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Dystrophic and aseptic inflammatory disease of intraabdominal adipose tissue is a rare entity.1,2 this disorder mainly involves the mesentery of the small bowel, especially at its root, and occasionally the mesocolon; however, it can also occur at any other sites in the abdomen, including the pelvis, the peripancreatic...
Peripheral odontogenic tumors demonstrate histological characteristics of their intraosseous counterparts, but occur solely in the soft tissue covering the tooth - bearing portion of the mandible and maxilla . These lesions are also known as extraosseous odontogenic tumors, soft - tissue odontogenic tumors, or odontoge...
Avaliar a aplicabilidade da escala london chest activity of daily living (lcadl), em pacientes em lista de transplante pulmonar . Estudo transversal com 26 pacientes em lista de espera para transplante de pulmo, de ambos os sexos, entre maio e setembro de 2010 tratados no programa de reabilitao pulmonar, complexo hospi...
According to the european association of urology guidelines on urinary incontinence, concerning the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (sui), the retropubic insertion of a midurethral synthetic sling (mus) gives equivalent patient - reported cure of sui at 12 months, when compared to colposuspension . Thes...
The perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (pecomas) are a family of related mesenchymal neoplasms that include angiomyolipoma, lymphangiomyomatosis, and clear cell' sugar' tumor of the lung (1). In 1991, investigations of hmb-45 (gp100) immunoreactivity and the presence of premelanosomes in both clear cell' sugar' tumor...
Over the past few months, the health sciences community has engaged in a fierce debate regarding pathways to achieve the goals of open science.1,2,3 there is a significant divide between the potential for the rapid, reproducible health research that is critical to advancing health science, on the one hand, and the curr...
The viruses used in this study were isolated from homogenates of the brains of bats by direct intracranial (i.c .) Although isolate b58 was obtained in 1989, no further identification or characterization was conducted until this study . Was conducted following procedures approved by the animal ethics committee of the i...
Plants have been used for therapeutic applications ever since man has been concerned about his health . For centuries, the world has depended on the useful possessions of plants as a source of medicines . Ethnobotanical investigations done in the last few decades had discovered the analgesic properties of plants mentio...
Chromosomal instability phosphorylated histone h2ax kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog loss of heterozygosity a peptide sequence motif containing leucine - any amino acid - cysteine - any amino acid - glutamate phosphatase and tensin homolog retinoblastoma protein retinoblastoma susceptibility gene murine retin...
Primary aortoenteric fistula is a rare but potentially lethal complication of an abdominal aortic aneurysm . A 55-year - old woman was referred to the emergency room for syncope associated with hematemesis, melena and anemia . The patient's history revealed a heavy smoking habit, chronic alcohol - related liver disease...
Approximately 40% of all non - hodgkin lymphomas (nhls) occur in extranodal locations . Primary nhls of the gastrointestinal tract are rare, accounting for only 14% of malignancies arising in that area . Primary gastric lymphoma (pgl) accounted for 6875% of patients with primary gastrointestinal tract nhl [4, 5]. There...
Determinar a rugosidade de superficies submetidas a diferentes tratamentos e correlacionar rugosidade com velocidade de escoamento de sistemas adesivos lminas de vidro foram utilizadas como substrato para avaliar a velocidade de escoamento dos sistemas adesivos single bond and prime & bond nt . Seis diferentes tratamen...
A 56-year - old female was referred to oculoplastics at the king khaled eye hospital (kkesh) due to complaints of continuous pain and discharge in the right socket that had begun 4 months prior to presentation . The patient had a history of perforating trauma followed by phthisis bulbi in the right eye when she was 3 y...
Free vascularised fibula grafting is well described in limb salvage surgery after resection of bone tumours . Nonunion at the osteotomy site and fracture of the graft are recognised complications, which may be related to poor blood flow within the graft . Graft viability is usually judged by evidence of bony bridging a...
Gonadotropin - releasing hormone (gnrh) controls the production of gonadotropins, there - by having an orchestrating effect on the reproductive hormone cascade and spermatogenesis (1). Active immunization against gnrh has successfully suppressed the secretion of gonadotropins and decreased sperm production, follicular ...
A fundamental barrier to fulfilling the emerging health policy mandate in the united states for monitoring the quality and outcomes of pac is the absence of standardized, patient - centered outcome data that can provide policy officials and managers with outcome data across different diagnostic categories, over time, a...
