Epidemiological studies suggest a possible association between BMI, diagnosis and clinical-pathological breast cancer characteristics but biological bases for this relationship still remain to be ascertained. Several biological mechanisms play a role in the genesis and progression of breast cancer. This study aimed to investigate relationships between BMI and breast cancer diagnosis/progression...

purpose: to investigate the effects of phosphide on some human biological systems in order to find a way to control it and facilitate the prevention and treatment of its poisoning.   materials and methods: in this study, 67 files of autopsy description, forensic pathology results and forensic toxicology were studied as nominal qualitative variables in terms of each type of histological changes ...

Objective Plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma (PUC) of the bladder is a recently identified rare variant of urothelial carcinoma (UC). The purpose of this study was to study the clinical, imaging and pathological characteristics of PUC. Methods We reviewed two cases of PUC with different aggressive behaviour related the proportion of Plasmacytoid variant UC differentiation. The clinical, imaging ...

Background and Objective: Uterus of rat with polycystic ovary (PCO) may show pathological features. We provided pathological evidence for the rat uterus with NO-induced PCO.    Materials and Methods: Wistar rats (weighing 200-250 g) were kept diestrous to receive L-arginine (50 mg/kg) intraperitoneally (i.p.) for 9 days/once a day. Control group solely received saline (1 ml/kg, 9 days/once per ...