background: sexual function and its subsequent satisfaction are among the most important aspects of women’s life. however, this instinct could be influenced by some factors such as diseases, drug using, aging, and hormonal and physiologic changes associated with menopause, and sexual behavior. objective: the aim of this study was to describe the prevalence rates of sexual dysfunction, and relat...

traumatic brain injuries may cause some neurological deficits, such as altered level of consciousness or coma, sensory-motor dysfunction, and seizure attacks. the neuroprotective effect of progesterone and erythropoietin has been shown in different types of brain injuries and cerebral ischemia. this study aims to evaluate the probable additional neuroprotective effects of progesterone and eryth...

conclusions early primary realignment of posterior urethral disruption had significant complications. in this study we did not have a control group, thus we could not compare the complications of delayed repair and early primary realignment of the posterior urethra. we recommend further case-control studies with larger sample size. results a total of 24 patients were evaluated while seven, elev...

conclusions the lack of difference between adma levels in patients with pa and eh suggests that endothelial dysfunction is more likely related to hypertension per se than to the specific etiology of elevated blood pressure. results patients with pa had significantly higher concentrations of adma than healthy controls (0.488 ± 0.085 vs. 0.433 ± 0.053 μmol/l, p = 0.027). no difference was found i...

background: sexual dysfunction (sd) is a common reported problem in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms). aims: to examine frequency and distribution of sd dimensions and to determine whether sd is related to various clinical and demographic variables in female patients. materials and methods: a total of 271 ms women (age: 19-50 years) participated in this cross-sectional study. we used a stru...

conclusions we believe that the sh state in chf patients may be associated with the impaired pattern of circulating emps, with the predominantly increased number of apoptotic-derived microparticles. background subclinical hypothyroidism (sh) is diagnosed biochemically by the presence of normal serum free thyroxine concentration, in conjunction with an elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone ...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that inflammation, demyelination, oligodendrocyte loss, gliosis, axonal injury and neurodegeneration are the main histopathological hallmarks of the disease. although ms was classically thought as a demyelinating disease, but axonal injury occurs commonly in acute inflammatory lesions. in ms mi...

the aim of this study was to investigate the radioprotective effect of thymol as a natural product against salivary glands dysfunction induced by ionizing radiation in rats. the rats were treated with thymol at dose of 50 mg/kg before exposure to radiation at dose 15gy. salivary gland function was evaluated with radioisotope scintigraphy and then salivary gland to background counts ratio was ca...