background ischemic injury of the spinal cord during the surgical repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms might lead to paraplegia. although a number of different mechanisms have been proposed, the exact cause of paraplegia has remained unknown, hampering the development of effective pharmacologic or other strategies for prevention of this condition. a number of studies suggested that cyclo...

background: tumors of the central nervous system (cns) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with different prevalence in different sex and age groups and various parts of cns. objectives: determining the relative frequency of different types of cns tumors in different ages, sex and cns anatomical locations. materials and methods: this retrospective study was performed using pathological repor...

severe combined immunodeficiency is a true pediatric emergency; children with scid were the first patients with immunodeficiencies to be successfully transplanted with unrelated and t-cell-depleted, haploidentical bone marrow. the pattern of inheritance of scid is x-linked and autosomal recessive (ada def, jak3, rag1, rag2, il 7rα). in this case report, we describe a one-year-old boy with b+t- ...

Back Cover: In this cover, cats (diene monomers) enjoy playing with the special ball (saccharin methacrylamide). They are combined together in alternating fashion to become like a giant cord. Herein, subsequent transformation makes balls shiny, and seem be satisfied connection mysterious toy. The cord is relatively soft because flexible. This cover picture associated article number 2100249 by M...

Acute scrotal swelling is an urgent urologic condition, and its failure in diagnosis is "one of the litigious issues in urologic practice. "1-2 Although acute scrotal pain is due to spermatic cord torsion in 25-35% of cases, the urologist should either rule it out or treat it immediately. 2 We operated a case of acute scrotal edema in a two-day-old boy who had, according to clinical results...

Background: Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), used in Leukemia treatment. CD26+ cells, a fraction of CD34 positive cells, are a major population of UCB cells which negatively regulate the in vivo homing and engraftment of HSCs. CD26 is highly expressed in various cells such as HSCs, immune cells, fibroblasts, and epithelial ce...

Background: Cervical spinal cord is important and radiosensitive. It is the most critical organ for the head and neck (H&N;) cancer patients during radiotherapy. If the delivered dose to the cord is more than tolerance dose, demyelination may occur. Objective: Current study aims to analyze the post radiotherapy status of cord in the H&N; cancer patients.Material and Methods: In this a...

Total and regional allometric growth rates and termination sites of the spinal cord related to the respective vertebra were studied in 36 goat fetuses, from the Ahvaz slaughterhouse. These specimens were assigned to 3 groups, group 1 (CRL 10-20 cm), group 2 (CRL 21-30 cm), and group 3 (CRL 31-40 cm), each consisting of 6 male and 6 female fetuses. Observations in all 3 groups revealed that alth...