Corona disease has killed at least 5 million people globally since it started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2021). The disease is caused by SARS-COVID-19, and is transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets (Baladia et al., 2020, Ejaz et al., 2020). Although the early symptoms of COVID-19  include fever, weariness, headache, sore throat, cough, d...

A modification of the method of Fishman, Springer, and Brunetti (1948) for determining serum beta-glucuronidase activity is described. Normal values are presented and some of the factors which might influence the serum enzyme determination have been investigated.

the potential sources of cr (vi) are various effluents from metallurgy, electroplating, leather tanning, textile dyeing, paint, ink, and aluminum manufacturing industries. these industrial effluents can contain cr (vi), in the concentration range of 10 to 100 mg/l (nakano et al 2000), which is much higher than the standard limit; 0.5 mg/l in industrial wastewater (epa). in aqueous systems, chro...

Re-description and first record of Saltella setigera Brunetti, 1909 (Diptera: Sepsidae) from Azad Kashmir: An Oriental Asian species

how to cite this article: tonekaboni sh, mollamohammadi m. neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation: an overview. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn;8(4): 1-8. abstract objective neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (nbia) is a group of neurodegenerative disorder with deposition of iron in the brain (mainly basal ganglia) leading to a progressive parkinsonism, spasticity, dystonia...

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Hong and colleagues [1] for their interest in our work [2]. We agree that the T-SPOT.TB test is likely to be less affected by lymphocytopenia or immunosuppression than the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFTGIT) test. It is possible that the extremely low number (n = 3) of negative results contributed to their finding that lymphocytopenia or ground glass opacity (GGO) on com...