UNLABELLED Graves' (GD) hyperthyroidism induces accelerated bone turnover that leads to decreased bone mineral density (BMD). The role of the VDR gene in predisposition to primary osteoporosis has been recognized. Recent studies show associations between the VDR gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to autoimmune diseases. Here we analyzed if VDR gene polymorphisms: BsmI, ApaI, TaqI, and FokI m...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine whether vitamin D receptor (lVDR) polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to melanoma. METHODS A meta-analysis was carried out to investigate the association between the VDR FokI, BsmI, TaqI, ApaI, and EcoRV polymorphisms and susceptibility to melanoma. RESULTS A total of 11 studies were evaluated, which included 4,413 patients and 4...

AIM The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a vitamin D receptor polymorphism and the diagnosis of periodontal disease in non-smoker Italian patients with aggressive and chronic periodontitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS DNA was obtained from the internal cheek mucosa of 115 patients with chronic periodontitis, 58 with aggressive periodontitis and 65 healthy controls. Allel...

A correlation between the presence of 5.6-kilobase plasmids and bacteriocin activity was found in human-derived strains of Streptococcus mutans. Compared with bacteriocin activity of randomly selected clinical isolates of plasmid-negative strains, bacteriocin activity of plasmid-positive strains significantly inhibited not only two laboratory strains of S. mutans, OMZ176 and AHT (P less than 0....

Tulisan ini merupakan telaah pustaka pemikiran Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi mengenai prinsip moral yang bertujuan untuk mengkritik pandangan intuisionis barat memandang sumber perilaku manusia berasal dari hati nurani, sehingga nilai baik dan buruk bersifat partikular di realitas. Penulis merujuk salah satu karya utama Yazdi, berjudul “Amûzshe-e Falsafe” menelaah konsep dalam sis ontologis episte...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate rate and duration of grain filling among old, modern and promising rice cultivars under different nitrogen levels in fields of  sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university, during 2008. two factors consisted of different urea fertilizer (0, 100 and 200 kg ha-1) as main plot and four promising lines (jelodar, partou, danesh and jahesh), 2...