Background: Inhibition of early cancer development, through enhancement of cancer immunosurveillance by innate cells has been reported after infection with different microorganisms. Since Plasmodium infection modulates the innate immune system, we examined the effect of Plasmodiu...
Background: Monitoring of the immunological status linked with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in Yemen is practically absent. Several studies vary in study design, populations under study, serologic tests used, timing of sample collection, and quality. Objective: T...
The variability of ZnT8 expression in leukocytes develops in patients with a genetic predisposition to this condition and it decreases with age. Greater intercellular zinc accumulation may potentially provoke increased levels of its expression, as a support mechanism in zinc home...
Dry nasal snuff, commonly known as “Chhikni” in India, is a smokeless tobacco preparation prepared from dried powdered tobacco which could be inhaled, "sniffed" or "snuffed" into the nasal cavity [1]. The inhalation of nasal snuff (smokeless tobacco) is a common addiction in rura...
Aims: Our aim is to describe the clinical, biological and radiological characteristics of Tabetic Arthropathy (TA) and to demonstrate that this pathology is still relevant in our context, illustrated by two case reports. Case 1: A 68-year-old man, with no particular pathological...
Celso Eduardo Olivier, Daiana Guedes Pinto, Ana Paula Monezzi Teixeira, Jhéssica Letícia Santos Santana, Raquel Acácia Pereira Gonçalves Santos, Regiane Patussi Santos Lima & Everton Salgado Monteiro·Asian Journal of Immunology·2023
Aims: Medical literature defines the diagnosis of “selective IgE deficiency” (sIgEd) as the individuals able to produce, at normal amounts, all antibodies’ classes, and subclasses, with exception of the IgE, which is not found by the laboratory detection method (usually below 2.0...
Nutritional value of chicken egg is widely accepted but because the egg cannot be consumed raw, various processing methods are utilized. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of processing methods (raw, cooking and frying) on the nutritional composition of chicken egg....
Artemis Socorro do N. Rodrigues, Ana Rita de Cássia B. Miranda, Carla Amorim & Yasmin Maria N. Cardoso·Asian Journal of Immunology·2023
This study was aimed at examining the association between GSTP1 Ile105Val polymorphism and gastric cancer in the city of Macapá, state of Amapá, Amazon, Brazil. Overall 160 DNA samples, 62 cases and 98 controls, were examined using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment l...
The present study reports the appearance of lichen lesions with genital and nail involvement 2 months after the onset of a Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) associated with lamotrigine use. A chronic inflammatory disorder called lichen planus (LP) most frequently affects middle-aged...
When immunologic tolerance to auto-reactive immune cells is lost, autoimmune illness manifests as the immune system attacking self-molecules. Numerous autoimmune diseases are strongly predisposed by genetic, viral, and/or environmental factors. Autoimmune diseases include insulin...