background: b-cell non-hodgkin’s lymphoma (nhl) is a common malignancy of lymphoid tissues. different types of nhl show various behaviors, prognoses, and responses to treatment. evaluation of disease activity in nhl can be helpful in managing and even increasing the patient’s survey. methods and results: in total, 121 patients (76 males and 45 females), and their age range were 18-53 years, wer...

background: two protocols of aapm tg-51 and iaea trs-398 were compared followed by a measurement and monte carlo simulation of beam quality correction factor, kq, aapm tg-51 and iaea trs-398 protocols were compared for the absorbed dose to water for dw, and kq parameters. materials and methods: dose measurements by either protocols were performed with cylindrical and plane parallel chambers for...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: in order to match workers physiological characteristics with job demands and personnel to perform different jobs, maximum aerobic capacity (vo 2 -max) can be used. this study was conducted to develop a data bank of vo 2 -max among male workers of the industrial sector in shiraz, iran. methods: in this cross-sec...

introduction todays, the application of new methods for monitoring and online management of agricultural farms is necessary to increase quality and quantity of agricultural products. remote sensing is one of the technologies that can be used to monitor agricultural farms and natural resources. this technology is capable of detection and prediction of farm changes by application of satellite and...

background: discriminating latent tuberculosis infection (ltbi) from active tbi may be challenging. the objective of this study was to produce the recombinant l-alanine dehydrogenase (aladh) antigen and evaluate individuals with ltbi, those with active tbi, and uninfected individuals by enzyme-linked immunospot assay (elispot) in order to distinguish ltbi from active tbi. methods: this explorat...

objective(s) two new adjuvants from natural animal lipids (g2) and bacterial polysaccharide extracts (pc) were previously prepared by our group and showed a reduction in tracheal responsiveness. the aim of this study was to evaluate the preventive effect of recently introduced natural products (g2 and pc) on the development of asthma. materials and methods asthma was induced using a standard me...

experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of l-glutamine on coated sperm freezing by using four rams. semen was collected by artificial vagina contact with a tube containing tris-fructose-egg yolk 15%. samples were pooled and centrifuged. after removing supernatant and diluting pellet, samples were split into 5 equal part and added 0, 40, 80, 120 and 160 mm l-glutamine. samples were froze...

background: matrix metalloproteinase-9 (mmp-9) gene -1562c/t polymorphism could regulate its expression level and thus affected people’s predisposition to essential hypertension. however, related studies yielded inconsistent or contradictory results. methods: to evaluate the association of mmp-9 -1562c/t polymorphism with essential hypertension, we performed a meta-analysis by combining all ava...