Epidemiological Survey of Toxoplasmosis among Aborted Women in Garmian district, Kurdistan Region, Iraq by Salar Ibrahim Ali

“…The study was carried out in Kalar General Hospital to detect Toxoplasma antibodies among 350 samples, in which 250 samples were from aborted women and 100 samples were from normal birth women as a control. …”
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Analysis of Amino Acid Changes in the Fusion Protein of Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus from Vaccinated Poultry in Nigerian Isolates by Olubukola O. Funsho-Sanni, Elijah E. Ella, Lawal D. Rogo, Olufunsho S. Sanni, Helen I. Inabo, Sodangi A. Luka, Ismaila Shittu

“…Mutation in this A2 antigenic epitope has been reported to induce escape mutation to monoclonal antibodies generated using the NDV LaSota strain. The range of percentage nucleotide and amino acid homology between the study isolates and commercially available vaccine strains is 81.14%–84.39% and 0.175–0.211, respectively. …”
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Maternal Thyroid Dysfunction and Neonatal Thyroid Problems by Hulya Ozdemir, Ipek Akman, Senay Coskun, Utku Demirel, Serap Turan, Abdullah Bereket, Hulya Bilgen, Eren Ozek

“…Women with hypothyroidism and having anti-thyroglobulin (ATG) and anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO) antibodies were assigned as group I, women with hypothyroidism who did not have autoantibodies were assigned as group II, and women without thyroid problems were assigned as group III. …”
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An atypical presentation of autoimmune hepatitis with delayed menarche in a Nigerian adolescent: a case report by Promise Udoka Asogwa, Bruno Basil, Winifred Njideka Adiri, Nelson Ugwu, Gideon Ekene Anigbo, Evaristus Offia, Casmir Orjioke

“…Following a comprehensive diagnostic workup, including liver function tests, imaging, and autoantibody testing, which were positive for antinuclear and antismooth muscle antibodies, she was correctly diagnosed with type 1 autoimmune hepatitis. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Infections among Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Single-Centre Study in Somalia by Mohamed Osman Omar Jeele, Rukia Omar Barei Addow, Faduma Nur Adan, Liban Hassan Jimale

“…Age, sex, duration of hemodialysis, number of hemodialysis sessions per week, history of blood transfusion, HbsAg, and anti-HCV antibodies were examined. Results. Out of the 220 patients, males were predominant (113 (51.4%)). …”
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet-to-lymphocyte Ratio in the Patients with Euthyroid Hashimoto's Thyroiditis by Hacer Nur RESBER, Mumtaz TAKIR, Cundullah TORUN

“…Correlation analysis revealed weak positive associations between C-reactive protein and thyroid peroxidase antibodies (p<0.05), neutrophils (p<0.01), platelets (p<0.01), and NLR (p<0.05). …”
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T Cell Repertoire and Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Kenneth Croitoru, David KH Wong, Maria E Baca-Estrada

“…In addition, studies are exploring the T cell receptor repertoire in IBD patients for changes that may provide clues regarding etiopathogenesis. Using monoclonal antibodies to T cell receptor variable-gene products or polymerase chain reaction analysis of variable-gene mRNA expression, the mucosal T cell repertoire has been examined in humans. …”
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Transient degradation of NF-κB proteins in macrophages after interaction with mast cell granules by Noriko Ito, Yuai Li, Tsuneo Suzuki, Daniel J. Stechschulte, Kottarappat N. Dileepan

“…The exposure of the macrophage cell line, J774 to mast cell granules (MCG) led to the form ation of altered nuclear transcription factor proteins (NFκBx), which had faster electrophoretic mobility than the p50 homodimer of NF-κB, but retained comparable DNA binding capacity. Antibodies to N-terminal peptides of p50, p52, p65 or c-Rel supershifted only a fraction of NF-κBx. …”
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Evaluation of B cell related markers and autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with abatacept by Ting Wang, Natalia V. Giltiay, Christian Lood, Ning Wang, Bobby Kwanghoon Han

“…Baseline levels and longitudinal changes of markers were assessed between responders and nonresponders.ResultsBaseline levels of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies (p=0.01), IgM rheumatoid factor (RF) (p=0.02), CXC chemokine ligand 13 (CXCL13, p=0.02), sCD23 (p<0.05), as well as frequencies of CD19+CD11c+IgD-CD27- B cells (p=0.04), were higher in responders than nonresponders. …”
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Serological diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminth (Ascaris, Trichuris and hookworm) infections: A scoping review. by Sara Roose, Fiona Vande Velde, Johnny Vlaminck, Peter Geldhof, Bruno Levecke

