purpose: to compare the prevalence of glaucoma among peptic ulcer patients with or without helicobacter pylori infection. methods: among 352 patients with an indication of gasterointestinal endoscopy for peptic problems, 120 patients in 18-88 years of age were included for evaluation of glaucoma. according to the results of histopathologic and urease test, they were divided into two groups: hel...

background: cd1d presents glycolipid antigens to invariant natural killer t (inkt) cells. the role of cd1d in the development of peptic ulcer and gastric cancer has not been revealed, yet. objective: to clarify the expression of alternatively spliced variants of cd1d in peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. methods: patients with dyspepsia were selected and divided into three groups of non-ulcer dys...

peptic ulcer is a very common disorder in horse race and foals. in the present research possible relationship between gastric ulcer and the prevalence of cardiac arrhythmia were studied in two different horse race. in this respect, 13 caspian miniature horses and 8 arab horses were studied. gastric ulcers and cardiac arrhythmias were diagnosed in 13 horses (62%) and 12 (57%) out of 211 horses, ...

background: basic fibroblast growth factor (bfgf) is a glycoprotein with stimulating ability of angiogenesis. in addition, bfgf plays an important role in wound healing process in some tissues for example gastrointestinal tract, but its ability for discrimination of various stages of wound severity in these diseases was not reported. therefore, we aimed to determine the bfgf levels in gastric u...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The genetic trait plays a part in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease. To identify a DNA marker for peptic ulcer disease, the association between the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the pepsinogen C (PGC) gene and peptic ulcer disease was investigated. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and seventy seven unrelated controls, 75 patients with gastric ul...

gastric endoscopy was performed in the 24 persian arab horses from several race training in tehran and tabriz for detection of gastric ulcer. gastric ulcer was evident in 14 persian arab horses (58.3%). ten out of 14 ulcers were in nonglandular region of the stomach. the horses with the history of long term treatment with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) had high prevalence of the...

background: chronic inflammation and dys-regulation of the immune system mechanisms are now well established as primary triggers of gastric cancer and peptic ulcer disease. galectin-9 (gal-9) is a member of the galectin family and known as an inducer of cell aggregation, adhesion and apoptosis. gal-9 interaction with its main ligand t-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain protein-3 (tim-3) leads...

This study was aimed to investigate the association of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) for pepsinogen genes with peptic ulcer disease. Eighty unrelated controls, 61 patients with gastric ulcer, and 57 patients with duodenal ulcer were studied. No genetic polymorphisms for pepsinogen A were detected by EcoRI digestion in Japanese subjects but a 100 base pairs insertion-deletion...

we have studied the ulcerogenic effect of indomethacin in stretozocin. induced diabetic rats. streptozocin (65 mg kg-1) was injected intraperitoneally to male wistar rats. the blood glucose concentration was determined continuously. blood glucose level increased significantly (p<0.001) after 30 days. gastric erosions were induced by intraperitoneal injection of indomethacin (50 mg kg-1) in fast...

strongyloides stercoralis is a free living tropical and semitropical soil nematode which its larva penetrates skin. it can complete its life cycle in human body and causes autoinfection. most patients have no frank symptoms. but respiratory, gastrointestinal and skin manifestation may occur. we report a 76 year old man admitted to emergency room with muscle weakness, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting w...