BACKGROUND Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists initiate androgen deprivation in treating prostate cancer (PC). Triptorelin is a synthetic GnRH and many of its market brands such as Diphereline have been introduced so far. OBJECTIVES We compared the efficacy of a sustained-release formulation of Triptorelin (Microrelin), domestically produced in Iran, and compared it with Dipherelin...

INTRODUCTION PDpoietin is a recombinant erythropoietin alfa that has been introduced by a manufacturer in Iran. We assessed the effectiveness and complications of PDpoietin in comparison with Eprex in anemic patients on hemodialysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS This clinical trial was performed in a multicenter setting. Patients with a hemoglobin level less than 12 g/dL were assigned into 2 groups ...

Computer-assisted language instruction systems that only perform syntactic processing of input sentences are not able to offer advice on pragmatic aspects of language use, and they cannot handle the variability generally afforded by natural languages to express a given propositional content. This paper describes a solution to this problem implemented as an extension to the existing Japanese tut...

conclusions our study showed that microrelin is as effective as diphereline in reducing psa and testosterone and can be recommended to initiate medical castration in patients with pc. results each group contained 40 patients. in group a, psa was reduced from 75.78 ± 72.43 ng/ml to 1.93 ± 1.40 ng/ml after 6 months and testosterone was reduced from 3.50 ± 1.12 nmol/l to 0.81 ± 0.05 nmol/l. there ...

The simultaneous completion of the rainy season and nesting of granivorous birds between October and November in the Sudano-sahelian region of Senegal often results in very extensive bird damage to cereal crops. This occurs from both increased bird populations, due to the presence of juveniles as well as from their accompanying change in diet from insects to seeds. The damage is caused by sever...

Background Several agents have been used for the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, but the effect of oral fenofibrate on serum bilirubin level was not evaluated so much. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of oral fenofibrate on a total serum bilirubin (TSB) in term neonates with hyperbilirubinemia. Materials and Methods: This clinical trial was done on 80 term neonate with ...

background to evaluate the strength of association and to determine the best prediction of response in terms of sensitivity and specificity among quantitative baseline hbv-dna levels in blood serum in patients with chronic hepatitis b (chb) infection who treated with interferon-alpha-2b. patients and methods totally, 78 chb patients with serum hbv-dna>105 copies/ml were treated with interferona...

This study explored the role and function of vocational choice for American Indian (AI) law enforcement officers. Extended Case Method (Burawoy, 1991) was used to investigate complex patterns of coping over time, with intergenerational historical trauma, or soul wound (Duran, 1990; Duran & Duran, 1995; Duran et al., 1998). Specifically, the study sought to examine how this vocation might provid...