objective(s):experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (eae) is an autoimmune disease validated as animal model of multiple sclerosis (ms). administration of genistein, a phytoestrogenic component of soy, to mice at the onset of eae is known to attenuate the clinical signs of the disease. the potential effects of genistein on established eae is less studied. in the current study, we aimed to comp...

there are limited clinical investigations identifying the percentage of t helper 1 (th1) and t regulatory (treg) cells in stable as well as rejected kidney allografts, a concept which needs to be more studied. the aim of our study was to compare the percentage of cd4+ ifn-γ+ cells, the number of ifn-γ secreting cells and the amount of foxp3 expression in patients with or without stable graft fu...

the aim of this study was to investigate the possible influence of interferon-gamma (ifn- γ) gene polymorphism +874 (a/t) (rs2430561) in the susceptibility and renal complications of patients with henoch-schonlein purpura (hsp). we also studied the effects of ifn-γ allelic variation on serum levels of pro-and anti-inflammatory cytokines in hsp patients. the  study  population  comprised  97  pa...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease involving oxidative stress (OS). This study was aimed at examination of the effect of melatonin supplementation on OS parameters, especially oxidative protein modifications of blood serum proteins, in MS patients. The study included 11 control subjects, 14 de novo diagnosed MS patients with the relapsing-remitting form of MS (RRMS), 36 patients with RRMS rec...

INTRODUCTION Several cases of sarcoidosis following treatment with interferon-α have been reported in the literature, but those following interferon-β are very rare. We report the case of a patient with multiple sclerosis who developed pulmonary and cutaneous sarcoidosis following treatment with Betaseron® (interferon-β-1b). CASE PRESENTATION A 33-year-old Caucasian woman with a history of mu...

Prior to the production of human gamma interferon using recombinant DNA technology, it had been producedmainly upon mitogenic induction of lymphocytes in very low amounts, which evidently hamperedits characterization and its medical applications. The recombinant gamma interferons produced in largerquantities in prokaryotic systems retain their biological activities, and can be...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a condition that has a poor prognosis, with a median survival of 4-5 years irrespective of treatment. Ziesche et al (N Engl J Med 1999, 341: 1264-1269) describe an open randomised trial of 18 patients with IPF, unresponsive to corticosteroid treatment at high dose. Nine patients were treated with continued corticosteroid and nine with prednisolone plus int...

INTRODUCTION Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) generally undergo long-term treatment with disease-modifying therapies (DMTs). In the US, patients taking glatiramer acetate, interferon beta-1a, or interferon beta-1b, typically use a mechanical autoinjector. Recent survey results have shown that using an electronic autoinjector, such as BETACONNECT™ (Bayer Pharma AG) for interferon beta-1b/Be...