A high coronary artery calcification score (CACS) may be associated with mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). Recently, effects of iron on vascular smooth muscle cell calcificat...

background: this study attempted to determine the effects of long-term use of vitamin c on vascular endothelial function. materials and methods: during a pilot clinical trial study conducted at imam hussein hospital (isfahan) in 2014-2015, a total of 40 diabetic patients were selected and then assigned randomly into two 20-subject groups receiving vitamin c and placebo tablets. the patients wer...

objective: vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) and vegf receptors (vegfrs) play important roles in angiogenesis of different developmental mechanisms such as wound healing, embryogenesis and diseases, including different types of cancer. vegfr2 is associated with cell proliferation, migration, and vascular permeability of endothelial cells. blocking vegf and its receptors is suggested as ...

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objective: to evaluate the predictive value of some biochemical markers in the outcome of extremity vascular trauma. methods: this study comprised 30 patients with traumatic arterial injury and acute limb ischemia referred to namazi hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical ssciences, over a period of 8 months, from sep 2009 to jul 2010. venous blood samples were drawn from distal i...