BACKGROUND Chronic inflammation is frequently observed on histological analysis of malignant and non-malignant prostate specimens. It is a suspected supporting factor for prostate diseases and their progression and a main cause of false positive PSA tests in cancer screening. We hypothesized that inflammation induces autoantibodies, which may be useful biomarkers. We aimed to identify and valid...

Introduction: In vascularized tissues, such as myocardium, oxygen is supplied by convection of blood through a capillary network and diffusion into the tissue space surrounding each capillary, with the total oxygen content of blood increased by the presence of a natural oxygen carrier, hemoglobin. Most of the current tissue culture systems are limited by diffusional supply of oxygen from the su...

Sulfur mustard (SM) is a strong alkylating and mutagenic compound that targets humanairway system. We considered the expression of Forkhead box M1 (FOXM1) and apolipoproteinE (APOE) genes, which are responsible for cell proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis,and increased risk of lung cancer, in the lung bronchial tissue of patients exposed to SM.After performing pulmonary functional tes...