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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ali Mohammad Parviniannasab, Fatemeh Dehghani, Seyyed Ali Hosseini
BACKGROUND: Self-management behaviours are critical for patients requiring regular hemodialysis (HD) therapy. This study aimed to test the relationship between social support, uncertainty and self-management among HD patients and to explore whether hope plays a mediating role. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, a convenience sample of 212 HD patients from two hospitals completed the Perceived Social Support Scale (PSSS), Herth Hope Index (HHI), Short form Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale (SF-MUIS), and hemodialysis Self-Management Instrument (HD-SMI)...
April 12, 2024: BMC Nephrology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Morteza Arasnezhad, Mohammad Namazinia, Seyyed Reza Mazlum, Kheizaran Miri
BACKGROUND: Considering no previous research into the utilization of ascending/descending ultrafiltration and linear sodium profiles in improving blood pressure among hemodialysis patients, the present study aimed to explore the effect of the A/D-UF along with linear sodium profiles on HD patients with hypotension. METHODS: Applying a crossover design, this clinical trial was fulfilled between December 2022 and June 2023 on 20 patients undergoing HD, randomized into two groups, each one receiving two intervention protocols, viz...
April 11, 2024: BMC Nephrology
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REVIEW
Seyyed Hadi Jabali, Shahram Yazdani, Hamid Pourasghari, Mohammadreza Maleki
BACKGROUND: The use of research evidence in policy making is a complex and challenging process that has a long history in various fields, especially in healthcare. Different terms and concepts have been used to describe the relationship between research and policy, but they often lack clarity and consensus. To address this gap, several strategies and models have been proposed to facilitate evidence informed policy making and to identify the key factors and mechanisms involved. This study aims to critically review the existing models of evidence informed policy making (EIPM) in healthcare and to assess their strengths and limitations...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Seyed Mohammadmisagh Moteshakereh, Hooshmand Zarei, Miad Nosratpour, Mana Zaker Moshfegh, Proushat Shirvani, Alireza Mirahmadi, Mahyar Mahdavi, Reza Minaei Noshahr, Mehrdad Farrokhi, Seyyed Morteza Kazemi
BACKGROUND: Despite vigorous efforts to delineate the efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of meniscal ramp lesions, there is still a great deal of uncertainty regarding its diagnostic performance. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the diagnostic performance of MRI for detecting ramp lesions in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-deficient knees. METHODS: We performed a systematic search of MEDLINE via PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase and included all articles, published before October 20, 2022, comparing the accuracy of MRI with that of arthroscopy as the gold standard for diagnosis of ramp lesions...
April 9, 2024: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Majid Saeedi, Katayoun Morteza-Semnani, Jafar Akbari, Zohreh Hajheydari, Amin Goodarzi, Seyyed Sohrab Rostamkalaei, Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Hashemi, Seyyed Mobin Rahimnia
PURPOSE: Spironolactone (SPN), which is classified as an anti-androgen, has demonstrated efficacy in treating acne. This study aimed to utilize ultrasonication to create a chitosan-coated nano lipid carrier (NLC) for enhancing the delivery of SPN to the skin and treating acne. METHODS: Various hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) values were investigated to optimize the SPN-NLCs. Photon correlation spectroscopy, attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were employed to characterize the solid state of SPN in nanoparticle form...
March 2024: Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Norozipor, Mehdi Bamorovat, Seyyed Amin Ayatollahi Mosavi, Ehsan Salarkia, Sanaz Hadizadeh, Fatemeh Sharifi, Ali Karamoozian, Mehdi Ranjbar, Setareh Agha Kuchak Afshari
INTRODUCTION: Since the drug resistance in Candida species is becoming a serious clinical challenge, novel alternative therapeutic options, particularly herbal medicine, have attracted increasing interest. This study aimed to pinpoint the potential antifungal activity of crocin (Cro), the efficacy of the niosomal formulation of Cro (NCro), and the synergistic activity of both formulations in combination with fluconazole (FLC) against susceptible and resistant C. albicans isolates. MATERIAL AND METHODS: NCro was formulated using the heating method...
April 3, 2024: Journal de Mycologie Médicale
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leila Hosseinzadeh Anvar, Seyyed Ebrahim Moosavi, Saeid Charsouei, Narges Zeinalzadeh, Masoud Nikanfar, Ali Ahmadalipour
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is an intricate network consisting of receptors, enzymes, and endogenous ligands that play a pivotal role in various neurological processes. It has been implicated in the pathophysiology of several neurological disorders, including epilepsy. Extensive research has demonstrated the involvement of genetic factors in influencing the susceptibility to and progression of epilepsy. In this study, we focused on investigating the connection between genetic variations in genes related to the ECS and the occurrence of epilepsy...
