Low-intensity laser therapy administered in the form of intravenous blood irradiation, transrectal and transurethral prostatic irradiation and their combination as preoperative preparation and correction of immunity disturbances in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) were studied. The response to the treatment was evaluated by positive changes in the immune status and bacterial con...

T-cell based immunotherapy is an attractive approach for the treatment of multiple tumor types including cervical carcinoma. Immunostimulating DNA containing unmethylated cytosine-guanine (CpG) motifs have been successfully used as adjuvants to enhance immune responses to vaccines designed to trigger antitumor T-cell responses. Using a murine model of cervical carcinoma, we report here that rep...

Invertebrates are dependent on cellular and humoral immune defences against microbial infection. Scylla paramamosain is an important commercial species, but the fundamental knowledge on its immune defense related to the antioxidant and immune-associated reactions is still lacking. The study was to differentiate the responses of immune-associated parameters of haemolymph components in S. paramam...

Joint immunization with two recombinant adenoviruses, one expressing hepatitis C virus (HCV) core and E1 proteins and another expressing IL-12 (RAdIL-12), strongly potentiates cellular immune response against HCV Ags in BALB/c mice when RAdIL-12 was used at doses of 1 x 105-1 x 107 plaque-forming units. However, cellular immunity against HCV Ags was abolished when higher doses (1 x 108 plaque-f...

ABC transporters were identified originally for their contribution to clinical MDR as a result of their capacity to extrude various unrelated cytotoxic drugs. More recent reports have shown that ABC transporters can play important roles in the development, differentiation, and maturation of immune cells and are involved in migration of immune effector cells to sites of inflammation. Many of the...

The contribution of this book is to collect most recent research of Bayesian nonparametric techniques together, with main emphasis on the use of Dirichlet process. The popularity of Dirichlet process is because that the Dirichlet prior is nonparametric and conjugate, thus presents many opportunities to flexibly model complex data structure. The book incorporates the Bayesian philiosophy into th...

Taraxacum officinale (Dandelion) belongs to the Asteraceae family; an edible herb commonly found in subtropical and temperate regions worldwide. Traditionally dandelion is used diarrhea, gout, jaundice, diabetes, pneumonia, urinary problems purify blood. The phytochemical study of discovered occurrence β- sitosterol, stigmasterol, taraxsterol, lactucopicrin, lactucin, cichorin, taraxacoside, ta...

Influenza immunostimulating complexes (flu-ISCOMs) and a monovalent subvirion vaccine prepared with an H1N1 strain of influenza virus were compared in mice for immunogenicity and protection against challenge with homologous and heterotypic influenza viruses. flu-ISCOMs but not subvirion vaccine fully protected mice against homologous virus challenge after one immunization as assessed by measure...

Nucleoside antibiotics are found as diverse groups of secondary metabolites of microbial origin. They include a variety of structural modifications of nucleosides and nucleotides, often leading to intricate molecules. Their biological activities are also wide ranging, including antibacterial, antifungal, antitrypanosomal, antitumor, antiviral, herbicidal, insecticidal, immunostimulating, and of...