Type2 Diabetes mellitus is a chronic and most common form of diabetes characterized by hyperglycemia arising from problems with the utilization or production insulin. Various agents related to an increased risk developing T2DM include pro-inflammatory cytokines that are critically associated progressive resistance insulin pathogenesis newly diagnosed T2DM. The study aimed possible association T...

A rapid enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) where component incubation periods were shortened to one hour, was compared with agar gel double diffusion (AGDD) and a standard ELISA procedure for detecting antibodies to Aspergillus fumigatus in 28 asthmatic patients with suspected allergic aspergillosis. Using two A fumigatus antigens the rapid ELISA compared well with AGDD and the standard ...

A new generation biochip is described as capable of supporting high-throughput (HT), multiplexed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). These biochips consist of an optically flat, glass plate containing 96 wells formed by an enclosing hydrophobic Teflon mask. The footprint dimensions of each well and the plate precisely match those of a standard microplate. Each well contains four identi...

background: diarrhea, caused by enteroaggregative escherichia coli (eaec), is an important cause of illness and death. numerous virulent factors have been described in eaec. however, their prevalence was highly variable among eaecs of distinct geographic locations. studies have shown that dispersin (antiaggregation protein, aap) is one of the important and abundant virulent factors in eaec. in ...

introduction: periodontitis is a multi-factorial inflammatory disease of periodontium. a precise mechanism in which smoking affects periodontium is not accurately understood. this study was planned to survey salivary osteocalcin (oc) level among smokers with chronic periodontitis and its comparison to non-smoker patients which may help achieve a better understanding of mechanisms being involved...

The enzyme, xanthine oxidase, has been implicated as a major source of destructive free radicals in ischemia-reperfusion injury associated with a range of pathological states [l]. Enzymic activity has been detected in many mammalian tissues [4] by using, variously, spectrophotometric [51, radiometric[6] and fluorimetric [71 assays. Apart from bovine milk fat globule membrane, which has long pro...