April 5, 2024: Molecular Neurobiology
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Shayan Amiri, Alireza Mirahmadi, Ava Parvandi, Pooya Hosseini-Monfared, Reza Minaei Noshahr, Seyyed Mehdi Hoseini, Seyed Morteza Kazemi
OBJECTIVES: The medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury is one of the possible complications of primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA), which can lead to coronal-plane instability that requires surgical revision. Injured MCL can result in joint instability and polyethylene wear. Different strategies have been proposed for MCL reconstruction based on the location of the injury. However, there is a lack of clarity regarding the optimal method for handling an iatrogenic MCL injury throughout a TKA...
2024: Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fahimeh Firouzjaie, Niloofar Taghipour, Amir Ahmad Akhavan, Seyyed Javad Seyyed Tabaei, Soheila Rouhani, Maryam Shirazian, Ameneh Koochaki, Mahboubeh Fatemi, Nariman Mosaffa, Vahideh Moin Vaziri
BACKGROUND: Leishmaniasis as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) is caused by the inoculation of Leishmania parasites via the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. After an infected bite, a series of innate and adaptive immune responses occurs, among which neutrophils can be mentioned as the initiators. Among the multiple functions of these fighting cells, neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) were studied in the presence of Leishmania major promastigotes and salivary gland homogenates (SGH) of Phlebotomus papatasi alone, and in combination to mimic natural conditions of transmission...
April 4, 2024: BMC Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Seyyed Ali Hosseini, Isaac Shiri, Pardis Ghaffarian, Ghasem Hajianfar, Atlas Haddadi Avval, Milad Seyfi, Stijn Servaes, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Habib Zaidi, Mohammad Reza Ay
PURPOSE: This study aimed to examine the robustness of positron emission tomography (PET) radiomic features extracted via different segmentation methods before and after ComBat harmonization in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS: We included 120 patients (positive recurrence = 46 and negative recurrence = 74) referred for PET scanning as a routine part of their care. All patients had a biopsy-proven NSCLC. Nine segmentation methods were applied to each image, including manual delineation, K-means (KM), watershed, fuzzy-C-mean, region-growing, local active contour (LAC), and iterative thresholding (IT) with 40, 45, and 50% thresholds...
April 4, 2024: Annals of Nuclear Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nejat Mahdieh, Morteza Heidari, Zahra Rezaei, Ali Reza Tavasoli, Sareh Hosseinpour, Maryam Rasulinejad, Ali Zare Dehnavi, Masoud Ghahvechi Akbari, Reza Shervin Badv, Elahe Vafaei, Ali Mohebbi, Pouria Mohammadi, Seyyed Mohammad Mahdi Hosseiny, Reza Azizimalamiri, Ali Nikkhah, Elham Pourbakhtyaran, Mohammad Rohani, Narges Khanbanha, Sedigheh Nikbakht, Mojtaba Movahedinia, Parviz Karimi, Homa Ghabeli, Seyed Ahmad Hosseini, Fatemeh Sadat Rashidi, Masoud Garshasbi, Morteza Rezvani Kashani, Noor M Ghiasvand, Stephan Zuchner, Matthis Synofzik, Mahmoud Reza Ashrafi
BACKGROUND: To investigate the genetics of early-onset progressive cerebellar ataxia in Iran, we conducted a study at the Children's Medical Center (CMC), the primary referral center for pediatric disorders in the country, over a three-year period from 2019 to 2022. In this report, we provide the initial findings from the national registry. METHODS: We selected all early-onset patients with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance to assess their phenotype, paraclinical tests, and genotypes...
April 3, 2024: Human Genomics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mohsen Fattahi, Saeed Ebrahimi, Masoud Rahimi, Maryam Gonbadi, Seyyed Hossein Hosseini, Goodarz Ahmadi
This work presents a comprehensive study of the combustion performance of an industrial furnace in an olefin plant using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The focus was on analyzing the heat release pattern of bottom burners to optimize the furnace efficiency in steam-cracking processes. The study developed an accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for predicting combustion behavior in a cracking furnace. The computational model was validated by comparing the simulation results with industrial data and was used to investigate the impact of burner clogging and the importance of small holes in the body of burners in the furnace...
March 26, 2024: ACS Omega
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Asghar Eskandarinia, Mohammad Hossein Morowvat, Seyyed Vahid Niknezhad, Moloud Amini Baghbadorani, Martin Michálek, Si Chen, Mohammad Mahdi Nemati, Manica Negahdaripour, Reza Heidari, Amir Azadi, Younes Ghasemi
The enormous potential of multifunctional bilayer wound dressings in various medical interventions for wound healing has led to decades of exploration into this field of medicine. However, it is usually difficult to synthesize a single hydrogel with all the required capabilities simultaneously. This paper proposes a bilayer model with an outer layer intended for hydrogel wound treatment. By adding gelatin methacrylate (GelMA) and tannic acid (TA) to the hydrogel composition and using polyvinyl alcohol-carboxymethyl chitosan (PVA-CMCs) foam layer as supports, a photocrosslinkable hydrogel with an optimal formulation was created...