“…Almost all records targeted antibodies as analytes, employing proteins and peptides as analyte detection agents. …”
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Epidemiology of tularemia in the countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO): A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Mohammad Sholeh, Safoura Moradkasani, Saber Esmaeili

“…In the subgroup analysis, anti-F. tularensis antibodies were found in 6.92% and 5.5% of the high-risk individuals and Iran, respectively. …”
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Digital Gangrene: An Unusual Manifestation of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma by Muhammad Shoaib Momen Majumder, Shamim Ahmed, Tajkia Haque, Syed Atiqul Haq, Saumitra Chakravarty, Md. Abu Shahin, Din-E-Mujahid Mohammad Faruque Osmany, Johannes J. Rasker

“…Rheumatoid factor, antinuclear and antiphospholipid antibodies, C-ANCA and P-ANCA, hepatitis B and C, and HIV were negative. …”
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Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis with Leptospirosis: A Rare but Devastating Complication by B. M. Munasinghe, A. G. Arambepola, N. Pathirage, U. P. M. Fernando, N. Subramaniam, S. Nimalan, T. Gajanthan

“…The routine cultures, retroviral studies, CMV, dengue, hanta and mycoplasma antibodies, tuberculosis and COVID-19 PCR, and malaria screening were all normal. …”
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Analysis of Additional Methods of purification of Mixtures while Conducting Differential Lysis under Sexual Crimes by Ya. O. Sinitsyna

“…Chemical methods of mixture purification have been studied, including additional washing and incubation of the mortar, use of DNases, SDS lysis buffer and magnetic sorting with the use of antibodies (MOSPD3 and RH-20), and physical methods such as laser microdissection, acoustic lysis, hydrodynamic effect in small Reynolds numbers, microchips with additional integration of Cialyl Lewis oligosaccharide sequence and DEPArray technology. …”
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Adipokines in Breast Cancer: Decoding Genetic and Proteomic Mechanisms Underlying Migration, Invasion, and Proliferation by Ließem A, Leimer U, Germann GK, Köllensperger E

“…Our findings indicate that antibodies against specific adipokines could become a beneficial component of clinical breast cancer treatment in the future.Keywords: breast cancer, adipokines, tumor progression, adipose tissue, secretome…”
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A randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, multiple dose, parallel study to investigate the effects of a cathepsin S inhibitor in celiac disease by Darren Bentley, Marie Mannino, Marianne Manchester, Priscila Camillo Teixeira, Bernhard Reis, Malcolm Boyce, Sandra Nagel

“…Few participants had an increase in gliadin‐specific, IFNγ‐secreting T cells, and the antigen‐specific responses (anti‐tTG and anti‐DGP antibodies) were weaker than expected in both arms. …”
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Cell Surface Proteins for Enrichment and In Vitro Characterization of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Myogenic Progenitors by Sin-Ruow Tey, Madison Mueller, Megan Reilly, Colton Switalski, Samantha Robertson, Mariko Sakanaka-Yokoyama, Masatoshi Suzuki

“…In this study, we first performed comprehensive cell surface protein profiling of the sphere culture cells through the screening of 255 antibodies. Next, we used magnetic activated cell sorting and enriched the cells according to the expression of specific surface markers. …”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of PD‐1/PD‐L1 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer by Qichen Zhang, Xiaojuan Han, Jiayi Liu, Hui Qiao

“…ABSTRACT Objective This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of PD‐1/PD‐L1 inhibitors in treating small‐cell lung cancer (SCLC) and determine the role of PD‐1 monoclonal antibodies in improving patient outcomes. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on 37 SCLC patients who received PD‐1 or PD‐L1 inhibitors along with chemotherapy at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University between June 2018 and June 2023. …”
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Severe anti-α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor encephalitis with prolonged hyperammonemia: a case report by Chunxia Yan, Lingling Bai, Jingwei Du, Zonglei Chong, Guangjun Xu, Xiaoqian Yang

“…At that time, his Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score was 6, and AMPAR antibodies were strongly positive in both serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). …”
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Clinical Characterization of Patients with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria according to Anti-TPO IgE Levels by Jorge Sánchez, Andres Sánchez, Ricardo Cardona

“…Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is a heterogeneous disease with some frequent comorbidities like autoimmune diseases, drug reactions, and inducible urticaria. IgE antibodies against thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO IgE) could be associated with some of these clinical characteristics. …”
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