In this study we aimed to determine the association between bilateral calcaneal fractures and suicide attempt some socio-demographic characteristics. This was conducted among patients admitted emergency departments of four trauma centers with January 2014 March 2017. The Sociodemographic Data Form, Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders fourth edition (...

DNA damage is part and parcel of the life a cell an organism. Cells respond to by initiating response (DDR) pathways that allow for removal damaged subsequent repair. At least five major repair operate in humans – base excision (BER), nucleotide (NER), mismatch (MMR) double-strand break (DSB), which involves homologous recombination (HR) non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ). This talk will focus o...

V(D)J recombination, accountable for the diversity of T cell receptor- and immunoglobulin-encoding genes, is initiated by a lymphoid-specific DNA double-strand break. The general DNA repair machinery is responsible for the resolution of this break. Any defect in one of the known components of the DNA repair/V(D)J recombination machinery (Ku70, Ku80, DNA-PKcs, XRCC4 and DNA ligase IV) leads to a...

BACKGROUND Severe Combined Immune Deficient (SCID)/Urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator (uPA) mice undergo liver failure and are useful hosts for the propagation of transplanted human hepatocytes (HH) which must compete with recipient-derived hepatocytes for replacement of the diseased liver parenchyma. While partial replacement by HH has proven useful for studies with Hepatitis C virus, comple...

We addressed the question of whether cancers arising in an abnormally radiation sensitive normal tissue are also abnormally sensitive to ionizing irradiation. Germ line mutation-carrying mice with an enhanced radiation sensitivity of the normal tissue, the severe combined immunodeficient (SCID), and normally radiation sensitive mice (C3H) were used to study the sensitivity of normal and tumor t...

severe combined immunodeficiency (scid) represents a rare group of primary immunodeficiency disorders (pids), with known or unknown genetic alterations. here, we report a new interleukin 2 receptor, gamma chain (il-2rg) mutation in an iranian scid newborn.the patient was a 6-day old boy with a family history of pid. the child was screened using a molecular-based analysis for the assessment of t...

It has been shown previously that multilineage human hematopoiesis is maintained within human fetal bone marrow (BM) fragments implanted into severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice. We describe here an application of this animal model, the SCID-hu mouse, to the study of human myeloid leukemias. BM cells from 8 patients with various types of myeloid leukemias were injected directly into hum...

X-SCID, the most common form of human SCID, is due to mutations in the common gamma chain gene (gamma-c) that encodes an essential component of the cytokine receptors for interleukin-2 (IL-2), IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, and IL-15. Activation of the Janus family tyrosine kinases Jak1 and Jak3 is necessary for appropriate signalling through the IL-2 receptor (IL-2R). Neither Jak1 nor Jak3 was phosphorylat...