objective: in developing countries, nutritional deficiency of essential trace elements is a common health problem, particularly among pregnant women because of increased requirements of various nutrients. accordingly, this study was initiated to compare trace elements status in women with or without pre-eclampsia. materials and methods: in this study, serum trace elements including zinc (zn), s...

background: the objective of this study is to optimize the effective dose of heparin and ligustrazine hydrochloride injection (lhi) for drug combination. materials and methods: the animal clinical study of lhi was performed by the rat’s model of induced arteriovenous shunt thrombosis. experimental animals were grouped into several groups and separately treated with both lhi (20, 40, 80 mg/kg, i...

homogeneously staining regions (hsr) or double minute chromosomes (dmin) are autonomously replicating extra-chromosomal elements that are frequently associated with gene amplifi cation in a variety of cancers. the diagnosis of leukemia patients was based on characterization of the leukemic cells obtained from bone marrow cytogenetics. this study report two cases, one with acute myeloblastic leu...

bronchial leiomyoma is extremely rare. to date less than 60 cases have been reported in the world literature. the presented case here is a 30 year old woman who had been treated for bronchial asthma for several years. her chest radiograph showed bulluos emphysematous changes in the right lung and computer tomography scan found the tumor in the right main bronchus near carina. diagnosis was made...

background: numerous studies have reported prehypertension (pre-htn) as a risk factor for the cardiovascular diseases as hypertension (htn). aim: the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of pre-htn on cardiovascular incidences among the females of isfahan cohort study (ics). materials and methods: healthy female at baseline were followed for a median of 6.7 years. they were divided into ...