The immunosuppressive properties of an aqueous suspension of Withania somnifera (WS) root powder were investigated in a pristine induced female Balb/c model of a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) like disease. The course of disease is initiated by peritoneal inflammation caused by pristane which results in development of SLE like symptoms, i.e. autoantibody production, proteinuria, and nephrit...

Cirrhotic patients exhibit disturbed melatonin homeostasis, which may lead to sleep disturbances, but an influence on the hepatic encephalopathy has not been elucidated. Aim. In the present study, the association of melatonin levels in serum and ascitic fluid and ammonia concentration related to the intensity of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) was investigated. Material and Methods. The study inclu...

Technetium-99m sulphur colloid (99mTc-SC) scintigraphy is a commonly used method in the assessment of peritoneopleuric leak in cases of liver insufficiency [1-4]. A 40 years old patient with alcoholic cirrhosis liver insufficiency, ascitis and hepatic encephalopathy was severely dyspnoic due to large right sided pleural effusion. A 99mTc-SC peritoneo-pleuric scintigraphy was performed. A 1.5 in...

In this article, I examine two memoirs by the American Zen Buddhist author Shozan Jack Haubner. Within contemporary genre of autobiographical literature, Haubner’s books are special in that they explore awakening as driven body. Penetration, pregnancy and sickness main figures Haubner uses to show how his protagonist accesses truth no-self. Though these can thus be said map an ascetic quest for...

At first one is inclined is to conceive of the problem of mass morality as one of a generally valid norm. ‘The construction of norms for the regulation of social life and individual behaviour is a compelling need of capitalism, so long as it wishes to proclaim itself as a universal form of social life,’ says B. (Borkenau, 1971: 96). Consequently, the new morality had to be a mass morality, base...

conclusions: pcr method is a valuable, cost-effective and alternative tool for quick diagnosis of active tuberculosis in different clinical specimens. results: the concordance rate between the three sets of primers was calculated and is6110/buffer pcr method showed good agreement with the lj culture method (κ = 0.627, p < 0.0001). the sensitivity of is6110/buffer pcr was 58.33%, with specificit...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis remains a global epidemic, especially in developing countries, including Iran. Rapid diagnosis of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection plays a critical role in controlling the spread of tuberculosis. Conventional methods may take up to several weeks or longer to produce results. In addition to multiplicity of steps involved in conventional detection, including iso...

PURPOSE Monoclonal antibodies or specific antibodies are now an essential tool of biomedical research and are of great commercial and medical value. The purpose of this study was to produce large scale of monoclonal antibody against CD34 in order to diagnostic application in leukemia and purification of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. METHODS For large scale production of monoclona...