Sadegh Fattahi

Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran|Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Sistan & Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

[ 1 ] - Alpha-1 antitrypsin, retinol binding protein and keratin 10 alterations in patients with psoriasis vulgaris, a proteomic approach

Objective(s):Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that appears on the skin. Although psoriasis is clinically and histologically well characterized, its pathogenesis is unknown in detail. The aims of this study were to evaluate the proteome of psoriatic patients' sera and to compare them with those of normal healthy human to find valuable biomarkers. Materials and Methods: In a case-control study,...

[ 2 ] - RNA Extraction from Animal and Human\'s Cancerous Tissues: Does Tissue Matter?

The reliability of gene expression profiling based technologies and methods to find transcriptional differences representative for the original samples is influenced by the quality of the extracted RNA. Hence, RNA extraction is the first step to investigate the gene expression and its function. Consequently, the quality of extracted RNA is really significant. Correspondingly, this research was ...

[ 3 ] - Total Phenolics and Flavonoids Contents of Aqueous Extract of Stinging nettle and In Vitro Antiproliferative Effect on Hela and BT- 474 cell lines

Phenolic compounds including flavonoids and phenolic acids are plants secondary metabolites. Due to their ability to act as antioxidant agents, there is a growing interest to use those components in traditional medicine for cancer prevention or treatment. The aim of this study was to measure the amounts of total phenolics and flavonoids as well as anti-proliferative effect of aqueous extract of...

[ 4 ] - Impact of Genetic Variants in Mir-122 Gene and its Flanking Regions on Hepatitis B Risk

MicroRNAs are small non coding RNAs that are involved in gene expression regulation. Mir-122 was reported to inhibit hepatitis B virus (HBV), but little is known about the role of mir-122 polymorphisms on HBV infection development. This present study aimed to investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in mir-122 gene region with HBV infection. Study cases were HB...

[ 5 ] - Injectable Estradiol Valerate, as a Substitute for Estradiol Pellets in Breast Cancer Animal Model

The ability to maintain and study human tissues in in-vivo environment has proved to be a valuable tool in breast cancer research for several decades. The most widely tissues have been xenografts established human breast cancer cell lines into athymic nude mice. The aim of this study was to provide a new accurate and affordable method for the establishment of breast cancer xenograftin nude mice...