Urogenital myiasis results when flies lay their eggs near the exit of the urethra and the larvae proceed upward along the urogenital tract. In this case report, a 10 year-old female patient diagnosed with urogenital myiasis was reported. The patient presented with complaints including painful and frequent urination, genital pruritus and moving larvae in urine. The patient had received Enterobiu...

Succinylcholine (SUX) is a clinical anesthetic that induces temporary paralysis and degraded by endogenous enzymes within the body. In high doses without respiratory support, it results in rapid untraceable death asphyxiation. A potentiometric thread-based method was developed for in-field detection of SUX forensic use. We fabricated first solid-contact ion-selective electrodes from cotton yarn...

background: childhood masturbation (cm) is considered a variant of normal sexual behavior; however, it is commonly misdiagnosed as epilepsy and movement disorders. as the first study from iran, we analyzed a large population of infants and children with cm in a case-control study and evaluated the value of mucus in urine analysis as an alternative diagnostic tool for cm. methods: a total of 623...

Background: Alkaptonuria is a rare genetic disease leading to the accumulation of homogentesic acid in joint and ear cartilage, sclera and some other tissues causing significant morbidity in these patients. In this paper, we report three cases of Alkaptonuria among the family or household members. Case Presentation: A 51-year-old man with mechanical low back and knee pain was referred to Rheuma...

BACKGROUND Collecting a 24-h urine sample is recommended for monitoring the mean population sodium intake, but implementation can be difficult. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the validity of published equations by using spot urinary sodium concentrations to predict 24-h sodium excretion. DESIGN This was a cross-sectional study, conducted from June to August 2011 in metropolitan Washi...

A biuret method has been developed which provides quantitative measurements of protein in normal urine without interference from drugs or pigments. This method is intended for use in monitoring clinical trials of new drugs-to detect nephrotoxicity. Protein is precipitated from duplicate samples of urine by addition of cold ethanolic phosphotungstic acid. The protein precipitates are separated b...

Because of the logistic complexity, excessive respondent burden, and high cost of conducting 24-h urine collections in a national survey, alternative strategies to monitor sodium intake at the population level need to be evaluated. We conducted a calibration study to assess the ability to characterize sodium intake from timed-spot urine samples calibrated to a 24-h urine collection. In this rep...

black humor plays a crucial role in fulfilling langston hughes's anti-racist purposes as an integral notionin his poetry. accordingly, translation(s) of his poetry are to benefit from the same indexes onthe basis of equivalent effect principle. on this account, 33 black-humor-rich poems of hughes, translatedby ahmad shamloo, yaghma golruee and hassan fayyad, were selected to be analyzed co...

background: organic acids refer to a family of compounds that are intermediates in a variety of metabolic pathways. many organic acids are present in urine from clinically normal individuals. elevated levels of urine organic acids cause to the organic acidurias, disorders in which some metabolic pathways in organic acid metabolism are blocked. the present work identified major and minor urinary...