Aseptic osteonecrosis is a frequent pathology. It corresponds to epiphyseal bone necrosis, secondary ischemic and/or cytotoxic mechanisms. not specific disease, but rather the final outcome of various pathological situations in which there disturbance intraosseous circulation femoral head. This explains usual names avascular necrosis or aseptic necrosis. may be unilateral, bilateral multifocal....

background: bone resorption is one of the main features of inflammatory periapical lesions and is mainly mediated by interleukin-1 beta (il-1β), tumor necrosis factoralpha (tnf-α) and prostaglandin-e2 (pge2). recent investigations of these lesions revealed that pharmacological modulation may be possible. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ibuprofen on il-1β, tnf-α an...

race-specific resistance of wheat to yellow rust caused by puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici has been reported as short-lived. partial resistance, a kind of quantitative resistance, has been reported to be more stable. partial resistance in terms of slow rusting parameters including final rust severity (frs), apparent infection rate (r), relative area under disease progress curve (raudpc), an...

introduction: we intended to assess the accuracy of re-expressed modification of diet for renal disease (mdrd) and cockcroft-gault (cg) equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (gfr) in chronic kidney disease in two different etiologies of acute renal failure (arf): acute tubular necrosis (atn) and acute glomerulonephritis (agn). methods: patients admitted for arf or the patients compl...

many species of tea (camellia sinensis) and cowslip (echium amoenum) are used in iranian traditional medicine. the aim of this study was to conduct the survey on the ability of iranian black tea and cowslip extracts on secretion of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (tnf-alpha) by non-infected and infected mouse macrophages. a macrophage infection model with legionella pneumophila and enzyme linked im...