Thid article is a retrospective study on 37 patients with Crohn's disease, who have been admitted at Taleghani and Day general hospital during the past 14 years. This chronic inflammatory disease of gastrointestinal tract which is common in western world, had been rare in eastern countries including Iran until 30 years ago. The object of this study is to show the increasing incidence of Crohn'...

BACKGROUND Data exploring the potential use of effector molecules produced by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in the immunodiagnostics of tuberculosis (TB) are scarce. The present study focused a) to gain an insight into the discriminatory power of CTLs in patients with acute pulmonary or extra-pulmonary TB, or latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI); and b) to evaluate the influence of various ant...

during some decades ago, iran hosted much more afghan refugees. different researches, content analyses of speeches, legislatives interviews and different social news show that negative emotions toward afghans exist among some part of people and legislatives, so that they recognize afghans as criminals. therefore, the purpose of this study was social construction of these negative emotions forma...