Background Routine screening for distress is internationally recommended as a necessary standard for good cancer care given its high prevalence and negative consequences on quality of life. This study attempts to support validation of Distress Thermometer (DT) in Shiraz, Iran and in the second step to investigate privilege/priority of DT over other referent criterion measures. Material and m...

In this work, the effects of co-precipitation temperature and post calcination on the magnetic properties and photocatalytic activities of ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles were investigated. The structure, magnetic and optical properties of zinc ferrite nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), vibrating sample magnetometry and UV–Vis spectrophotometry techniques.  The XRD re...

INTRODUCTION A controversial aspect of breast cancer management is the use of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in patients requiring neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT). This paper discusses the detection rate (DT) and false negatives (FN) of SLNB after NCT to investigate the influence of initial nodal disease and the protocols applied. METHODS Prospective observational multicenter study in women...

BACKGROUND Hyperthyroidism is currently recognized to affect the cardiovascular system, leading to a series of molecular and functional changes. However, little is known about the functional influence of hyperthyroidism in the regulation of cytoplasmic calcium and on the sodium/calcium exchanger (NCX) in the cardiac muscle. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the functional changes in papillary muscles is...

The bacteriophage T4 regA protein (M(r) = 14,6000) is a translational repressor of a group of T4 early mRNAs. To identify a domain of regA protein that is involved in nucleic acid binding, ultraviolet light was used to photochemically cross-link regA protein to [32P]p(dT)16. The cross-linked complex was subsequently digested with trypsin, and peptides were purified using anion exchange high per...

Objective: The importance of skeletal muscle as the largest metabolic tissue in diabetes remains more unknown than other metabolic tissues of the body. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of six weeks endurance training on the soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) myonuclear number in diabetic male wistar rats. Materials and Methods: In this study, 40 male wistar rats ab...

F. Shakeri and M. Dehghan in [13] presented the variational iteration method for solving the model describing biological species living together. Here we suggest the differential transform (DT) method for finding the numerical solution of this problem. To this end, we give some preliminary results of the DT and by proving some theorems, we show that the DT method can be easily applied to mentio...

Two series of nucleolipids have been designed and synthesized, one with a varying chain length (the dT-Cn series) and the other incorporating an aromatic photo-responsive moiety at the molecular hydrophobic and hydrophilic interface (the P-dT-Cn series). Surface tension measurements revealed the variations of critical micelle concentrations (CMCs) with the alkyl chain length and the incorporati...