background: elevated serum levels of oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxldl) have been found in type 2 and in poorly controlled diabetic patients. gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) has common features with type 2 diabetes. objective: the aim of our study was to evaluate the serum levels of oxldl in women with gdm compared to normal pregnant women. materials and methods: in this cross-section...

barbari is a common iranian flat bread that has a short shelf life. the effect of low density polyethylene/clay nanocomposite film was investigated for the package and shelf life of the flat bread when stored at different temperatures and relative humilities with different percentages of nanoparticles. nanoclay concentrations of 2% and 6% were used for the nanocomposite and pure polyethylene wa...

a solid – liquid – gas, multiphase reactor, called inverse fluidized bed bioreactor (ifbbr) was used in this study for the treatment of starch industry wastewater of high organic content and acidic nature. mixed culture obtained from the sludge, taken from starch industry effluent treatment plant, was used as microorganisms. experiments were carried out in an inverse fluidized bed bioreacto...

background different clinical and epidemiological studies using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry have shown an increased prevalence of low bone mineral density in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.the aim of this study was to assess the correlation between bone density and the disease activity in patients with ulcerative colitis. methods in this cross-sectional study, 52 patients with u...

antioxidant consumption has been reported to be inversely associated with the incidence of coronary artery disease. to clarify the possible role of vitamin e and volatile oils in the prevention of atherosclerosis, the effects of these compounds on the susceptibility of low-density lipoprotein (ldl) to oxidative modification were investigated. in this study, vitamin e and seven volatile oils “an...

nonenzymatic glycation of low density lipoprotein (ldl) is a reaction of glucose and other reducing sugars with apolipoprotein b100 (apo-b100) lysine residues. in diabetes, this reaction is greatly accelerated and is important in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications. the objective of this study was to investigate in vitro effects of ?-tocopherol, ascorbic acid and lycopene on ldl glycatio...

micrornas (mirnas) are short, endogenous non-coding rnas that function as guide molecules to regulate transcription of their target messenger rnas. several methods including low-density qpcr arrays are being increasingly used to profile the expression of these molecules in a variety of different biological conditions. reliable analysis of expression profiles demands removal of technical variati...

osteonectin is a bone- associated protein involved in vascular calcification. adiponectin may protect against cardiovascular disease but possible effects on vascular calcification have been poorly studied. the aim of this study was to investigate the modulatory effect of adiponectin on oxidized low density lipoprotein (oxldl)- induced expression of osteonectin in human aorta vascular smooth mus...