the physiological effects of a diet free of meat and eggs were studied. fifteen adult lacto-vegetarians were matched with non-vegetarian individuals by age, sex, body weight and height. a two-week dietary record was secured from each individual. the food consumed over a 48-hour period was measured. venous blood samples were taken from each individual for determination of serum total protein, ur...

background and objectives: the magnetotactic bacterium magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense (msr-1) mineralizes the magnetite (fe3 o4) crystals and organizes a highly ordered intracellular structure, called the magnetosome. iron transport system supports the biogenesis of magnetite. although iron is an essential trace element for many metabolic pathways of the body, increase or decrease in iron wil...

background: obesity is caused by several factors while sedentary lifestyle and excessive energy intake are the most important ones. obesity could be due to abnormal calcium metabolism, and a high calcium intake may prevent obesity. studying serum calcium level, albumin, and triglyceride concentrations, we searched for probable correlation between serum calcium level and anthropometric data of t...

Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is one of the most common rheumatic diseases in childhood and is frequently associated with growth retardation. Vitamin D is critical to bone mineral metabolism and to the growth and development of the skeleton. We aimed to...

BACKGROUND Delay in diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) occurs frequently, although its consequences are mostly not known. One of the presented symptoms in pediatric patients with CD is the short stature. However, far too little attention has been paid to physical features including height of adult patients with CD. This study was undertaken to evaluate whether patients suffering from CD are short...

BACKGROUND Considering the high incidence of low weight and short stature among Iranian children as well as the high prevalence of both mild and moderate types of zinc deficiency, this study was conducted among patients who were referred to the Pediatric Clinic at Massih Daneshvari Hospital during 1997 - 1999. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of zinc supplementation on the chil...

background and objective: vitamin d (vit d) has an important role as immunoregulator. its deficiency is deemed as a risk factor for respiratory system infection. in this study the serum vit d levels of healthy and with pneumonia children were compared. methods: in this prospective case control study, 31 hospitalized children due to pneumonia and 40 healthy children both aged between 6 and 60 mo...

In this study 71 head of conceiving ewe and their progeny (91 head) from the flock of Lori-Bakhtiari sheep (360 head), in Sholi Station were randomly selected to determine the relationship between the immunoglobulin (IgG) concentration in the ewe's serum and colostrum, and lamb's serum. Ewe blood sample, colostrum of ewe and blood of the lamb was taken 2 weeks before parturition, 1 to 8 hours a...

the most accepted method of secondary prophylaxis in rheumatic fever (rf) has been an injection of 1,200,000 units of benzathine penicillin g (bpg) every 4 weeks, but recurrences have been reported in some patients despite such a prophylaxis program. the who recommended bpg injections every 3 weeks in high risk patients and situations due to some published data in favor of inadequacy of once ev...

abstract background the aim of the present study was to determine the endocrine dysfunction in patients with major thalassemia, who receive hyper transfusion. materials and methods this cross sectional study was performed during one year, which included 65 major thalassemia patients (31 females and 34 males), aged between 14 month to 27 years old (median 10,3). growth assessment was measured by...