Background & Aims: Behcet’s disease (BD) is an inflammatory vasculitis of unclear etiology. MCP-1 gene is a member of the C-C chemokines family that is a chemotactic factor for monocytes. The results obtained have shown that the -2518A/G polymorphism of MCP-1 gene is associated with BD. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible involvement of this polymorphism and Behcet&rsq...

growing demands and requires of high data rate systems cause significant increase of high frequency systems for wideband communication applications. as mixers are one of the main blocks of each receivers and its performance has great impact on receiver’s performance; in this thesis, a new solution for ku-band (12-18 ghz) mixer design in tsmc 0.18 µm is presented. this mixer has high linearity a...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...

abstract the purpose of this study was to find out the effect of applying the principles of group-dynamic assessment (g-da) on learning of conditional structures in english by iranian efl learners at the intermediate level, which according to the formal educational system in iran, includes students who are in their second year of studying in high schools of koohdasht city. this study was a qua...

Background & Aims: Deletion/insertion of a single guanosine in the promoter of the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) gene, resulting in two alleles containing either 4 or 5 guanosines (G). Results of recent studies showed that presence of PAI-1 4G allele may increase the risk of human disease.  The aim of present study was to determine the 4G/5G genetic variation in the promoter of PAI-...

Background and Aims: Periodontitis is a common and inflammatory infectious disease that causes damage to the tissues supporting the tooth and consequent tooth loss. Periodontal disease is a multimicrobial and multifactorial disease and important anaerobic bacteria are involved in periodontal infection. TGF-1β is one of the growth factors and anti-inflammatory cytokines that play a crucial role ...

in this research we have studied the effect of some transition-metals (cu, ag and au) substitutions on two-electron reduction potential of flavins by application of dft method. all geometries have been optimized at blyp level of theory and “6-31+g** + lanl2dz” mixed basis set. the frequency job at the same method and basis sets has been performed to obtain gibbs free energy of compounds. it h...