BACKGROUND In addition to Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) compatibility, gene polymorphism in cytokines might be important in the quality of allogeneic immune response. OBJECTIVES In this study HLA-DR matching and a number of cytokine gene polymorphisms have been evaluated in occurrence of acute rejection after living-unrelated donor (LURD) kidney transplantation. METHODS A total of 42 renal...

Few would disagree that high quality thinking is a necessary condition for high quality writing. Yet, writing courses in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) often focus only marginally on principled and rigorous development of dialogical thinking and idea generation in preparation for written work. This study examines the effect of a model of critical thinking instruction (CTI) in a university ...

Common water-plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica L.), arrowhead (Sagitaria trifolia L.) and Echinochloa spp. (L.) are among the most important damaging weeds of rice paddies. In this research, Curvularia lunata (Waker) Boedijn was isolated from the said weeds. Then, its effect in different growth stages, i.e. seed, 2-3 leaf stage (seedling) and also in greenhouse conditions was examined in Alism...

+Hashemi J; Chandrashekar N; Gill B; Slauterbeck JR; Schutt R; Dabezies, ED;Beynnon BD +Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; University of Waterloo, Ontario, CA; University of Vermont, Burlington, VT [email protected] – [email protected] INTRODUCTION Severe knee ligament trauma, such as Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) disruption, is associated with a dramatic loss of function. Even when...

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission measures the Earth’s gravity field since March 2002. We propose a new filtering procedure for post-processing GRACE-based monthly gravity field solutions provided in the form of spherical harmonic coefficients. The procedure is tuned for the optimal estimation of linear trends and other signal components that show a systemati...

The lens cells are the most radiosensitive in body, surpassing even lymphocytes key parameters. Radiation damages can be observed at relatively low doses, connection with which a number of authors attribute to these effects not deterministic, but stochastic nature. Although cataractogenic consequences do always affect visual acuity, and undergo successful surgical correction, when irradiating v...

two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are reported from shahid hashemi nejad medical'center in iran. there were 127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of life. all patients received grafts from living donors with 1 14 cases of hla haploidentical, 55 cases of hla identical matches and 24 unrelated donors. one year patient and graft su...

Using a wide range of techniques, including differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, Rapid Visco Analyser and Fourier Transform Infera Red Spectroscopy, some physicochemical properties of the starch fraction of six Iranian rice cultivars (Tarom, Tarome Hashemi, Neda, Ramezani, Fajr and Kamfirouzi) [1]were studied and compared. DSC data showed that starch granules of different rice ...

Two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are reported from Shahid Hashemi Nejad Medical Center in Iran. There were 127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of life. All patients received grafts from living donors with 114 cases of HLA haploidentical, 55 cases of HLA identical matches and 24 unrelated donors. One year patient and graft survival...

Two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are reported from Shahid Hashemi Nejad Medical'Center in Iran. There were 127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of life. All patients received grafts from living donors with 1 14 cases of HLA haploidentical, 55 cases of HLA identical matches and 24 unrelated donors. One year patient and graft su...