as well. the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of passive smoking on total antioxidant capacity (tac) of serum and saliva in rats. methods: this experimenta...

1. The determination of Wright's index of the opsonic content of the blood and other fluids of the body is open to serious and in part unavoidable errors and should be abandoned in its present form. 2. Conclusions based upon the determination of the opsonic content of the blood, according to Wright's method, are accordingly not uniformly reliable. 3. The percentage index is a valuable check on ...

Small areas of skin infiltrated with immune serum proved refractory to the injurious action of a filterable rabbit virus inoculated 24 to 48 hours later. Infiltrations of normal serum did not appreciably protect the skin against the virus. The local protection afforded by the infiltrations of immune serum appears to constitute an example of local passive immunity. Small areas of skin infiltrate...

Background: Alopecia areata (AA) is an immune-mediated form of hair loss that affects all ages and both sexes.Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) esterase enzyme has lipophilic antioxidant power; it one the endogenousfree-radical-scavenging systems in human body. This work was to detect serum PON1 level patients withalopecia areata.Methods: 60 subjects, 30 AA controls. Full history, general local clinical exa...

background and objectives: complement proteins are some of the most important plasma proteins of the innate immune system. impaired immune function is reported in subjects who are iron deficient, and there are documents that these patients are prone to infection. this study was conducted to show whether serum c3 and c4 complement change in adult nonpregnant female with iron deficient anemia or ...

The main objective of this study is to analyze the effects sublingual specific immunotherapy and conventional drug therapy on inflammatory factors immune function in children with allergic rhinitis. research subjects were divided into three groups, group A received administration dust mite drops, B routine treatment such as passive intervention topical hormones, antihistamines nasal irrigation ...

polyclonal anti-thymocyte globulin (atg) is used as an immunosuppressive agent in the treatment of aplastic anemia (aa). serum sickness is a recognized side effect of atg. we observed abnormal skin manifestation in patient with aplastic anemia who had been treated with atg. we conclude that abnormal immune function caused by aplastic anemia and atg and corticosteroids may aggravate the signs of...

Among the genes and proteins of the human immune system, complement component C4 is extraordinary in its frequent germline variation in the size and number of genes. Definitive genotypic and phenotypic analyses were performed on a central European population to determine the C4 polygenic and gene size variations and their relationships with serum C4A and C4B protein concentrations and hemolytic...