A spherical antenna array (SAA) is an array-designed arrangement capable of scanning in almost all the radiation sphere with constant directivity. It finds recent applications aerospace, spacecraft, vehicular and satellite communications. Therefore, estimation direction-of-arrival (DoA) electromagnetic (EM) waves that impinge on SAA unknown mutual coupling called for research attention. This pa...

Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute-phase plasma protein that functions in innate immunity and lipid homeostasis. SAA is a protein precursor of reactive AA amyloidosis, the major complication of chronic inflammation and one of the most common human systemic amyloid diseases worldwide. Most circulating SAA is protected from proteolysis and misfolding by binding to plasma high-density lipoproteins....

When analyzing the ELISA data, we found that the serum SAA concentrations were greatly increased in both the SARS and non-SARS patient groups. The mean serum SAA concentrations of the SARS and non-SARS patient groups were 40-and 85-fold higher than the upper limit of the reference interval (Ͻ10 mg/L), respectively. Consistent with the SELDI data, the serum SAA concentrations were significantly ...

Article Type Original Research Authors Sobhani V.1 PhD, Mohammadi M.T.2 PhD, Shirvani H.1 PhD, Amini A.* PhD How to cite this article Sobhani V, Mohammadi M.T, Shirvani H, Amini A. Long-Term Effect of High-Intensity Interval and Concurrent Exercise on Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis Parameters in Non-Athlete Healthy Young Men. Quarterly of the Horizon of Medical Sciences. 2016;22(4):329-336....

A new species of the genus Eremohadena Ronkay, Varga and Fabian, Eremohadena afzalipouri Shirvani sp. nov., is described from southeastern Iran. Holotype and female paratype and genitalia of both sexes are illustrated for the new species. A checklist of Iranian species of Eremohadena including nine species and subspecies is provided.

In a compact multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, the channel capacity of a traditional 4-element uniform linear array (ULA) will decrease rapidly with the increment of the mean angle of arrival (AoA) of the incident waves. We will show first in this paper that this channel capacity decrement is caused by the antenna radiation pattern distortion, which owes to the so-cal...

It remains unclear how salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) levels respond to mechanical stimuli in different age groups. In addition, the role played by the sAA gene (AMY1) copy number and protein expression (glycosylated and non-glycosylated) in sAA activity has also been rarely reported. In this study, we analyzed saliva samples collected before and after citric acid stimulation from 47 child and 47...

Please cite this paper as: Tacke F, Shirvani-Dastgerdi E. Impact of Drug-Resistance Polymerase Mutations on the Replication of HBeAg-Positive and HBeAg-Negative Hepatitis B Virus Strains in Vitro. Hepat Mon. 2012;12(6): 357-60. DOI: 10.5812/hepatmon.6131 Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: The proportion of HBeAg negative hepatitis B is high and increasing. Molecu...

Salivary α-amylase (sAA) is responsible for the 'pre-digestion' of starch in the oral cavity and accounts for up to 50 % of salivary protein in human saliva. An accumulating body of literature suggests that sAA is of nutritional importance; however, it is still not clear how sAA is related to individual's nutritional status. Although copy number variations (CNV) of the salivary amylase gene (AM...