A study was conducted to determine the effect of the Candida albicans mannoprotein on Phagocytic activity, antibody production, serum gammaglobuline percentage and lymphocyte transformation index after vaccination with hepatitis B surface (HBs) antigen. It can be concluded that Mannoprotein isolated from Candida albicans cell wall are an important immunomodulatorts in the development of immune ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Effector T helper cells, mainly Th1 and Th17, cytotoxic T-cells, B-cells, macrophages, microglia, and the cytokines they secrete, are implicated in the initiation and maintenance of a deregulated immune response to myelin antigens and the ensuing immune-mediated demyelination. In this...

Background: Psoriasis is a common chronic immune mediated papulosquamous disease that affects 2-3% of the population. The exact cause psoriasis still unclear, but it considered dysregulated inflammation which driven and maintained by interaction among multiple components system in genetically predisposed individuals. Adipose tissue an active endocrine organ contributing to regulation metabolic ...

Plasma and CSF concentrations of C4d and the circulating immune complex to C1q were measured in 27 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or cervical spondylosis. There was no significant difference among groups in plasma C4d or in plasma or CSF concentrations of the circulating immune complex to C1q. The ALS group, however, had a significantly higher CSF concentration of C4d than th...

background and aim: vitamin d has immune-regulatory functions in experimental inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) and vitamin d deficiency is common in ibd patients. the aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of vitamin d 3 [1,25(oh) 2 d 3 ] treatment in ibd with regard to tumor necrosis factor-alpha (tnf-?) serum level and  clinical disease activity index (cdai). materials and methods: ...

introduction: zinc deficiency causes abnormalities in immune response. in chronic hemodialysis (hd) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (capd) patients, impaired immune responses to vaccination have been reported. therefore, we performed a study to determine the correlation between serum zinc levels and immune response to hepatitis b vaccination in patients on dialysis. methods: a cro...

background: infertility is one of the common problems seen in couples of reproductive age. presence of antisperm antibodies in semen and serum are amongst the causes of immunoinfertility. this study was performed to determine antisperm antibodies in cervicovaginal secretions and serum of infertile women and also measure serum levels of immunoglobulins (igg, igm and iga). methods: the study cons...

Galactomannan enzyme immune assay (GM EIA) is a nonculture test for detecting invasive aspergillosis (IA) forming a key part of diagnosis and management. Recent reports have questioned the reproducibility of indices after sample storage. To investigate this, 198 serum samples (72 from cases and 126 from controls) and 61 plasma samples (24 from cases and 37 from controls), initially tested betwe...

BACKGROUND Zhuyeqing Liquor (ZYQL), a well-known Chinese traditional health liquor, has various biological properties, including anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, immunoenhancement and cardiovascular protective effects. METHODS The protective effects of Zhuyeqing Liquor (ZYQL) on the immune function was investigated in vivo in normal healthy mice and immunosuppressed mice treated with Cyclopho...

Objective: Anorexia Nervosa (AN) affects the entire body with serious medical conditions and has highest mortality rates in any psychiatric disorder. These abnormalities are reversible after weight gain resolution of underlying anorectic state. The role immune system development maintenance AN is apparently underestimated. Changes complement system, particularly C3 AN, not well understood. This...