background: to assess the endothelial function via noninvasive method, in pregnant women with preeclampsia compared to normotensive pregnant women. materials and methods: brachial artery diameter was measured via ultrasound, in 28 women with preeclampcia in case group and normotensive pregnant women in control group, at rest, after inflation of sphygmomanometer cuff up to 250-300 mmhg, immediat...

diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disorders in children. there is a close association between diabetes and other autoimmune disease especially thyroid disorders. as many as 20 percent of insulin dependent diabetic patients may have thyroid antibodies in their serum. the prevalence is 2-20 times greater than observed in normal populations. in this study, 122 patients with diabetes m...

‎we prove the existence of ppf dependent coincidence points for a pair of single-valued and multi-valued mappings satisfying generalized contractive conditions in banach spaces‎. ‎furthermore, the ppf dependent fixed point and ppf dependent common fixed point theorems for multi-valued mappings are proved.

background: beta thalassemia gene mutations are among common mutations in southwest iran. however, hemoglobin e (hb e) and hb e/β⁰ thalassemia account for a small number of hemoglobinopathies in iran. this is the first study to directly address the existence of hb e and consequently hb e/β⁰ thalassemia in southwest iran. methods: this retrospective study discovered seven cases of hb e/β⁰ thalas...

despite the role of oral corticosteroids in management of sever asthma, use of these drugs needs careful awareness of its many side effects. there are controversies about the role of methotrexate in lowering the need for corticosteroides in these patients. in this study an attempt has been made to determine methotrexate effects in corticosteroid dependent asthma. six patients were entered in a ...

the gastric cancer in iran is the fourth in the general population. this study was designed to determine the five-year survival rate of gastric cancer patients, and to assess its associated factors. we analyzed the data using a time-dependent covariates model, and recommend it for analyses of similar data. 281 gastric cancer patients with adenocarcinomatous pathology who had been operated on at...

this study investigates the effectiveness of the antinociceptive effects of diclofenac, an nsaid, on the nociceptive behavior of morphine-treated rats on formalin test.rats were treated with morphine-containing drinking water for twenty one days, which induced morphine dependence. the antinociceptive effects of 8, 16, and 32 mg/kg doses of diclofenac were then evaluated and compared with distil...