background :cell-based therapies can be used to treat neurological diseases and spinal cord injuries. the aim of this study was to assess the clinical outcome of bone marrow derived mononuclear cells (bm-mncs) transplantation in patients with spinal cord injuries.   method s: following a systematic review to detect clinical intervention studies, a meta-analysis was done for pooling data to esti...

DNA hybridization and cell separation techniques were used to determine which blood components contained hepatitis B viral DNA sequences. Free monomer-length hepatitis B virus was found in large amounts in the polymorphonuclear leukocyte cell fraction in two of five HBsAG-positive patients. In these two patients, viral DNA sequences were not detected in the plasma or platelet fraction, whereas ...

abstract background: cholesterol cleft granulomas with clusters of giant cells were noted to be a common feature of non-specific interstitial pneumonia (nsip). objective: this study aimed to define the cell populations involved in the granulomas. methods: the granulomas of 16 patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (five cases with the histological features ofnsip, five with those ofuip ...

BALB/c mice received saline (SAL groups) or ovalbumin (OVA groups) intraperitoneally (days 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13). After 27 days, a burst of intratracheal OVA or SAL (days 40, 43 and 46) was performed. Animals were then divided into four groups (N=8, each) and intranasally instilled with saline (SAL-SAL and OVA-SAL) or residual oil fly ash (SAL-ROFA and OVA-ROFA). 24h later, total, initial a...

Intracellular parasites manipulate host cell apoptosis in different ways either to increase their life span within infected cells or to spread infection. The present data provided information on the cellular changes taking place in spleen and peripheral blood during Plasmodium berghei-infection and indicated apoptosis mediated host immune response during infection. Our results suggested a signi...

introduction: while human endothelial progenitor cells (epcs) have been a subject of somehow extensive investigation, epcs from adult mouse hematopoietic system were poorly studied. present investigation is focused on fvb mouse endothelial progenitor cells in terms of their isolation, purification, and expansion. materials and methods: mononuclear cells collected from murine peripheral blood we...

 ABSTRACT Background: Cholesterol cleft granulomas with clusters of giant cells were noted to be a common feature of non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP). Objective: This study aimed to define the cell populations involved in the granulomas. Methods: The granulomas of 16 patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (five cases with the histological features ofNSIP, five with those ofUIP...

We describe the relationship between lesion outcome and histopathological hallmarks in susceptible (BALB/c) and resistant (C57BL/6 and IL-4-deficient BALB/c) mouse strains over the course of a 12-week-infection with Leishmania major in the ear. The infiltration of mononuclear cells and polymorphonuclear cells occurred within 6 h and mononuclear cells predominated one week post-infection. Permis...