objective : the purpose of this study was to determine the construct validity and reliability of the two forms of the persian version of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale (ders-6 & ders-5-revised) in a clinical sample. methods : the clinical sample consisted of 181 patients diagnosed with functional gi disorders (fgid) who referred to the digestive psychosomatic clinic in isfahan in ...

the isoe lect r i c f ocusing p a t terns and ph activity cur ves of f i ve glycosidas e e nzymes i n blood plasma and ur i ne were s t ud i e d . this s tudy demons trated the presence o f a sing le molecular f onn in a -glucosidase and of two mole cul a r fonns of the enzymes h-a ce t yl-b-d-gluco sarni nidase, na c e t y l -•p-d-g a l a c t o s amin i ua s e and s-glucuronidase i n both plas...

bl ood glucos e l evels meas ured a t half hour intervals in a series of 45 major s urgica l procedur es demonstrated a consis tent hyp er glycemi a during the course of operation . peaks were ass ociated with per iods of cardi a-vascular stress .. i n cont r ast , pat ients in whom autonomi c act ivi ty was inhibited by ganglionic blockade demonstra t ed a cons ist ent decrease in blood g luco...

background: viscerotropic leishmaniasis caused by leishmania tropica poses a significant prob­lem in the diagnosis and treatment management. since differential gene expression is more im­portant in outcome of the infection, we employed proteomic approach to identify potential pro­teins involved in visceralization of l. tropica . methods: the proteomes profiling of l. tropica isolated from cutan...

background: insecticide poisoning is a major public health problem in the world, particularly in developing nations, its usage has increased in recent and past thus increased even its misuse to commit suicide. methods: this retrospective study was carried out at department of  forensic medicine & toxicology, govt. mohan kumaramangalam medical college  hospital  salem, tamil nadu, india with the...

background: due to some limitations of serological methods in diagnosis of patients infected with hiv-1 (human immunodeficiency virus) and hcv (hepatitis c virus), it is profoundly important to use molecular methods for the detecting of these infectious agents. however, the most significant problems are the exorbitant cost of these methods and the need of a thermocycler which is an expensive in...

differentiating sepsis from other noninfectious causes of systemic inflammation is often difficult in the elderly. the aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of c-reactive protein (crp), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr), procalcitonin (pct), and interleukin-6 (il-6) to identify elderly patients with sepsis. in this single center prospective observational study, we included all consec...

materials and methods: 32 new zealand rabbits were randomly divided into three groups: control group, high-cholesterol group and losartan group. the level of weights, serum lipid levels and inflammatory factors, such as il-6 and hs c-reactive protein were detected before the losartan intervention and two months after the losartan intervention respectively. the content of angii was detected on l...