background: this study aims to investigate the patterns of bioaccumulation and depuration of copper in the selected kidney and liver of capoeta fusca. methods: the fish were collected between september and november 2010 from a qanat in birjand. they were exposed to two types treatments with copper (0.25 and 0.75 mg/l) for a period of 41 days. the fish under study were exposed to the above-menti...

In this paper, we investigated a C-arm tomographic technique as a new three dimensional (3D) kidney imaging method for nephrolithiasis and kidney stone detection over view angle less than 180o. Our C-arm tomographic technique provides a series of two dimensional (2D) images with a single scan over 40o view angle. Experimental studies were performed with a kidney phantom that was formed from a p...

background & target: ischemia reperfusion injury is the tissue damage caused when blood supply returns to the tissue after a period of ischemia or lack of oxygen. in this study, the effect of pentoxyfylline on bcl2 gene expression changes and cell injury in kidney of rat following ischemia reperfusion were evaluated.methods: in this experimental study, 20 male wistar rats with average weight of...

global cerebral ischemia (gci) and reperfusion induced apoptosis that lead to cell injury and death. the bax and bcl-2 are pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic genes, respectively. these genes belong to the b-cell lymphoma-2 (bcl-2) family.in this study; we assessed the effect of pentoxifylline drug on bax/bcl2 gene dosage expression changes following   ischemic reperfusion injury in kidney. in thi...

dioctophyma renale infection is found in a wide range of mammalian species, typically in temperate areas of the world. here, we report for the first time, the parasitism of a domestic dog by d. renale in hamedan, iran, a mountainous cold region, lacking significant amounts of rainfall, high humidity and temperature. a 2.5 yr old male mixed breed dog was presented with a two months history of pr...

To date, there is no single point of view on the lobar, zonal and segmental structure arterial tree kidney. There generally accepted approach in determining signs by which kidney divided into lobes and/or segments. still a discussion regarding division renal artery to daughter branches. The aim study was establish variants individual anatomical variability intra-organ bed kidney, taking account...

we present a 55-year old male patient who was subjected to whole body skeletal scintigraphy for metastatic work up of urinary bladder cancer. whole body 99mtc-methylene diphosphonate (mdp) skeletal scintigraphy was performed. that revealed no skeletal metastasis in the entire body skeleton and normally visualized left kidney with empty right renal fossa. additionally tracer activity collected i...

drug induced acute kidney injury (aki) has been implicated in 8% to 60% of all cases of in-hospital aki and as such is a recognized source of significant morbidity and mortality. evaluation of incidence, risk factors, onset time, and outcome of  antibiotics' associated acute kidney injury. during one-year period, all patients who developed acute kidney injury during their hospital stay in the i...