Objective: To study the effects of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) and anti-TNF-α Monoclonal Antibody (McAb) in myocardial injury of rats with traumatic hemorrhagic shock. Methods: Twenty-four adult male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into the control group (A1 group), lactate Ringer's solution resuscitation group (A2 group) and anti-TNF-αMcAb resuscitation group (A3 group). A k...

PURPOSE The aim of our study was to evaluate the possible influence of adenosine receptors agonists and antagonists on pancreatic blood flow (PBF) and the development of acute pancreatitis (AP) in rats. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ninety male Wistar rats were subdivided into ten equal groups, nine rats in each. The study was carried out in two stages. In the first one the first group (control) recei...

background: to explore a possible rela!onship among blood groups and the prognosis of breast cancer, this case- control study was carried out in arak city, arak province, iran. materials and methods: one hundred and thirty four pa!ents with breast cancer were inves!gated. abo blood groups were obtained from medical records. mul!variate analyses were performed, including size of tumor, axillary ...

background: about 8 percent of all cancers in human population are related to leukemia and it is one of the most common malignancies in children. the aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of age, gender and blood group types with the frequency of leukemia among the children with leukemia in qazvin province during the 2006 to 2016. m aterials and methods: this was a cross-sectional ana...

background: transfusion is the mainstay treatment of patients with thalassemia major and occasionally in thalassemia intermediate. alloimmunization is an unwanted side effect of blood transfusion. the present study intended to determine the frequency of alloimmunization in patients with β- thalassemia major and thalassemia intermediate in southwest iran. patients and methods: this was a cross-s...

Objective: To investigate serum high sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), neopterin (NP) and leukocyte (WBC) on different pathogens of respiratory infectious disease, and to provide antibiotic therapy with favorable evidences in Chinese children in the region of guangdong. Methods: 438 infants and children were diagnosed and divided into normal bacterial infection (group ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific for the oligosaccharide epitopes of glycoproteins or glycolipids, such as blood group antigens, are powerful tools for studying the antigenic structure of normal and pathological cells and tissues. Anti-A human red blood cell monoclonal antibodies were produced by immunizing mice with normal cells, but only a few fulfilled the conditio...