introduction toxoplasma gondii is one of the most important pathogen that has adverse effect on reproductive function. evidence acquisition recent studies revealed that infection with t. gondii not only affect female reproduction, also cause male reproductive impairment. in clinical studies, high prevalence of toxoplasmosis in sterile men has been reported. in animal models, toxoplasmosis is as...

Background: Telomeres play a dramatic role in sperm pronuclei formation and subsequently successful fertilization. The H2B family, member W, testis specific (H2BFWT) gene encodes a testis specific histone that colocalized with telomeric sequences and interfere in the dynamic rearrangement of telomeres at late stages of spermatogenesis. H2BFWT is essential for transmission of the telomeric chrom...

purpose: to describe the methodology and implementation of the investigation for prevalence and causes of visual impairment in tehran province. methods: this population-based cross-sectional study was conducted on all urban and rural residents of tehran province in 2003. a stratified cluster random sampling with probability proportional to size procedure was used. first, best pinhole-corrected ...

objective(s):a growing interest has recently been attracted towards the identification of plant-based medications including those with protective effects against cognitive impairment. sesamol has shown promising antioxidant and neuroprotective effects, therefore, we aimed to evaluate its therapeutic potential in epilepsy which is commonly associated with oxidative stress and cognitive impairmen...

background and aim: hearing impaired students experience binaural hearing like normal peers and school age is challenging time for using dichotic listening. lack of research was found on relationship of persian hearing impair­ed children with central auditory processing (cap). one of the aims of this study was a comparison between persian dichotic digit test (ddt) score in children with mild an...

background :carpal tunnel syndrome is the most prevalent compression neuropathy of upper extremity which, two of the most important risk factors of that are the female sex and manual works. in the model of international classification of function, disability and health, disease is an impairment, results in functional limitation. the goal of this study is to compare hand function of participants...

The association between diabetes and cognitive impairment is controversial. This systematic review examines the relationship of Cognitive Impairment in people with diabetes mellitus. The incidence of “Cognitive Impairment” was higher in individuals with diabetes than in those without diabetes in nine of ten studies reporting this aggregate outcome. These findings showed an associated between ty...

objective: diabetes mellitus (dm) is a common metabolic. one of the unknown complications of dm is cognitive disorders. different types of cognitive impairment caused by dm may affect the quality of life, self-management of diabetes, and glycosylated hemoglobin. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of cognitive impairment and its relationship with glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c), diabet...

120 cases of Iranian soldiers complaining of hearing loss, were studied over a period of three years at the Ghaem Medical Center in Mashad,Iran. There was adequate information in III cases that their engagement in different types of explosions had caused their hearing impairment. The following aspects were evaluated: 1- Categorization of their hearing impairment. 2- The otoscopic findings...