PURPOSE To evaluate the role of prepared basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and cytochrome c peroxidase (CCP) combination eyedrops in corneal epithelial healing of transgenic mice (B6(A)-Rpe(rd12)/J) after excimer laser photoablation. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, 216 eyes of 108 mice underwent bilateral photorefractive keratectomy. We considered 4 groups: A, B, C, and D...

Background: Nowadays, due to ineffectiveness of interventions in the prevention of obesity in school-age children, collaborative approach in order to prevent and control the obesity seems necessary. Aim: to assess the impact of health promotion programs with collaborative approach on physical activity levels of overweight school-age girls. Methods: This quasi-experimental and pretest/post-test ...

Aims Coronary heart disease is one of the leading causes of mortality in modern societies. The disease is associated with the lack of physical activity and the expression of some genes involved in blood cholesterol transportation. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette transporters G5/G8) ABCG5 and ABCG8) is the expression of adenosine triphosphate-dependent box protein genes 5 and 8, a ...

Background: TRX training is a new training method that has beneficial effects on improving balance and strength. However, the role of these types of training on the factors associated with function and mitochondrial biogenesis is not understood. Therefore, the purpose of present study was to determine the effect of eight weeks of TRX training on serum levels of Peroxisome proliferator-activated...

the present study aimed to determine the effects of 12 weeks of aerobic exercise in different times of day on some cardiovascular risk factors in overweight men. 40 non-athletes, overweight men with an average age of 22.25±2.45 years old and bmi of 30.06±2.42 kg/m2 were randomly allocated to four groups of morning and evening aerobic training and control. morning and evening training groups per...

Background. Obesity, through creating disorder in blood lipids and also, increase insulin resistance, has a main role in appearance high risk disease such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and various kind of cancer. Objectives. The aim of this study was to survey effect of eight weeks continuous aerobic training accompanied with green tea consumption on lipid profile of inactive obese fe...

objective(s) the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of ramadan fasting and weight-lifting training on plasma volume, glucose, and lipids profile of male weight-lifter. materials and methods forty male weight-lifters were recruited and divided into 4 groups (n=10 each) and as the following groups: control (c), fasting (f), training (t) and fasting-training (f-t). the t and f...

the aim of the present study was to examine the effect of 8 weeks of concurrent training on the plasma myostatin levels in non-athlete obese men. this research was quasi-experimental. for this purpose, 23 overweight non-athlete men voluntarily participated in this study and were assigned to concurrent training group (n=12, mean age 21.38±2.06 yr, height 173.65±7.07 cm, weight 86.61±15.05 kg and...

introduction: spinal cord injury (sci) is one of the most serious clinical diseases, which not only affects the patient's physical and mental status, but its effects will be spread to family and community. after severe spinal cord injury, astrocytes of the central nervous system (cns) become reactive astrocytes, and play the main role of glial scar formation. the scar is a major obstacle t...