The puerto rican crested toad, peltophryne lemur, is the only native toad species of puerto rico and has become a subject of conservation concern due to its small population size, limited breeding sites, and small geographic range [13]. Although several new populations have been established in puerto rico through capti...
Over the past two decades, it has become increasingly common for people to travel overseas in order to access medical procedures and services, including fertility treatment . People travel to receive fertility services for a broad range of push and pull reasons . Some travel to receive procedures that are illegal or un...
Bacterial parapneumonic pleural effusion (ppe) accounts for 40% of community - acquired pneumonia cases and has high morbidity and mortality (1). A study in the uk showed that the mortality rate of bacterial ppe was 15% and 20% of patients needed to be hospitalized for several months (2). An early identification of the...
Metabolic syndrome (metsy) is defined as a combination of adverse cardiovascular disease (cvd) and metabolic risk factors including abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and hypertension . A growing body of evidence documented that the metsy is a risk factor for atherosclerotic cvd and type 2 diabetes mellitu...
Neuralgic amyotrophy (brachial plexus neuropathy, brachial plexus neuritis, or parsonage - turner syndrome) is an uncommon inflammatory condition typically characterized by acute and severe shoulder pain followed by paresis with muscle weakness and atrophy of the upper limb or shoulder girdle . We report an unusual cli...
In recent years, great emphasis has been placed on the role of arterial stiffness and central blood pressure (bp) as independent predictors of the development of cardiovascular (cv) diseases [13]. Consequently, the assessment of arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics is recommended as additional tests for the clin...
Polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), one of the most common endocrine disorders occurring during reproductive age, is characterized by ovulatory dysfunction, biochemical or clinical hyperandrogenism, and polycystic ovaries . Its prevalence ranges from 5% to 20% depending on the diagnostic criteria used [2, 3]. Pcos is cur...
Growth hormone deficiency (ghd) is one of the most important endocrine and treatable causes of short stature (ss). Children with a height that is at least two standard deviations (sds) below average or approximately the third percentile for that age and gender are deemed to have ss . In the us alone, 90,000 children ha...
There is an increased incidence of major and minor congenital abnormalities in infants born to epileptic mothers (6 - 7% compared with 2c3% in the general population). Sodium valproate is a popular drug because of its broad range of anticonvulsant effects and relative freedom from sedative and behavioral effects . Expo...
Stakeholders in public health research are researchers, funding agencies, organizations hosting research activities, policymakers, health managers, professionals in the health care system, patients and the community as well as the healthcare industry . It is important to understand the perceptions and views of various ...
In recent years, the efficacy of endovascular treatment after the administration of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt - pa) has been demonstrated in several studies (1 - 5). In fact, the number of patients undergoing endovascular treatment after intravenous rt - pa administration has been increas...
Pd is a chronic progressive brain disorder caused by a loss of dopamine - producing brain cells . Pd leads to shaking (tremors), rigidity, difficulty with walking, slowness of movement, and impaired balance and coordination . In the later stages of illness, there can be cognitive problems, and in the advanced stages of...
Immunization categories, experimental groups, and influenza virus strains used are shown in the table . Twenty - seven pigs were intranasally (in) inoculated with 7.0 log10 50% egg infectious doses of swine / belgium/1/98 (avian - like swine influenza [h1n1]), swine / gent/7625/99 (reassortant influenza [h1n2] with hum...
Diabetes mellitus (dm) is one of the major public health problems around the world . According to the compiled data of the world health organization (who), approximately 150 million people have diabetes mellitus worldwide, and this number of diabetic patients may be doubled by the year 2025 . Alongside established life...
Children brought for medical treatment are often found to be suffering from more than one morbid condition, making a single diagnosis impossible . The effective management of those conditions is more dependent on adopting a holistic approach using cheap, universally available and accessible strategies rather than sophi...
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) is an emergency procedure which is performed on a person in cardiac arrest in an effort to reverse the otherwise inevitable progression to death . However, success is not always possible and not infrequently this procedure is associated with a high level of morbidity . It is for thes...
