this study examines changes in the urinary 1-hydroxypyrene (1-ohp) concentration as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (pah) metabolite related to smoking among eight volunteers. the study subjects consisted of 8 participants (2 smokers, 4 ex-smokers and 2 non-smokers; mean age 23, range 21 ~ 24 years old) in a smoking cessation program. three urine samples were collected each week for 4 weeks f...

background: a soluble form of her-2/neu extracellular domain (sher-2) is reported to be released in the sera of metastatic breast cancer patients. objective: to measure the level of sher-2 in sera of 115 breast cancer patients. methods: serial samples of 27 patients with metastasis, 18 non-metastatic patients, 15 patients in stage 0/i and 14 patients with accompanying benign breast disease were...

macrodystrophia lipomatosa is a rare congenital form of localized gigantism characterized by an increase in all mesenchymal elements, particularly fibroadipose tissue. mr imaging can be used to examine the soft tissue and detect the fibrous and fatty hypertrophy that characterizes this condition and also diagnose an associated fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the median or plantar nerve. we describ...

background: there are many studies to investigate the effects of each interacting component of tumor-immune system interactions. in all these studies, the distinct effect of each component was investigated. as the interaction of tumor-immune system has feedback and is complex, the alternation of each component may affect other components indirectly. objective: because of the complexities of tum...

background and aim: micro rnas are a group of small non-coding rnas which play an important role in multiple processes such as proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and cancer. recent studies indicate that mir-210 is overexpressed into erythroid linage during the differentiation of hematopoietic precursor. the main goal of the present study is to investigate the influence of mir-210 on the...

the adsorption of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole (2-mbi) on au(111) has been studied withcyclic voltammetry (cv), in-situ subtractively normalised interfacial ft-ir spectroscopy (sniftirs)and scanning tunnelling microscopy (stm). although adsorbed 2-mbi reduces the interfacial capacityand quenches the characteristic features of the cyclic voltammogram for sulfate adsorption,heterogeneous electron tran...

objective adenoid cystic carcinoma (acc) is a rare malignant tumor originating from the salivary glands. it’s rather bland histological appearance that masks its ultimate biological aggressiveness. evaluation of cell cycle and mitoses have been useful in predicting malignancy in many tumors. ki-67 antigen is a human nuclear antigen that presents during all active phases of cell cycle. the aim o...

conclusions the study results showed that p53 expression increased in im, dys and gc cases with h. pylori infection compared to those without h. pylori infection. the results also suggested that, ki-67 expression was different in precancerous stages of gastric carcinogenesis, based on the infection with h. pylori. background helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection is considered as a carcinoge...

the freezing and thawing process not only is associated with serious damage to sperm such as damage to the plasma membrane and the acrosomal membrane but also changes the membrane permeability to some ions including calcium. also, the generation of oxygen free radicals is increased during the freezing-thawing process. the purpose of this study was to evaluate of the effects of trolox as an anti...

let $l$ be a completely regular frame and $mathcal{r}l$ be the ‎ring of continuous real-valued functions on $l$‎. ‎we show that the‎ ‎lattice $zid(mathcal{r}l)$ of $z$-ideals of $mathcal{r}l$ is a‎ ‎normal coherent yosida frame‎, ‎which extends the corresponding $c(x)$‎ ‎result of mart'{i}nez and zenk‎. ‎this we do by exhibiting‎ ‎$zid(mathcal{r}l)$ as a quotient of $rad(mathcal{r}l)$‎, ‎the‎ ‎...