background: different investigation showed that 5-methoxypsoralen and 8- methoxypsoralen reduce birth rates in the rats. objective: in this study we worked out the effect of methoxsalen together with ultraviolent a (uva) radiation on mature balb/c mice spermatogenesis. materials and methods: the ld50 standard was determined 160 mg/kg and the uva dose which causes erythema was calculated 0.046 j...

background: methamphetamine (ma) is a potent psychomotor stimulant with high abuse and addictive potential. ma is a neurotoxic drug which is widely abused by females of childbearing age, raising serious public health concerns in terms of exposure of the fetus to the drug. neurotoxic effects of ma on adult are well known, such as dopaminergic nerve terminal degeneration and cell death in regions...

purpose : to evaluate the visual results of amblyopic therapy in pediatric patients with monocular abnormalities. methods : the hospital records of visually immature patients with unilateral organic ocular abnormalities and decreased visual acuity, who presented to the pediatric ophthalmology clinic over a one year period, were reviewed. those who had 8 years old of age or less and underwent am...

a study of the relationship between the disorder of glucose metabolism and ischemic heart disease was performed on 122 patients and 100 controls in loghman-dowleh adham’s medical center in tehran. the gtt abnormality was found in only 8% of the control group while for the patients with the heart ischemia the prevalence was 62.3%. prevalence of glucose metabolic disorder among men with acute myo...

objective: approximately 15-20% of clinically recognizable pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion. the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities in those abortions is as high as 50%.a modest but clinically important proportion of spontaneous abortions is caused by a balanced chromosomal aberration in one of the parents. this results from the production of gametes and embryos with unbalanced chrom...