Objective(s) Human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) is now considered as a valuable source for stem cell–based therapies. Previous studies showed that intravascular injection of the HUCB significantly improves neurological functional recovery in a rat model of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). In the present study, we hypothesize transplanted HUCB derived mononuclear cells (UC-MCs) can decrease injur...

background: the incidence of ulcerative colitis (uc) is rising in populations with western-style diet, rich in fat and protein, and low in fruits and vegetables. in the present study, we aimed to evaluate the association between dietary protein intakes and the risk of developing incident uc.   methods : sixty two cases of uc and 124 controls were studied using country-specific food frequency qu...

ulcerative colitis (uc) is a nonspecific acute and chronic inflammatory bowel disease that diffusely involves the colonic mucosa. the etiology of uc has not yet been elucidated fully. however, many studies have found that immunologic disorders may play a role in the pathogenesis of uc. in addition, due to an increased frequency of uc in families, especially an increased monozygotic compared wit...

PURPOSE Cross-contamination of cell lines is a serious but often unrecognized problem. We describe the authentication of a panel of transitional cell carcinoma cell lines using the short tandem repeat profiling technique to detect cross-contamination. MATERIALS AND METHODS Genomic DNA was isolated from UM-UC-1, UM-UC-2, UM-UC-3 (ATCC), UM-UC-6, UM-UC-9, UM-UC-10, UM-UC-11, UM-UC-13, UM-UC-14,...

BACKGROUND Tumor suppressor gene p53 expression has been reported in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). However, the correlation between p53 expression and UC remains controversial. The aim of this meta-analysis was to investigate the association between p53 expression and different pathological types of UC. METHODS Publications were searched in the PubMed, Embase, EBSCO, Wangfang, and CN...

The increasing concern of global climate changes, the promotion of renewable energy sources, primarily wind generation, is a welcome move to reduce the pollutant emissions from conventional power plants. Integration of wind power generation with the existing power network is an emerging research field. This paper presents a meta-heuristic algorithm based approach to determine the feasible dispa...

Abstract Background Symptoms of ulcerative colitis (UC) negatively affect patients’ health-related quality life (HRQoL). The aim this study was to identify symptoms and impacts experienced by patients with UC, develop a conceptual model (CM) evaluate available patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures for appropriateness inclusion in UC clinical studies. Methods We conducted landscape assessment ...

background there are few reports from iran about the epidemiology and clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). this study aims to determine the epide­miologic profile and clinical features of ibd in northwest iran referral centers. methods in a cross-sectional setting, we evaluated 200 patients with definitive diagno­ses of ibd who referred to tabriz educational hospitals during t...

• Bella Bollobas (University of Memphis, Mathematics) • Alex Aiken, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt, Computer Sciences) • David Culler (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Kenneth Frampton (Vanderbilt, Mechanical Engineering) • Karl Hedrick, (UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering) • Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt, Electri...

background: evidence has shown a link between allergic disease and inflammatory bowel diseases (ibds). we investigated food allergy in iranian pediatric ibd patients. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on a consecutive sample of children with newly  diagnosed ibd referring to mofid children’s university hospital in tehran (iran) between november 2013 and march 2015.dat...