BACKGROUND Anthropological studies based on highly polymorphic HLA genes provide useful information for bone marrow donor registry, forensic medicine, disease association studies, as well as designing peptide vaccines against tumors, and infectious or autoimmune diseases. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the genetic relationship of Iranian Arabs and Jews using HLA-class II gen...

The International Society of Computational Biology presents: the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, May 16–18, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio Jim Cavalcoli, Lonnie Welch, Bruce Aronow, Sorin Draghici and Daisuke Kihara University of Michigan (Steering Committee Chair), Ohio University (Steering Committee Chair), Childrens Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati (Conference Chair), Wayne S...

*College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612; †Center for Comparative Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030-3498; ‡Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799; §University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213; and University o...

1 Department of Neurology, University of Basel Hospital, 4031 Basel, Switzerland 2 Division of Neuropaediatrics, University of Basel Childrens Hospital, 4056 Basel, Switzerland 3 Department of Orthopaedics, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria 4 Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany 5 Institut...

1 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia 2 Department of Psychology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 3 School of Behavioural Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 4 Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 5 Children’s Neurosciences Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 6 Department of Radiolo...

Stanisław Kwiatkowski, Anna Starowicz, olga Milczarek, Zdzisław Kawecki: children’s Neurosurgery Department, children’s University Hospital, Kraków, Poland. correspondence adress: Olga Milczarek, childrens Neurosurgery Department, children’s University Hospital Kraków, 265 Wielicka Str., 30-663 Kraków, Poland. Email: [email protected] This research has not been aided by any grant. Neuropsychologic...

One of the major advances in medicine has been the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure since the 1960s in order to save human lives. This procedure has so far saved thousands of lives. Although CPR has helped to save lives, in some cases, it prolongs the process of dying, suffering, and pain in patients. This study was conducted to explain the experience of Iranian physicians r...