Objective- Tendon healing, in terms of histologic and functional characteristics, is always inferior to its normal level due to the poor vascularity and low metabolic rate. Curcumin possesses anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and healing effects. This study aimed to investigate effects of curcumin on Achilles tendon experimental injury using histopathology, biomechanical and functional evaluation...

rangeland ecosystem contains various patches with different functions. structural and functional characteristics of rangeland patches are changed by management practices and can be used to interpret management effects. the structural and functional characteristics of fertilized patches in two rangeland ecosystems of ghareh ghir and maraveh tapeh were measured and analyzed in this study. a group...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to document, from the perspective of the empirical literature, the primary symptoms of functional dyspepsia (FD), evaluate the extent to which existing questionnaires target those symptoms, and, finally, identify any missing evidence that would impact the questionnaires' use in regulated clinical trials to assess treatment efficacy claims intended for product labeling. ...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to determine the functional mobility and balance in the elders after total hip arthroplasty in healthy coparison to elders. methods & materials: the current cross-sectional study was done on 20 patients (70.9±4.2) with hip osteoarthritis 6 months after total hip arthroplasty and 20 healthy subjects (73±5.7) as control group. patient group was assigned w...

b a ckground:  nutrition status is an important constituent of health in an elderly and  evaluation  of  these  groups  are  necessary  for  development  of  treatment protocols. the study aimed to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition with mini nutritional assessment (mna)  tool  in  the  elderly living in  nursing homes.  in addition, the association of mna results and functional status was...

Background: Increased incidence of renal stone has been reported in ankylosing spondylitis (AS), but unlike some well-known renal involvements, they have not been fully studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of AS with urolithiasis and also the relation between urinary stone and severity markers. Methods: One hundred-sixty three AS patients were included in a cross-s...

Complex systems are described according to two central dimensions: (a) the randomness of their output, quantified via entropy; and (b) their complexity, which reflects the organization of a system's generators. Whereas some approaches hold that complexity can be reduced to uncertainty or entropy, an axiom of complexity science is that signals with very high or very low entropy are generated by ...