introduction: knee osteoarthrosis is one of the most debilitating diseases. prolotherapy includes intraarticular injection of various drugs to decrease inflammation. injection of intradiscal o2-o3 has reduced pain and disability of patients with low back pain due to prolapsed lumbar disk. objective: to compare the effect of intraarticular injection of ozone and steroids in improvement of clinic...

neuroinflammation is inflammation of the nervous tissue. it be initiated in response to infection, toxic metabolites, auto immunity, traumatic brain injury and variety of causes. exercise is a promising mechanism of prevention and treatment for disease characterized by neuroinflammation. the benefits of exercise and physical activity (pa) are well known and have effects on function of the centr...

leptadenia reticulata was reported to be used for several medicinal purposes. the present study was undertaken to evaluate anti-inflammatory, analgesic and lipid peroxidation inhibition activities of l. reticulata. the anti-inflammatory assay was performed by λ-carrageenan and formalin induced paw edema test. pro inflammatory mediators (il2, il6, tnf-α) in serum of treated and control organism ...

this study evaluated the effects of mesobuthus eupeus (me) scorpion venom on inflammatory response following injection. additionally, the present study examined whether immunotherapy at specific time intervals would be effective on inflammatory response after me venom inoculation. animals were divided randomly into four groups: the first group received ld50 of venom and the second and third gro...

introduction:to evaluate the role of allergic-type and infectious-type cytokines in children with chronic otitis media with effusion (ome) materials and methods:we investigated serum levels of interleukins (il)-4, il-5, and il-13, along with interferon-gamma (ifn-γ) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (tnf-α), by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) in 35 children with ome and 28 healthy contr...

this study was designed to examine the antidepressant effect of celecoxib (200 mg/day) augmentation of sertraline in the treatment of female patients with first episode of major depression over 8 weeks of therapy.thirty female outpatients diagnosed with first episode of major depression, were recruited for this study. participants were randomly assigned into two equal groups receiving either se...

analyzing the synovial fluid is one of the common methods to diagnose the articular problems to detect the stage and express the prognosis. such gross, cytological, and biochemical analysis of synovial fluids can aid in the diagnosis of various joint diseases. objectives: normal values for synovial fluid in the camels have been described previously; however, there are no reports regarding conce...