background: asthma is a multifactorial disease and its severity varies with the inflammatory grade. there are conflicting reports about the roles of trace elements in asthma. this study examined the effects of zinc (zn), copper (cu), and selenium (se) concentrations in sera of patients with allergic asthma attending ghaem hospital, mashhad, iran. methods: forty-nine patients, aged 10 to 50 year...

hyper-igm syndromes are characterized by profound reduction of serum igg, iga, and ige levels with normal or increased concentrations of serum igm. cd40 ligand deficiency is x-linked form of the disease, which results in a lack of immunoglobulin class switching from igm to igg in b cells. in addition to the recurrent infections, a number of patients suffer from neutropenia. there are some evide...

The first half of this paper constitutes the lecture given at the conference meeting, and contains some general discussion and a survey of the area. The second half gives proofs of some new results that were mentioned but not given. The reader interested only in these, (the theorems of the abstract) can turn to §2.2 Theorem 12 and §2.3. We assume at those points a working familiarity with fine ...

abstract: the research at hand discusses about the notion of the theme in persian scientific and literary genres from the point of view of halliday’s systemic functional grammar (sfg) and explains and determines the similarities and differences of the two genres in persian language. in this research, after mentioning the obvious differences of the two genres from the point of view of theme type...

In recently years, high-throughput experimental techniques such as microarray, RNA-Seq and mass spectrometry can detect cellular moleculars at systems-level. These kinds of analysis generate huge quantitaties of data, which need to be given a biological interpretation. A commonly used approach is via clustering in the gene dimension for grouping different genes based on their similarities(Yu et...

In addition to their roles in organizing the actin cytoskeleton, members of the Rho family of GTP-binding proteins have recently been implicated in a plethora of other functions, including the activation of kinase cascades and transcription factors, and the control of endocytosis and secretion. Alongside this expansion is proposed functions has been the identification of multiple target protein...