The small scaffold protein PED/PEA-15 is involved in several different physiologic and pathologic processes, such as cell proliferation and survival, diabetes and cancer. PED/PEA-15 exerts an anti-apoptotic function due to its ability to interfere with both extrinsic and intrinsic apoptotic pathways in different cell types. Recent evidence shows that mice overexpressing PED/PEA-15 present large...

background: oral lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory disease with a poorly understood etiology. the role of angiogenesis in the development of different chronic inflammatory diseases is of great concern. vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) is an important regulator of angiogenesis. we aimed to evaluate the serum level of vegf in patients with oral lichen planus compared with normal in...

background and aims. the purpose of this study was to determine efficacy of 19% elaeagnus angustifolia (ea) topical gel in the treatment of symptomatic oral lichen planus. materials and methods. patients with symptomatic oral lichen planus referring to the department of oral medicine, faculty of dentistry at shahid beheshti university of medical sciences were asked to participate in the study. ...

in this study, total factor productivity growth of iran’s pulses (including irrigated pea, dry pea, irrigated lentil, dry lentil, irrigated soybean, dry soybean and irrigated bean) during of farming years 1989-1990 though 2007-2008 had been analyzed, using nonparametric malmquist approach. so, amounts of inputs usages include seeds, fertilizers, dung, poison, herbicide, labor, water and acreage...

Background: Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory disease ofunknown etiology that may involve mucocutaneous tissues. Themain aim of our study was to evaluate the frequency of oral andgenital lichen planus in men and women affected by skin lesions.Method: A total of 132 patients with clinical and histopathologicaldiagnosis of lichen planus were evaluated for oral and genitalinvolvement. All da...

The d-glyceraldehyde 3-P dehydrogenases of spinach leaf, pea seed, and pea shoot were purified. The NADP and NAD-linked enzymes of either spinach leaves and pea shoots could not be separated. Changes in the ratio of NADP- to NAD-linked activity of the spinach leaf and pea shoot enzymes were observed during both purification and storage of crude extracts. The spinach leaf, pea shoot, and pea see...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) is the gold standard for treating chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) in Western countries. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term outcomes of performing PEA on CTEPH patients in comparison with medical therapy at a single Korean center. METHODS This retrospective study included 88 CTEPH patients. These patients ...

Background: Lichen planus has various clinical and epidemiologic features in different countries. Objectives: To determine clinical and epidemiologic patterns of lichen planus in dermatology department of Hamadan Sina Hospital during a ten-year period. Patients and Methods: This retrospective descriptive study was performed on 363 patients (Including 190 females and 173 males) suffered fr...