Background: Decay of vaccine–induced antibody titres without boosting of the wild measles virus has been well documented. Revaccination against measles has reduced the prevalence of the disease worldwide. Revaccination may cause IgE induced anaphylaxis. Objective: To study measles IgG antibody in revaccinated populations and its relation to IgE induced hypersensitivity. Methods: Blood samples w...

evidences indicate that angiogenesis  is an important process in the development of destructive synovial tissue in rheumatoid  arthritis (ra). recently, it has been shown that the polymorphism of the integrin-αv subunit encoded by the itgav gene plays a role in angiogenesis and is considered  as ra susceptibility loci. this study investigated association of four single nucleotide polymorphisms ...

This study aimed to determine prevalences for anti-FCoV antibody, FeLV antigen, proviral DNA, and anti-FIV antibody among client-owned cats from the cities of Zagreb Varaždin in Croatia. Subjects included 106 tested at Faculty Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria. Blood samples were with IFA FCoV titeres, ELISA p27 PCR RIM antibody. Prevalence was 41.51% 6.60%, respectively. A coinfection FeLV/...

background toxoplasma gondii has worldwide distribution and is one of the most prevalent infectious agents in humans. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti-toxoplasma gondii antibodies in hemodialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd) in the hemodialysis unit of fatemeh zahra hospital at the mazandaran university of medical sciences in sari, iran. met...

Background and objective: Psoriasis is chronic inflammatory skin disorder with a wide variety of clinical presentations. Presence of anti-gliadin antibody (AGA) has been reported in 16% of psoriatic patients. This study was designed to determine the frequency of the presence of AGA in psoriatic patients. Materials and Methods: After recording the demographic data and the severity of disease acc...

background:   objective: to investigate the effectiveness of levothyroxine in treatment of rpl in women with high auto-thyroid antibodies.   materials and methods: in this observational cross sectional study, 900 women who had a history of recurrent pregnancy loss were studied. all women with high anti-tpo antibody without any other problems entered in this study. levothyroxine was given to the...

Bisected bovine embryos with or without the zona pellucida were transferred to recipients nonsurgically in five field trials. Embryos were collected from superovulated donors 6.5 to 7.5 d after estrus; only embryos of good and excellent quality were bisected. Demi-embryos were transferred either within a zona pellucida, without a zona pellucida, or in the third and fourth trials, without a zona...

Background Inflammatory muscle diseases are systemic inflammatory disorders that affect not only muscles but also skin, joints, lungs, and heart. Dermatomyositis (DM) polymyositis (PM) characterized by the production of antibodies. Measurement these antibodies is useful for diagnosis, classification disease type, evaluation activity, prognosis prediction, determination therapeutic strategy. How...