Numerous studies have reported that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can ameliorate neurological deficits in ischemic stroke models. Among the various hypotheses that have been suggested to explain the therapeutic mechanism underlying these observations, neurogenesis is thought to be critical. To enhance the therapeutic benefits of human bone marrow-derived MSCs (hBM-MSCs), we efficiently modified...

BACKGROUND Several studies reported the efficacy of osteoporosis prevention interventions in improvement of people's preventive behaviors. However, there are reports that the interventions were not successful in altering osteoporosis health beliefs and preventive behaviors. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to assess the effect of a program based on health beliefs model (HBM) on females' hea...

Breast cancer is an important public health problem on the grounds that it is frequently seen and it is a fatal disease. The objective of this systematic analysis is to indicate the effects of interventions performed by nurses by using the Health Belief Model (HBM) and Health Promotion Model (HPM) on the breast cancer early diagnosis behaviors and on the components of the Health Belief Model an...

objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

objective(s):the application of stem cells holds great promises in cell transplants. considering the lack of optimal in vitro model for hepatogenic differentiation, this study was designed to examine the effects of laminin matrix on the improvement of in vitro differentiation of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hbm-msc) into the more functional hepatocyte-like cells. materials and meth...

Systemic factors are believed to be pivotal for the development of heterotopic ossification in severely-injured patients. In this study, cell cultures of putative target cells (human fibroblastic cells, osteoblastic cells (MG-63), and bone-marrow stromal cells (hBM)) were incubated with serum from ten consecutive polytraumatised patients taken from post-traumatic day 1 to day 21 and with serum ...

BACKGROUND Disease preventing methods focus mostly on lifestyle factors such as physical activity, healthy diet and not smoking. Previous studies verified using theory and models to change unhealthy behaviors, so that health belief model (HBM) is a useful framework for describing the healthy nutrition behavior. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to predict factors related to unhealthy nutrition and ...

AIM This study was performed to determine the effect of health education on the improvement of intake of fruits and vegetables aiming at preventing colorectal cancer among high school girls in the city of Shahr-e-kord. BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is one of the most important and most common cancers and the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Every year, nearly one million new cas...