Abstract Objectives Roles of Thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) and Thrombospondin-2 (TSP-2) in tissue repair inflammation are well-documented, but the association their serum expressions with pathogenesis COVID-19 remains unclear. We investigate roles TSP-1 TSP-2 COVID-19. Methods 106 SARS-CoV-2 infected patients 23 healthy people were enrolled our study. divided into two groups as non-severe severe. co...

Objective: Medicinal herbs offer natural remedies for various ailments because of their comprehensive effects. Scorzonera cinerea L. (Sc) is an edible wild plant and used in traditional medicine against diseases. The purpose this study was to investigate the immune system effects S. radical leaf extract diabetic rats.
 Methods: 5 groups were formed — Control, Diabetic, Sc-Dried, Sc-Frozen,...

The neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the lymphocyte/C-reactive protein (LCR) are prognostic factors in inflammatory, cardiovascular, oncological diseases. With emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, it has been recently shown that NLR LCR also useful for prognosis disease severity patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus at sea level. However, there no studies demonstrating reliability high-altitu...

I wish to congratulate William Evan Rivers, DO, and his coauthors 1 for their original contribution in the Novem-ber 2008 issue of JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. Although a small pilot study, the results of the research conducted by these individuals represent an enormous amount of time and dedication. The osteopathic medical profession needs more original research to...

background: the aim of this study was to detect the prognostic significance of survivin level and the expression of total p53 in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) and its correlation to patients' outcome. methods: sixty two children newly diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia were treated with chemotherapy and followed up for 2 years or until death. twenty apparently healthy volunteers w...