Chronic actinomycetoma associated with grain production was induced in BALB/c mice by subcutaneous inoculation of live Nocardia brasiliensis in Freund incomplete adjuvant into the hind footpads. Similar inoculation of N. asteroides and N. caviae resulted in local tumor formation which healed spontaneously after 5 months, the disease disseminating into the peritoneum, where masses or organisms c...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease characterized by joint infiltration and bone damage. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the beneficial effects of losartan in adjuvant-induced arthritis (AIA). Arthritis was induced in rats by subcutaneous injection of 0.2ml of Complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) in the planter surface of the hind paw. Arthritic rats were al...

  Honey bee sting is used in some societies as a treatment of inflammation in joint diseases such as arthritis. To investigate the effect of honey bee venom in reducing inflammation, we selected 30 male Wister rats which were divided in to 6 groups. Except group 1, all remaining groups received 0.5 ml of complete Freund’s adjuvant to induce arthritis. After 9 days, all animals that received adj...

Block (1975) extended bivariate exponential distributions (BVEDs) of Freund (1961) and Proschan and Sullo (1974) to multivariate case and called them as Generalized FreundWeinman's multivariate exponential distributions (MVEDs). In this paper, we obtain MLEs of the parameters and large sample test for testing independence and symmetry of k components in the generalized Freund-Weinman's MVEDs.

A new gene encoding the Hc domain of Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin serotype F (FHc) was designed and completely synthesized with oligonucleotides. A soluble recombinant Hc of C. botulinum neurotoxin serotype F was highly expressed in Escherichia coli with this synthetic FHc gene. Subsequently, the purified FHc was used to vaccinate mice and evaluate their survival against challenge with acti...

Abstract We identified the lowest composition necessary to generate a vaccination adjuvant that promotes Treg response following immunization in mice and named it “complete tolerogenic adjuvant.” This novel may allow us utilize well-established “antigen plus adjuvant” method of induce cell-mediated antigen-specific immunosuppression. The minimal is dexamethasone, rapamycin, monophosphoryl lipid...