March 28, 2024: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
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Ali Sadeghianmaryan, Nivad Ahmadian, Sydney Wheatley, Hamed Alizadeh Sardroud, Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Nasrollah, Emad Naseri, Ali Ahmadi
This review investigates the most recent advances in personalized 3D-printed wound dressings and skin scaffolding. Skin is the largest and most vulnerable organ in the human body. The human body has natural mechanisms to restore damaged skin through several overlapping stages. However, the natural wound healing process can be rendered insufficient due to severe wounds or disturbances in the healing process. Wound dressings are crucial in providing a protective barrier against the external environment, accelerating healing...
March 27, 2024: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
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REVIEW
Mahsa Mahdizadeh, Nadia Heydari, Afsaneh Shafiei, Hamideh Akbari, Seyyed Mehdi Jafari
Adenosine receptors are important in the normal physiological function of cells and the pathogenesis of various cancer cells, including breast cancer cells. The activity of adenosine receptors in cancer cells is related to cell proliferation, angiogenesis, metastasis, immune system evasion, and interference with apoptosis. Considering the different roles of adenosine receptors in cancer cells, we intend to investigate the function of adenosine receptors and their biological pathways in breast cancer to improve understanding of therapeutically relevant signaling pathways...
March 29, 2024: Molecular Biology Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhongmian Fan, Lingxiao Wang, Changjun Liu, Seyyed Amirreza Abdollahi
This article employs a plate with V-shape ribs inside a tube as turbulator to augment the heat transfer rate. The utilized vortex generators are double-winglets arranged in a V-shape placed on both sides of the plate. The proposed system's suggested working fluids are water-based hybrid nanofluids, including Al2 O3 -Cu/water, Cu-CuO/water, and Cu-TiO2 /water. This work involves a numerical evaluation of the effects of the type and volume concentration of the examined hybrid nanofluids on the enhancement of heat transfer...
March 28, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amir Hossein Sadeghi, Seyyed Ali Ahmadi, Abbas Ghodrati-Torbati
BACKGROUND: Clinical symptoms and treatment adherence are one of the most important problems in dialysis patients. Psychological treatments can be effective in reducing the problems of these patients. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on clinical symptoms and treatment adherence in these patients. MATERIALS AND METHOD: This study was a quasi-experimental study with the experimental and control groups in the dialysis clinic of Torbat-e Heydarieh City in 2012...
2024: Journal of Education and Health Promotion
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Akindayo Olufunto Akinyamoju, Seyi John Akinloye, Robinson Obos Okiti, Bukola Folasade Adeyemi
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: Fibro-osseous lesions (FLs), may rarely exhibit malignant features likewise undergo malignant transformation. Awareness of these features can assist in screening for potentially malignant cases and identifying low-grade central osteogenic sarcoma (LGCOS) that may mimic FLs. PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to determine the usability of an index in predicting malignant changes in jaw FLs. MATERIALS AND METHOD: This was a retrospective study where hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides and archival records of fibrous dysplasia (FD) and ossifying fibroma (OF) cases were reviewed...
March 2024: Journal of Dentistry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paria Sefeedpari, Seyyed Hassan Pishgar-Komleh, Andre J A Aarnink
This paper describes a model for the prediction of methane and ammonia emissions from fattening pig houses. This model was validated with continuous and discrete measurements using a reference method from two manure management systems (MMS): long storage (LS) in deep pits and short storage (SS) by daily flushing of a shallow pit with sloped walls and partial manure dilution. The average calculated methane and ammonia emissions corresponded well with the measured values. Based on the calculated and measured results, the average calculated CH4 emission (18...
March 20, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alpha Oumar Diallo, Maja E Marcus, David Flood, Michaela Theilmann, Nicholas E Rahim, Alan Kinlaw, Nora Franceschini, Til Stürmer, Dessie V Tien, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Kokou Agoudavi, Glennis Andall-Brereton, Krishna Aryal, Silver Bahendeka, Brice Bicaba, Pascal Bovet, Maria Dorobantu, Farshad Farzadfar, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Gladwell Gathecha, David Guwatudde, Mongal Gurung, Corine Houehanou, Dismand Houinato, Nahla Hwalla, Jutta Jorgensen, Gibson Kagaruki, Khem Karki, Joao Martins, Mary Mayige, Roy Wong McClure, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Omar Mwalim, Kibachio Joseph Mwangi, Bolormaa Norov, Sarah Quesnel-Crooks, Abla Sibai, Lela Sturua, Lindiwe Tsabedze, Chea Wesseh, Pascal Geldsetzer, Rifat Atun, Sebastian Vollmer, Till Bärnighausen, Justine Davies, Mohammed K Ali, Jacqueline A Seiglie, Emily W Gower, Jennifer Manne-Goehler
The prevalence of multiple age-related cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors is high among individuals living in low- and middle-income countries. We described receipt of healthcare services for and management of hypertension and diabetes among individuals living with these conditions using individual-level data from 55 nationally representative population-based surveys (2009-2019) with measured blood pressure (BP) and diabetes biomarker. We restricted our analysis to non-pregnant individuals aged 40-69 years and defined three mutually exclusive groups (i...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health
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