urinary 1-hydroxypyrene is frequently used as a major metabolite and biological indicator of the overall exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. in this study, solid phase extraction was appropriately conditioned with regard to sample ph, sample concentration, loading flow rate, elution solvent, washing solvent, sample volume and sorbent mass. octadecyl silica cartridge (c18) was used as ...

background: the pathogenesis of gestational trophoblastic disease (gtd) is not clearly known. objective: in this study, immunoexpression of proteins bcl-2 and beclin-1 in trophoblastic lesions and normal trophoblastic tissue was conducted to study the mechanism of apoptotic and autophagic cell death that is expected to complete the study of gtd pathogenesis. materials and methods: bcl-2 and bec...

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is an essential enzyme to cell growth. its deficiency of enzyme plays an important role in senescence and death signaling. also, it is actually the most common clinically important enzyme defect, not only in hematology, but also among all human known diseases. clinical consequences of enzyme deficiency are: neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, acute hemolytic anemia, a...

conclusions vaccine based on the conjugation of p. aeruginosa pao-1 lps with dt increased anti-lps antibodies and had a significant potential to protect against pseudomonas infections. background treatment of pseudomonas aeruginosa pao-1 infections through immunological means has been proved to be efficient and protective. objectives the purpose of this study was to produce a conjugate vaccine ...

abstract   background: cosmetic rhinoplasty is now carried out increasingly in an attempt to solve the psychological and social problems of people who are discontent with their nose. little is known about either the psychological status of persons who seek rhinoplasty or potential psychological changes following surgery. the challenge that faces surgeons, is how to identify, before surgical int...

background and aims: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a kind of pulmonary diseases characterized by chronic obstruction of lung that is in the form of a diffuse narrowing of airways resulting in air flow resistance. alpha-1 antitrypsin (aat) deficiency is genetically relatively common risk factor in patients with copd throughout the world and the exact cause of its prevalence is ...

in traditional chinese medicine, arsenous compounds, including arsenic trioxide (ato), are often used to treat many diseases, which are safe and effective. recently, studies have indicated that th17– il-17 involved in the pathogenesis and development of asthma. the goal of this study was to investigate the effect and mechanism of ato on asthma, especially the th17– il-17 axis. we used oval bumi...

conclusions potent antifungal activity, make this plant an effective replacement treatment for fungal infections or fungal strains that are resistance to synthetic antifungals. results thirty-two components were identified in vitex agnus-castus eo. the main compound was alpha-pinene (19.48%). the total phenolic content of eo was determined as 82.26 ± 5.94 mg gallic acid equivalent (gae)/g eo. t...

2-[3-(2-formylnaphthoxy)-2-hydroxypropoxy] naphthaldehyde (1) have been prepared by reaction of 2-hydroxynaphthaldehyde with 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol. new n2o3 macro-acyclic ligands (l1, l2) synthesized from the reaction of (1) with aniline or cyclohexylamine. ni (ii), co (ii) and cu (ii) complexes was prepared from reaction of schiff-bases with metal chloride and nitrate salts. all of these com...

human t-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (htlv-1) is associated with adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma (atl) and htlv-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (ham/tsp). only a limited percentage of infected individuals develop disease in response to the virus while the majority remain asymptomatic and ham/tsp is the most common clinical manifestation of the virus. ham/tsp is an inflamma...