PURPOSE To report some cases of ocular histoplasmosis-like syndrome from a nonendemic area. DESIGN Observational case series. METHODS This is a prospective study of 16 eyes from 8 immunocompetent patients evaluated between January 2001 to September 2005. Six patients were female and 2 male aged between 20 to 44 years, average 28 years. All patients presented clinical features that resembled...

Iron is an essential nutrient playing a central role in metabolism and also is an essential component in DNA synthesis and respiratory and oxidative metabolism which relate to the properties of unremitting proliferation and a more anaerobic metabolism that may contribute to a selective advantage of neoplastic cells over non neoplastic cells. Clinical correlations have been made linking cellular...

The zoonotic potential of paramyxoviruses is particularly demonstrated by their broad host range like the highly pathogenic Hendra and Nipah viruses originating from bats. But while so far all bat-borne paramyxoviruses have been identified in fruit bats across Africa, Australia, South America, and Asia, we describe the detection and characterization of the first paramyxoviruses in free-ranging ...

a functional treatment for skeletal damages in orthopedic and oral maxillofacial surgeries is required. platelet growth factors such as platelet derived growth factor (pdgf), bone morphogenic factor (bmp), transferring growth factor-β (tgf-β) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (igf-1) proceed wound healing and bone regeneration. in the present study we focused on the effect of platelet rich plasm...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the expression of blood group antigens in squamous bronchial metaplasia in order to determine whether this factor could identify patients at risk of lung cancer. In total, 100 bronchial biopsies were included in the present study. The cases were classified according to the World Health Organization grading system. Immunohistochemical stains for histo...