Minamata disease in Japan and the large-scale poisoning by methylmercury (MeHg) in Iraq
caused wide public concerns about the risk emanating from mercury for human health …

Approximately one third of the human proteome contains metal cations, either in the form of
cofactors with catalytic functions or as structural support elements. 1, 2 To guarantee a …

Eugenol, a natural compound available in honey and various plants extracts including
cloves and Magnoliae flos, is exploited for various medicinal applications. Since most of the …

Vitamin B6 (Vit. B6) supplementation has been shown to be beneficial in reducing diabetic
complications, cognitive aging, and in the prevention of coronary heart disease. It was …

Apoptosis is characterized by a conserved series of morphological events beginning with
the apoptotic volume decrease (AVD). This study investigated a role for aquaporins (AQPs) …

There is growing evidence that heavy metals, in general, and mercurial compounds, in
particular, are immunotoxic to the human immune system. The major focus of our study is to …

Several organochlorinated pesticides including DDT, PCBs and dieldrin have been reported
to cause immune suppression and increase susceptibility to infection in animals. Often this …

Honey is a complex mixture of different biologically active constituents. Honey possesses
anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antitumor properties. Our chief investigation was to …

We have previously shown that Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans produces an
immunosuppressive factor that is encoded by the cdtB gene, which is homologous to a …

The focus of this investigation was to examine the effects of low concentrations of organic
mercuric compounds on human monocyte function and to relate these effects to apoptosis …