background and aims. melatonin is a circulating hormone that is mainly released from the pineal gland. it possesses antioxidant, free-radical scavenging, and immune-enhancing properties. a growing number of studies reveal a complex role for melatonin in influencing various diseases, including diabetes and periodontal diseases. the aim of this study was to examine the possible links between sali...

  Purpose: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which widely affects individual health and   social performance. The purpose of this study was to compare the mental health of patients   with type I diabetes and non-diabetic individuals.   Materials and Methods: This was a comparative after-the-fact study conducted in 2011. The   participants included 50 patients with type I diabetes who were ...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion regulation training on depression and emotion regulation strategies of pediatric type I diabetes. Materials and Methods: The study used a quasi-experimental approach that included pre-and post-test assessments to compare the experimental and control groups. The University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz, provided services to a ...

apoptosis is a complex network of biochemical and molecular pathway with fine regulatory mechanisms that control the death event during several pathological situations in multi cellular organisms. it is the part of normal development that occurs in a variety of diseases and is known as aberrant apoptosis. pancreatic β cell apoptosis is also a pathological feature which is common in both type 1 ...

Objective: Social determinant of health (SDH) are different from medical care and services. These factors themselves are affected by social policies, and they influence health more than medical care and services do. Due to the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases especially diabetes in Yazd, and assuming the effect of SDH, the present study was conducted in order to examine the relat...

the mean and variance of the lagrangian katz family of distribution (lkd), the basiclagrangian katz distribution of type i (lkd-i) and type ii (lkd-ii) are provided in an easy method.the recurrence relation between the non-central, central and factorial moments, and the recurrencerelation between moments and cumulants of lkd, lkd-i and lkd-ii are given. the first fourcumulants of lkd-i and lkd-...