Background and Aim: Most dentists rely on the patient's history when assessing a patient's medical status although many patients are unaware of their medical condition. We aimed to evaluate patients' knowledge of their blood pressure (BP) and blood glucose (BG) at the Dental Faculty of Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, in 2018. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sect...

Previous studies have suggested that some patients with large-scale mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions also presented a heteroplasmic 260 bp tandem duplication in the mtDNA D-loop region. Such duplications were observed not only in patients with mitochondrial pathology but also in aged subjects. However, the percentage of duplicated mtDNA did not exceed a few per cent of the total mtDNA, excep...

Let M1 n−1 denote the cokernel of the localization map BP∗/I → v−1 n−1BP∗/I, where I denotes the ideal of BP∗ generated by vi’s for 0 ≤ i ≤ n − 2. The chromatic Ext0(M1 n−1) on Γ(m + 1), which we denote Ex0(m, n), is isomorphic to the 0-th line of the E2-term of the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence for computing the homotopy groups of a spectrum, whose BP∗-homology is M1 n−1 ⊗BP∗ BP∗[t1, t2, . ....

The catalase-encoding gene (catB) is expressed strongly in Aspergillus oryzae. To identify the transcription regulatory elements involved in strong expression, we did promoter deletion analysis using beta-glucuronidase (GUS) as a reporter and an electrophoretic gel mobility shift assay (EMSA) systematically. The deletion 200-bp sequence from -1,000 to -800 in the 1,400-bp catB promoter caused a...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death worldwide. Finding an effective vaccine against TB is the best way to control it. Several vaccines against this disease have been developed but none are completely protective. The aim of this study was to design and construct a cloning vector containing the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) heat shock protein X (hspX). Metho...

RNA transcribed from the human epsilon globin gene was studied in K562 cells and human embryos of 5-10 weeks gestation. Using both primer extension and S1 analysis RNA molecules were found which extend 53 +/- 1 bp, 55 +/- 1 bp and 270 +/- 1 bp upstream from the first coding base and are colinear with the gene. The first pair of molecules represent transcripts initiating at the canonical cap sit...