background: different investigation showed that 5-methoxypsoralen and 8- methoxypsoralen reduce birth rates in the rats. objective: in this study we worked out the effect of methoxsalen together with ultraviolent a (uva) radiation on mature balb/c mice spermatogenesis. materials and methods: the ld50 standard was determined 160 mg/kg and the uva dose which causes erythema was calculated 0.046 j...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of stylohyoid ligament complex elongation in a group of Iranian patients using digital panoramic radiographs. Methods: Panoramic radiographs of 1211 patients (684 females and 527 males) referred to the dental school of Hamadan university of medical science were selected from 2011 to 2013. The stylohyoid ligament complexes wer...

background: methamphetamine (ma) is a potent psychomotor stimulant with high abuse and addictive potential. ma is a neurotoxic drug which is widely abused by females of childbearing age, raising serious public health concerns in terms of exposure of the fetus to the drug. neurotoxic effects of ma on adult are well known, such as dopaminergic nerve terminal degeneration and cell death in regions...

purpose : to evaluate the visual results of amblyopic therapy in pediatric patients with monocular abnormalities. methods : the hospital records of visually immature patients with unilateral organic ocular abnormalities and decreased visual acuity, who presented to the pediatric ophthalmology clinic over a one year period, were reviewed. those who had 8 years old of age or less and underwent am...

a study of the relationship between the disorder of glucose metabolism and ischemic heart disease was performed on 122 patients and 100 controls in loghman-dowleh adham’s medical center in tehran. the gtt abnormality was found in only 8% of the control group while for the patients with the heart ischemia the prevalence was 62.3%. prevalence of glucose metabolic disorder among men with acute myo...

This paper presents an analysis on the contrast enhancement function combined with sharpening filter applied on digital Intra-oral dental radiographs images. Intra-oral dental radiograph is a common medium used in dentistry to examine gum related diseases. Due to the fact that radiograph images usually are noisy and low in contrast, research related to image enhancement is an active research ar...

Magnetic resonance imaging can demonstrate core lesions, dorsal tears, and sagittal splits in the deep digital flexor tendon within the hoof capsule in horses with unilateral or bilateral palmar foot pain. Abnormalities of the navicular bone can be seen in horses with no detectable radiological abnormality. Lesions of the articular cartilage and subchondral bone of the distal interphalangeal jo...