background: childhood masturbation (cm) is considered a variant of normal sexual behavior; however, it is commonly misdiagnosed as epilepsy and movement disorders. as the first study from iran, we analyzed a large population of infants and children with cm in a case-control study and evaluated the value of mucus in urine analysis as an alternative diagnostic tool for cm. methods: a total of 623...

background: the airway surface liquid (asl), which is a fluid layer coating the interior epithelial surface of the bronchi and bronchiolesis, plays an important defensive role against foreign particles and chemicals entering lungs. objective: numerical investigation has been employed to solve two-layer model consisting of mucus layer as a viscoelastic fluid and periciliary liquid layer as a newt...

Background: The airway surface liquid (ASL), which is a ï‌‚uid layer coating the interior epithelial surface of the bronchi and bronchiolesis, plays an important defensive role against foreign particles and chemicals entering lungs.Objective: Numerical investigation has been employed to solve two-layer model consisting of mucus layer as a viscoelastic fluid and periciliary liquid layer as a New...

Fish epidermal mucus contains innate immune components, secreted by globlet cells that provide the primary defence against different pathogenic microbes and act as a barrier between fish and its immediate niche. The major function of mucus includes entrapment and sloughing of microbes. The mucus also contains many factors such as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), lysozymes, lectins, proteases, etc...

a number of studies have attempted to demonstrate the antibacterial properties of skin mucus from different species of fish such as turbot, atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, gold fish, seabass, seabream, flounder, barramundi, cichlid and yellowtail . however, most have suffered from alack of definitive data concerning the virulence of the organisms used for in vitro assessment of antibacterial pr...

  Effect of Cervical Mucus Aspiration with Insulin Syringe on Pregnancy Rate in ART Cycles     A. Aflatoonian MD1*, M. Asgharnia MD 2, N.Tabibnejad GP3     1- Associated Professor, Dept. of Gynecology, University of Medical Sciences and Research and Clinical Center of Infertility, Yazd, Iran   2- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Gynecology, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran   3- G...

airway mucus hypersecretion and increased oxidative stress are clinical and pathophysiological features of asthma exacerbation. we studied effects of n-acetylcysteine (nac) as a mucolytic and antioxidant agent in asthma exacerbation. in this randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled study 50 patients ( 17 male, 33 female, mean age 48.94±13.68) with asthma exacerbation were randomized to re...