Nasser Shakhssalim1, Mohammad Samzadeh2 and Seyed Mohammad Ghahestani3 1Assistant Professor of Urology, Urology and Nephrology Research Center (UNRC), Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBUMS), Tehran, 2Resident of Urology, UNRC, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center,SBUMS, Tehran, 3Fellowship of Pediatric Urology Tehran university of medical scienc...

We analyze possible future trends in dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) export by world rivers and associated emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O). Our scenarios either assume that current trends continue or that nitrogen (N) inputs to aquatic systems are reduced as a result of changes in agriculture practices and fuel combustion technologies. The results indicate that moderate changes in the human...

Objective: To outline the major methodological issues appropriate to the use of the population impact number (PIN) and the disease impact number (DIN) in health policy decision making. Design: Review of literature and calculation of PIN and DIN statistics in different settings. Setting: Previously proposed extensions to the number needed to treat (NNT): the DIN and the PIN, which give a populat...

We investigated the properties of an artificial chimeric peptide that contains an Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD)tripeptide, the versatile cell recognition signal of extracellular matrix protein components, coupled to a carboxyl-terminal fragment of the highly specific a-thrombin hibitor, hirudin (residues 53-64): WG-SANGDFEEIPEEYL (RGD-hir~din'~-'~). Hir ~ d i n ~ ~ ' ~ and RGD-hir~din'~-'~ inhibited th...

Sima Rasti ; Mohammad Ali Asadi ; Afsaneh Taghriri ; Mitra Behrashi ; Gholamabbas Mousavie 3 1Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran 2Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran 3Department of Statistic, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Mohamma...