injection drug use has been the most growing rout of drug abuse in iran in the past decade and it has been responsible for the transmission of hiv virus in more than two third of cases. the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of hiv and hepatitis b in a group of idu cadavers and to compare the results to a group of cadavers of the normal population. in a case-control study ...

there are increasing reports of emergence of multiple drug resistant (mdr) acinetobacter spp in the world; however there are a few reports in our country. 145 a. baumannii isolates from distinct wards and children's medical center (cmc) in tehran were studied in order to find the profile of antibiotic resistance among them. 40.6% (59/145) of a. baumannii isolates were identified as mdr. overall...

determination of drug resistance rate, as a new major problem in patients with typhoid fever is inevitable for treatment of the disease. in a cross-sectional study, during march 1994 till february 1995, a total of 39 patients with typhoid fever admitted to dept. of infections diseases, emam khomeini hospital, and were examined for the rate of resistance to routine drugs usually used for treatme...

background: s. alopecuroides, z. officinale and m. officinalis are used traditionally in the treatment of pain. objective: to evaluate the plants effects in the rat formalin test and their activity on the opioid receptors. methods: each rat was placed individually in a cage for 30 min to get acclimated. then 0.05 ml of 10% formalin was injected subcutaneously into the dorsal surface of the righ...

background and aims : adverse drug reactions (adrs) are one of the major leading causes of death in the world. this study was designed and conducted because of the importance of adverse events in the cancer treatment setting and regarding this issue there is no study exploring adverse reactions of acute hematologic malignancy chemotherapy in iranian population. methods : this was a prospective,...

a series of structurally related 2,4-dioxopyrimidine-1-carboxamide derivatives as highly potent inhibitors against acid ceramidase were subjected to hologram quantitative structure-activity relationship (hqsar) analysis. a training set containing 24 compounds served to establish the hqsar model. the best hqsar model was generated using atoms, bond, connectivity, donor and acceptor as fragment d...

hepatic toxicity is the most serious adverse effect of anti tuberculosis drugs. this study was performed to evaluate efficacy of silymarin as a hepatoprotective herbal agent. in a randomized double blind clinical trial 70 new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were divided into two groups. the intervention group was assigned to receive silymarin and the control group received placebo. tuberculosis...

concerns about increasing bacterial resistance to vancomycin, have caused the adult treatment guidelines to recommend higher trough concentrations based on the type and location of infectious disease. although these recommendations are not specific to children, the values can be extrapolated. this prospective study was designed to evaluate efficacy of current vancomycin dosing recommendations t...

glimepiride/metformin(2/500mg) is an oral antihyperglycemic agent for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. a generic glimepiride/metformin(2/500mg) fixed-dose combination(fdc) tablet was developed recently. this study was designed to collect data for submission to korean regulatory authorities to allow the marketing of the test formulation. we evaluated the comparative bioavailability and tolerabi...

adverse effects of antituberculosis agents such as hepatotoxicity may reduce treatment effectiveness, because they significantly contribute to nonadherence and eventually result in treatment failure, relapse or the emergence of drug resistance. garlic is an ancient herbal substance, which its effectiveness on isoniazid and rifampicin-induced hepatic injury in animal models has been demonstrated...