We investigated the effects of a high-protein diet and resveratrol supplementation on immune cells changes induced by abdominal irradiation in rats. Female Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups: 1) control diet, 2) control diet with irradiation 3) 30% high-protein diet with irradiation, 4) normal diet with resveratrol supplementation and irradiation, and 5) 30% high-protein diet with resveratr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Because little is known about long-term treatment-related nephrotoxicity, the aim was to determine risk factors for renal impairment long after childhood cancer treatment. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Data from 763 adult childhood cancer survivors (414 men) were obtained during regular visits at the late-effects clinic between 2003 and 2009. Median f...

The present work was initiated in an effort to evaluate the potential therapeutic contribution of the infusion of MSC for the correction of liver injuries. We subjected NOD-SCID mice to a 10.5 Gy abdominal irradiation and we tested the biological and histological markers of liver injury in the absence and after infusion of expanded human MSC. Irradiation alone induced a significant elevation of...

background: radiation-induced discomfort is frequently observed during pelvic radiotherapy. this study was performed to determine the effect of a green tea tablet to reduce the incidence of radiation-induced diarrhea and vomiting in patients with abdomen and pelvic malignancy. materials and methods: this randomized controlled clinical trial recruited 42 patients with abdomen and pelvic malignan...

abdominal mass is one of the commonest clinical findings in children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate abdominal masses in different age groups in a referral children surgical center. we retrospectively reviewed records of 325 patients (57% boys, mean age 37.7 months) admitted to amir kabir hospital in period of 12 years for abdominal mass surgery. the 4 most common abdominal masses wa...

A case of severe diarrhoea and steatorrhoea following chemotherapy and abdominal irradiation for lymphosarcoma, is described. Investigations demonstrated bile acid malabsorption, and treatment with cholesytramine and a low fat diet was successful. A questionnaire was sent to thirty-two subjects who had undergone similar treatment for similar pathology and failed to demonstrate any sustained alt...

A 4 year old healthy girl presented to the pediatric emergency department (PED) with a 5 months history of breast enlargement and pubic hair. One day prior to her presentation to PED, she developed vaginal bleeding with mild lower abdominal pain. There was no history of meningitis, cranial irradiation, head trauma, seizures, medication intake, headache, visual problem or behavior al change. The...

• In a previous study, it was shown that the development of arteriosclerosis in the abdominal aortas of dogs followed localized aorticirradiation with 50-kv. x-rays. The arteriosclerotic lesions observed were similar in all respects to those that occur naturally in dogs, particularly in older animals.' It was proposed that irradiation may have caused a selective injury of the internal elastic m...

Early embryonic stages of Calliphora erythrocephala were X-irradiated to produce abdominal abnormalities of segmental pattern. Abnormal patterns were examined in the puparial stage: 75 (Series AA) larvae with dorsal or lateral abnormality were classified and the larval abnormality compared with the pattern of abdominal segmentation in the emerging adult fly; another 75 (Series aa) larvae were e...