PURPOSE To follow the maturation of the auditory pathway of infants born small for gestational age term, by studying absolute and interpeak latencies of Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) in the first six months of life. METHODS Multicentric prospective longitudinal study. The ABR was carried out in the neonatal period in 96 newborn infants, 49 small for gestational age (SGA) and 47 appropriat...

Background and Objective: Non-scarring alopecia is a challenge in the diagnosis and treatment, rarely studied in Asian countries. The current study aimed at evaluating histopathological features including hair count of different subtypes of non-scarring alopecia in Iranian patients.Methods: The current study was conducted on 114 cases diagnosed with...

Fig. 1 shows the FTIR spectra of GA, AGA-PEG and AGA-PEG-ST. In the spectra of GA, the absorption peaks at 3450 cm-1, 2947 cm-1 and 1650 cm-1 are associated with hydroxyl bonds and alkene bonds of GA, respectively. The broad peak appearing between 3400 and 2500 cm-1 and the peak at 1720 cm-1 are respectively contributed to O-H bonds and carbonyl bonds in carboxylic acid. In the spectra of AGA-P...

Aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU) is a lysosomal storage disorder that is caused by genetic deficiency of the enzyme aspartylglucosaminidase (AGA) which is involved in glycoprotein degradation. AGU is a progressive disorder that results in severe mental retardation in early adulthood. No curative therapy is currently available for AGU. We have here characterized the consequences of a novel AGU mutat...

Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is characterized by a progressive and patterned transformation of thick, pigmented terminal scalp hairs into short, hypo-pigmented vellus-like hairs. The use of Minoxidil and Finasteride to treat AGA are often associated with complications in safety and efficacy. However, herbal remedies are deemed to have lesser side effects in many societies. This study aims to ide...

A deficiency of functional aspartylglucosaminidase (AGA) causes a lysosomal storage disease, aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU). The recessively inherited disease is enriched in the Finnish population, where 98% of AGU alleles contain one founder mutation, AGU(Fin). Elsewhere in the world, we and others have described 18 different sporadic AGU mutations. Many of these are predicted to interfere with ...