a 13 year- old girl had rickets clinically evident sicne she was 10 years of age. she received multiple doses of vitamin d3 without improvement.this patient manifested an unusal form of hypophosphatemic rickets with hypercalciuria. it is recommended that urinary calcium excretion be assessed in all patients with hypophosphatemic rickets before the initiation of any therapy

The article by Karamifar H. et al published in the recent issue of Turkish Hematology on Insulin-like growth factor-1 in children with β-Thalassemia minor called our attention, because we have also studied growth retardation and ILGF-1 in thalassemia major patients [1]. Our previous studies revealed zinc deficiency in Turkish children with β-Thalassemia major. We have studied zinc levels not on...

The Efficacy of Lamivudine Alone, and in Combination with Interferon in the Treatment of Resistant Chronic Hepatitis B [PDF]G. Montazeri, R. Malekzadeh, N. Nouri, M.R. Sohrabi, M. Sotoudeh, N. Kamalian, M. Farhadi Antibody Response to Recombinant Hepatitis B Surface Antigen in Healthy Adults Following Primary and Supplementary VaccinationM.A. Shokrgozar, F. Shokri Induction of Differentiation o...

The genus Hypericum is one of the most important medicinal plants that contain 17 species in Iran, three of them are endemics. This paper reports the essential oil composition of eight Hypericum species from Iran. The essential oil analysis of a number of the studied plants has already been reported but their report from Iran may be valuable for scientists.  Samples collected from different pla...

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The uniform box product was introduced by Scott Williams in 2001, but very little was done with it until the recent (2010 and 2012) [B1], [H1] dissertations of Jocelyn Bell and Jeffrey Hankins. Their results had to do with two questions that Williams posed a decade earlier: whether the uniform box product of compact spaces is normal, and whether it is paracompact. Hankins answered the latter qu...

Given the prevalence of the use of rhetorical relations in the generation of text (Itovy, 1989; Moore and Paris, 1988; Scott and Souza, 1990), it is surprising how little work has actually been done on the grammatical realization of these relations. Most systems, based on Mann and Thompson's formulation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson, 1988), have adopted simplified solutions ...