Nima Zouei's research while affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences and other places

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Objectives: Latent toxoplasmosis modifies various hormones and behaviors in infected hosts and possibly involves in etiology of different neurologic and psychiatric disorders. The aim of the current study was to assess possible associations between latent toxoplasmosis and testosterone concentration in Toxoplasma infected and free subjects. Briefl...
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In the current study, performance of electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA) in detection of anti-toxoplasma IgG in human sera was compared with that of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Furthermore, performance of an in house Dot-ELISA in detection of anti-toxoplasma IgG was compared with that of ECLIA and ELISA. In total, 219 human...

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... To our knowledge, this study is, worldwide, one of the few studies to analyze the impact of latent TG infection on the history of spontaneous abortion [18,[22][23][24][25][26], secondary sex ratio [28,[36][37][38][39], occurrences of pregnancy complications (such as the mode of delivery), the prevalence of spontaneous premature rupture of membranes, pregnancy-induced hypertensive disease [30,[40][41][42], preterm birth or prolonged pregnancy [12,43], with respect to neonatal outcome. The gestational age was established by the first or second-trimester scan in each patient. ...
... The sera samples were tested by the ELISA method through the TOXO IgG kit (ACON ELISA Kit, China), according to the manufacturer's instructions [32]. Briefly, 100 µL of sera samples was added to each well and the plate was incubated for 30 min at 37 • C. ...