The Authors Reply: We agree with Finucane that it is important to monitor and treat hyponatremia after a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. He cites a study that showed fewer instances of hyponatremia among patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage who were treated conservatively than among those who were treated with clipping or coiling.1 The group treated conservatively, however, consisted m...

BACKGROUND Nutrition is one of the most effective components of human's health and nutritional practices have an important role in a healthy nutrition. Iranian traditional medicine, which is one of the holistic medical schools, has special approaches related to effective environmental factors in healthy nutrition. Identifying these special approaches is helpful to the medical community. The aim...

Alkanolamines are anthropogenic compounds used extensively not only in the processing of sour natural gas but in other operations such as the petrochemical and fossil-fuel fired industries to reduce and prevent the emission of green house gases into the environment. Alkanolamines also find uses as corrosion inhibitors, emulsifying agents and in pharmaceutical formulations (Dobberpuhl and Johnso...

Abstract. Shahi M, Jaberhashemi SA, Hanafi-Bojd AA, Akbari Rafinejad J. 2021. Faunistic study on scorpions and their health impact in Bashagard County, Hormozgan Province, Southern Iran. Nusantara Bioscience 13: 85-90. Scorpion sting is a major public problem tropical subtropical countries, endangering thousands of lives annually. About 2300 scorpion cases including several deaths are reported ...

how to cite this article: ashrafi mr, tavasoli ar, katibeh p, aryani o, vafaee-shahi m. a novel mutation in aspartoacylase gene; canavan disease. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015; 9(4): 54-57. abstract objective canavan disease (cd) is a type of vacuolating leukodystrophy with autosomal recessive inheritance. aspartoacylase deficiency results in decrease of myelin biosynthesis, dysmyelination a...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory skin, nails, and joints disease related to the immune system by periods of exacerbations and remissions. It is characterized by thick end, erythematous, and scaling lesions, which affects about 2 to 4 percent of the general population. The disease occurs equally in both sexes and the most common form of the disease is psoriasis vulgaris. The...

glutathione transferase (gst) is a family of multifunctional detoxification enzymes which are mainly cytosolic that detoxify natural and exogenous toxic compounds through conjugation with glutathione tripeptide. its conjugates can be transported to vacuoles or apoplast. these conjugates are generally less toxic than the parent compounds. glutathione transferase is identified and isolated from m...

BACKGROUND Cancer is the most important non-communicable disease and the chief cause of death in the world, which imposes a major burden on communities. It is expected that the number of new cancer cases will increase 70 percent worldwide in the next two decades. The exact cause of the disease is unclear in modern medicine. More than a third of all cancer cases are preventable and the other two...

Introdoction: Hepatitis B comprises one of the major health problems worldwide. Health Care Workers (HCW) are a group at risk for Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection. The aim of this study is Management of nonresponder health care workers to hepatitis B routine vaccination. Methods: In a descriptive-analytical study conducted in the Department of infectious diseases in the University Of Medical S...