introduction. in the current screening system, new admissions are based on general intelligence as measured by universities entrance examination. considering the fact that an important function of medical graduates is to educate the patients how to restore and take care of their health, communicative competence and skills would be, at least, as important as general intelligence. to show that la...

background: we aimed to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (gfr) in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) and to determine the relationship between gfr with c-reactive protein (crp) and uric acid. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, one-hundred and forty pcos women and 60 healthy subjects were evaluated. the study was carried out at endocrinology outpatient clinic, ...

Background: A powerful and improved technique, Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) has been performed-yielding the elemental composition of 17 samples of surgically excised malignant and normal tumors of breast tissue. The samples without any further process as thick targets were put on capton foil backing. There are no homogenizing processes. The PIXE spectra analysis was performed using he n...

the experiment was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of lernaea cyprinacea and its effects on growth, hematology and skin histopathology of catla catla in four experimental earthen ponds (p1, p2, p3 and p4) for 90 days. the growth performance, prevalence of lernaea cyprinacea and ulceration was recorded on a fortnightly basis. the highest final body weight was observed in p4 (413.7 g) follow...

Background: Diagnosis of the early phase of mycosis fungoides (MF) is sometimes difficult. Loss of CD7 expression is considered a distinguishing characteristic of MF. The aim of this study was to determine the range of CD7 expression in MF and compare the results with benign inflammatory dermatosis and equivocal cases of possible MF. Methods: During a period of 30 months, we examined 15 patient...