BACKGROUND The high prevalence of gluten sensitivity in patients with stiff-person syndrome (SPS) lead us to investigate the relationship between gluten sensitivity and GAD-antibody-associated diseases. METHODS We used ELISA assays for anti-GAD and for serological markers of gluten sensitivity. Patients were recruited from clinics based at the Royal Hallamshire hospital, Sheffield, UK. Patien...

the aim of this study was to investigate the hemagglutination properties of caprine herpesvirus-1(cphv-1) and their application for cphv-1 antigen detection and evaluation of the dynamics of postinfectious/vaccine antibody production. cphv-1 hemagglutination activity was proved only with mouseerythrocytes, pbs and saline solutions at 4°c and 22°c. in vaccinated animals, goats and bucks withresp...

The mechanism(s) of interaction between Mycoplasma pulmonis and eucaryotic cells was studied by adherence to and hemagglutination of erythrocytes. Simple and complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins were unable to inhibit either adherence or hemagglutination, indicating that neither was a lectin activity. Both interactions appeared to be hydrophobic due to their requirement for salt and their se...

BACKGROUND Severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease occurs predominantly in children under 6 months of age. There is no licensed RSV vaccine. Protection of young infants could be achieved by a maternal vaccine to boost titres of passively transferred protective antibodies. Data on the level and kinetics of functional RSV-specific antibody at birth and over the early infant period would ...

Three feline virus isolates were shown to be members of the reovirus group by their growth characteristics in cell cultures, physicochemical properties, and appearance under an electron microscope. Their close serological relationship to, or identity with, human reovirus type III was revealed by hemagglutination, hemagglutination inhibition, serum neutralization, and gel diffusion tests. One fe...

Refractometry is an important method for many applications in metrology, environmental monitoring, chemical and bio-medical sensing. Several types of optical fiber refractometers have been developed including those based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), long period gratings (LPGs), photonics crystal fibers (PCFs), and inline interferometers [1, 2]. Yet, all these approaches require complex fabri...

To test the efficacy of passive antibody for protecting susceptible pregnant women who have been exposed to rubella high-titre human rubella immunoglobulin (HRI) was given to 20 seronegative male adult volunteers simultaneously with rubella vaccine. After receiving the intramuscular injections of HRI (750 mg of IgG) and vaccine (10(3 . 92) median tissue culture dose, Wistar RA27/3 subcutaneousl...