diabetes mellitus is a common metabolic disease. its association with low level of testosterone is controversial. this study aimed to investigate the association between serum total testosterone, free testosterone index (fti), and sex hormone-binding globulin (shbg) in iranian men with type 2 diabetic.a case-control study was conducted on 38 non-diabetic and 36 diabetic men aged 40-60 years old...

Plantar pressure distribution after the first metatarsal proximal crescentic osteotomy (FMPCO) with lesser shortening (LMPSO) for hallux valgus metatarsalgia has not been previously described. The pre- (Pre) and postoperative (Post) groups comprised of 18 patients who underwent unilateral FMPCO LMPSO; fifteen healthy volunteers constituted control (C) group. For each 10 regions, peak (Peak-P), ...

The combination of farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) and taxanes has been shown to result in potent antiproliferative and antimitotic synergy. Recent phase I and II clinical trials have shown that this combination shows clinical activity in taxane-refractory or taxane-resistant cancer patients. To understand the mechanism behind these clinical observations, we used a cancer cell model of pa...

where pi > 1 and φpi(t) = |t|pi−2t for i = 1, . . . , n, λ is a positive parameter, m, n ≥ 1 are integers, aj , bj ∈ R for j = 1, . . . ,m, and 0 < x1 < x2 < x3 < . . . < xm < 1. Here, F : [0, 1] × R → R is a function such that the mapping (t1, t2, . . . , tn) → F (x, t1, t2, . . . , tn) is in C in R for all x ∈ [0, 1], Fti is continuous in [0, 1]× R for i = 1, . . . , n, where Fti denotes the ...

We present a new method based on unification of fictitious time integration (FTI) and group preserving (GP) methods. The GP is applied in numerically discretized ordinary differential equations obtained from application FTI to given partial equation (PDE). algorithm hyperbolic telegraph utilizes the Cayley transformation Pade approximations Minkowski space. It avoid...

The thyroid hormone/thyroxin-binding globulin (TBG) ratio and the free thyroid hormone index (FTI) were compared in 372 subjects classified according to age, sex, and biochemical and clinical findings. Age-related variations in thyroid function tests were investigated, as was the relationship between triiodothyronine uptake and TBG. Men, but not women, showed significant age-dependent changes i...

We compared the extent and origin of muscle fatigue induced by short-pulse-low-frequency [conventional (CONV)] and wide-pulse-high-frequency (WPHF) neuromuscular electrical stimulation. We expected CONV contractions to mainly originate from depolarization of axonal terminal branches (spatially determined muscle fiber recruitment) and WPHF contractions to be partly produced via a central pathway...

OBJECTIVE A potential risk of testosterone replacement therapy is an increase in the incidence of prostate cancer, but it is unclear whether higher levels of serum testosterone are associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer. We prospectively evaluated serum androgen concentrations and prostate cancer risk. METHOD Included were 794 members of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. We...