conclusions with regards to the predictive strength of the combination of gcs and iss, a predictive system for analyzing the clinical outcome may be provided. results 15496 traumatic patients referred to the hospital and traumatic deaths occurred in 289 patients. blunt trauma accounted for 286 (99%) of death and penetrating trauma for only 1%. our findings concerning the injury pattern, correla...

Background: Acetabular Retroversion (AR) is a hip disorder and one of the causes of pain in this area. Evaluationof positive Cross Over Sign (COS) on AP X-Rays of the hip is currently the best method of diagnosis of AR. Severalstudies have measured co-existence of Ischial Spine Sign (ISS) in patients with AR. In this study we evaluated thediagnostic value of ISS in confirmation of AR and compar...

Colibacillosis, caused by avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is a major problem for the poultry industry resulting in significant losses annually. Previous work in our lab and by others has shown that the increased serum survival gene (iss) is a common trait associated with the virulence of APEC. This gene was first described for its contributions to E. coli serum resistance. However, rec...

BACKGROUND/AIM We have recently reported the development of oxidative cell damages in bombing casualties within a very early period after the initial injury. The aim of this study, was to investigate malondialdehyde (MDA), as an indicator of lipid peroxidation, and osmolal gap (OG), as a good indicator of metabolic cell damages and to assess their relationship with the initial severity of the i...

BACKGROUND: Colibacillosis, caused by different serotypes of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC), is one of the important diseases in poultry industry. The isolate O78 is the most prevalent serotype of APEC in Iran. One of the APEC virulence factors, increased serum survival (iss) gene, is related to serum resistance. The usual form of colibacillosis in avian is extraintestinal, and serum ...

By replacing the phosphate group in pTyr with an isoxazole carboxylic acid, a novel unnatural amino acid has been successfully synthesized. Subsequently, its incorporation into a known PPI (protein-protein interaction) inhibitor of STAT3 protein (ISS 610) generated I2 which showed reasonable anti-STAT3 activity in both fluorescence polarization and cell-proliferation experiments.

We consider nonlinear systems with both control and disturbance inputs. The main problem addressed is the design of state feedback control laws, achieving ISS and integralISS disturbance attenuation, with restricted control under the assumption that an appropriate control Lyapunov function is known. Our results generalize the previous results on ISS and integral-ISS stabilization to the restric...

The increase in circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines following an immune challenge (e.g., with bacterial lipopolysaccharide [LPS]) causes a disruption in normal AA metabolism and increases visceral protein synthesis at the expense of muscle protein synthesis. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of supplemental dietary Leu on the dynamics of whole body nitrogen (N) retentio...