chiari malformation type i (cm-i) is a congenital disorder, which is basically a tonsillar herniation (≥ 5 mm) below the foramen magnum with or without syringomyelia. the real cause behind this malformation is still unknown. patients may remain asymptomatic until they engender a deteriorating situation, such as cervical trauma. the objective of this case report is to give a broad perspective on...

Clay-rich sediments from the Kajjansi, Kitiko, Kitetika, and Ntawo valleys in central Uganda were analyzed for mineralogical and chemical composition, including the rare earth element (REE) contents. The valleys are filled with Quaternary to Recent alluvial and lacustrine sands, silt, and gravels, which formed from the bed rock metasediments of the Buganda-Toro System and from granitoid rocks t...

background: angiotensin i converting enzyme (ace) is a zinc metalloproteinase, converts ang-i to ang- ii, a pro-inflammatory agent which may contribute to pathophysiology of some diseases like type 2 diabetes. objective: to investigate the relationship between ace i/d polymorphism and type 2 diabetes in 261 iranian casecontrol pairs. methods: 170 patients (85 type 2 diabetics with nephropathy a...

Objectives: Myotonic Dystrophy type I (DM1) is a dominantly inherited disorder with a multisystemic pattern affecting skeletal muscle, heart, eye, endocrine and central nervous system. DM1 is associated with the expansion and instability of CTG repeat in the 3chr('39') untranslated region of the myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) gene located on chromosome 19q13.3. The aim of this study w...

one of the most intensive occurrences of magmatism in iran was in the middle jurassic period. among the granitoid intrusions in this period as discrete bodies or complexes can be pointed to aligoodarz, alvand, astaneh, boroujerd, malayer, and chah-dozdan in the sanandaj-sirjan zone; shir-kuh and ayrakan in the central iran zone; shah-kuh, sorkh-kuh and kalateh-ahani in the lut block. these gran...

A provenance study was conducted on the Mid-Proterozoic Newland Formation, in which petrographical features of sandstones and geochemical characteristics of shales were integrated to arrive at an internally consistent interpretation. Sandstones of the Newland Formation are typically arkosic sands and arkoses with very well rounded quartz and feldspar grains and only minor amounts of extrabasina...

The Datong pluton, the largest early Palaeozoic granitoid in the Western Kunlun Orogenic Belt (WKOB) in NW China, is a typical appinite-granite complex. It consists of diorites, quartz diorites, monzodiorites, quartz monzodiorites, monzonites, quartz monzonites, syenites, granodiorites and monzogranites. Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) zircon U–Pb dating ...

Type I diabetes mellitus is a common chronic disease in adolescents. According to statistics, 12,243 diabetic Muslims fast in thirteen Islamic countries, 43% of whom have type I diabetes. This longitudinal study was conducted on volunteer adolescents with type I diabetes aged 13-18 years for 15 days using the census method. Three days before Ramadan and during the last three days of the study p...

bouin- miandasht granitoid pluton (bmgp), which outcropped to the north of bouin-miandasht- aligoudarz road, was emplaced into low to medium grade of triassic to early jurassic metapelitic rocks of sanandaj-sirjan structural zone. in this study we do provide the first investigations of bmgp by means of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (ams). most km values for the main felsic compositions ...