Background: Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease affecting connective tissues, (including epidermal, subepidermal, microvasculature, etc.), leading to various extent of end-organ damage. The leading cause of mortality among these patients is lung involvement. The cardiovascular events happen more frequently in patients suffering systemic scleroderma, comparing to healthy population. This...

abstract sheath blight is an important rice disease in the mazandaran province of iran. biological control of this disease as alternative of chemical control with propiconazol (tilt) fungicide, examined with 3 biological products, trichodermin ab, trichodermin b and subtilin produced in iran. at first in the laboratory, fungi and bacterium isolated and purified from these products, and their ab...

Background and Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic is a phenomenon that has infected and killed many people worldwide. Underlying diseases such as diabetes mellitus, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease (CKD) can affect the severity of COVID-19 and aggravate patients' condition. This study aimed to predict the severity of the COVID-19 disease in CKD patients by combining feature selection and...

objectives the current study aimed to estimate the prevalence of ihd in the families of children with kd. patients and methods sixty-one children with kawasaki disease were admitted from december 21, 2004 to january 21, 2008to mofid children hospital (from one month to thirteen-year old) and 50 patients entered the study. subjects were divided into the severe (24subjects) and non-severe (26 sub...

Over the last 2 decades, major advances have been made in our identification and understanding of the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease. More than 40 cardiovascular disorders have now been identified to be directly caused by single-gene defects. These disorders span all aspects of cardiovascular disease and affect all parts of the heart structure. They include the inherited cardiomyopathi...

Introduction: Since there is no study in our country about determination the effects of psychogenic factors on psoriasis and because it seems necessary to evaluate the triggering factors of disease in order to lengthen the remission period and decrease the costs and complications, this study was performed to identify the relationship of stress with psoriasis expression and the severity of skin ...

Infection with one of the four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV) causes a wide spectrum of clinical disease ranging from asymptomatic infection, undifferentiated fever, dengue fever (DF) to dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). DHF occurs in a minority of patients and is characterized by bleeding and plasma leakage which may lead to shock. There are currently no reliable clinical or laboratory indicat...

Objective(s):Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an autoimmune disease validated as animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Administration of genistein, a phytoestrogenic component of soy, to mice at the onset of EAE is known to attenuate the clinical signs of the disease. The potential effects of genistein on established EAE is less studied. In the current study, we aimed to comp...

objective(s):experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (eae) is an autoimmune disease validated as animal model of multiple sclerosis (ms). administration of genistein, a phytoestrogenic component of soy, to mice at the onset of eae is known to attenuate the clinical signs of the disease. the potential effects of genistein on established eae is less studied. in the current study, we aimed to comp...