how the seeds of delphinium staphisagria promote hair growth in humans is yet to be discovered. this lack of information leads us to the investigation of hair promoting effects of seeds of delphinium staphisagria in vitro. extract prepared from the seed of delphinium staphisagria (esds) - traditionally used for hair loss treatment - was selected and tested for the cytotoxic and angiogenic poten...

purpose: to compare corneal biomechanical properties and intraocular pressure (iop) in eyes with pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (pbk) before and after descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (dsaek). methods: this prospective non-randomizedintrasubject comparative study was conducted on 44eyes of 22 patients with the diagnosis ofpbk who underwent dsaek in one eye.intraocular pre...

background: recent evidences have supported migraine headache and neurally mediated syncope as the especial types of endotheliopathies. to determine endothelial function in patients with migraine headache or those with neurally mediated syncope,the present study was conducted. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 93 consecutive patients aged 5-20 years in four grou...

background: in most of the studies, the association of vascular events is limited to migraine with aura or it is stronger in this group, whereas the link between migraine without aura (mo) and vascular events remained uncertain. therefore, we decided to evaluate endothelial function by chemical and functional markers of endothelium in mo and compare with normal population. methods: in this stud...

background: acute kidney injury (aki) has been recognized as one of the most complex clinical complications in modern medicine, and ischemia/reperfusion (i/r) injury is well-known as a main reason of aki. in addition, aki leads to important systemic consequences such as acute lung injury. this study was designed to investigate the role of erythropoietin (epo) on kidney function makers and tissu...

objective(s): herbal medicines are promising cancer preventive candidates. it has been shown that punica granatum l. could inhibit angiogenesis and tumor invasion. in this study, we investigated whether the anti-angiogenic effect of pomegranate peel extract (ppe) is partly attributable to peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (ppars) activation in the human umbilical vein endothelial cell...

purpose : to review the effectiveness and safety of perioperative injection of bevacizumab in vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (pdr) methods : a literature search of all english articles from the medline and scopus databases was performed. original articles, case reports and letters were included. results : nineteen, 3 and 5 studies reported preoperative, intraoperative and pos...

purpose : to assess and to compare stromal and endothelial changes at the cellular level in patients who had photorefractive keratectomy (prk) and laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik) using in vivo confocal microscopy methods : in this semiexperimental study, 32 eyes of 16 patients (4 males and 12 females) with low to moderate myopia [-1.00 to -4.50 diopters (d)] or low to moderate myopic astig...

background: aluminum phosphide is the common cause of poisoning in adults in india, with a very high case fatality ratio. we studied five patients of aluminum phosphide poisoning with polyserositis. methods: we enrolled all patients with aluminum phosphide poisoning presenting to emergency medical department, at a tertiary care hospital in northwestern india from january to july 2006. these pat...

objective(s): the aim of this study is to determine the effects of progesterone treatment on the survival of random skin flaps. materials and methods: mcfarlane flaps were established and 40 male rats were randomly assigned to the progesterone-treated as the test group or normal saline-treated as the control group. progesterone or normal saline (10 mg/kg) was administered intraperitoneally once...