Sex differences in attachment are absent during infancy and early childhood, emerge in middle childhood with self-reports and doll-play tasks, and persist into adulthood, when they are most reliably detected in romantic attachment styles. In our previous work, we hypothesized that sex differences in attachment develop under the influence of adrenal androgens during the transition form early to ...

UNLABELLED Aims/Introduction:  Resistin, an inflammatory cytokine, might be involved in the development of atherosclerosis. In a recent paper, we showed that resistin polymorphism might be a risk marker for stroke susceptibility in Japanese type 2 diabetic patients. We tested whether the serum resistin levels might be also a risk marker of stroke independently from RETN polymorphism. MATERIAL...

Introduction: Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) is a chronic inflammatory disease of oral mucosa with unknown etiology.Many studies have suggested that increased oxidative stress, an imbalance in the antioxidant defense system maybe involved pathogenesis planus.Aim: The aim this study was to compare tissue levels Super oxide dismutase (SOD) and lipidperoxidation marker Malondialdehyde (MDA) established ...

background and objective: serum creatinine is the most used endogenous marker of glomerular filtration rate (gfr), but it also has multiple limitations. therefore, some surrogate gfr markers, such as beta trace protein, have been introduced for gfr estimation. the aim of our study was to estimate gfr by serum beta trace protein using three available equations and compare them to dtpa gfr as the...

objective: the current methods for bladder cancer diagnosis suffer from low sensitivity and specificity. therefore, finding a novel tumor markers with high specificity and sensitivity is of great interest. micrornas (mirna, mir) are small endogenously-produced, non-coding rnas with an important role in regulating gene expression. recent studies show that mirnas expression profiles represent sig...

to determine the role of ddx3y gene in spermatogenesis and infertility in bulls, blood samples were collected from five infertile bulls (azoospermic; no sperm in the semen) at the animal breeding center in karaj, iran. the recommended human primers by eaa/eqmn were investigated using the blastn database for sts marker detection. alignment of sts marker genes with bovine genome was performed. pr...

linked and/or gene-based molecular markers have been used widely in marker-assisted selection (mas) to differentiate resistant and susceptible genotypes. resistance to meloidogyne spp. in beta vulgaris l. is mediated by a single dominant gene (r6m-1). using allele-specific primers (asps), an snp marker harboring a single nucleotide polymorphism (a/g), linked to the resistance gene was developed...

to evaluate the genetic variations in eleven fennel populations in iran, 55 accessions were analyzed by srap markers. twelve primer combinations produced 171 polymorphic bands. the cumulative dendrogram delineated fennel accessions into five major groups in accordance to the geographical regions from which the populations were originated. about 43.57% of total genetic variation was detected amo...

background: sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown origin with characterization of small granulomas. angiotensin-converting enzyme (ace) is a pathophysiologic marker of sarcoidosis. we present the ace insertion/deletion (i/d) polymorphism in correlation with serum ace level in iranian patients with sarcoidosis. methods: from jan 2014 to jan 2015, 102 iranian patients who h...

Background and Aims: Recently, a novel DNA virus was isolated from the serum of a patient with post-transfusion non A-G hepatitis and named TT virus. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence TT virus among cirrhotic patients due to hepatitis B & C in infection Ahwaz. Methods: The prevalence of TTV infection was studied in 41 patients with liver cirrhosis. TTV DNA was detected ...