objectives: asthma is a common chronic disease. asthma and anti-asthmatic medications have been suggested as risk factors for increased susceptibility to caries. this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different types and forms of antihistaminic medications and the duration of drug consumption on the severity of dental caries in asthmatic children. materials and methods: this cross-...

tuberculosis of the foot is an uncommon entity and the reported incidence is 0.1% to 0.3%. the isolated tuberculosis of talonavicular joint is exceptionally rare. in tuberculosis of the foot and ankle, the presentation is usually nonspecific. the diagnosis of tuberculosis affecting foot is difficult, especially when it is isolated. in doubtful cases, diagnosis should be confirmed by histopathol...

background: glybenclamide and metformin are two of the most common oral hypoglycemic drugs which are often used in treatment of type ii diabetes mellitus. toxicity due to these drugs may occur intentionally, accidentally, or even at the normal dosage because of the progression of such internal diseases as renal dysfunction. methods: in this case series study, 59 patients poisoned with oral hypo...

introduction: regarding the high rate of depression in our society, using anti-depressive drugs especially tricycle antidepressants (tcas) is increasing and poisoning by these agents has become more common than other drugs. due to its incident and dire complications we decided to study the treatment quality in poisoned patients with tcass admitted in emergency ward of arak,s vali-e-asr hospital...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, bakrani v. antiepileptic drug-related adverse reactions and factors influencing these reactions. iran j child neurol. 2013 summer; 7(3):23-27.   objective according to the basic role of drug side effects in selection of an appropriate drug, patient compliance and the quality of life in epileptic patients, and forasmuch as new dugs with unknown side effect...

background drug dependence is one of the major problems in today’s world which has turned into a serious, concerning threat due to its destructive and preventive effects on the development and prosperity of the society. objectives the study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of social skills training on tendency to addiction among high school female students of ahvaz city. patients and meth...

Dendrimers are new artificial macromolecules which have the structure like a tree. They are hyperbranched and monodisperse three-dimensional molecules with defined molecular weights, large numbers of functional groups on the surface and well-established host-guest entrapment properties. Recently, dendrimers have successfully proved themselves as promising nanocarriers for drug delivery because ...

artificial immune systems (ais) can be defined as soft computing systems inspired by immune system of vertebrates. immune system is an adaptive pattern recognition system. ais have been used in pattern recognition, machine learning, optimization and clustering. feature reduction refers to the problem of selecting those input features that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encoun...

Although artificial control of the light cycle can be used to regulate the seasonal reproductive cycle of many animals under laboratory conditions, such regulation is often not possible in a standard agricultural environment. An alternative strategy for regulating the seasonal reproductive cycle of photoperiodic animals is to use drugs that either mimic the effects of light on reproductive func...

Various strategies for ocular drug delivery are considered; from basic formulation techniques for improving availability of drugs; viscosity enhancers and mucoadhesives aid drug retention and penetration enhancers promote drug transport into the eye. The use of drug-loaded contact lenses and ocular inserts allows drugs to be better placed where they are needed for more direct delivery. Developm...