an investigation was carried out on a young unrelated couple, both 29 years old, with two boys and three girls, 3 months to 8 years old. one boy and the mother were healthy, the other four children and the father were affected. the family, originally from the district of nour, in northern iran, near the caspian sea, was first counseled at the genetic clinic in tehran in 1984. several trips were...

thymoma is the most common neoplasm of anterior mediastinum with incidence peaks during the fourth, fifth and sixth decades of life. two-thirds of patients are asymptomatic and identified accidentally by chest x-rays . of the total, 40-70 % of patients have one or more parathymic syndromes of which myasthenia gravis (mg) is the most common and reported in 10-50% . gullain-barre syndrome (gbs) h...

conclusions there was a significant association between pms scores and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. further studies are needed to confirm and validate the relationships between lipid profile abnormalities and metabolic disorders with pms. objectives this study was designed to investigate the association of hormonal and metabolic factors with pms among iranian women of reproductive age....

This research examined the significance of factors influencing purchase decisions within perception former Jiwasraya insurance policy holders who had migrated their policies to PT IFG Life. The decision variable is measured by applying Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) developed Ajzen (1991) through measuring a person’s attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control understand intentio...

severe overgrowth and tallness is very rare in human beings. the most common cause is gigantism due to the excessive secretion of the growth hormone, especially, before the closure of long bones’ epiphyseal growth plates. there are other rare disorders that are categorized on overgrowth syndromes. herein, we report an extremely rare, or even perhaps a unique, patient from iran. the clinical and...

Reports on the stages when chick flank ectoderm can respond to ridge induction are contradictory. Different results have been obtained using presumptive wing or leg bud mesoderm as the inducing tissue with flank ectoderm as the responding tissue. In addition, although incomplete outgrowths have been obtained from recombinants with stage-19 flank ectoderm in a small percentage of cases, no compl...

The focus of this article is a re-count Richard Carrington’s original sunspot observations from his book drawings (Carrington in Observations the Spots on Sun November 9, 1853, to March 24, 1861 Made at Redhill, Williams and Norgate, London, 1863) by an observer World Data Center-SILSO (WDC-SILSO, http://www.sidc.be/silso/home ) network, Thomas H. Teague (UK). This modern will enable recomputat...