BACKGROUND With over one million Syrian refugee children in the region, we undertook this study to characterize care-seeking behaviors and health service utilization for child refugees with the aim of informing humanitarian programming for non-camp settings in Jordan. METHODS A survey of Syrian refugees living outside of camps in Jordan was conducted using a 125 × 12 cluster design with proba...

Receptors for insulin and epidermal growth factor-urogastrone (EGF-URO) have been measured in Syrian hamster em bryo fibroblasts and in a benzo(a)pyrene-transformed tumorigenie cell line (BP6T). Compared with the parent Syrian ham ster embryo cells, the BP6T cells exhibit a marked reduction in the binding of EGF-URO, whereas the binding of insulin is the same in both cell types. The selective r...

BACKGROUND Syrian migrant farmworkers are among the most marginalized populations in Lebanon, living in poverty, lacking basic legal protections and frequent targets of discrimination. These realities produce living conditions that undermine their basic health and wellbeing. This study explores associations between household living conditions and acute and chronic health problems among Syrian m...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to determine the parasite species carried by hamsters and rabbits purchased from some commercial pet shops in Turkey. METHODS For this purpose, the fecal samples of clinically healthy Syrian hamsters, dwarf hamsters, and crossbred rabbits were collected from 22 pet shops randomly selected in Ankara and Kirikkale provinces, located in Central Anatolia Region o...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding is considered the ideal method of infant feeding for at least the first six months of life. This study aimed to compare breastfeeding intention between Syrian and Jordanian women and determine factors associated with breastfeeding intention among pregnant women in these two countries. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used to collect data from1200 pregnant women ag...

The mechanism for induction of tumors by estrogens is still unresolved. Neoplastic transformation of Syrian hamster em bryo fibroblasts by diethylstilbestrol (DES) suggests that estab lished principles of chemical carcinogenesis may be involved. The Syrian hamster embryo fibroblast cells provide a system in which now the question can be asked whether the metabolic activation of DES is a prerequ...

A mammalian cell culture system using normal, diploid Syrian hamster embryo fibroblasts was used as a model to study the ability of diethylstilbestrol (DES) and related compounds to induce neoplastic transformation. Like benzo(a)pyrene, a known chemical carcinogen, DES (0.01 to 10 /ig/ml) induces morphological transformation of Syrian hamster embryo fibro blasts in vitro; the transformed coloni...

BACKGROUND The current study aimed to evaluate the applicability of the methods of Moyers and of Tanaka and Johnston to estimate the mesiodistal widths of permanent canines and premolars in Syrian individuals, to determine whether the predicting equations differ by sex, and to develop more accurate regression equations using various teeth groups as predictors. METHODS A total of 670 pretreatm...

Inored male Lewis rats weighing 200 to 250 g (Harlan SpragueDawley Inc .. Indianapolis. IN) and outored male Syrian hamsters weighing 100 to 1:'\0 g (Charles River Lao .. Wilmington. MA) werc used for recipients and donors. respective Iv. Heart grafts were heterotopically transplanted into the aodomcn or the neck of recipients using the methods previously described.v Liver grafts were orthotopi...

Tumors of the liver, kidneys, and lungs have been induced in rats by the feeding of dimethyl nitrosamine (DMN) and diethylnitrosamine (DENA) (1, 11, 12, 18). Dontenwill et al. (3, 4) reported that squamous-cell carcinoma of the trachea and lung of Syrian hamsters followed ad ministration of DENA by each of three ap proaches—tube feeding, inhalation, and subcu taneous injection. They observed ...