the spontaneous regression of neuroblastoma to ganlioneuroma is a rare occurrence. reviewing the literature, we found no more than 12casesreported.'•2.9.,o.'4.1s we report a case of metastatic neuroblastoma of multifocal skeletal and soft tissue areas with gross deformities which regressed to ganglioneuroma, with good prognosis.

in order to evaluate the effects of drought stress at different phenological stages on growth indices of chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) cultivar jam, an experiment was carried out at the research greenhouse of faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, using a completely randomized design with four replications. drought stress was applied by preventing irrigation until the soil mois...

ramadan fasting is prescribed by quran for every able‐bodied, adult muslim and is considered an obligatory act of worship. during ramadan, the majority of muslims eat two major meals- one before dawn (sahar) and another immediately after the sunset (iftar). islamic fasting, due to its particular nature, may cause metabolic and hormonal changes in the body, which are different from those in regu...

background and objective: vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) is a cytokine which is overexpressed in many malignant cancers including leukemia. vegf plays an important role in tumor invasion and metastasis. determination of the pattern of vegf expression in human leukemic cell lines could be useful not only in screening of new antileukemic agents but also to study the mechanism of their ...

beet armyworm (spodoptera exigua (hubner)) (lepidoptera: noctuidae) is the most economically important sugar beet (beta vulgaris) pest worldwide. the main control method of this pest is insecticides use. thus, it is important to develop alternative means of controlling this pest, including host plant resistance using plant lectins. in the current study, the effects of gna (galanthus nivalis agg...

background: assessing the growth of infants is a main parameter in their health assessment. thus, we have studied the growth condition of children from born to 18 months in this research in bandar abbas, iran, 2015. methods: in this descriptive study, we have selected 104 case records from the dataset of health center number 8 of bandarabbas by means of simple randomized sampling. all data abou...

conclusions the vermicompost as a potential source of plant nutrients for sustainable tomato production can reduce health and environmental problems. results the analysis of the variance results revealed that the effect of the type and amount of fertilizers on tomato yield was significant at 1% level. the results of this study showed that using the vermicompost dosage to cow manure of 500 g/m2 ...

essential amino acids such as methionine have been increasingly included into diets of lambs. however, few studies have determined the effects of methionine supplementation in the general performance and economic returns of lamb production. to address this question, 21weaned male rahmani lambs were allotted to 3 dietary treatments: control diet (c), control diet plus 3.30 g of methionine/kg con...