This paper reports the use of a practice computer to help establish rubella immunity in all women that are likely to bear children. The rubella status by serological testing for each woman in the practice together with the date of the test is entered in the computer by ancillary staff as soon as results are obtained. The computer audit can be carried out by practice staff and takes half an hour...

Correlation-immunity is a cryptographic criterion on Boolean functions arising from correlation attacks on combining functions. When it comes to filtering functions, the status of correlation-immunity lacks study in itself and, if it is commonly accepted as a requirement for nonlinear filter generators, this is for other concerns. We revisit the concept of correlation-immunity and clear up its ...

Chemotherapy is one of most significant therapeutic approaches to cancer. Immune system functional state is considered a major prognostic and predictive impact on the success of chemotherapy and it has an important role on patients' psychoemotional state and quality of life. In Chinese medicine, chemotherapy is understood as "toxic cold" that may induce a progressive hypofunctional state of imm...

Immunity in invertebrates was for long analyzed in terms of the overall response; this resulted in misunderstandings concerning specificity and memory. Recent reports of maternal transmission of immunity, and the discovery of the high diversity of receptors-effectors, have required the status of innate immunity to be reconsidered. There are few examples of obvious specificity towards some patho...

objective: some evidence suggests that chronic uptake of estragole and methyl-eugenol, found in the essential oil of artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), may be associated with an increased risk of hepato-carcinogenicity. the present study was conducted to investigate the immumodulatory and anti-inflammatory potentials of estragole and methyl-eugenol free extract of tarragon. materials and methods...

The effect of replacing dietary Zn supplemented from inorganic (ZnCO3) source with organic Zn (Zn methionine; Zn-met) was investigated in 72 rats (98.42 ± 1.483 g) by randomly allotting to 4 diets (6 replicates/diet, 3 rats/replicate). Basal diet was prepared with purified ingredients without Zn. The control diet (AIN-76A) contained 12 ppm of Zn from ZnCO3 (100-I). In the other diets ZnCO3 was ...

results before boosting, among 176 boosted individuals, 75 (42.6%) had hbsab 10 iu/l and were considered seroprotected. among 101 serosusceptible persons, more than 80% of boosted individuals showed more than twofold increase in cytokines concentration, which meant positive hbsag-specific cell-mediated immunity. mcl of both cytokines after boosting in giv were decreased more than twofold, possi...

Nutritional deficiency reduces antibody synthetic capacity. Antibody directed against tumor antigens, however, may serve either to heighten tumor immunity, as in antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity, or to diminish host resistance to cancer growth by "blocking" cell-mediated tumor immunity. Diets made deficient in specific amino acids are inimical to tumor growth, apparently through reducti...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for health care workers but has a nonresponse rate of 5% to 32% and an unknown duration of immunity. There is no standardized postvaccination protocol to confirm, monitor, and maintain immunity. OBJECTIVE To assess the hepatitis B serologic immune status in health care workers who were previously vaccinated. METHODS A convenience survey and ...

Host defence peptides (HDPs) are critical components of innate immunity. Despite their diversity, they share common features including a structural signature, designated "γ-core motif". We reasoned that for each HDPs evolved from an ancestral γ-core, the latter should be the evolutionary starting point of the molecule, i.e. it should represent a structural scaffold for the modular construction ...