Background: To evaluate impact of spironolactone (S) on pulmonary toxicity of concomitant use of thoracic radiotherapy (RT) and trastuzumab (T).  Materials and Methods: Eighty rats were divided into eight groups: group (G) 1 was control group; G2, G3 and G4 were RT, S and T groups; G5, G6, G7 and G8 were RT+T, T+S, RT+S and RT+T+S groups respectively. Rats were sacrificed at 6 hour, 21 and 100 ...

In this paper, the concepts of μSp-open sets, μSp-interior and μSp-closure of a set in the generalized topological spaces are introduced. This also investigates related concepts such as μSp-continuous, μSp-open and μSp-closed functions. Mathematics Subject Classification: 54A05

Let Tt denote the t-threshold function on the n-cube: Tt(x) = 1 if |{i : xi = 1}| ≥ t, and 0 otherwise. Define the distance between Boolean functions g and h, d(g, h), to be the number of points on which g and h disagree. We consider the following extremal problem: Over a monotone Boolean function g on the n-cube with s zeros, what is the maximum of d(g, Tt)? We show that the following monotone...

the aim of this research is analyze the content of lamerd's lullabies in fars province with sociological approach and to illustrate women's situation in family and the function of these lullabies in the mentioned region. the method of this study is qualitative content analysis of lullabies with inductive approach. the results of the research were considered in two sections: 1) the con...

Lung-specific genes play critically important roles in lung development, lung physiology, and pathogenesis of lung-associated diseases. We performed a meta-analysis of multiple tissue RNA-seq data to identify lung-specific genes in order to better investigate their lung-specific functions and pathological roles. We identified 83 lung-specific genes consisting of 62 protein-coding genes, five ps...

The human lysosomal cysteine proteases are a family of 11 proteases whose members include cathepsins B, C, H, L, and S. The biology of these proteases was largely ignored for decades because of their lysosomal location and the belief that their function was limited to the terminal degradation of proteins. In the past 10 years, this view has changed as these proteases have been found to have spe...

The Knowledge of variations in the lung can help surgeons to control bleeding during pulmonary lobectomy or might be used to reduce post-operative complications. Due to the importance of the knowledge of variations in lungs for clinicians, especially surgeons and radiologists, we report a case with lung lobe and fissure. During the autopsy of a 27-year-old man at the Legal Medicine Organizatio...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect sports on some motoric, physical, and lung functions athletes sedentary individuals in same age group with young playing high school teams different branches. A total 60 volunteer individuals, including 45 (15 male basketball players, 15 handball football players), participated study. FVC (l), FEV1 PEF (l/s), FEF 25/75 (l/s) MVV (l/min) val...

Objective(s): Considering the fact that the standardized uptake value (SUV) of a normal lung tissue is expressed as x±SD, x+3×SD could be considered as the threshold value to outline the internal tumor volume (ITV) of a lung neoplasm. Methods: Three hollow models were filled with 55.0 kBq/mL fluorine18- fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) to represent tumors. The models were fixed to a barrel filled w...