asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. exposure to allergens plays an important role in asthma. recently, cockroach has attracted attentions as an important allergen. this study was performed to evaluate cockroach allergy in iranian children with asthma. one hundred children with definite diagnosis of asthma were selected. after obtaining primary information, the severity of th...

Studies on sensitive skin pathophysiology in infants are challenging because most assessment methods require self-reporting of signs. In this study, we aimed to identify and characterize children for the first time. A newly developed parent-reported questionnaire was used recruit with skin. This also tested an adult group. Hydration, transepidermal water loss (TEWL), inflammatory markers (cytok...

Sensitive skin is common but until now there has been no scale for measuring its severity. The Sensitive Scale is a new scale with a 14-item and a 10-item version that was tested in 11 countries in different languages on 2,966 participants. The aim of this study was to validate the pertinence of using the Sensitive Scale to measure the severity of sensitive skin. The internal consistency was hi...

The physiology of a newborn baby’s skin is delicate, and it important to understand how the develops in first few weeks life care for their sensitive skin. Therefore, careful consideration should be taken when deciding what cleansing agents products use on

Background: Accurate diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis wouldavoid unnecessary treatment and scar formation. Direct smear isthe most common method for the diagnosis of this disease but itsnegative result could not rule out the infection; so, the need formore sensitive methods is obvious. We conducted this study tocompare the efficiency of direct skin smear with smears preparedby fine needle a...

background and aims: during the last years a new foreskin cell line strain (rfsc) has been isolated, characterized and stored in a representative cell bank stock in liquid nitrogen as a part of hcb (human cell bank) development program in razi institute. materials and methods: the cell population was serially passaged for mass production purpose based on who schedule .the controls on pool sampl...