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how to cite this article: talebian a, jahangiri m, rabiee m, masoudi alavi n, akbari h, sadat z. the etiology and clinical evaluations of neonatal seizures in kashan, iran. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):29-41.   abstract objective detection of seizure, its etiology, and clinical types is important for guiding therapy. this study was designed to evaluate the etiology and clinical evaluat...

background : breast cancer (bc) is the most common cancer in iranian women, meanwhile the iranian patients are relatively young. granzyme h (gzmh) is a functional cytotoxic serine protease of nk cell granules, which expands the cell death-inducing repertoire of innate immune system. gzmh is constitutively and highly expressed in human nk cells, in order to possess chymotrypsin-like (chymase) en...

Objectives: According to Persian medicine (PM), the uterus is an important organ in women, responsible for purifying blood and nourishing fetus. Each has a specific temperament distinct from whole-body based on PM. Dystemperament occurs when body or Mizaj (Persian word temperament) deviates what considered normal, resulting malfunction. Many gynecological disorders described PM conventional med...

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DEAR EDITOR Rhinoplasty is the most popular cosmetic surgical procedure in Iran. Akbari Sari et al. in 2011 reported 180 cases of rhinoplasty per 100,000 populations (a total of 134,766 surgeries per year).1 This is considered as one of the world’s highest rates of rhinoplasty.2 Because of the Islamic dress code for women practiced in Iran, which leaves only their faces exposed, the nose is ver...

context worldwide prevalence of respiratory diseases, suffering from such diseases, and heavy cost of treatment, which all may result from lack of etiological understanding of these diseases in modern medicine, were the main factors to conduct the current study. in the present study, the causes and symptoms of asthma were evaluated and compared with those of some other respiratory diseases. ira...