background gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide and it seems that environmental and lifestyle factors and infection with helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) have a major role in the etiology of gastric cancer. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the presence of h. pylori dna in archival gastric tissues of patients with gastric cancer disease ...

background: preeclampsia (pe) is one of the most complex and life-threatening pregnancy disorders and is considered as a major cause of mortality among mothers and fetuses worldwide. although the exact etiology of pe is not well known several lines of evidence support an immunological etiology for pe. objective: to investigate the differences in the expression of tlrs 2, 4, 5, and 6 and a group...

objective: alpha-thalassemia is one of the most prevalent hemoglobin disorders in the world and it is a common hereditary condition caused by deletion of one or more α-globin genes. common α-thalassemia deletions like 3.7 kb, 4.2 kb, 20.5 kb and med can be detected by multiplex pcr. there are, however, some unknown deletions that can not be detected by the mentioned method or even by direct dna...

background contamination of therapeutic recombinant proteins with residual host cell dna must be controlled under the regulatory standards. objectives the current study established a new rapid, sensitive real time polymerase chain reaction (pcr) approach to measure the reliably of the residual escherichia coli (e. coli) host cell genomic dna in the recombinant streptokinase and alfa interferon ...

background and objective: due to contagiousness of pertussis, a rapid and sensitive method for diagnosis is required to initiate the treatment and interrupt its transmission. materials and methods: to detect b. pertussis strains, we used two real-time pcr targeting is 481 and bp283 sequences and compared factors influencing culture and real-time pcr results. results: totally, 779 specimens were...