Maintenance of DNA integrity is crucial for faithful transmission the genetic code from generation to generation. Our constantly under attack both endogenous and exogenous sources damage. To ensure genome stability, cells have developed elegant damage repair mechanisms. Defects in been linked several human diseases including promoting oncogenesis, heritable neurodegenerative neuromuscular cause...

Background and Objectives: Evidence indicate relationships between the sunlight exposure, vitamin D status and non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) risk. Vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms have been linked to metabolic changes in insulin resistance and various cancers. The purpose of this study is to investigate relationships between the sunlight exposure and the NMSC risk. Furthermore, relation...

Cigarette combustion has the potential to generate over 7000 chemicals, majority of which are reactive free radicals that known trigger pro-inflammatory and carcinogenic responses. Numerous contemporary investigations have proposed pathophysiological cellular mechanisms underlying release extracellular vesicles (EVs) in response cigarette smoke (CS) may serve as pathways for CS-induced pathogen...

In New Zealand, an arbovirus surveillance program has been operating for more than 20 years, which includes testing of cattle with the Akabane virus neutralization test. With the aim to replace this laborious test by an easier-to-perform enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), 2 commercial ELISA kits, ELISA-1 from France (originally from Australia) and ELISA-2 from Japan, were compared, usin...

Since the introduction of our plasma cortisol enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) [l] using affinity purified antiserum [2] into the routine steroid laboratory, we have embarked on the development of a simple urinary free or unconjugated cortisol ELISA which would allow measurement of both urine and plasma cortisol on the one ELISA plate. This paper describes for the first time an ELISA f...

BACKGROUND Kagera is one of the 22 regions of Tanzania mainland, which has witnessed a decline in HIV prevalence during the past two decades; decreasing from 24% in 1987 to 4.7 in 2009 in the urban district of Bukoba. Access to social capital, both structural and cognitive, might have played a role in this development. The aim was to examine the association between individual structural and cog...

TO THE EDITOR—Jarvis et al describe the evaluation of a point-of-care antigen test for cryptococcal meningitis against a quantitative sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using the Spear-man rank correlation coefficient [1].

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) for detecting malarial parasites in blood were tested on uninfected monkeys and in monkeys infected with Plasmodium falciparum. A double antibody sandwich ELISA detected one malarial cell per 10(3) uninfected cells, and an inhibition ELISA detected on infected cell per 10(4) uninfected erythrocytes. These methods are not yet as sensitive as conventiona...

The aim of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of a novel immunoassay, developed to assess salivary Immunoglobulin A (s-IgA). Validity and reliability of the Individual Profiling Lateral Flow Device (IPRO LFD) for s-IgA concentrations ([s-IgA]) was assessed in males (n = 12) and females (n =13) who were involved in recreational activities. Reliability of the IPRO LFD method w...