silybum marianum, is known to have anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective and anticarciogenic effects. the aim of this study was to compare effects of silymarin, rapamycin and fk506 on proliferation and apoptosis of human t cells stimulated with con a. peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc) were stimulated with concavalin a  ( con a) (5µg/ml) and then treated with different inhibitors (silymari...

conclusions the pc-ns3 possesses the capacity to express ns3 in the mammalian cell line and demonstrated strong immunogenicity in a murine model. our primary results demonstrated that the immunogenic truncated region of ns3 could be used as a potential vaccine candidate against hepatitis c. results the pcdna3.1 plasmid harboring the coding sequence of ns3 (pc-ns3) was constructed and confirmed ...

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding RNAs that play important roles in the pathogenesis of human diseases by negatively regulating gene expression. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of miR-204 on cell proliferation migration and invasion in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL). METHOD miR-204 expression was determined in bone marrow samples from ...

BACKGROUND Optimal immunosuppression after organ transplant should balance the risks of rejection, infection, and malignancy while minimizing barriers to adherence including frequent or time-sensitive dosing. There is currently no reliable immune function assay to directly measure the degree of immunosuppression after transplantation. METHODS We developed an immune function assay to mea//sure...

Background: Autoimmune type 1 diabetes mellitus is caused by T-cell mediated immune destruction of the insulin-producing β-cell in pancreatic islets of Langerhans. Specificity of the auto-antibodies and of the auto-reactive T-cells has been investigated, in which several auto-antigens were proposed. Objective: To determine whether glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) feeding would induce oral tol...

abstractbackground: fetal bovine serum (fbs) is widely used in cell culture laboratories,risk of zoonotic infections and allergic side effects create obstacles for its use inclinical trials. therefore, an alternative supplement with proper inherent growthpromotingactivities is demanded.objective: to find fbs substitute, we tested human umbilical cord blood serum(hucs) for proliferation of human...