BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The immune function disorder relates closely to the occurrence, metastasis, and prognosis of cancer. T lymphocyte subsets take an important role in immune function. We identified the dynamic changes of the immune system by investigating the levels of T lymphocyte subsets in peripheral blood of lung cancer patients with advanced stage adenocarcinoma undergoing first line...

knowing income inequality in socio-economic subgroups helps us to achieve justice. the main goal of this study is to evaluate, decompose and compare the theil and atkinson inequality indices in terms of the inequality within and inequality between urban and rural area in tehran province during the 3rd and the 4th economic development program of iran. doing so, we used the micro households'...

BACKGROUND In liver injury, the pool of hepatic stellate cell (HSC) increases and produces extracellular matrix proteins, decreasing during the resolution of fibrosis. The profibrogenic role of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in liver fibrosis remains disputed. We therefore studied the effect of ET-1 on proliferation, apoptosis and profibrogenic gene expression of HSCs. RESULTS First passage HSC predomin...

Abstract Massive data transfers in modern data-intensive systems resulting from low data-locality and data-to-code system design hurt their performance scalability. Near-Data processing (NDP) a shift to code-to-data designs may represent viable solution as packaging combinations of storage compute elements on the same device has become feasible. The towards NDP architectures calls for revision ...

The crystalline lenses of male white Wistar rats weighing 100 gr. were cultured in a culture fluid containing 5 X 10(-2) M hydroxyurea. The epithelial cells forming multiple layers in the equatorial region on the 4th day of incubation and swollen epithelial cells were studied by electron microscopy and the results are summarized as follows; The epithelial cells forming multiple layers retained ...

CONTEXT The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its 4th edition of the classification of tumors of the central nervous system, incorporating a substantial number of important changes to the previous version (WHO 2000). The new WHO classification introduces 7 changes in the grading of central nervous system neoplasms, ranging in significance from minor to major, in categories of a...

The successful completion of early childhood immunizations is a proxy for overall quality of early care. Immunization statuses are usually assessed by up-to-date (UTD) rates covering combined series of different immunizations. However, series UTD rates often only bear on which single immunization is missing, rather than the success of all immunizations. In the US, most series UTD rates are limi...