introduction: musculoskeletal growth is variable during adolescent period and reaches its maximum by 18 years, whereas hemopoietic parameters reach adult values by 15 years. after adolescence period, the blood parameters may vary with nutrition and built of the individual. the purpose of this study was to find out any correlation between anthropometric and hematological parameters after the ado...

The impact of water shifts due to changes in posture has been reinvestigated for serum protein and calcium concentrations in a young, healthy population. We found that generaly accepted normal ranges for total serum protein, and to a lesser degree for total serum calcium, are not acceptable as a reference range for a hospitalized population that is predominantly in a supine position. Our data i...

introduction: dark or black coloured gingiva is an esthetic concern especially in subjects with high lip line or gummy smile. gingival depigmentation procedure is a type of perioplastic surgery where the gingival epithelium is excised with various techniques to lighten the colour of the gingiva. the aim of this study was to compare the clinical efficacy of gingival depigmentation procedure with...

The bird species distribution along a dry forest-oak woodland vegetation gradient was studied in autumn and spring in two consecutive years. Intra-seasonal comparisons showed that bird species had similar distributions in each of the two years. Inter-seasonal changes were mainly due to compositional differences even though resident species generally used similar habitats in both seasons. Ordina...

Surface water resources, especially rivers, are at risk more than other sources for the reason of many uses. This study aims to examine some quality parameters of Karun river water in the Gotovand spatial range to Ahwaz during the years of 2010-2013.The data investigated in this study were obtained from the annual mean biochemical parameters measurements at nine sampling stations at the Water A...