purpose: to evaluate the vascular occlusion in coats’ disease   methods: in this non-comparative case series, 13 consecutive patients with coats’ disease from january 2011 to september 2011 were included. the hypercoagulability states were evaluated in these patients.   results: the mean age of the patients in this series was 15.4 years. all but one patient had high anti-cytomegalovirus antibod...

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objective in this study, we investigated the changes of the serum levels of thyroidhormones including thyroxine (t4), triiodothyronine (t3), t3 resin uptake andthyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) in epileptic children during treatment withanti-epileptic drugs (aeds) including carbamazepine (cbz), primidone (prm),phenobarbital and valproic acid (vpa). materials and methods this study consisted of ...

ba ckground: legionella pneumophila is  a  dangerous pathogenic bacterium can cause serious infectious diseases especially in hospitalized immuno-compromised patients. this bacterium is shown to be resistant against different antibiotics. resistance against a wide range of antibiotics is usually mediated by efflux pump in bacteria. efflux pumps are proteinaceous transporters localized in the cy...

diseases are most common diseases in pets, especially dogs. the aim of this study was to evaluate the potency of herbal composition containing green tea extract as a mouthwash on preventing plaque formation and oral diseases in dogs. experimental: in order to achieve this goal, 20 male dogs selected and were divided randomly in to two groups including control (chlorhexidine 0.1%) and treatment ...

background: the prevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection in the blood donors has been poorly studied. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of acute and chronic toxoplasmosis in blood products. methods: a total of 250 blood products (112 fresh frozen plasma and 138 packed cells) in the blood transfusion institute, shiraz, iran were tested for spe-cific t. gondii antibodies (igg an...

chalcone (1,3-diarylprop-2-en-1-one) derivatives have been introduced as selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors. in the present study, anti-nociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects of eight novel compounds were evaluated in male mice and wistar rats by using the writhing and formalin-induced paw edema tests respectively. the activities of the compounds were compared with celecoxib as a referenc...

conclusions while amh receptor expression was higher in experimental rats, their serum concentrations of amh were decreased. further researches with greater sample sizes and measurement of bioactive forms of hormones are recommended to confirm the findings of this study. background anti-mullerian hormone (amh) levels reflect the number of small antral follicles in ovaries and expression changes...