Abstract Background Awareness of factors associated with quality of life (QOL) in patients with beta-Thalassemia major (&beta-TM) is necessary to develop clinical programs in order to improve social support and QOL in &beta-TM patients. This study aimed to examine QoL, depression, anxiety, and stress in &beta-TM patients in Ahvaz, Iran. Materials and Method A cross-sectional study w...

conclusions there was insignificant correlation between serum hepcidin and ferritin levels in the two groups of patients with tm and ti. it seems that regulation of hepcidin in patients with thalassemia is more affected by erythropoeitic activity than iron stores. also, hepcidin levels were significantly higher in patients with tm than ti, possibly due to higher erythropoeitic activity in ti. i...

introduction: to describe the underlay tympanoplasty technique using an acellular dermal graft(alloderm) for tympanic membrane (tm) reconstruction in a guinea pig model and to demonstrate the feasibility of the technique using alloderm tissue harvested from the prepuce as a source of tissue for future grafting in human tm reconstruction.   materials and methods: the prepuce was divided during c...

Herein, utilizing density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we have assessed the feasibility of single-atom-embedded C3N with various coordination environments TM-C3, TM-C2N1, TM-C4, and TM-C2N2 for oxygen electrocatalysis. It has been proved that most TM-CxNy candidates are stable all them possess metallic features to ensure fast electron transfer. Importantly, Co-C2N2 is a bifunctional no...