bAckground A substantial proportion of the mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its complications. Insulin resistance is a major etiologic factor for the development of fatty liver. We aimed to study the prevalence of NAFLD among T2DM patients and its relation to insulin resistance. Methods Patients with T2DM that...

Parabronema skrjabini is a spirurid nematode of the family Habronematidae that lives in the abomasum of ruminants such as sheep and goats. The purpose of this study was to investigate the molecular and morphological aspects of Parabronema skrjabini in sheep and goats in Iran. The worms were collected from these animal species from three different regions. An internal transcribed spacer 2 riboso...

* Corresponding author at: Gholam Ali Ghorbani, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Mollasadra Ave., Tehran, IR Iran. Tel: +98-2182482487, Fax: +98-2182482472. E-mail: [email protected] DOI: 10.5812/kowsar.1735143X.714 Copyright c 2011, BRCGL, Published by Kowsar M.P.Co. All rights reserved. A R T I C L E I...

Correspondence: [email protected]. ir Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Basic Science, Babol University of Technology, Babol 47148-71167, Iran Abstract In this article, we established the existence and uniqueness of the solution for a generalized class of fractional order differential equations involving the RiemannLiouville differential operator on unbounded domain [0, +∞). The contraction ...

* Corresponding author at: Seyed Yasser Saiedi Hosseini, Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Baqiayatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9124475022, Fax: +98-2181262072. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] DOI: 10.5812/kowsar.1735143X.710 Copyright c 2011, BRCGL, Published by Kowsar M.P.Co. All rights reserved. A R T I C L E ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences of obesity rate among three ethnic groups in northern adults in IR Iran in 2010. METHODS The present cross-sectional, analytical study was conducted on 2994 cases of the same age and sex in three ethnic proportions (Fars-native=1625, Turkman=977, and Sisstani=392). The subjects aged between 15 and 65 years old and were selected ...

Sunn pest is one of the most important cereal pests that affect both grain yield and quality of cereal in Iran. One potential control strategy is to use entomopathogenic fungi such as Beauveria bassiana Vuillemin as mycoinsecticide to control this pest. Naturally infested Sunn pests in Kermanshah province were collected and brought to laboratory. 10 isolates were selected for further analysis i...

BACKGROUND Insulin resistance (IR) is not limited to obese individuals. Normal weight individuals may also be insulin resistant. The aim of this study was to determine the association of lifestyle and diet patterns with IR in normal weight Iranian men. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 232 men with a body mass index lower than 25 kg/m(2) (aged 20-72 years old) between Septem...

Primary hydatid disease of the spleen is rarely reported. We describe the first report of primary hydatid disease of the spleen which was diagnosed by ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA). A 25-year-old female from Fars province, Iran, presented with left flank pain one week prior to admission. Abdominal ultrasonography showed a large cystic lesion, 8 cm in diameter at the spleni...