Hemophilia a, a deficiency in the activity of coagulation factor (f) viii, is an x - linked bleeding disorder with an approximate incidence of one in 5,000 male infants.1,2 absence or reduction of the fviii protein affects secondary hemostasis, which manifests as induced or spontaneous bleeding depending on the severit...
Calcifications are present almost solely in relation to atherosclerosis in the coronary vessels except for individuals with chronic kidney disease.1) therefore, coronary artery calcium score (cacs) has been used as a useful surrogate marker for coronary atherosclerosis burden . Furthermore, cacs provides prognostic inf...
Traditionally, clinical microbiologists handle and read routine bacterial culture plates on the open laboratory bench . At the beginning of each shift, stacks of inverted plates are removed from incubators and set on the benchtop . Throughout the day this work includes collecting plates from different incubators, inspe...
Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (pnets) are highly malignant embryonal neoplasms of bone and soft tissues accounting for 4%17% of all pediatric soft tissue tumors . Metastasis at presentation is quite common, with central pnets metastasizing to cranium and leptomeninges while peripheral pnets (ppnets) disseminating to...
The international community is rapidly approaching the deadline for achieving the 2015 millennium development goals . Given that we have the tools at our disposal to significantly bend aids - related morbidity and mortality curves and reduce hiv incidence, it is essential to redouble efforts to reach the goal of placin...
Both the psychomotor and emotional development can be significantly impaired when the child has hearing problems . Lack of information and acoustical stimuli in the first years of life restricts or even disables the development of speech . Earlier diagnosis of hearing problems in an infant or child is enhances the poss...
Piroxicam is a non - selective prostaglandin g / h synthase (better known as cyclooxygenase or cox) inhibitor that acts on both prostaglandin g / h synthase 1 and 2 (cox-1 and -2). Cox catalyzes the conversion of arachidonic acid to a number of prostaglandins involved in fever, pain, swelling, inflammation, and platele...
Skills such as social smiling, crawling, the first walking steps, grasping, and the first spoken word are known as developmental milestones . Important developmental milestones that are commonly studied include gross motor, fine motor, language, and social skills . Children who do not achieve developmental milestones a...
The prevention of diet - related diseases, such as coronary heart disease and obesity, is a key public health priority within europe and internationally . Nutrition labels are a potentially valuable tool in assisting consumers to make informed decisions about their food choice . Voluntary use of front - of - pack (fop)...
The disease is caused by 3 serotypes of poliovirus (poliovirus types 1, 2, and 3), belonging to the genera enterovirus and picornaviridae family . Recently, the virus has been reclassified as enterovirus c spp . In the enterovirus genus . The virus is transmitted through contaminated food and water and multiplies in th...
Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common malignant tumor in women and is one of the leading causes of cancer - related death in developing countries . Despite the general downward trend in incidence of cervical cancer, it is still a serious public health problem worldwide, especially in developing countries...
Recovery of normal knee range of motion (rom) is among the primary goals of total knee arthroplasty (tka) since knee rom is an important clinical indicator of knee joint function that can be used as a basis for the assessment of the success of tka1234). Most daily living activities require 90-120 knee rom24); however, ...
Field emission is a quantum mechanical tunneling phenomenon in which electrons escape from a solid surface into vacuum, as explained theoretically by r. h. fowler and l. nordheim in 1928 . Field emission is widely used in many kinds of vacuum electronic applications such as flat panel displays, microwave power tubes, e...
In 2002, a baseline survey for this study was performed in the town of hisayama, japan . Briefly, of the total of 3,896 residents aged 40 to 79 years, 3,000 consented to participate in the survey (participation rate, 77.0%). Among them, 178 participants were not administered a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (ogtt): 1...
The ability to recognize meaningful information from faces is a crucial aspect of our social life . When we are exposed to an environment that is rich in visual features and stimuli, we can immediately detect a face and easily recognize its individual identity and emotional state . This suggests the presence of an effi...
Sequence alignment tools are essential to biological research [see, e.g. (1), for a survey of multiple sequence alignment methods]. In addition to merely the residues / nucleotides, biologists often possess more knowledge regarding function, structure or conserved patterns of the sequences to be analyzed . It is genera...
The immune system is composed of two major subdivisions the innate immune system and the adaptive immune system . The innate immune system, comprised of cytokines, macrophages, and nk cells is rapidly responsive, while the adaptive system is antigen specific and relatively slow to develop . On the other hand, immunothe...
