Correspondence: Maryam Majdi or H-S vincent Chen Burnham institute for Medical Research, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA Tel +1 858 646-3183 Fax +1 858 795-5273 email [email protected] or [email protected] Abstract: The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamate receptor (NMDAR) is essential for normal function of the central nervous system (CNS). Classi...

To my parents who never lacked the support, encouragement, and prayers, and to my sweetheart Abeer who gave me so much love and showed a lot of patience. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Gordon L. Stüber, for his insightful guidance and helpful comments. His hard work and dedication made me a better student and researcher. I would also like to thank the committee mem...

Robabeh Soleimani1, MD; Mohammad Jafar Modabbernia2, MD; Sharareh Habibi3, MD; Maryam Habibi Roudsary4, MD; Masoumeh Elahi5, MA Abstract Background: Sleep disturbance is a common complaint of patients undergoing methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). There are limited studies about the effect of different treatments on insomnia due to MMT. In this study, we evaluated the effect of cognitive-behav...

www.cmj.hr Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has attracted interest as an active signaling milieu that regulates brain development, homeostasis, and course disease. CSF is a nutrient-rich fluid, which also contains growth factors and signaling molecules that regulate multiple cell functions in the central nervous system (CNS). CSF constitution is controlled tightly and constituent concentrations are ma...

Positron emitters such as 11C, 13N and 18F and their labelled compounds are widely used in clinical diagnosis and animal studies, but can also be used to study metabolic and physiological functions in plants dynamically and in vivo. A very particular tracer molecule is CO2 since it can be applied to a leaf as a gas. We have developed a Plant Tomographic Imaging System (PlanTIS), a high-resoluti...

BACKGROUND Trichomoniasis is a worldwide protozoan parasitic disease and metronidazole is a choice drug for its treatment. Because of disease importance in public health and its controversial ideas about the prevalence of drug resistance, this study was carried out. METHODS Fifty-two suspected vaginal samples were collected from 2006 to 2007 in Gynecology Maryam Hospital, Tehran, Iran. All is...

Natural products have been used for medical applications since ancient times. Commonly, natural products are structurally complex chemical compounds that efficiently interact with their biological targets, making them useful drug candidates in cancer therapy. Here, we used cell-based phenotypic profiling and image-based high-content screening to study the mode of action and potential cellular t...

1 Médico, Professor Assistente de Neurocirurgia, Departamento de Neurocirurgia Hospital Loghman Hakim, Universidade Shaheed Beheshti de Ciências Médicas Teerã, Irã. 2 Médico, Professor Assistente de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço Departamento e Centro de Pesquisa em Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço Hospital Rasool Akram, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de T...

ion Engines: Theory meets Practice Louise A. Dennis, Jonathan M. Aitken, Joe Collenette, Elisa Cucco, Maryam Kamali, Owen McAree, Affan Shaukat, Katie Atkinson, Yang Gao, Sandor Veres, and Michael Fisher 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool 2 Department of Autonomous Systems and Control, University of Sheffield 3 Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey Abstract. We report...

Ontology as a creative tool plays an essential role in acquisition and organization of knowledge and its representation in a special field. The important point is that ontology is usually applied in designing information systems and is useful for providing healthcare in design of health information systems by providing a comprehensive model of information and process needs. This comprehensive r...