a wide range of biological activities of garlic in vitro and in vivo have been verified including its antioxidant, antitumor and anti-inflammatory effects. indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (ido) is an enzyme widely distributed in mammals and is inducible preferentially by ifn-γ. ido degrades the essential amino acid tryptophan to form n-formyl kynurenine. in the present in vitro study, the modulator...

The experimental work herein reported tends to justify our hypothesis recently expressed, that the common failure of antibacterial serums to combat active infections when passively transferred to a normal animal, is due not so much to a lack of suitable or sufficient antibodies as to absence of cell preparation or mobilization in the recipient. In the case of experimental streptococcus empyema ...

4 42-year-old heroin addict was hospitalized complaining of severe right-sided pleuritic chest pain, a 12 lb weight loss, and low grade fever. Mild right-sided pleurisy had occurred intermittently during the preceding two years. She was a heavy cigarette smoker, and had a chronic nonproductive cough. Initial workup revealed an exudative right pleural effusion containing 6,000 WBC/cu mm with 40 ...

the purpose of the current study was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory activity of tetramethlpyrazine on oxazolone-induced colitis mice. spleen mononuclear cells (smc), lamina propria mononuclear cells (lpmc) and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc) were isolated from oxazolone-induced colitis and normal mice. the colitis cells treated by oxazolone were randomly divided into model, low dos...

We have investigated the capacity of polymorphonuclear phagocytes (PMN) to lyse malignant B-cell lines using antibodies and antibody derivates to a range of different B-cell antigens. PMN were found to mediate lysis of all tested Bcell lines in the presence of HLA class II antibodies L227, L243, F3.3, and CR3/43. Target cell lysis was significantly enhanced when PMN isolated during granulocyte ...

The purpose of these experiments was to study the early response of mouse foot pads to Mycobacterium leprae. To accomplish this, mice were inoculated in both foot pads with large and small numbers of organisms. The animals were sacrificed at intervals from 2 hr to 27 days after inoculation. The microscopical results, which utilized normal BALB/c and thymectomized-irradiated B6C3F(1) mice, showe...

Background, Despite numerous studies over a decade, it still remains controversial about the biological effects of RF EMF emitted by mobile phone telephony. Objective, Here we investigated the effect of 900 MHz GSM on the induction of oxidative stress and the level of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in human mononuclear cells, monocytes and lymphocytes as defence system cells. Metho...