animal models for h.pylori infection have been developed to clarify the pathogenesis, testing new therapies and developing vaccines against human h.pylori infection. although rats have been used extensively for gastric ulceration and acid secretion studies, the animal is not normally infected with h.pylori.several chemicals such as ethanol and ammonium hydroxide can induce gastric erosion and i...

Correspondence Joint scintigraphy and erosions SIR, Isotope studies have been widely used in rheumatol-ogy for about 20 years. The study by Desaulniers and coworkers indicated that skeletal scintigraphy was a more sensitive method for the detection of inflammatory joint disease than radiography.' It appeared to be more sensitive than clinical evaluation in the diagnosis of joint inflammation of...

The value of ultrasonography (US), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and plain radiography (PR) in detecting bone erosions on the humeral head was evaluated in a study of 26 in-patients (26 shoulders) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). MRI depicted humeral erosions in 25 (96%), US in 24 (92%), CT in 20 (77%) and PR in 19 (73%) of the 26 shoulders. MRI and US were superior ...

We conducted the present study to determine whether repair of erosions occurs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with conventional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and to compare clinical characteristics between patients exhibiting and not exhibiting erosion repair. We included in the study a total of 122 RA patients who fulfilled the 1987 American College of Rheu...

One of sheet severe plastic deformation (SPD) operation, namely constrained groove pressing (CGP), is investigated here in order to specify the optimum values for geometrical variables of this process on pure aluminium sheets. With this regard, two different objective functions, i.e. the uniformity in the effective strain distribution and the necessary force per unit weight of the specimen, are...

the problems of land degradation and soil loss are among the major problems of watersheds in iran. for erosion andsediment estimation one can use statistical and empirical methods. for doing this, land unit map and the map of effectivefactors should be prepared. for erosion and sediment estimation one can use statistical and empirical methods. however,these empirical methods are usually time co...