Application of a liposomal subunit vaccine in chickens for reduction of gut colonisation.

Introduction: are the most common cause of food poisoning, which manifests itself in diarrhoea of varying severity. Additionally, because of the increasing number of people with immune deficiencies, more frequent serious complications of infections are being observed. The main source of infection is the consumption of contaminated poultry meat, which is a consequence of the insufficiency of current hygiene and biosecurity to control or eliminate it from the poultry food chain.

GC-MS analysis of the composition of serum IgG glycans as a potential diagnostic marker of advanced endometriosis - Preliminary report.

Background: Endometriosis is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease that causes the growth of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus. Diagnostics of this disease are difficult, often invasive, and time-consuming, therefore non-invasive diagnostic methods and parameters are very desirable in endometriosis detection.

Objectives: The study aimed to check whether there are any differences in the monosaccharide composition of N-glycans in serum IgG of women with advanced endometriosis and women with mild gynecological diseases.

Ceramide is implicated in humoral peripheral and intrathecal autoimmune response in MS patients.

Background: The disturbed metabolism of ceramide (Cer) is supposed to evoke the autoimmune response, contributing to MS pathology.

Objectives: To determine levels of anti-Cer immunoglobulins G (IgGs) in the CSF and serum of subjects with various phenotypes of MS, and to investigate relationships between levels of anti-Cer antibodies and MS-related variables.

Methods: IgGs isolated from serum and the CSF of 68 MS patients and appropriate controls were examined for their reactivity to Cer subspecies.

Lumican: a new inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-14 activity.

We previously showed that lumican regulates MMP-14 expression. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of lumican and decorin on MMP-14 activity. In contrast to decorin, the glycosylated form of lumican was able to significantly decrease MMP-14 activity in B16F1 melanoma cells.