Introduction: Given the importance of identifying common bile duct diameter in diseases diagnoses and being different in different races, this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between the diameter of the common bile duct and demographic factors and drug addiction in patients who referred to the imaging department of Imam Reza hospital in Birjand during the year 1391-...

Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon ( TPH ) are environmental contaminants that are released into the marine environment through oil spills, industrial and domestic activities. TPH are readily transformed into more hydrophilic metabolites, which are accumulated in bile. Thus fish bile can be used as a biomarker of exposure of fish to TPH in the marine environment. in this study several stations were se...

BACKGROUND Freckles are due to an increase in the amount of dark pigments called melanin. These spots are more likely developed on the sun-exposed skin areas like the cheeks, nose, and forehead. Nevus is usually a benign melanocytic tumor and can be congenital or acquired. Due to the high influence of skin lesions on the person's appearance and quality of life, the aim of this study was to eval...

background: cholangiocarcinoma is an invasive biliary malignancy with poor prognosis. diagnostic accuracy of conventional methods is low which is mainly due to the specific anatomy of the disease. the aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of biochemical profile and tumor marker of the bile in patients with malignant cholestasis compared to that of choledocholithiasis. methods: ...

Although there have been many studies on the low-molecular-weight constituents of mammalian bile, there is no clear agreement on the origin of bile proteins. An obvious source is the outer leaflet of the hepatocyte plasma membrane, and indeed it has been shown that bile is rich in enzymes typical of the plasma membrane (Holdsworth & Coleman, 1975; Evans et a/., 1976) and that bile salts are cap...

fashionable at the time. The process is unconscious as each medical theorist is convinced he has at last found the real basis of the symptoms characterizing such diseases as melancholia in antiquity. This disease persists right through the Middle Age and the Renaissance but during the seventeenth and eighteenth century is slowly displaced by hypochondria which, until then, had meant something d...

Aims: Aim of this study was to compare hepatic gene expression during the development of experimental biliary atresia in two different mouse strains. Methods: Balb/c mice and C57Black/6 (Black/6) mice were infected with RRV postpartum, clinical signs of BA and survival were noted. Liver sections were assessed for CD3, CD4 and CD8 expression, and the hepatic virus load was determined. Second, mi...

This study aimed at applying both growth and survival approaches to compare three native strains of lactobacilli, belonging to Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus acidophilus species, with two commercial probiotic strains in their tolerance to acid and bile. The association between the data obtained from the methods was studied.  The results of the different metho...

introduction: given the importance of identifying common bile duct diameter in diseases diagnoses and being different in different races, this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between the diameter of the common bile duct and demographic factors and drug addiction in patients who referred to the imaging department of imam reza hospital in birjand during the year 1391-1392. methods: th...