a four day old female infant was admitted because of poor feeding, vomiting and jaundice. laboratory examination showed hyperkalemia, mild hyponatremia and renal tubular acidosis type 4. serum aldosterone and plasma renin activity were elevated but serum cortisol, 17 -hydroxyprogesterone, acth, 24 hour urinary 17- ketoste roid, pregnanetriol, renal function and sonogram were normal and hence ps...

diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia. the management of the blood glucose level is a critical strategy in the control of diabetes complications. inhibitors of carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes have been useful as oral hypoglycemic drugs for the control of hyperglycemia especially in patients with type ii disables mellitus. the goal of the present study...

In this paper, we present a genetic algorithm (GA) for optimization of a multi-mode resource constrained time cost trade off (MRCTCT) problem. The proposed GA, each activity has several operational modes and each mode identifies a possible executive time and cost of the activity. Beyond earlier studies on time-cost trade-off problem, in MRCTCT problem, resource requirements of each execution mo...

background: central obesity and hyperinsulinaemia of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) are associated with chronic sympathetic over activity. objective: to evaluate the autonomic functions and to indicate the superiority, if any, for those functions in the diagnosis of sympathetic over activity in pcos women. materials and methods: sixty-four pcos patients and 40 women served as the control grou...

  Purpose: This study investigated the effect of endurance activity on brain-derived neurotrophic   factor(BDNF), insulin-like growth factor 1(IGF-1) and its binding protein 3(IGFBP-3) in elderly   healthy individuals.   Materials and Methods: Eleven healthy old males (mean age of 68 ± 2.31 years old, height   of 177 ± 3.1 cm and weight of 79 ± 1.5 kg) were studied. Seventy two hours after maxi...

background: paraoxonase-1(pon1), a high-density lipoprotein (hdl) associated enzyme, is believed to contribute in the patho­genesis of coronary artery disease (cad). the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of pon1 promoter c (-107)t polymorphism with the extent of coronary artery stenosis in iranian patients. methods : the rflp analysis for determination of the c(-107)t genotype d...

lactobacillus species play an important role in gastrointestinal (gi) tract function, intestinal microbiota balance, and the immune system activity by exerting a strong activity against many intestinal pathogens. the aim of this study was to isolate lactobacillus species from fecal samples, investigate their antimicrobial properties, and characterixe their bacteriocins encoding genes. 48 fecal ...

Background Leukocytes linked directly and indirectly to reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. Although leukocytospermia is defined as the presence of ≥1×106 white blood cells/mL (WBC/mL) in a semen sample, the presence of less than 1×106 WBC/mL (low-level leukocytospermia) still can produce a detectable amount of ROS, impairing sperm function and lowering the chances of pregnancy. Low concen...