Taenia solium is an important zoonosis in many developing countries. Cysticercosis poses a serious public health risk and incurs sizeable economic losses to pig production. Because data on the epidemiology of porcine cysticercosis in Mozambique are scarce, the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence and risk factors for porcine cysticercosis. A cross-sectional survey was carried...

background chronic hepatitis b is one of the most common causes of cirrhosis and hepatocellular toxicity in many countries, including iran. cytotoxic t lymphocyte (ctl) and natural killer (nk) cells are the two of main cell populations considered as cytotoxic cells. one of the distinct pathways ctl and nk cells exert cytotoxicity is perforin/granzyme. after the cytotoxic cell/target cell juncti...

When lungs of experimental animals are repeatedly challenged with Ag, pulmonary inflammation wanes via unknown mechanisms. We hypothesized that changes in the balance of lung cytokines are responsible for immune down-regulation to repeated Ag challenge. We used intratracheal (IT) challenge of primed C57BL/6 mice with SRBC and on various days after single (1IT) or triple (3IT) challenge counted ...

Male infertility is a major cause of problems for many couples in conceiving a child. Recently, lifestyle pastimes such as alcohol, tobacco and marijuana have been shown to have further negative effects on male reproduction. The endocannabinoid system (ECS), mainly through the action of anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) at cannabinoid (CB(1), CB(2)) and vanilloid (TRPV1) recept...

This study was designed to explore the protective effect of allicin on aortic endothelial cell injury induced by high glucose/hypoxia and to investigate the corresponding mechanisms. The primary-cultured murine aortic endothelial cells were subcultured. The third passage of cells was adopted and randomly divided into five groups: The normal group (NG), the mannitol group (MG), the high-glucose/...

The thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is a recently described inhibitor of fibrinolysis that decreases plasminogen binding to the fibrin surface. The plasma TAFI concentration is almost entirely genetically determined. We investigated whether plasma TAFI levels and polymorphisms located in the TAFI gene could constitute risk markers of myocardial infarction (MI). Plasma TAFI an...

Gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC) is the 16th most common cancer in UK and has a 5-year survival rate of 20.7%. GastroPanel (Biohit Oyj; Helsinki, Finland) an ELISA kit that measures four plasma biomarkers: Pepsinogen I (PGI), II (PGII), Gastrin 17 (G17) Helicobacter pylori IgG antibodies (Hp IgG), for detection atrophic gastritis (AG). PGI PGI/PGII ratio correlates inversely with severity chronic h...

MJ Martin, Met Office, Exeter, UK. M Balmaseda, ECMWF, Reading, UK L Bertino, NERSC, Bergen, Norway P Brasseur, LEGI, Grenoble, France G Brassington, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia J Cummings, NRL, Monterey, USA Y Fujii, JMA/MRI, Tsukuba, Japan DJ Lea, Met Office, Exeter, UK J-M Lellouche, Mercator Ocean, Toulouse, France K Mogensen, ECMWF, Reading, UK P Oke, CSIRO, Hobart, Austral...