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (ahr) is a transcription factor that belongs to the basic helix - loop - helix /per - arnt - sim family of dna binding proteins . There are two major categories of environmental compounds that activate ahr signaling: halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons (hah), such as 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodiben...
The female child is six - years - old and comes from fortaleza in the state of ceara in brazil . Initial symptoms began six months ago and included fever, asthenia, and weight loss . Tests findings include: cbc: normochromic and very microcytic anemia (hb: 7.1 g), leucopenia (3,300 wbc), and thrombopenia (70,000 platel...
One factor contributing to immunological memory is the much higher frequency of lymphocytes specific for the priming antigen in the memory pool than among naive cells . Long - term persistence of memory cells is achieved by a combination of two processes: first, the long - term survival of individual cells, and second,...
Ascending aortic dissection (aad) is a rare and serious complication of aortic valve replacement . Multiple risk factors such as connective tissue disease, aortic wall thinning, aortic diameter, calcification of wall, structural features of aortic wall and associated diseases have been considered as a predisposing fact...
Cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease (chd), are among the leading causes of death in western countries and in iran (1). These disorders are responsible for more than 25% of all deaths worldwide (2). In the uk, for example, more than 90,000 people die from chd each year (3). According to the world hea...
Wild - type, pigmented long - evans (le) rats, obtained from charles river (seattle, wa, usa), were used as controls because although the retina layers thin with age, there is no appreciable cell loss or change in total retinal volume . In addition, le rats have previously been used to back breed pigment in the rcs lin...
The hormones, glucosedependent insulinotropic polypeptide (gip) and glucagonlike peptide1 (glp1), are released from the intestine in response to nutrient ingestion and stimulate insulin secretion in a glucosedependent manner, as a result of which they have been classified as incretins. Additionally, both hormones play ...
Aluminum (al) toxicity is a major constraint of crop production on acid soils . In view of the fact that 40% of world's arable land is acidic [1, 2], al toxicity remains a major hurdle for increasing world food, fiber, and fuel production particularly via expansion of cultivation into acid soils . Aluminum inflicts a w...
Data for this study were obtained from participants in the portland progression project, a prospective longitudinal study of the course and risk factors for glaucomatous progression . Individuals with non - end - stage glaucoma or with ocular hypertension plus risk factors for glaucoma undergo testing with a variety of...
It is characterized by unilateral or bilateral paralysis of the sixth and seventh cranial nerves, manifested clinically as external ophthalmoplegia and weakness of facial muscles . Even though von graaefe described a case of congenital facial diplegia in 1880, it was paul julius mbius, a german neurologist, who drew at...
Many people throughout the world live with a variety of clinical conditions, including stroke, spinal trauma, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis . Unfortunately, these conditions frequently present with motor deficits, which greatly reduce the quality of life for those affected . Mental practice with motor imagery ...
Honey bees (apis mellifera) contribute vital pollination services to agricultural crops and native landscapes, accounting for over $15 billion / year in economic value in the us . In addition, the honey bee is a model organism for epigenetic, behavioral, and host - pathogen interaction studies [210]. Since 2006, the us...
Schizophrenia is a severe, particularly devastating, psychiatric disorder affecting approximately 1% of the general population . Even though schizophrenia is highly heritable, the research for chromosomal loci and candidate genes has not provided any consistent results . Combinations of genetic, epigenetic, and environ...
The mdc (malm diet and cancer) study is a population - based, prospective cohort of 28,449 individuals examined between 1991 and 1996 (20). From this cohort, a random sample, examined between november 1991 and february 1994 (n = 6,103), was included in the mdc cardiovascular cohort, with the primary aim of studying the...
Fat redistribution in hiv - infected patients is associated with antiretroviral therapy (art), including protease inhibitors (pi) and nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (nnrti) [1, 2]. Central fat accumulation or lipohypertrophy may be more common in women [3, 4] and has been associated with multiple metabo...
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (tdf), the oral prodrug of tenofovir, is an acyclic nucleotide phosphonate, which is frequently used as a first - line therapy in hiv - infected patients . It can be conveniently dosed once a day and has a favorable side effect profile, making it one of the most commonly prescribed drugs i...
