Objective: Avicenna (Abu Ali al-Hossein ibn Abdullah ibn Sina) who had a special attention toward diseases treatments, gathered results of ages of herbal medicine experiments on humans and animals in his book “Al-Qānūn fī Ṭibb” or "The Canon of Medicine", which is a reliable book in Iranian traditional medicine. The aim of this research was to build a reliable list of plants effective against ...

OBJECTIVES Hypericum perforatum L. is a medicinal plant containing many polyphenolic compounds, ‎including flavonoids and phenolic acids with antidepressant and anti-inflammatory properties. ‎This study was investigated the effects of Hypericum perforatum extract (HPE) on immunity, ‎body weight (BW), and spleen index (SI) in rats.‎ MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 24 Wistar male rats were ran...

The fitness and virulence costs associated with the clinical acquisition of colistin resistance by Acinetobacter baumannii were evaluated. The growth of strain CR17 (colistin resistant) was less than that of strain CS01 (colistin susceptible) when the strains were grown in competition (72-h competition index, 0.008). In a murine sepsis model, CS01 and CR17 reached spleen concentrations when coi...

Vitamin D is an essential fat-soluble vitamin with multiple functions. Vitamin D receptor has been shown to be expressed in several types of immune cells suggesting vitamin D may have immune regulatory roles. Vitamin D insufficiency has been suggested to increase the risk of autoimmune diseases. However, little is known regarding its immunomodulatory effects in the condition of immune suppressi...

PATIENT Male, 29 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Spontaneous spleen rupture Symptoms: Abdominal distension • abdominal pain • abdominal tenderness • disorientation • fever • hemothorax • hip pain • reduced urine output MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: Splenectomy Specialty: Infectious Diseases. OBJECTIVE Rare diseases. BACKGROUND Spontaneous rupture of a malarial spleen is uncommon even in the endemic r...

The kinetics of both erythroid burst-forming and colony-forming units (BFU-E, CFU-E) and myelomonocytic precursors [myelomacrophage colony-forming unit (CFU-C)] have been evaluated in tibial marrow, peripheral blood, and spleen of DBA/2 mice at time intervals after inoculation of either the anemic (FLV-A) or the polycythemic (FLV-P) strain of Friend leukemia virus. Either one of the viruses ind...

BACKGROUND The Child-Pugh classification is used as an index of liver function. We assessed the relationship between modified Child score and sulfur colloid liver-spleen scintigraphy in histologically confirmed cirrhosis. METHOD Following injection of 185 MBq (99)mTechnetium-sulfur colloid, anterior and posterior images were obtained at 30 minutes with 500,000 counts. Liver-spleen scintigraph...