OBJECTIVE Herb combination has been very popular in traditional medical prescriptions such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Persistent efforts and attempts have been made to dissect the action mode of TCM in recent years, which has provided certain evidence for inter-herbal interactions. However, the interactions among different components in a single herb have been largely neglected. M...

persistent mullerian duct syndrome in a 71-year-old man, case report h. salehi md , m.r. vatani baf md received:27/06/06 sent for revision: 11/10/06 received revised manuscript: 07/02/07 accepted: 12/02/07 background and objective: normal sexual differentiation occurs in the 6th embryonic week and in a normal embryonic life. both wolffian and mullerian ducts are present until the onset of sexua...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The role of opportunistic microorganisms in urethritis in men is controversial. The aim of this study was to determine the changes in urethral microflora in the presence of persistent nonspecific urethritis (PNU) in men by in vitro detection of decomplementary activity (DCA) phenotypes of urethral isolates and comparison of the isolates with those from patients with or wi...

Abstract Background Crohn’s disease (CD) is characterized by persistent inflammation and ulcerations at the small or large bowel, provoking chronic low-grade systemic inflammation. Adipose tissue (AT) believed to play an active role in pathogenesis of CD, as expansion mesenteric fat attached inflamed segments intestine, also known “creeping fat,” a hallmark that seems be directly related activi...

Prior to exposure to ecdysteroids, the isolated central nervous system (CNS) of the fifth instar Manduca sexta larvae exhibited infrequent motor bursts over a 24-h period of extracellular recording from segmental motor nerves. In contrast, the CNS isolated from wandering larvae was characterized by persistent, frequent spontaneous motor bursts throughout the 24-h incubation. The motor bursts ge...

CD4 T lymphocyte proliferative responses to hepatitis C virus (HCV) antigens were evaluated before and during an anti-HCV regimen (interferon-alpha2a and ribavirin) in 36 patients coinfected with HCV and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), to determine whether immune responses against HCV antigens are present in such patients, whether these responses are modified by anti-HCV treatment, and whet...

introduction:  the aim of the present study was to investigate the presence and the frequency of eaec as etiologic agent of diarrhea in shiraz. enteroaggregative e. coli (eaec) is increasingly recognized as a cause of often persistent diarrhoea in children and adults in both developing and developed countries, and have been identified as the cause of several outbreaks worldwide.   materials and...

In this work, the crude MeOH extract of fruits Dipterocarpus retusus Blume (Dipterocarpaceae) growing in Vietnam was prepared and studied. Five compounds: ε-viniferin, paucifloroside, ursolic acid, quercetin, (+)-catechin, isolated. The structures these compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic methods. extracts from D. metanol its some isolated stilbene evaluated for anti-inflammatory effect ...

Vierucci, A., London, W. T., Blumberg, B. S., Sutnick, A. I., and Ragazzini (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 760. Australia antigen and antibody in transfused children with thalassaemia. As a consequence of frequent transfusions, 10% of 169 Italian patients with thalassaemia developed Au(1) and 20% anti-Au(I). Au(l) persisted in the children in whom it was detected for the duration...

kelussia odoratissima mozaff. is an iranian endangered endemic edible plant with enormous use in the middle region of iran as food and spice especially yogurt seasoning, and as medicinal herb as anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular purposes. although antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and hypolipidemic effects of this plant have so far been studied, but chemical analyses of the non volatile constit...