Background: Alopecia areata (AA) is an immune-mediated form of hair loss that affects all ages and both sexes.Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) esterase enzyme has lipophilic antioxidant power; it one the endogenousfree-radical-scavenging systems in human body. This work was to detect serum PON1 level patients withalopecia areata.Methods: 60 subjects, 30 AA controls. Full history, general local clinical exa...

background: inhibin is a dimeric glycoprotein that has a depressive effect on the anterior hypophyse secretion. the level of this tumor marker is undetectable in menopause women. in patients with gynecological cancer, especially granulosa and epidermal-type (mucinous), ovarian cancers considerable increase in the serum level of inhibin has been reported. the increased level of inhibin has been ...

Traditional rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces provide many essential genes for improving yield, disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and other parameters future breeding. This study aimed to analyze the genetic diversity determine phylogenetic position of traditional from tidal swamp areas South Kalimantan, Indonesia, compared germplasm, including wild relatives, obtained GenBank databa...

The diagnostic properties of a "lipid index" of macrophages in induced sputum as a noninvasive marker of aspiration of acidic gastric contents were evaluated. In a cross-sectional study, 33 subjects (17 with symptoms suggestive of gastrooesophageal reflux) with normal chest radiographs and no symptoms of aspiration or sinus disease, underwent dual-channel 24-h ambulatory oesophageal pH recordin...

a greenhouse experiment was conducted in 2013 in research lab of karaj islamic azad university to determine the yield and activity of chemical markers as the response to different concentrations of cadmium (cd) (0, 5, 10 and 20 mg of cd/kg of soil) in wheat cultivars (karaj 1 and karaj 2). treatments were tested in a factorial experiment with four replications in 7.5 kg plastic pots. the respon...

objective: to evaluate whether systemic inflammatory markers (neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (nlr), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (plr) and red blood cell distribution width (rdw) to platelet ratio (rpr)) can be used as reliable markers for the diagnosis of premature ovarian insufficiency (poi) and to determine if there is a relationship between these markers and follicle stimulating hormone (fs...