The first line of defence in parasitic infection is the innate immune system. On the other hand, adaptive immune system posseses numerous mechanisams of hummoral and cellular immunity. Cellular immunity in a helminth infection is characterised by Th2 immune response. Considering the fact that the aim of a parasite is not to kill its host, the major...

By Dragan Zdravković, Jovana Kostić, Jelena Radović, Aleksandar Kostić, Milena Potić Floranović, Ana Ristić Petrović, Aleksandra Ignjatović, Aleksandar Tasić, Nataša Miladinović Tasić, Suzana Otašević

A war wound to the proximal humerus is characterised by profuse bleeding, multifragmentary fracture-dislocations, defects of the muscle tissue, capsule, skin and by primary contamination with polymorphic bacterial flora, and it is rarely isolated. Out of 27 injured people, subluxation/dislocation of the humeral head occured in the first four patien...

By Predrag Grubor, Milorad Mitković, Milan Grubor, Milan Mitković

The reason of prostate cancer is the mutation in the prostate cell. The present study was aimed at determining the effects of different concentrations of vitamin D on the anti-proliferative action of 24,25(OH)2D3 applied on LNCaP (cell line of human prostate cancer) cells. It was evident from the results that vitamin D having concentrations of 10-9...

By Ahmad Humayan Kabir, Ferdhos Khan, Mamunur Rashid Sarkar

Fig (Ficus carica) tree latex was a source of treatment of different diseases in the Iranian traditional medicine reported by Avicenna in his 10th century book Canon of Medicine. The aim of this investigation was to establish the anticancer effect of fig tree latex on human cancer cells. The in vitro effect of different doses of fig tree latex incl...

By Seyyed Abbas Hashemi, Saeid Abediankenari

Since the time of Freud’s “Project for psychology as natural science” in 1895, at the dawn of psychoanalysis as the theory and therapy, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in general have been attempting to establish and develop their biological roots. Numerous external and internal limitations and resistances have been limiting and ...

By Ljiljana Samardžić, Gordana Nikolić

Segmental fractures represent the interruption of bone integrity at two or more levels. In these fractures, a wide zone of injury (damage of all structures of the lower leg) creates very unsuitable biological conditions for healing of the fracture. Because of the damage of both intramedullary and periostal vascularization, segmental fractures are p...

By Zoran Golubović, Predrag Stojiljković, Ivan Golubović, Zoran Radovanović, Aleksandar Višnjić, Branko Ristić, Katarina Kutlešić Stojanović, Milan Trenkić, Stevo Najman, Miroslav Trajanović

People with metabolic syndrome (MetSy) are about twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease and over four times as likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to subjects without metabolic syndrome. Waist circumferences (WC) and body mass index (BMI) are useful screening tools for making the diagnosis. MetSy has increased the health risk in p...

By Veroslava Stanković, Svetlana Stojanović, Nađa Vasiljević

Society is now at a stage at which it is possible to obtain information about almost anything within a very short period of time. Such a situation requires the usage of one language for mutual understanding and communication of scientific, technological and academic information among different linguistic groups within a multi-linguistic community. ...

By Zorica Antić

The analysis of the subpopulation of lymphocytes - CD4+, CD8+ lymphocytes in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of paediatric patients can provide useful information related the lung parenchyma.  The aim of the paper was to analyze the results of bronchoscopy of patients presenting with persistent lung infiltrates and to find out of the diagnostic y...

By Amina Selimović, Senka Dinarević, Tatjana Pejčić, Ermina Mujičić, Aida Hasanović, Siniša Ristić, Nataša Banjac, Željko Pavlović

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) means a distinct dislocation (lateralisation and cranialisation) of the femoral head from the poorly developed (hypoplastic and steeper) acetabulum.   The aim of the paper was to establish, in a retrospective and prospective study conducted in the period between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2010, th...

By Predrag Grubor, Milan Grubor, Marinko Domuzin, Ivan Golubović