in the present study, scientific products of 30 members of physical education and sport sciences faculty, university of tehran (2004-2010) were investigated. to collect the data, the scientific products of these members were collected by the resumes of their research activities and also by searching various databases and registered in separate checklists. then, the gathered data were consecutiv...

introduction: shahid motahari annual educational festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the islamic republic of iran, and has held since 2008. the present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of iranian medical universities’ faculty members about holding shahid motahari annual educational festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. methods: th...

Gene array analysis has been widely used to identify genes induced during T cell activation. Our studies identified an immediate early gene that is strongly induced in response to IL-2 in mouse T cells which we named cysteineserine-rich nuclear protein-1 (CSRNP-1). The human ortholog was previously identified as an AXIN1 induced gene (AXUD1). The protein does not contain sequence defined domain...

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Analogues of luteinising hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) are very much in fashion. Their design is clever and they offer an effective medical alternative to surgical castra-tion in the treatment of breast and prostatic cancer. In breast cancer their use in metastatic disease is increasing steadily, and current enthusiasm is such that multicentre adjuvant therapy trials in early disease are alr...