OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the presence of abnormal oral reflexes and speech sound production in children with severe cerebral palsy. MATERIALS & METHODS Seven oral reflexes such as, rooting, mouth-opening, biting, chewing, lip, tongue, and suckling were examined in 52Persian-speaking monolingual children with spastic cerebral palsy (ages 5...

Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (Ox-LDL) plays an important role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis. Asp-hemolysin, a hemolytic toxin from Aspergillus fumigatus, is a specific, high affinity binding protein for Ox-LDL. We have previously shown that Ox-LDL strongly inhibits the hemolytic activity of Asp-hemolysin, and that the removal of lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC) from O...

Atherogenesis is associated with alterations in the properties of different cell types, including monocytes/macrophages (foam cell formation), platelets (increased aggregation), endothelial cells (injury), and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) (lipid accumulation or foam cell formation). Oxidized low density lipoproteins (ox-LDL) play a key role in this vascular pathology. This study investigated the ...

The mechanism(s) of inhibition of endothelium-dependent relaxation (EDR) by oxidized low-density lipoprotein (Ox-LDL) was examined in isolated porcine coronary arteries and rabbit aortas. Incubation with Ox-LDL but not native LDL caused the inhibition of thrombin- or acetylcholine-induced EDR, whereas A23187-induced EDR was preserved after incubation with Ox-LDL. Lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC...

BACKGROUND Facial involvement in psoriasis is accomplished with poor prognosis. In this study, clinical features and severity of psoriasis were compared between facial and nonfacial psoriasis involvement groups in Iran. It also evaluated these characteristics in different subtypes of facial psoriasis. METHODS One hundred and thirty- eight psoriatic patients having referred to our clinic enter...

Dyslipidemia and obesity are primary risk factors for the development of atherosclerosis and are also epidemiologically linked to increased susceptibility to a variety of cancers including breast cancer. One of the prominent features of dyslipidemia is enhanced production of oxidized LDL (ox-LDL), which has been shown to be implicated in key steps of atherogenesis including inflammatory signali...

Objective: To assess the oxidized low density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) to (LDL) ratio as an indicator of subclinical atherosclerosis in haemodialysis patients Methodology: This case control study was carried out at Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center Karachi, from January December 2018. The were selected dialysis center (group B) whereas controls recruited normal healthy population A). access statu...

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...