*Corresponding author: Pro. Mohammad-Reza Ardalan, Chronic Kidney Disease Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Erythropoietin treatment could augment the immune response and could be a tiger for systemic lupus erythematous flare-up and increasing the activity of renal ...

Ovariectomized Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar rats are widely used as animal models for postmenopausal osteoporosis. This study aimed to investigate differences in the long-term effects of ovariectomy on these two breeds of rats. 6-month-old SD and Wistar rats underwent sham operation (Ssham and Wsham) or bilateral ovariectomy (Sovx and Wovx). Body weight, absolute fat, fifth and sixth lumber v...

A Comparison of Attentional Bias in Socially Anxious, Subclinical, and Normal University Students Tabriz 2022: Descriptive Study

Previous findings have demonstrated that hemispheric organization in deaf users of American Sign Language (ASL) parallels that of the hearing population, with the left hemisphere showing dominance for grammatical linguistic functions and the right hemisphere showing specialization for non-linguistic spatial functions. The present study addresses two further questions: first, do extra-grammatica...

abstract awareness of consumer reasons during nutrition choice is very important, because this decision directly affect their health. since beef is one of the essential goods in consumer basket of goods of iranian households, exploring of factors that influence consumers purchase decisions and intentions toward imported frozen beefs in east azerbaijan province – tabriz city is the purpose of th...

This study investigated the effects of planned focus-on-form instruction (pFFI) on developing oral grammatical accuracy in Iranian English EFL learners. To this end, 60 lower-intermediate EFL learners studying English in a private English language institute in Tehran, Iran, were randomly assigned to two classes. Both classes received a task-based instruction on grammatical points elicited in or...

The research was conducted to analyze cohesion and coherence used on 20 student’s narrative writing in SMAN 4 Praya. Descriptive qualitative method this by collecting data from students assignments. Then, classifying the findings using theory introduced Halliday Hasan (1976). results obtained were: (a) grammatical cohesion; reference 61.09%, substitution 13.53%, ellipsis 04.88%, conjunction 26....

BACKGROUND Endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) selectively enhances myocardial relaxation and may benefit diastolic function. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is characterized by abnormal myocardial relaxation and endothelial dysfunction. We investigated endothelium-dependent regulation of LV relaxation in moderate pressure-overload LVH induced by aortic banding in guinea pigs. METHODS AN...

Language acquisition is a complex process that requires the synergic involvement of different cognitive functions, which include extracting and storing the words of the language and their embedded rules for progressive acquisition of grammatical information. As has been shown in other fields that study learning processes, synchronization mechanisms between neuronal assemblies might have a key r...