The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) by using both the conventional (Hmax/Mmax ratio) and the new indicators (Hslp/Mslp) of motoneuron excitability. This research was a correlational study on twenty post-stroke patients. Main outcome measures were the MAS and electrophysiologic assessments. The latter was performed using both conventiona...

Brucellosis is a major health problem in many parts of the world, particularly in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Very few data on the frequency and diversity of haematological abnormalities occurring in brucellosis have been reported. In the present study 85 patients with brucellosis in Imam Khomeini Hospital during 1997-2002 were investigated retrospectively to determine the haematological...

There is a challenging debate on the effect of premature luteinization on the clinical outcome of ‘controlled ovarian hyperstimulation’ (COH) using long ‘gonadotropin–releasing hormone agonist’ (GnRHa) cycles. Premature luteinization is defined as late follicular progesterone/estradiol ratio more than 1 on the day of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) administration. We carried out a retrospect...

Preeclampsia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality during pregnancy. Several independent investigators have demonstrated the association of androgens with hypertension. The main purpose of this study was to determine whether maternal levels of sex hormones, especially testosterone, are higher in patients with preeclampsia than in matched normotensive control subjects. Serum levels of test...

Impaired fasting glucose identifies individuals at high risk of progression to diabetes but the role of IFG as a coronary artery disease risk factor, independent of its progression to diabetes and its association with other coronary artery disease risk factors ,is unclear. A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that impaired fasting glucose increased the likelihood of ...

There is a continuing need to identify new agents that are active in ovarian cancer. Etoposide is a derivative of the plant alkaloid epipodophyllotoxin. The availability of etoposide in oral preparation allows prolonged administration by the oral route. In this study, activity and toxicity of etoposide in women with recurrent ovarian cancer are described from a case series of women with recurre...

Since bone marrow has been shown to contain osteoprogenitor cells, an experiment was devised to test its effects when injected percutaneously into osteotomies sites in rabbit radii. In this experimental study, the osteogenicity and it's effect on early bone repair of bone marrow grafts were investigated. The purpose of this study was to determine whether bone marrow grafted percutaneously led t...

Many investigators use bone matrix gelatin for bone induction but it is used rarely for repair of teeth defects. This study was designed to evaluate secondary dentin formation by endochondral bone matrix gelatin (E-BMG) in rabbit. E-BMG was prepared from tibia and femur of 4 Deutsche-Poland rabbits with average ages of 4-6 months. The prepared E-BMG was implanted in right incisor teeth pulps of...