The relationship of plasma Insulin-like activity (I.L.A.) with liver damage in diabetics was studied in this report. The plasma I.L.A. was measured by in vivo-assay using hypohysectomized-adrenectomized-rats. The following results were obtained. 1) The diabetic who was diagnosed with complicated fatty liver by liver biopsy, had higher I.L.A. and the diabetic who was diagnosed complicating liver...

UNLABELLED Low BMDs, short stature, hypogonadism, subclinical hypothyroidism, and IFG are found in 3.3, 10, 33, 16.6, 6.6, and 26.6 % of 30 pediatric β thalassemia major patients, respectively. Age is related with low Z-scores. Short stature and hypogonadism patients were older. These patients' monitoring in late childhood and early teenage for these complications is recommended. BACKGROUND B...

the acute and sub-acute toxicity of safranal were studied in rat and mice within 2 and 21 days after exposure, respectively. for subacute toxicity, changes in weight as well as biochemical, hematological and pathological parameters were studied. the intraperitoneal ld50 values of safranal were 1.48 ml/kg in male mice, 1.88 ml/kg in female mice and 1.50 ml/kg in male rats. oral ld50 values were ...

A 48-yr-old woman with a bleeding diathesis and complaining of blurred vision, headache, paresthesias, and vomoting was diagnosed as having lgA, kappa type multiple myeloma. Markedly increaesed serum viscosity was noted. After plasmapheresis the signs and symptoms of high serum viscosity disappeared. Pyroglobulin was found in the M protein. The M protein had a prominent 15.5S peak and smaller 1...

the objective of this research is to identify arabidopsis thaliana genes encoding acid phosphatases induced by phosphate starvation. multiple alignments of eukaryotic acid phosphatase amino acid sequences led to the classification of these proteins into four groups including purple acid phosphatases (paps). specific primers were degenerated and designed based on conserved sequences of paps isol...

introduction: the impact of chromium exposure was studied on liver, kidney, testis, spleen, cerebrum and cerebellum of male wistar rats (80-100 g body weight). material & method: it was observed that treatments of rats with chromium (i.p. at a dose of 0.8 mg / 100 g body weight per day) for a period of 28 days caused significant increase in chromium content while declining the body weight along...

Background and Aims: Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the most important health problems worldwide. Currently, Iran is located in the intermediate HBV zone,This study was conducted to find out the prevalence of HBV  infection among patients referring the hospital care in Rafsanjan, Iran. Materials and Methods: A total of 2030 blood samples (471from  males and 1559 ...