Petrous bone cholesteatomas (pbcs) are epidermoid cysts, which have developed in the petrous portion of the temporal bone and may be congenital or acquired.1 2 3 the incidence of pbcs was estimated as accounting for between 4 and 9% of all petrous bone lesions.1 2 4 a pbc gradually invades the bony labyrinth and erodes...
Ophthalmic conditions are common in primary care practice.1 eye signs and symptoms are often the first recognized presentation of common systemic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension . While many conditions affecting the eye can be treated, irreversible damage can occur if they are left unrecognized (eg, diabe...
A 53-year - old african man was diagnosed with unknown primary undifferentiated carcinoma with mediastinal lymph nodes and thrombosis of superior vena cava in 1993 . The patient was initially treated by 8 cycles of chop (cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine, and prednisone). He relapsed in 1996 with spinal bone me...
Acquired platelet dysfunction with eosinophilia (apde) is usually a self - limiting bleeding disorder characterized by an insidious onset of easy bruising with petechiae in an otherwise well person . Hypereosinophilia is often the first clue to diagnosis, which is supported by the findings of a platelet storage pool di...
Efforts in nanomaterials have rapidly expanded into the assembly of well - ordered two- and/or three - dimensional (2d and/or 3d) superstructures.the 3d superstructures provide possibilities to probe brand - new properties and applications due to the spatial orientation and arrangement of the nanocrystals [1 - 3]. Diff...
The utriculo - endolymphatic valve at the anteromedial wall of the utricle, was discovered by bast in 1928 in human fetuses . The utricular duct connects the utricle with the saccular space, close to the entrance of the endolymphatic duct . Bast suggested that the function of the valve was closing of the utricular end ...
Ch is also one of the most classic diseases in newborn screening history, the incidence of which varied from 1:2000 to 1:4000 in different areas and different ethnicities . Pituitary thyroid axis, which leads to a reduction of thyroxin secretion, which, in turn, causes severe damage to the brain . According to the clin...
Silica nanoparticles have attracted much attention for industrial and biomedical applications, such as for use as additives and in printer toners, varnishes, pharmaceutics, cosmetics, and coating materials.1,2 these wide - ranging applications stem from the properties of silica nanoparticles, which include easy synthes...
Surgical aortic valve replacement (avr) still represents the gold standard among the therapeutic options in patients with severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis . Currently, patients often have a heavily calcified valve, aortic root or diffuse atherosclerosis of the aortic wall and have already undergone a previous a...
Over the past several decades, the entrapment of proteins in transparent, mesoporous silica has been of significant interest to scientists and engineers spanning a broad spectrum of disciplines . In more recent history, integral membrane proteins (imps) have been of particular interest for entrapment in sol gel - deriv...
Aryl-3,4-dihydropyrimidines derivatives have recently received great attention because of their wide range of therapeutic and pharmacological properties, such as antiviral, antitumor, antibacterial and antifungal, anti - inflammatory, antihypertensive agents, and neuropeptide y (npy) antagonists . Furthermore, these co...
Infections due to human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis b and hepatitis c viruses remain as the leading health problems . Worldwide causes of viral hepatitis due to hepatitis b (hbv) and hepatitis c viruses (hcv) are also common in the geography of our country . Importance of prevention from this infection i...
Gallstone ileus is an uncommon complication of gall stones associated with potentially serious morbidity and mortality . We reported a 60-year - old male case who presented with renal failure and pain in right hypochondriac region . He also had a history of brain infarcts along with diabetes which is an additional fact...
Spasticity is a common neurological complication following central nervous system injuries such as traumatic or acquired brain and spinal cord injury . Indications for the treatment of spasticity include pain, function limitations, contracture prevention, and positioning assistance . Non - pharmacological modalities in...
Ckd is a major and serious risk factor for coronary artery disease (cad). Cad is extremely common in the population of uremic patients . In people with established cad, ckd predicts recurrent events as strongly as other established cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes and elevated blood pressure . Whether the c...
Bar - retained implant overdentures (iods) are a common treatment option in implant prosthodontics, and the implants that support the prosthetic restorations exhibit high survival rates.123 it has been discussed controversially if the number of implants or a placing of extensions on bars influence the clinical outcome ...
Interaction of plant genotype with environment is one of the central problems of plant genetics . According to modern data, environmental factors, such as, temperature, water availability, lighting conditions, mineral nutrition regulate expression of plant genes affecting diverse epigenetic processes dna methylation, h...
