alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder. it is characterized by formation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, degeneration of the cholinergic neurons and neural cell death. this study was aimed to investigate the effect of a triazine derivative, c16h12cl2n3s, on learning in an alzheimer's rat model. animals were divided into seven group...

patients with valvular heart disease and suffering atrial fibrillation of more than 12 months duration have a low probability of remaining in sinus rhythm after valve surgery alone. we performed intra-operative radiofrequency ablation or cryoablation as an alternative to surgical maze ііі procedure to create linear lesion lines for conversion of this arrhythmia to sinus rhythm. a total of 30 pa...

Celiac disease also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy is characterized by intestinal mucosal damage and malabsorption from dietary intake of wheat, rye or barley. Symptoms may appear with introduction of cereal in the first 3 years of life. A second peak in symptoms occurs in adults during the third or forth decade and even as late as eight decade of life. The prevalence of this disease is ...

Les bandes fibreuses formees a la suite de la rupture partielle du sac amniotique, provoquent chez le toetus, des malformations distales associees parfois aux lesions craniofaciales.  - oedeme monstrueux de la main droite, - syndactylie distale des ·doigts de la main gauche, - equino-varus du pied droit.

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: symptoms consistent with irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) are common among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in remission phase, and clinicians have difficulties in interpreting such symptoms as an ongoing disease activity or a coexistent ibs. we investigated if the assessment of fecal calprotectin (...

introduction worldwide, chronic liver disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. causes of elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (alt) levels vary depending on the population under study. the aim of this study is to evaluate the frequency and causes of persistently elevated alt levels in patients of the gastroenterology (gi) clinics in ghaem and emam reza hospitals in mashhad, iran....

conclusions no significant variance was observed among patients underwent for cardiac catheterization, stemi, nstemi, unstable angina, and atrial fibrillation with respect to ft4, ft3, and tsh levels during coronary care unit hospitalization based on their profile data. results excluding those taking thyroid hormone preparations, 76.7% of patients admitted with acute coronary heart disease (st-...

conclusions in the chinese han population that we studied, nafld patients who carry the tnf-α-238 ga polymorphism have an increased risk of developing cad. mechanisms underlying this potentially important association require further investigation. background cardiovascular events account for the main cause of death in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld), and are largely infl...