Uterine cervical cancer is caused, mostly, by persistent infection with some types of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), with types 16 and 18 showing higher risk for developing the disease. Because there is no effective drug treatment, early diagnosis of cervical cancer is very important for prognosis. The objective of this paper is to review the current immunohistochemical markers used in diagnosis,...

The Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is an established model system used for the study of synaptic development and plasticity. The widespread use of the Drosophila motor system is due to its high accessibility. It can be analyzed with single-cell resolution. There are 30 muscles per hemisegment whose arrangement within the peripheral body wall are known. A total of 31 motor neurons attac...

background: colorectal tumor is one of the main causes of death in our country. the aim of the present study was to determine the clinicopathological aspects of tumor and the presence of hepatic micrometastasis in patients with colorectal cancer (crc). materials and methods: forty two patients with crc were evaluated in the study surgical treatment was performed and liver biopsy was taken for t...

in the february 2006 in two wetlands in northern iran, the mortality among wild swans was observed. paralysis was the most prominent feature of the disease. histologically, diffused necrosis of acinar cells in pancreas, degeneration and necrosis of some neurons in central nervous system (cns), sever necrotic and hemorrhagic enteritis, foci of haemorrahge and myocardial cell necrosis in the hear...

background and aims. odontogenic cysts and tumors have a wide spectrum of clinical characteristics that lead to the different management strategies. since definite diagnosis is difficult in some cases, it has been suggested that cd56 may be a candidate marker for definitive diagnosis of some odontogenic tumors. the present study was designed to examine cd56 expression in lesions with histopatho...

aggressive osteoblastoma (ao) is a benign osteoblastic tumor which is rare in the head and neck region. clinical and histological features are therefore overlap with other benign and low-grade malignant tumors. the aim of this article is to report and discuss the differential diagnosis of an aggressive osteoblastoma in the mandible. a 25-year-old male patient reported with pain and asymmetry on...

introduction: schwannoma, or neurilemmoma, is a benign neoplasm of schwann cells that is extremely rare in the soft palate. herein we present a case of a soft palate schwannoma presenting with an ulcerated surface and purplish colour in a 12 year-old girl. this report also introduces a successful surgical technique for coverage of the defect left by surgery.

background: metastasis and recurrence of colorectal cancer after treatment is attributed to stem cells. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the expression of stem cell marker cd166 in colorectal cancer by immunohistochemistry and clinicopathologic parameters.methods: from 2006 to 2012, 121 colectomy specimens of patients with colon cancer that were operated in babol ...

this is a report of a penile fibrosarcoma in a two-year-old crossbred holstein bull. the ulcerated tumormass with dimensions of 7 × 9 × 6.5 cm, was enveloped the glans and body of the penis. it had a white-graycolor at cross section appearance. there was no metastatic evidence of regional lymph node enlargement.histopathologically, elongated spindle-shaped cells arranged densely in the interwov...