Background: Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies among Iranian women; however, its clinicopathological feature is uncertain. We pioneered a genetic counseling program among patients with breast cancer and their families in Isfahan. This is the first report of this program. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study on women with breast cancer registered in Ala Cancer...

BACKGROUND Anti-inflammatory effect of natural adjuvants has been reported. Lung inflammation is the most characterized pathological feature in asthma. OBJECTIVES The effects of three natural adjuvants (PC, G2, and G2F registered as a patent in the Iranian Patent Office) on sensitized guinea pigs lungs were examined in the present study. MATERIALS AND METHODS LUNG PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES WERE ...

congenital myopathies are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of inherited muscle disorders characterized clinically by reduced fetal movements, hypotonia, weakness and developmental delay beginning at birth or in the first year of life. however, there can be a wide variation in clinical findings including mild and asymptomatic presentation to a severe form within each subtype with...

Hyperspectral sensors provide a large number of spectral bands. This massive and complex data structure of hyperspectral images presents a challenge to traditional data processing techniques. Therefore, reducing the dimensionality of hyperspectral images without losing important information is a very important issue for the remote sensing community. We propose to use overlap-based feature weigh...

Cumulating evidence indicates that chronic kidney disease (CKD) becomes one of the greatest threats to public health, affecting 10% general population globally. Renal fibrosis is hallmark and common pathological feature CKD. However, no treatment targeting renal available so far. To fulfill unmet clinical needs, we screened a series small-molecule diterpene compounds extracted isolated from bud...

A supervised method is proposed for automated segmentation of vessels in fundus images of retina. This method is used to detect the retinal diseases by extracting the retinal vasculature utilizing 9-D feature vector based on orientation analysis of gradient vector field, morphological transformation, line strength measures, and Gabor filter responses. The feature vector encodes information to h...