background and aims: ovarian cancer is one of most common causes of cancer related women's mortalities. human papilloma virus is a known factor concerning cervical cancer but its role in causing ovarian cancer is not yet verified. a few studies also identified hpv dna in ovarian carcinoma tissues. however, some studies did not detect hpv dna in ovarian carcinoma tissues. in this article, we inv...

background: calprotectin is cytotoxic agent that its anti-tumor effects are governed through suppression of topoisomerase ii a key enzyme in apoptosis. in previous studies, cytotoxicity and apoptotic effects of calprotectin are shown on different cancer cell lines, but not human gastric cancer cell lines. in the present study, cytotoxicity and apoptotic effects of calprotectin on human gastric ...

tawfiq al-hakim is one of the proficient authors in history of egypt’s literature. he has so much worked inliterature, intellectual and cultural concepts. he was a craftsman author .it can say that he is dramatistic literature’s father of egypt and arab and one of the founders of the dramatic art, novel and short story in contemporary literature. tawfiq al-hakim had special attention to human a...

background: the most common laryngeal mass in children is recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (rrp). studies have attempted to correlate viral typing and its aggressiveness. method: 29 patients with histologically confirmed rrp enrolled in adjuvant therapies. patients underwent several surgical interventions. results: hpv genotyping demonstrated 45% hpv-6 and 55% hpv-11. the mean age at the fi...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of human amniotic fluid (haf) on the growth of human corneal endothelial cells (hcecs) and to establish an in vitro method for the expansion of hcecs. methods: hcecs were cultured in dmem-f12 supplemented with 20% fetal bovine serum (fbs). confluent monolayer cultures were trypsinized and passaged using 20% fbs- or 10%, 20%, or 30% haf-containing media. cell prol...

background: hydatidosis is one of the most prevalent zoonotic diseases worldwide. so far no survey was conducted to deter mine the rate of human hydatidosis in golestan province, so using ifa and elisa tests the prevalence of this disease was detected in patients referred to health centers in this province. methods: totally 1024 serum samples were collected from patients referred to different h...

a case of isospora hominis infection was revealed by stool examination using formol- ether concentration technique. the patient was a 26 year-old female from rural area of babol, caspian sea littoral, with complaints of abdominal discomfort.