background and objective: mmp enzymes are a family of membrane proteins that are capable of digesting extracellular matrix compounds (ecm) and basement membrane. matrilysin enzyme is the smallest member of mmp family that is encoded by mmp-7 gene (matrilysin). according to the reports, g allele of -181 a/g single nucleotide polymorphism of mmp-7 gene causes an increase in the expression of this...

purpose: to investigate indications and methods of surgery in corneal transplantation in labbafinejad medical center from 2007 to 2009. methods: records of 1083 patients who had undergone corneal transplantation from 2007 to 2009 were reviewed. age, sex and indication and type of surgery were evaluated. results: patients included 709 (65.5%) male and 374 (34.5%) female subjects with mean age of...

Third-degree perineal lacerations in 7 mares were repaired surgically by a one-stage method (Goetz technique). Primary healing occurred in all of them without any complication. The conception rate obtained after surgery was 70.1%. Five horses out of seven got pregnant after surgery and no further injury was seen at subsequent foaling. Three mares have produced several healthy foals without any ...

introduction the automotive industry is one of the largest industries in the world, which is also very important in our country.according to the world bank, the automotive industry can be classified as the projects that have environmental impacts. therefore, the review and analysis of the environmental impacts is conducted to identify the significant effects of pollution caused by the activitie...

• Novel geothermal systems are proposed for combined cooling and power generation. Parametric multi-objective thermoeconomic optimization comparisons performed. System Conf. (a) has the best power/exergy efficiency (58%) specific cost (30 $/GJ). (b) highest cooling/thermal (43%) (67 The rates of optimised (a)-(c) 440, 560, 600 $/h a given heat source. Comparative parametric analyses three novel...