psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory and proliferative skin disease that has a wide distribution throughout the world. the immune system plays a critical role in developing this disease. in this survey, we have studied 50 patients suffering from psoriasis and 50 control subjects for various immunological factors, simultaneously. anti-stratum corneum (sc) antibody was evaluated by immunofluoresc...

Congenital and acquired abnormalities of the reproductive tract of female sheep resulting in subfertility,infertility or sterility cannot easily be detected by routine clinical examination. Morphopathologicalabnormalities of the reproductive tract of ewes were studied by examining a total of 739 genital tracts inabattoirs of Fars province, Iran. From these, the 648 non-pregnant genitalia were e...

autoimmune pancreatitis is a fibro-inflammatory form of chronic pancreatitis. it is diagnosed by the combination of imaging studies such as a ct scan and pancreatography, laboratory analyses that include igg4 and/or autoantibodies, histopathological evaluations and positive response to corticosteroid therapy. we report the case of a 41-year-old female with a history of jaundice and increasing a...

an 11-year-old female patient with autoimmune hepatitis (aih) was referred to our rheumatology clinic due to her current musculoskeletal manifestations. the patient had been diagnosed with aih 3 months previously, based on jaundice and impaired liver function tests, and she had been treated with low-dose prednisolone and azathioprine. she presented with malaise, arthritis, a malar rash on the f...

introduction to define the clinical features, biochemical and histological findings and outcome of three forms of autoimmune hepatitis.   materials and methods in a cross sectional study between november 2001 to january 2008 in tehran and mashhad university of medical sciences, 61 children who diagnosed as aih (40 girls and 21 boys) have been analyzed for their clinical, serological, and histol...

this paper is by terry kemp. she is a midwife with 10 years record of service. in this paper she speaks about her own experience which had burdened her in that condition. herpes gestation is a rare condition and has been defined in books related to autoimmune gestation disease. if your reaction after reading the title of this paper was just shrugging your shoulders and accepting it as a viral i...

background: the current immunosuppressive treatment of patients with autoimmune hepatitis (aih) consists of prednisolone and azathioprine. high doses of prednisolone used for disease remission are not universally effective and have serious adverse effects. some authors have provided evidence of aih therapy in children and adults with cyclosporine (neoral) should corticosteroid therapy become in...

objective(s):  apoptosis is a tightly regulated process and plays a crucial role in autoimmune diseases. because abnormalities in apoptosis are considered to be involved in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (sle), in present study we studied the apoptosis in t lymphocytes from iranian sle patientsat protein and gene expression levels for some molecules which are involved in apopt...