Background: Due to infections, cardio-vascular involvement and renal insufficiency, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus live shorter than usual. Objective: To determine the mean survival rate of SLE patients. Patients and Methods: 62 SLE patients admitted in the hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Sciences from 1369 to 1380 were included in this study. The demographic variabl...

One of the goals of the government is to increase the competitiveness of domestic firms to export goods and services. Moreover, the role of exports in many economic sectors has been emphasized. There are two essential requirements for developing non-oil exports: first, the presence of firms in export markets and increasing their competitiveness; second, the survival of them in international mar...

Sperm acrosomes contain hyaluronidase, the amount varying, respectively, from ram, rabbit, bull, human, boar, rat, and stallion sperm to rooster sperm that do not possess this enzyme. Hyaluronidase was partially purified from bull sperm acrosomal extracts by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. Bull sperm acrosomal hyaluronidase has an optimum pH of 3.75 and is not effected by freezing and thawing or...

Primary Lens Luxation (PLL) is an inherited disease common in Terrier breeds. A truncating mutation in the ADAMTS17 orthologue on CFA03 is reported to cause PLL in 17 breeds, mostly Terriers. This study investigated the mode of inheritance and penetrance of PLL, age of the ADAMTS17 mutation, and other possible causes of PLL in Australian Tenterfield Terriers and Miniature Bull Terriers. The ADA...

Two experiments were conducted to test the following hypotheses: 1) exposure of beef heifers to sterile bulls increases the proportion of heifers attaining puberty by 14 mo of age and 2) rate of growth interacts with bull exposure to influence age at puberty in beef heifers. In Exp. I, heifers were assigned to one of two treatments: 1) heifers were exposed to bulls (BE; approximately 70-d perio...