Pathological interrelations of two soil-borne diseases in cucurbits (watermelon, oriental melon, shintosa and cucumber) caused by Fusarium isolates (FI) and the root-knot nematode (RKN), Meloidogyne incognita were characterized by the fusarium disease severity index (DI), RKN gall index (GI) and eggmass index (EI) in inoculation tests using FI and RKN. Virulence of FI as determined by DI at 4 w...

background: this study was designed to evaluate the correlation between subjective data obtained from a questionnaire and clinical examination among students in shiraz university of medical sciences. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional prospective study, the samples consisted of 200 subjects, with equal distribution between males and females. subjects’ ages ranged from 18 to 30 years...

take-all disease of wheat (gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici) (ggt) is one of the most destructive root diseases in the world. it has not been introduced resistant genotype against this disease. in this study, 416 genotype of bread wheat, received from different location of iran and other countries, were evaluated to take-all (t-41 isolate) in greenhouse conditions. root dry weight, shoot dr...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) may result in disability. We aim to validate a novel scoring system for the IBD disability index (IBD-DI), and identify predictors of disability and its correlation with work absenteeism. METHODS This prospective IBD ambulatory clinic cohort study measured IBD-DI, Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) for Crohn's disease (CD) or partial Ma...

Erythrocyte deformability was determined in 48 patients with cerebrovascular disease and 116 healthy controls as an index of blood filtrability in microcirculation. Hemo-rheological and blood chemical changes were also studied to assess their effect on filtrability. Erythrocyte deformability, determined by Reid's method, was expressed as the deformability index (DI). DI and ATP levels decreased...

BACKGROUND We previously described an index, defined as the ratio between the inspiratory muscle pressure (Pmus) and the electrical activity of the diaphragm (EA(di)) (Pmus/EA(di) index). In the present work, we describe the trend of Pmus/EA(di) index over time, investigating whether it could be an indicator of muscular efficiency associated with risk factors for diaphragmatic injury and/or cli...

in this paper, we consider a particular class of integral equations of the fourth kind and show that tractability and differentiability index of the given system are 3. tractability and dierentiability index are introduced based on the-smoothing property of a volterra integral operator and index reduction procedure, respectively. using the notion of index, we give sucient conditions for the...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Iran is located on the thalassemia belt and has the highest prevalence rate of patients compared to the general population in the world. This investigation was performed to determine the prevalence of gingivitis and periodontitis in thalassemia patients in comparison to healthy people and evaluate the relationship between periodontal disease and age, gender, splenectomy and ...

Objective Although previous studies have reported the prognostic factors for functional remission, no reports have cited the predictive factors. Our aim was to study the predictive factors for functional remission, which is a treatment goal in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after receiving biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) treatment for six months. Methods The study consist...