Carpal tunnel syndrome belongs to the most common causative factors of surgical interventions in the wrist region. Anatomy of carpal tunnel and median nerve is a subject of current revision. Authors paid attention to etiology of the syndrome based on review of literature and their own anatomical studies. They remind basic knowledge on the median nerve and indicate that only based on number of d...

Cutaneous melanomas has become one of the most discussed and studied tumor because its particular immunologic development but also its increasing rate worldwide in the last decades. Even thought many patients are diagnosed at an early stage, the death rate continues to rise due to the increasing incidence of more advanced lesions. The aim of this study is to detect apoptosis in 30 cases of cuta...

AIMS Keratinocyte apoptosis is a major pathogenic mechanism in dermal complications, such as graft versus host disease (GVHD), after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. However, the mechanisms by which recipient target cells undergo apoptosis in GVHD are still unclear, but may result from DNA damage caused by chemotherapeutic agents and/or by direct cytokine action. The basis of this invest...

Introduction: We aimed to study the effects of different CO2  pressures on expression of P33 gene and apoptosis in liver and spleen cells during CO2 pneumoperitoneum.  Methods: This study was performed on 30 male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing between 280 and 340 g (procured from Tehran Pasteur Institute’s animal house). They were randomly divided into 3 equal groups. Groups 1 a...