this study was undertaken to assess vitamin c status in allergic children. twenty-six allergic patients and 46 apparently healthy controls aged 7-16 years of both sexes were introduced. all patients were diagnosed being allergic based on their histories, physical examinations and laboratory findings. blood samples were obtained between 09.00-11.00 to determine total serum immunoglobulin e, hist...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B vaccine and hepatitis B immunoglobulin are considered for newborn infants of HBsAg-positive mothers to prevent hepatitis B infection. OBJECTIVES To assess the beneficial and harmful effects of hepatitis B vaccines and hepatitis B immunoglobulin in newborn infants of HBsAg-positive mothers. SEARCH STRATEGY Trials were identified through The Cochrane Neonatal Group Cont...

celiac disease has been associated with other autoimmune disorders such as autoimmune hepatitis, moreover it is known that t cell mediated immune response to dietary gluten and released cytokines are important for the entheropathy seen in celiac disease. we investigated celiac autoantibodies in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (aih), and chronic hepatitis b (chb). sera from 84 patients with a...

Abstract The Lewis blood group system is unique because antigens are neither alleles of the same gene nor they synthesized by red cells (RBCs); rather, adsorbed onto RBC membrane from plasma as glycolipids. Antibodies against predominantly naturally occurring immunoglobulin (Ig)M type that sometimes react at 37°C and antihuman globulin phase. compound antigens, ALe b BLe , have been described w...

SL/Kh mice spontaneously develop pre-B lymphomas with surface phenotypes of B220+, BP-1+, Thy-1-, and surface immunoglobulin negative. The immunoglobulin heavy chain of lymphoma is clonally rearranged but the light chain gene remains in germline configuration. Studying prelymphoma stage SL/Kh bone marrow (BM), we found unusual multiclonal expansion of BP-1+ pre-B cells [34.8 +/- 5.8% (mean +/- ...