vitamin d has long been speculated to reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis (ms). however, its role in development and modulating the course of ms has yet to be clarified. to date, there is no scientific evidence for the use of vitamin d as monotherapy for ms in clinical practice and perplexities still exist on potential disadvantages of vitamin d intake. we hypothesize that vitamin d may be ef...

#no abstract#

background: little in known regarding the clinical relevance of sirt1 in multiple sclerosis (ms).   here, we aimed to evaluate mrna expression, protein level and enzyme activity of sirt1 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmcs) isolated from relapsing –remitting ms patients (rrms) and healthy controls. materials and methods: twenty patients with rr-ms and twenty two age- and sex-matched he...

background: neurobrucellosis is a rare complication of brucellosis. acute meningitis and encephalitis are the most common clinical manifestations; however, symptoms of these two conditions may be subacute and diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion in patients from endemic areas. diagnosis is often based on neurological symptoms, serology, and suggestive brain imaging because cerebrospinal...

background: there has been a global rising trend in recent years in the incidence of multiple sclerosis (ms). despite being an ms low-risk region, this disease has also been recently on the rise in the middle east. as part of the middle east, iran has not been spared either; however, the cause of this dramatic increase remains to be discovered. the present study reviews possible reasons for thi...

multiple intelligences (mi), second/foreign (l2) proficiency and gender are postulated to contribute to language learning strategies (lls). this study, first, examined whether there was any relationship between iranian efl learners’ lls, on the one hand, and their mi, l2 proficiency, on the other hand. in so doing, it explored the relationship of the overall l2 strategy as well as individual st...

conclusions the orem-based self-care model program can be a useful tool to improve sleep quality of patients with ms. future studies can be directed to investigate the effects of such interventions on other common problems of patients. results before the intervention, there was no significant difference between the two groups with regard to mean scores of sleep quality (p = 0.22). both groups r...

background: multi drug resistant (mdr) pseudomonas and acinetobacter species are defined as resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics. most studies have demonstrated that mdr gram negative infections convey increased mortality and morbidity. case: an 11-year –old girl was admitted to pediatric burns unit with burn injury of approximately 68% total body surface area (tbsa). discussion: ...

how to cite this article: inaloo s, haghbin s. multiple sclerosis in children. iran j child neurol. 2013 spring;7(2):1-10.   multiple sclerosis (ms) is the most important immune-mediated demyelinated disease of human which is typically the disease of young adults. a total of 4% to 5% of ms population are pediatric. pediatric ms is defined as the appearance of ms before the age of sixteen. about...

multiple sclerosis (m.s) is one of the prevalent diseases of the central nervous system which cause disability in young adults. this appears as neural signs in different parts and various times. the main defect is local deterioration or destruction of myelin tissue in the brain and spinal cord. profound fatigue is one the most common symptoms of this disease. because ms is prevalent in middle a...