the purpose of this study was to investigate any association between iga deficiency (igad) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (jra) among iranian children. this case-control study was carried out on 83 children who were diagnosed as jra according to american college of rheumatology (acr) criteria; patients were admitted at the rheumatology clinic of children's medical center, (tehran). serum imm...

juvenile hemochromatosis is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that typically occurs in the first to third decades of life. its symptoms are more acute and severe than classic hemochromatosis. we describe a 27-year-old man who was referred to the gastrointestinal clinic with a probable diagnosis of fatty liver and was finally diagnosed as having juvenile hemochromatosis. a review of the scient...

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objective: the purpose of the present research was to determine the role of perceived communication deviance and inconsistent control (parental) in the family of malejuvenile offenders (age 12 yrs-18 yrs) through its comparison with their non-offender counterparts. methods: sample of the present research consisted of 200 adolescents divided into two groups of offenders and non- offenders from l...

purpose : to evaluate central corneal thickness (cct) in patients with juvenile glaucoma and compare it with that of normal individuals methods : a prospective, case-control study was performed on 80 eyes with juvenile glaucoma who attended glaucoma clinic in farabi eye hospital, tehran, iran and 107 clinically normal healthy eyes. standard automated perimetry (sap) was performed for all the pa...

Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon piceus), bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis), and black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) rank first, second, fourth, and seventh in world fish production. In China, the Yangtze River harbours the most important natural populations of these species. We performed a polymerase chain reaction – restriction fragment length poymorph...

Plumb Beach, Brooklyn, New York in USA is an important horseshoe crab breeding and nursery ground that has experienced substantial anthropogenic influence, including pollution, erosion and subsequent restoration. Since little is known about the relationship between sediment microbial communities and juvenile horseshoe crab survival, next generation sequencing was used to characterize and compar...

juvenile ossifying fibroma (jof) is a rare, benign, locally aggressive entity of the extragnathic craniofacial bones with a high tendency towards recurrence. two distinctive microscopic patterns of juvenile ossifying fibroma have been described: a trabecular juvenile ossifying fibroma (trjof) and a psammomatoid juvenile ossifying fibroma (pjof). psammomatoid variant is predominantly a craniofac...

Garra rufa is one of the most popular therapeutic and commercially important fish in ichthyotherapy. Otolith and scale morphology provide new and useful information for fish identification and classification. Left-right asteriscus and lapillus otoliths from juvenile and adult doctor fish, and the scales from 6 different regions of the juvenile and adult fish body have been examined in Kangal Ba...