BACKGROUND Behcet's disease is an autoimmune, recurrent and multisystem disease. Vitamin D has immunomodulator role in immune system. So that vitamin D deficiency was reported in some autoimmune diseases. Behcet's disease as a Silk Road disease is common in Iran. The aim of this study was to detect the serum level of 25(OH) vitamin D in Behcet's patients and control group. METHODS In this cas...

Behçet disease (BD) is a systemic disorder of recurrent acute inflammation, characterized by major symptoms of oral aphthous ulcers, uveitis, skin lesions, and genital ulcers. The diagnosis is made using the criteria established by the International Study Group for Behçet disease in 1990. In Japan, the diagnosis was also made according to the Japanese criteria revised in 2003. But the clinical ...

We study possible effects of supersymmetry (SUSY) in CP asymmetries in nonleptonic Bd,s decays in a variety of SUSY flavour models considered in literature. We use both mass insertion and vertex mixing methods to calculate squark-gluino box diagrams contribution to Bd,s-B̄d,s mixings. With the squark mixing parameter η = 0.22, and with large new CP phases, it turns out that the CP asymmetries to...

Behcet’s disease is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory disease characterized by oral aphthae, genital ulcers, non-bacterial folliculitis, uveitis and erythema nodosum. The diagnosis of this condition is based on clinical criteria, as there is as yet no pathognomonic test, and mucocutaneous lesions, which are prominent in the presentation and diagnosis, may be considered the diagnostic hallmarks...

We present the results of our long-term monitoring of BD +53◦2790, the optical counterpart to the X-ray source 4U 2206+54. Unlike previous studies that classify the source as a Be/X-ray binary, we find that its optical and infrared properties differ from those of typical Be stars: the variability of the V/R ratio is not cyclical; there are variations in the shape and strength of the Hα emission...

Twenty four hour intragastric acidity and nocturnal acid output have been measured over five separate 24 hour periods in each of 12 patients with duodenal ulcer receiving either placebo, cimetidine 400 mg bd, cimetidine 300 mg nocte, ranitidine 150 mg bd, or ranitidine 300 mg nocte. In these doses ranitidine was significantly more effective at decreasing intragastric acidity and nocturnal acid ...

Copy number variation has been associated with various autoimmune diseases. We investigated the copy number (CN) of the DEFA1 gene encoding α-defensin-1 in samples from Korean individuals with Behcet's disease (BD) compared to healthy controls (HC). We recruited 55 BD patients and 35 HC. A duplex Taqman® real-time PCR assay was used to assess CN. Most samples (31.1%) had a CN of 5 with a mean C...

OBJECTIVE Behcet's disease (BD) is a multi-systemic vasculitis characterized by a relapsing and remitting, rather than a persisting, disease course. It is thought that BD activity decreases as the age of the afflicted individual increases. Furthermore, disease severity is reported to be greater in individuals that first present with the disease at a young age. This study investigates the associ...

Forty six patients with endoscopically diagnosed duodenal ulceration were randomly allocated to treatment with either sucralfate 1 g qds (n = 24) or cimetidine 200 mg tds and 400 mg nocte (n = 22). When the ulcers healed, a maintenance dose of sucralfate 1 g bd or cimetidine 400 mg nocte was given for one year (or until relapse if earlier). Biopsies of duodenal mucosa adjacent to ulcer sites fo...

Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic, recurrent, systemic disease that is characterized by oral and genital ulcers and oculocutaneous inflammatory lesions. Cardiovascular involvement especially large artery involvement is a serious and vital complication of BD. Pseudoaneurysms in the major arteries may be the cause of sudden death in BD. In our case a pulsatile abdominal mass was determined to be...