b ackground: in this study the concentration of lysozyme in blood plasma of  microtus agrestis, clethrinomys glareolus , apodemus sylvaticus, bk rats and outbred white mice before and after infection with culture forms of trypanosoma microti, t, evotomys, t. grosi, t. lewisi and t. musculi respectively was measured. m ethods: blood samples of rodents, microtus agrestis, clethrionomys glareolus,...

antibiotics are widely used as bacteriostatic and bactericidal drugs in bacterial infections. besides the respective interactions between the antibiotics and bacteria and between the immune system and bacteria, antibiotics also interact directly with the immune system and have various immunomodulatory effects on phagocytosis, chemotaxis, cytokine production and endotoxine release. in this stu...

Objectives: The aim of this research was to study the influence consuming ascorbic acid during high -intensity endurance training on catalase (CAT), nitric oxide (NO) concentration, and blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive male. Methods: 36 male voluntary participated present randomly assigned into training-ascorbic (HTC; n = 9), training-placebo (HTP; (AA; 9) control (n 9). exercise protocol in...

The stability of YKL-40, a mammalian member of the family of 18 glycosylhydrolases, in blood samples handled under different temperatures and different time intervals before centrifugation was studied in paired serum and plasma samples from 25 healthy premenopausal Danish women. Significant elevations of YKL-40 were found in 8 paired serum samples left on the clot for more than 3 h at room temp...

  Bluetongue is an infectious disease that primarily affects sheep. But due to serious socioeconomic consequence of it outbreaks on the international trade it has been included in the OIE notifiable diseases (list A). During 2007-8, total number of 130 blood samples gathered from suspected sheep to bluetongue disease in seropositive region including Khuzestan, Kurdistan, Fars, Ilam and Qum prov...

The aims of this study were to assess the effect of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) on circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood and right atrium of patients with HCC and to evaluate whether perioperative shedding of CTCs affects time to progression of HCC. Before and after TACE, peripheral and right atrial blood samples (7.5 mL) were collected from 42 patients with HCC. CTC...