hepatitis b virus infection is a major public health problem worldwide. islamic republic of iran is a country in which hepatitisb prevalence is intermediate. the aim of this study is to assess prevalence of chronic hepatitis b infection in iran according to demographic characteristics. all cross-sectional studies concerning  revalence of chronic hepatitis b infection in iran were included irres...

conclusions hepatitis b core antibody immunoglobulin m positivity is different in healthy blood donors of different countries according to the prevalence of chronic hepatitis b and its vaccination. based on the current study findings, all positive samples of hepatitis b core antibody in iranian blood banks should be considered as candidates for occult hepatitis b not just the window period infe...

abstract the penal legal procedure is a certain mechanism to find out the crime with respect to the behavior of the accused and the guilty. this mechanism must ensure the principles which guarantee justice and fairness, and provide the individual rights and freedoms that are the extreme goal of every just fair legal procedure. so in the proper execution of islamic commands, the necessity of obs...

patients and methods from march 1976 to december 2013, the number of patients that underwent living renal transplantation sharing at least one hla haplotype with their donors was 2,485. we divided these patients into two groups: (1) 2,075 kidney transplant recipients (1,554 or 74.9% male and 521 or 25.1% female) for whom the donors were living related, (2) 410 kidney transplant recipients (297 ...

Jane A. McCrohon, Alison K. Death, Shirley Nakhla, Wendy Jessup, David J. Handelsman, Donors : A Sex Difference With Implications for Atherogenesis Androgen Receptor Expression Is Greater in Macrophages From Male Than From Female Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2000 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 72...

The syntheses and X-ray structures of three methylated bisphenol F derivatives and one respective analogue are reported. A special emphasis lies on the influence of methyl groups on the conformation of the common diphenylmethane scaffold. The introduction of four methyl groups to bisphenol F was found not to disturb its typical strong hydrogen bond network, and yet, to change the pattern of the...

depleting rapidly, with ineffective governance seen as a major reason. The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the country’s most forested province, has carried out a series of interventions with financial and technical support from various international donors. These aim to change how forests are governed, making planning and management procedures more inclusive and participatory. But these init...