missile injuries of the kidney are rare even in wartime. of 4500 patients admitted to the ghaem medical center in the first two years of the iran-iraq war, only 96 had injuries of the genitourinary tract (2.1 %) and only 35 involved the kidney usually with multiple injuries to other viscera. the mortality for those with urogenital injuries was 8.3% (compared with world war i, 60% and world war ...

dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers consist one of the widely-used groups of drugs for the management of hypertension. in this study, antihypertensive effects of 5 newly synthesized derivatives of dhp was examined the in rat model of two-kidney, one-clip renal hypertension. the results showed that those compounds containing two nitroxy groups had less decreasing effect on map (men arterial...

Background & Aims: Daclizumab is a monoclonal antibody directed against CD25 subunit of interlukin 2 receptor. Several studies have shown the effectiveness of daclizumab on reduction of acute rejection in renal transplantation with regular or limited dose. The present study assessed the outcomes of 3 and 5 years follow-up of a prospective case-control trial comparing safety and efficacy of indu...

the incidence of stone disease among patients with congenital renal anomalies including malrotated kidney is more than in normal population due to poor urine drainage and stasis (1). various minimally invasive options have been used for the management. ureteroscopy and holmium:yag laser lithotripsy have been reported with favorable outcomes (2). we report a 30-year-old male who presented to our...

Cleavage stimulation factor (CstF) is a heterotrimeric protein complex essential for polyadenylation of mRNA precursors. The 77 kDa subunit, CstF-77, is known to mediate interactions with the other two subunits of CstF as well as with other components of the polyadenylation machinery. We report here the crystal structure of the HAT (half a TPR) domain of murine CstF-77, as well as its C-termina...

results of all participants, 104 patients (52%) were diagnosed with cmv infection. there was no significant difference between the two groups, with and without cmv infection, in terms of patient’s characteristics. the cmv infection, in patients receiving a transplanted organ from deceased donor, was significantly more prevalent than in those receiving kidney transplant from living donor (63% vs...