Allergy & Immunology

Pre-transplant cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin G antibody levels could prevent severe cytomegalovirus infections post-transplant in liver transplant recipients: Experience from a tertiary care liver centre.

BACKGROUND: Humoral immune responses in cytomegalovirus (CMV) are not studied well. Pre-transplant C...

Hyperbaric oxygen with cord blood transplants: Filling the donor gap.

Aljitawi OS, Paul S, Ganguly A, Lin TL, Ganguly S, Vielhauer G, Capitano ML, Cantilena A, Lipe B, Ma...

Cytomegalovirus Immunoglobulin G Avidity Index among Blood Donors in Alexandria, Egypt.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Transfusion transmitted diseases (TTD) are a major challenge to transfusion serv...

Effects of Inhalable Microparticles of Seonpyejeongcheon-Tang in an Asthma Mouse Model: - Effects of Microparticles of SJT.

OBJECTIVES: Allergic asthma generally presents with symptoms of wheezing, coughing, breathlessness, ...

[A Case of Eosinophilic Enteritis Needed to Distinguish from a Tumor of the Small Intestine].

A 75-year-old woman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia 6 months ago and was under follow-up at our h...

Ontology in Immunology.

Virological and immunological outcomes to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients of an academic medical center in Chile.

INTRODUCTION: Red Salud UC is an Academic health network where HIV-infected patients from the public...

Unsupervised selection of RV144 HIV vaccine-induced antibody features correlated to natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxic reactions.

HIV-1 vaccine injection has been shown less effective due to the diversity of antigens. Increasing t...

A mobile platform for automated screening of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma each represent a large proportion of the glo...

Using the Gene Ontology to Annotate Key Players in Parkinson's Disease.

The Gene Ontology (GO) is widely recognised as the gold standard bioinformatics resource for summari...

A chemotherapy response classifier based on support vector machines for high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma.

Long-term outcome of high-grade serous epithelial ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) remains poor as a result...

Computer-Aided Optimization of Combined Anti-Retroviral Therapy for HIV: New Drugs, New Drug Targets and Drug Resistance.

BACKGROUND: Resistance to antiretroviral drugs is a complex and evolving area with relevant implicat...

Nasal irrigation with Nasir® in children: a preliminary experience on nasal cytology.

Allergic rhinitis (AR) and upper airway respiratory infections are frequent in children, and both ha...

The effect of Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) on \textit{ex vivo} activation of human leukocytes.

INTRODUCTION: Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has been widely used to treat various conditions, in...

Effect of Borago Officinalis Extract on Moderate Persistent Asthma: A Phase two Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.

BACKGROUND: Borago officinalis and its derivatives are used in folk medicine to treat asthma because...

Systemic Immediate Hypersensitive Reactions after Treatment with Sweet Bee Venom: A Case Report.

OBJECTIVES: A previous study showed that bee venom (BV) could cause anaphylaxis or other hypersensit...

Postoperative Bleeding After Administration of a Single Dose of Rivaroxaban to a Patient Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy.

A 62-year-old man was admitted to hospital for elective revision of a left total hip arthroplasty. H...

[A Case of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura during Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer].

A 76-year-old man underwent surgery for sigmoid colon cancer. The pathological finding was stage Ⅱ w...

[Analysis of Cases with Elevated Blood (1->3)-β-D-glucan in Relation to an Infection Marker, Neutrophil CD64 Expression].

(1->3)-β-D-glucan (BDG) is a constituent of the fungal cell wall and its blood level is known as a m...

Distinct Transcriptional and Anti-Mycobacterial Profiles of Peripheral Blood Monocytes Dependent on the Ratio of Monocytes: Lymphocytes.

The ratio of monocytes and lymphocytes (ML ratio) in peripheral blood is associated with tuberculosi...

Automatic Wheezing Detection Based on Signal Processing of Spectrogram and Back-Propagation Neural Network.

Wheezing is a common clinical symptom in patients with obstructive pulmonary diseases such as asthma...