abstract bckground: patients with obstructive sleep apnea (osa) are at risk of developing the fatty liver as a result of being overweight. several studies suggest that osa per se could be a risk factor for liver injury and ischemic hepatitis with osa. the osa is an independent risk factor for insulin resistance. therefore, we investigated liver enzymes and insulin resistance in patients with os...

conclusions a significant direct correlation was observed between the viral dna copies present in patients’ cerumen and serum. however, the correlation between saliva viral load with serum and cerumen viral load was very low and inverse. these findings suggest that the presence of the hepatitis b virus (hbv) in non-invasive specimens (such as cerumen and saliva) should also be evaluated when mo...

blood samples were collected from the jugular vein of 101 clinically healthy iranian fat-tailed sheep according to their age (5 years) and sex. serum haptoglobin (hp) was measured based upon the preservation of the peroxidase activity of haemoglobin, which is directly proportional to the amount of hp. the reference value for serum hp of apparently healthy iranian fat-tailed sheep was 0.05-0.18 ...

this study was conducted to determine the electrophoretic pattern of serum protein in goats infected withbabesia ovis. serum total protein was calculated and serum electrophoresis from 15 goats naturally infectedwith b. ovis as well as same number of healthy goats was performed. microscopic examination of giemsastained peripheral blood smears revealed b. ovis infection. the parasitological diag...

background & objective: lichen planus is a mucocutaneous disease which is relatively common and in 30-70% of patients, mucosal lesions can be seen and known as a precancerous lesion but its etiology is not completely understood. desmogleins i and iii are the main desmosomal transmembrane proteins. these proteins have been identified as the autoantigen of the autoimmune disease. the aim of t...

background : the measuring serum ferritin level as a sensitive inflammatory biomarker might effectively predict preterm delivery, but the power and the best cut-off point of this biomarker for predicting preterm labor in iranian population has not been substantially identified. our purpose was to determine what concentrations of serum ferritin could identify patients at risk for preterm deliver...

conclusions these results suggest that serum cholesterol, phospholipids and triacylglycerols have no effect on the levels of cholesterol, phospholipids and triacylglycerols of spermatozoa and seminal plasma. our findings suggest that sperm lipid content is regulated locally within the male reproductive tract. patients and methods cholesterol, phospholipids and triacylglycerols in sperm cells, s...

purpose: in the present work, clinical symptoms, serum immunoglobuline alteration and eosinophil count were investigated in the patients infected with giardia lamblia. materials and methods: in this regard, 50 persons infected with giardia and 50 healthy individuals were selected as the study and control groups respectively in tehran. sera of the groups were tested for igg, ige, iga levels and...

electrocardiography (ecg) may be used to recognize cardiac disorders. levels of milk production may change the serum electrolytes which its imbalance has a role in cardiac arrhythmia. fifty high yielding and fifty low yielding holstein dairy cows were used in this study. electrocardiography was recorded by base-apex lead and blood samples were collected from jugular vein for measurement of seru...