Distal symmetric polyneuropathy is the most common pattern of nerve injury in patients with diabetes (1,2). In fact, up to 50% of patients with diabetes will develop distal symmetric polyneuropathy at some point during their illness (3). Currently, the only effective treatment to prevent this prevalent condition is glucose control (4). Unfortunately, demonstrating an improvement in neuropathy o...

please cite this article as : tavakoli-darestani r, kazemian gh, emami m, kamrani-rad a. poly (lactide-co-glycolide) nanofibers coated with collagen and nano-hydroxyapatite for bone tissue engineering. novel biomed 2013;1:8-15. background: a combination of polymeric nanofibrous scaffold and bioactive materials is potentially useful in bone regeneration applications. materials and methods: in th...

Objective: We describeand evaluatean automated software tool for nerve fibre detection and quantification in corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) images, combining sensitive nerve fibre detection with morphological descriptors. Method: We have evaluated the toolfor quantification of Diabetic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy (DSPN) using both new and previously published morphological features.The evalu...

When you cut your finger, molecules released by damaged cells (and later, by growing bacteria) are sensed by roving immune cells called neutrophils, which respond to the signal by moving directly and rapidly toward the site of damage. They also release their own set of chemicals, especially leukotriene B4 (LTB4), essentially signaling to other neutrophils, “Hey, follow me!” The release of LTB4 ...

Title of the Master-Thesis Development of a Surgical Assistant System for Needle Adjustment in Prostate Brachytherapy Author: 1. Examiner: 2. Examiner: Semester: Thomas Lehmann Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Vondenbusch, Hochschule Furtwangen University Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, University of Alberta BME 3 Abstract: The prototype of a robotic surgical assistant system was developed for prostate brachythera...

framing is a very important subject in picture aestheticism. this contains a capacity which might be investigated through different approaches, and the film-makers have used this method to improve the visual aesthetics of their works. but, despite the importance of this subject, rare studies could be found along with their works based on the framing and its different dimensions inside iranian c...