Background Nowadays, health systems are generally acknowledged to be complex social systems. Consequently, scholars, academics, practitioners, and policy-makers are exploring how to adopt a complexity perspective in health policy and system research. While leadership and complexity has been studied extensively outside health, the implications of complexity theories for the study of leader...

Background: Galectin, an animal lectin that recognizes b-galactosides of glycoconjugates, is involved in multiple biological functions such as cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, signal transduction and angiogenesis. Overexpression of galectin-3 was observed in different tumors which was related to pro-angiogenic activity. In addition, galectin-3 is intensely expressed in corpus luteum (CL...

background: greater palatine canal is used for maxillary nerve block. this procedure has somecomplications such as proptosis, blindness, and intravascular injection. this study aimed to determinethe mean greater palatine canal length (cl) and its typical anatomic routes, as well as provide areliable facial index for computing the cl by using cone beam computed tomography (cbct) data. materials ...

this review tried to describe the historical development of consultation-liaison (cl) psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine in the world and iran. it also aimed to present a classification of different models of patient care and service delivery in cl psychiatry. it finally provided some explanation about the status of psychosomatic medicine and cl psychiatry in germany as a different model in ...

Background: The prevalence of anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCAs) and anti-Cardiolipin Antibodies (anti-CL Ab) in Behcet’s Disease (BD) and also their roles in vascular involvement is controversial. Objective: To assess the prevalence of ANCAs and anti-CL Ab as well as their correlations with clinical manifestations in Iranian patients with BD. Methods: In this case/control study, th...