gastrointestinal duplications are rare congenital malformations and they may vary greatly in presentation, size, location and symptoms. the presence of ectopic gastric mucosa (egm) in them is not common and they are difficult to diagnose prior to surgery. we present the case of a child with long intestinal duplication with ectopic gastric mucosa who presented with just severe anaemia and delaye...

chronic rhinosinusitis (crs) is a common disease which is usually diagnosed clinically, considering the combination of natural history, physical examination and imaging studies. this study aimed to evaluate the clinical value of routine postoperative histopathologic examination (pohe) in patients with a clinical diagnosis of chronic rhinosinusitis with polyposis (crswp), or without polyposis (c...

in this study, 22 patients (15-75 years old) were selected and transferred to ct scan for tumor ablation. for ablations, after prep and drep under the local anesthesia and mild sedation in proper position, small incision made and special needle inserted and guided by proper direction to the core of the tumor. then, laser probe inserted through the needle and laser energy delivered. although we ...

Experimental severe malaria (ESM; also known as experimental cerebral malaria) is an acute lethal syndrome caused by infection with Plasmodium berghei ANKA and associated with coma and other neurological manifestations in mice. Various inbred strains of mice exhibit differences in susceptibility to the development of ESM. For example, C57BL/6 mice are highly susceptible and DBA/2 mice are relat...

brucellosis is an infectious disease with high impact on innate immune responses which is induced partly by its dna. in the present study the potential differences of wild type and patients isolates versus attenuated vaccine strains in terms of cytokines, ros and no induction on murine splenocytes and peritoneal macrophages were investigated. this panel varied in base composition and included d...

leishmania is a protozoan parasite belonging to the family trypanosomatidae, which is found among 88 different countries. the parasite lives as an amastigote in vertebrate macro­phages and as a promastigote in the digestive tract of sand fly. it can be cultured in the laboratory us­ing appropriate culture media. although the sexual cycle of leishmania has not been observed during the promastigo...

MOTIVATION Selenoproteins are a group of proteins that contain selenocysteine (Sec), a rare amino acid inserted co-translationally into the protein chain. The Sec codon is UGA, which is normally a stop codon. In selenoproteins, UGA is recoded to Sec in presence of specific features on selenoprotein gene transcripts. Due to the dual role of the UGA codon, selenoprotein prediction and annotation ...

MOTIVATION The analysis of gene expression data in its chromosomal context has been a recent development in cancer research. However, currently available methods fail to account for variation in the distance between genes, gene density and genomic features (e.g. GC content) in identifying increased or decreased chromosomal regions of gene expression. RESULTS We have developed a model-based sc...