abstract background and aims: cervical cancer is among leading causes of cancer related death in women and human papilloma virus (hpv) is one of the important risk factor of this cancer. the aim of the present study was to develop a pcr method for identification of a high carcinogenic type of hpv, hpv 18 using e6 gene as a marker in patients with cervical cancer materials and methods: 92 formal...

the aim of this study was to ascertain the prevalence of human papillomavirus (hpv) 16/18 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc) and normal oral mucosa in iranian individuals with oscc and their association with various risk factors. the investigation followed a hospital-based case-control design. cases were individuals with diagnosed oscc, age- and sex-matched with controls. sixty-six paraffin...

objective(s): to investigate the expression of human papilloma virus (hpv) l1 capsid protein, and human telomerase rna component (hterc) in cervical cancer and the role of detection of both genes in screening of cervical cancer.   materials and methods: a total of 309 patients were recruited and cervical exfoliated cells were collected. immunocytochemistry was employed to detect hpv l1 capsid p...

background human papillomavirus (hpv) is associated with various benign and malignant lesions including genital condyloma and anogenital cancer. the presence of hpv-dna was studied in archival biopsies of high- and intermediate-risk lesions for cervical carcinoma in women referred to mirza hospital in tehran. patients and methods totally, 105 iranian archived biopsies collected during february ...

results out of 140 samples of oca, 70 (50%) samples were malignant cancer and 70 (50%) were benign cancer as the control group. out of 70 malignant samples 25 (36.0%) were hpv-16 positive. 2.8% of the tissue samples of the control group were positive for hpv-16. conclusions these results show a feasible role of hpv-16 in the carcinogenesis of oca. according to these results, infection with hpv ...

human papilloma virus (hpv) infection is a very common infection of skin and mucosa of children and adults (1- 6).anogenital warts are a common type of hpv infection in sexually active adults, however it is seen in any age. the importance of presence of genital warts is different between adults and children in respect to differential diagnosis, associations, complications and also treatment opt...

  Objective(s): To investigate the expression of human papilloma virus (HPV) L1 capsid protein, and human telomerase RNA component (hTERC) in cervical cancer and the role of detection of both genes in screening of cervical cancer.   Materials and Methods: A total of 309 patients were recruited and cervical exfoliated cells were collected. Immunocytochemistry was employed to detect HPV L1 capsid...