background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is considered a common sleep disorder that increases the risk of traffic accidents among drivers. this study aimed to assess the association between mallampati score and stop-bang (snoring, tiredness, observed apnea, blood pressure, body mass index, age, neck circumference, gender) score in commercial drivers. materials and methods: 1743 m...

background and objectives: the therapeutic options for diseases caused by escherichia coli are limited. in this study we investigated the presence of virulence factors among enteropathogenic escherichia coli (epec) strains and their antibiotic resistance patterns. the isolates were also checked for the presence of class1 integrons and gene cassettes. materials and methods: this study included 7...

background: papillon-lefevre syndrome (pls) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by diffused palmoplantar keratoderma and severe periodontitis. increased susceptibility to infections due to impairment of the immune system is considered to be involved in pathoetiology of this disease. objective: according to the crucial function of hla molecules in immune responses and associatio...

previous studies have demonstrated some significant differences in hla allele frequencies in leukemic patients and normal subjects. we have analyzed hla class ii alleles and haplotypes in 60 iranian patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) and 180 unrelated normal subjects. blood samples were collected after obtaining informed consents. from the patients and control dna extraction and hla...

‎let $g$ be a finite group and $z(g)$ be the center of $g$‎. ‎for a subset $a$ of $g$‎, ‎we define $k_g(a)$‎, ‎the number of conjugacy classes of $g$ which intersect $a$ non-trivially‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎we verify the structure of all finite groups $g$ which satisfy the property $k_g(g-z(g))=5$ and classify them‎.

analysis and design of object oriented is onemodern paradigms for developing a system. in this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles. identifying objects (and classes) is one of the most important steps in the object-oriented paradigm. this paper makes a literature review over techniques to identify objects and then presents six taxonomies for them. the f...

let $g$ be a $p$-group of order $p^n$ and $phi$=$phi(g)$ be the frattini subgroup of $g$. it is shown that the nilpotency class of $autf(g)$, the group of all automorphisms of $g$ centralizing $g/ fr(g)$, takes the maximum value $n-2$ if and only if $g$ is of maximal class. we also determine the nilpotency class of $autf(g)$ when $g$ is a finite abelian $p$-group.

background: the human leukocyte antigen (hla) matching between organ donor and recipient is an acceptable strategy in clinical transplantation since 1964. however, in bone marrow transplantation, finding matched donors is often problematic. thus new method for down regulation of hla can be an alternative strategy to solve this problem. objective: to examine the effect of serum starvation on hla...