conclusions: this study indicates that rsv is a substantial cause of respiratory tract infection in infants less than 2 years old. rt-pcr offers a rapid method for detection of rsv in hospitalized children with lrti. results: during the study period, 9 children had a positive result for rsv infection. the median age of these patients was 10 months. bronchiolitis was the clinical diagnosis of pa...

background upper respiratory tract infections (urti) in children are the most frequent reasons for visiting a family doctor, commonly resulting in inappropriate prescription of antibiotics. in underdeveloped countries, a viral respiratory tract infection may be followed by serious complications. more than 200 viral species are associated with respiratory tract diseases in humans and this number...

background: considering that there was not any regional survey in isfahan, iran regarding the epidemiology of acute respiratory tract infections (arti) in different age groups of general population, the aim of this study was to determine the epidemiologic feature of artis in isfahan using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (pcr) method. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study,pati...

introduction: one of the main mechanisms by which diabetic complications occur is an alteration of the structure and function of proteins due to hyperglycemia. aspirin (asa) affects cellular pathways through different mechanisms, including glycation inhibition and antioxidant activity. the aim of the present study, as a follow up to our previous one, is to investigate the effect of long-term, h...

mitochondrial disorders (mids) may occasionaly go along with dysmorphism but hand deformities, as in the following case, have been only rarely reported. a 72 year old female with ptosis, hypoacusis, tremor, myopathy, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, severe cardiac disease, pulmonary hypertension, gastric carcinoid, hepatopathy, generalised atherosclerosis, anemia, polyarthrosis, and hy...

in many models of programmed cell death, the mitochondrial protein aif translocates to the nucleus, where it induces the chromatin condensation and dna degradation. however, today it is well established that this flavoprotein is bifunctional. in addition to its lethal function in the nucleus of dying cells, aif plays a vital bioenergetic role in healthy ones by regulating mainly the activity of...