Background Accurate prevalence figures are not available, but it has been estimated that 1-2% of women have recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), defined as three or more consecutive losses of intrauterine pregnancy in the first trimester. Half of whom have no identifiable cause. Recent studies of early pregnancy loss, preeclampsia, pregnancy complications such a hydatidiform mole suggests that these...

To evaluate the protective effect of Zataria multiflora boiss. (Zm) extract against arsenic-induced oxidative damage in rats. Rats were orally treated with various doses of Zm (200, 400, and 600 mg/kg) and sodium arsenite (5.5 mg/ kg), alone or in combination, once daily for 30 consecutive days. Twenty-four hours after the last dose, rats were euthanized, and biochemical studies were conducted ...

Background: Breast milk is important for the overall well-being of infants. Although lactation is relatively robust in the face of poor nutrition, the implication of poor nutrition on non-nutritive factors in breast milk is inconclusive. Objective: This study was designed to find associations between nutritional and immune factors in maternal blood and breast milk with the aim to improve the ne...

Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) relationships describe the quantitative relationships between the drug-induced effects and the concurrent corresponding drug concentrations in an individual. Since a long time, rough qualitative relationships have been described between neurological presentation and plasma ethanol concentration in acute ethanol ingestion. However, to date, precise quantit...

background: although red meat consumption is related to the prevalence of diabetes, few data are available showing the relationship between red meat intake, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome. the study aimed to identify the association between the red meat intake, metabolic syndrome, and circulating concentration of c-reactive protein (crp) as a surrogate measure of inflammation. methods: in...

A 54 year old man with history of cardiomyopathy and chronic fibrillation first presented with bloody diarrhea. Then during the assessment of his abnormal lab. data revealed cast nephropathy in renal biopsy, gamma peak in protein electrophoresis and fine lytic lesions in skull graphy. His bone marrow asp...

a simple, reproducible and rapid gas chromatographic method for precise determination of valproic acid (vpa) in human plasma has been developed. total time for sample preparation and gc analysis is less than 45 min. after plasma protein precipitation, vpa was extracted into chloroform with suitable recovery. by using stabilwax®-da capillary gc column, a symmetrical gas chromatographic peak was ...