background: oxidative stress is detrimental to semen quality and has a significant role in the etiology of male subfertility. methods: dietary intake of antioxidants were compared between thirty two men with oligolastheno/ teratazoospermic (cases) and 32 normospermic volunteers (controls) attending fertility clinic in mirza koochak-khan hospital in tehran, iran. all participants were nonsmokers...

background and objectives: the diagnosis of pregnancy associated adnexal masses is rising due to routine utilization of sonography in prenatal care. the purpose of this study was to describe pregnancy associated adnexal masses over a period of 10 years. patients and methods: a retrospective study was reviewed hospital records of all pregnant women with adnexal mass that underwent surgical resec...

vascularization of the follicle may play a role in its maturation and aspirin seems to increase this vascularization.in this investigation we have studied the effects of low-dose aspirin on ovarian and uterine response, implantation and pregnancy rates in patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi). this prospective semirandomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was unde...

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Meraj Hasan Khan is the first author on 'The Sharpin interactome reveals a role for Sharpin in lamellipodium formation via the Arp2/3 complex', published in Journal of Cell Science. Meraj is a PhD...

Kiran Shaikh, Shahirose Premji, Khurshid Khowaja, Suzanne Tough, Ambreen Kazi, Shaneela Khowaja Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Director of Nursing Al Noor Hospital, Al Ain and Associate Professor, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Department of Pediatrics and Community Health, University of Calgary, Alberta, Can...

mirza abdollah afandi, the son of mirza eisa was one of the most famous authors and scholars in 11th and 12th century. someone has named he tabrizi, jeirani, esfahani and … he was a tourist in a half of his life time and in addition to iran cities, he had traveled to rome, turkey, syria, egypt, arabia, bahrain and … he observed libraries of those countries and profited the knowledge of the scho...

Klasik Türk edebiyatında mesneviler şairlerin söz söylemedeki ustalıklarını göstermek istedikleri sahalardan biri olmuştur. Şairler, muhtelif konularda anlatmak istediklerini bu nazım şekli vesilesiyle ortaya koymuşlardır. Bu alanda özellikle sahibi olmak isteyenler beş mesnevi yazarak hamse olmuşlardır. Kanunî Sultan Süleyman devri şairlerinden olan Mirzâ da şeklinden faydalanarak suçsuzluğunu...

background: hospitals generate relatively large quantities of wastewater that may contain various potentially hazardous ma­terials; therefore the proper management of hospital wastewater is essential. methods:   in this cross-sectional study, the quality and quantity of wastewater in the hospitals of tehran university of medi­cal sciences (tums), tehran, iran, were studied and the suitable meth...

This master’s thesis is a part of ‘Human Spare Parts’ research program by BioMediTech. The aim of the research program is to integrate different branches of biomedical engineering and stem cell research to discover new and better therapies and treatments. However, this thesis concentrates on biomaterials and sensor technology. The first part of the thesis, entitled the theoretical part is dedic...