background: it has been hypothesized that the body's response to anesthesia techniques can increase risk of cancer recurrence and metastatic disease after surgery and also can modulate immune responses. some acute inflammatory markers have been measured to survey the immunomodulatory effect of anesthesia, but in this research, we studied the plasma level of cd30 and ykl-40 gene expression which...

in order to compare sampling efficiencies of total and inhalable dust methods, three airborne dust sampling systems , 7-hole sampler , close and open face filter cassette were compared side-by-side , as stationary and for the personal samplers , in a wood working industry to evaluate their relative efficiency. a total of 162 samples were collected. the study of particle size distribution by cas...

background and pupose: after two decades of expansion of universities of medical sciences and increasing the number of medical sciences students as one of the most attainable solutions for the problem of substandard status of iranian community health, recently, quality-based policies in medical education have taken priority over most of the national health plans. we conducted this study to dete...

patients and methods in a quasi-experiment trial, 40 type 2 diabetic patients were asked to consume 50 g of cpj daily for 4 weeks. anthropometric indices, dietary intake, blood pressure measurements, and fasting blood samples were conducted at baseline and 4 weeks after the intervention. results the intake of cpj produced a significant increase in both total and high-density lipoprotein cholest...

the recognition of the biologically and environmentally important ions is of great interest in the field of chemical sensors in recent years. the fluorescent sensors as a powerful optical analytical technique for the detection of low level of various analytes such as anions and metal cations have been progressively developed due to the simplicity, cost effective, and selectivity for monitoring ...

hybrid rice varieties are potentially higher yielding than the best inbred varieties and perform better under adverse conditions of drought and salinity. one of the major impediments for seed production of hybrid rice is incomplete panicle exsertion in the cytoplasmic male sterile lines. the unexserted spikelets which are left inside the flag leaf sheath remain unfertile. this research was focu...

background and purpose: given the fact that identifying the problems of faculty members improvement are important, we investigated the communication skills of faculty members and examined if here is any association between good communication skill and the scores faculty members get from students evaluation in dental school of islamic azad university in tehran. methods: in this cross-sectional s...

to review the diffrent aspects of gender, subtype of cah, management and results in all our patients with ambiguous genitalia diagnosed as congenital adrenal hyperplasia during the past 30 years. methods: the files of all our patients with cah reviewed retrospectively. results: out of 256 patients who had ambiguous genitalia due to cah, 96% were female and 4% were male. 21-ohd was diagnosed in ...