In the age of health care reform, institutions are asking providers to continually improve the quality of care while reducing costs . Patient satisfaction with pain management is a critically important measure of quality health care.1 while opioids are effective analgesics, their use is frequently associated with adver...
We can save many teeth by endodontic procedures rather than extraction, and it has been successful and conservative mode of treatment . However, sometimes mishaps such as accidental ingestion of the endodontic instrument may occur if the treatment is carried out without application of rubber dam, especially in the chil...
Cementless total hip arthroplasty (tha) has been associated with favorable results at both mid- and long - term follow - ups1,2). To achieve long - term survival rates of the cementless components, as several studies have demonstrated that hydroxyapatite (ha) is a non - toxic, biocompatible, and osteoconductive materia...
Ten humans (7 male and 3 female; ages 5284) provided 14 postmortem eyes (8 right and 6 left) from the san diego eye bank within 48 hours of death . Listed causes of death included cancer (leukemia, esophageal, and myelodysplastic syndrome), dementia, failure to thrive, liver failure, gastrointestinal bleed, myocardial ...
This work refers to the debate taking place in italy during the final decades of the nineteenth century, regarding mental health and lunatic asylums which housed an ever - increasing number of patients suffering from mental illness . Overcrowding, lunatic asylums, coercive and inhuman methods, the degradation in which ...
Desmoplastic fibromas are benign but locally aggressive bone tumors first described by jaffe in 1958 . Desmoplastic fibromas are quite rare, accounting for 0.06% of all bone tumors and 0.3% of benign bone tumors, typically in patients younger than 30 years, involving the metaphysis or diametaphysis of long bones in> 50...
Hepatitis c virus (hcv) is an rna virus of the flaviviridae family that establishes persistent infection in the majority of infected patients . A potential role for nk cells in viral hepatitis was first suggested by genetic studies that described a higher odds ratio of spontaneous hcv clearance and ifn - treatment - in...
The temporomandibular joints (tmj) or the craniomandibular joints are one of the important joints in the body which may be subjected to disease processes like degeneration and inflammation . The commonest of the inflammatory joint diseases is rheumatoid arthritis (ra) which is a chronic multisystem disease . The diseas...
The number of neurons in the human brain approximates the number of stars in the galaxy . The result is an incredibly complex and sophisticated network made of roughly 100 trillion synapses . Communications between neurons in the brain occur primarily through synapses formed between presynaptic and postsynaptic partner...
Colon cancer develops as a result of the pathologic transformation of normal colonic epithelium to adenomatous polyp, which ultimately leads to invasive cancer [13]. Tumor induction and progression are characterized by accumulation of multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations, that confer a selective reproductive adv...
The number of yearly deaths from melanoma continues to increase, and the overall melanoma mortality rate is one of the few cancer mortality rates not on the decline . These realities combined with increasing evidence of the lack of efficacy of the abcde criteria have necessitated ongoing efforts to enhance the earlier ...
Infant respiratory distress syndrome (irds) is the most common respiratory disease in preterm infants, and leads to substantial morbidity and mortality.1,2 irds is caused by lung immaturity and usually develops within minutes of birth . It is defined by tachypnea, retractions or nasal flaring, grunting respiration, and...
Repetitive foreign body ingestion, although a common clinical pediatric problem, is relatively rare in the adult population and occurs primarily in individuals with psychiatric conditions, such as bipolar disorder, depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder . Described ingested objects include fish bones, needles, ra...
Despite the better control of tuberculosis (tb) in the world, the proportion of extrapulmonary tb has increased in recent years . In this context, peritoneal tb (ptb) represents the most frequent form of abdominal tb . Data are lacking in developed countries since most studies were done in endemic countries of tb [24]....
In this study, we gathered the total sample size is 200 of mentally retarded students in north of tehran (districts 1, 2, 3) and the sample size was determined according to previous research (11 - 12) and also sample size for preliminary evaluation of reliability and validity test . Data were analyzed by cronbach's alp...
In india, more than 1 billion people are engaged in agricultural activities and a large quantity of pesticides is used to protect their crop against pests to get more yields . India is the largest producer of pesticides in asia and the third largest consumer of pesticides in the world . Pesticide consumption has been i...