prior investigators demonstrated helicobacter pylori as a risk factor of liver diseases. in this study association between h. pylori and hepatocellular carcinoma was investigated. patients and methods totally, 59 specimens of liver were collected from two health care centers affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, including 22 specimens of hepatocellular carcinoma, 18 spec...

objective: to determine the possible association between the m235t variant of angiotensinogen gene and preeclampsia in iranian preeclamtic women with hypertension during pregnancy. mand methods: during a case control study, we used polymerase chain reaction-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp) analysis to investigate the association between m235t polymorphism in preeclamtic...

purpose: to explore any association between human papilloma virus (hpv) infection and ocular surface squamous neoplasia. methods: forty pathological specimens including 20 cases of conjunctival intra-epithelial neoplasia grade i (cin i) and 20 cases of cin iii and invasive squamous cell carcinoma (scc) together with 20 pterygium samples (controls) were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (pcr...

Resistin (RETN), recently found to be relevant to inflammation and inflammatory disorders. We, therefore, aimed to investigate the potential role of RETN gene polymorphism in pathogenesis of acne vulgaris with familial history. We investigated the RETN-420C/G polymorphism in 180 patients with acne vulgaris and 180 healthy individuals in a case-control association analysis. In this study, we als...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in females worldwide. Several etiological factors including environmental factors have been recognized for breast cancer. Epstein Barr virus as a viral etiological factor has been proposed. So far, several studies have investigated the relationship between development of breast cancer and Epstein Barr virus, but few have been done in Iran....