Background: To evaluate computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) fusion images for delineating gross tumor volume (GTV) in three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) of nasophanrygeal carcinoma (NPC), and compare treatment outcomes between CT- and CT+MRI-based targets. Materials and Methods: A total of 120 NPC patients treated with 3D-CRT were included, in which, 60 ...

mycobacterium tuberculosis, the main cause of tuberculosis (tb), has still remained a global health crisis especially in developing countries. tuberculosis treatment is a laborious and lengthy process with high risk of non compliance, cytotoxicity adverse events and drug resistance in patient. recently, there has been an alarming rise of drug resistant in tb. in this regard, it is an unmet need...

objective(s): to investigate the effect of cinnamaldehyde and eugenol on the telomere-dependent senescence of stem cells. in addition, to search the probable targets of mentioned phytochemicals between human telomere interacting proteins (tips) using in silico studies. materials and methods: human adipose derived stem cells (hascs) were studied under treatments with 2.5 µm/ml cinnamaldehyde, 0....

background: combination of cyromazine as an insect growth regulator (igr) and nasonia vitripennis (hymenop tera: pteromalidae) a parasitic wasp may be an effective tool for reducing the house-fly populations in poultry houses and livestock farms. this study was conducted to assess the side effects of the igr cyromazine on the level of parasit ism and numbers and the longevity of emerged n. vitr...

objective(s): the purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis on human micrornas (mirnas) expression data of endometriosis tissue profiles versus those of normal controls and to identify novel putative diagnostic markers. materials andmethods: pubmed, embase, web of science, ovid medline were used to search for endometriosis mirna expression profiling studies of endometriosis. the mirn...

objective(s): study of non-coding rnas is considerable to elucidate principal biological questions or design new therapeutic strategies. mirnas are a group of non-coding rnas that their functions in pi3k/akt signaling and apoptosis pathways after t cell activation is not entirely clear. herein, mirnas expression and their putative targets in the mentioned pathways were studied in the activated ...