Publications by authors named "Amir Mohammad Sharafi"

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  • - Cancer is a major global health issue, impacting many lives both physically and financially, with traditional treatments like chemotherapy showing benefits but also significant drawbacks, such as high costs and side effects.
  • - Recent research has shifted focus to natural compounds that may effectively inhibit the STAT3 signaling pathway, which is crucial for cancer cell growth and immune response.
  • - This article aims to review the latest findings on how various organic compounds can target and inhibit STAT3 to potentially improve cancer treatment options.
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Background: The expansion of the availability of advanced imaging methods needs more time, expertise, and resources which is in contrast to the primary goal of the imaging techniques. To overcome most of these difficulties, artificial intelligence (AI) can be used. A number of studies used AI models for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis and reported diverse results.

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Current first-line treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD), i.e., antidepressant drugs and psychotherapy, show delayed onset of therapeutic effect as late as 2-3 weeks or more.

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Background: In recent years Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are rapidly evolving into clinical practices such as diagnosis and prognosis processes, assess treatment effectiveness, and monitoring of diseases. The previous studies showed interesting results regarding the diagnostic efficiency of AI methods in differentiating Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients from healthy controls or other demyelinating diseases. There is a great lack of a comprehensive systematic review study on the role of AI in the diagnosis of MS.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a paralytic, heterogeneous and progressive disease characterized by the degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons. Several studies about the effects of statins drug on the risk of ALS showed contradictory results and evidence for this is inconclusive. So we aimed to perform a meta-analysis on previous studies to clarify the association between statin use and risk of ALS.

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