conclusions it seems that smoking cannot increase the prevalence of high risk hpv 16, 18 in saliva samples. results there were no high-risk types of virus in patients and no significant differences between the groups (p = 1). patients and methods a hundred healthy adult subjects were selected from zahedan dental school for this pilot study. dna was isolated from saliva samples and screened for ...

background: induction chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia achieves complete remis sion in over 90% of children. it is apparent therefore that many patients in clinical remission and with out residual disease detectable by conventional light microscopy of peripheral blood or bone marrow films still harbor viable cells of the original disease mrd analysis does have a useful role to play...

the rapidly expanding fields of pharmacogenomics and pharmacodiagnostics have presented the pathology laboratories with many challenges and opportunities. as custodians of patient tissues, these laboratories are in the logical position to perform biomolecular testing for proper management of patients. in order to meet these challenges, the pathology laboratories of the twenty-first century shou...

background: isolation of high quality genomic dna is one of the most important steps in molecular biology studies related to food borne parasites. usually, various protocols are used for different tissues but so far, there is no common, simple and cost benefit procedure for genomic dna extraction of linguatula serrata ( l. serrata .) larvae as a pentastomida endangering food safety. one of the ...

background: nematodes are among the most common and important parasites of man and animal. dna of a single worm can be used for several purposes, such as identification to the species, subspecies, strain and antihelmenthic resistance. dna extraction from a single small worm using traditional methods such as phenol extraction technique faces serious prob lems. methods: dna from 20 single haemonc...

results the mean ages in case and control groups were 60.8 ± 6.8 and 57.5 ± 11.5 years, respectively, with no significant difference (p = 0.09). thirty patients (54.5%) in case and 32 (58.2%) in control groups were male with no significant difference (p = 0.7). cmv-dna was present in 8 (14.5%) of the cases and 2 (4%) of the controls. cmv-dna was associated with higher risk of atherosclerosis (o...