Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 8 weeks of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and vitamin D3 supplementation on Chemokine (C-C motif) Ligand 5 (CCL-5) and C-C motif chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) in the white adipose tissue (WAT) of male rats with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).
Materials And Methods: The experimental study involved 40 male Wistar rats divided into 5 groups (n=8). These groups were healthy control (HC), diabetic control (DC), diabetic+HIIT (DHIIT), diabetic+vitamin D3 (DD3), and diabetic+HIIT+vitamin D3 (DHIITD3).
Prolonged use of personal protective equipment can cause pressure injuries on the skin. The current study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of ChitoHeal gel on the nasal site on the prevention of N 95 masks that caused pressure injuries in nurses working in intensive care units. This is a randomised controlled clinical trial that was conducted in 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: infections are suggested as causes of a number of pathological outcomes in pregnant women. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of infections among pregnant women and its association with spontaneous abortion.
Methods: In this case-control study we included 109 women with spontaneous abortion with a gestational age of 10-20 weeks (patients), and 109 women with normal pregnancy with a gestational age of 20-37 weeks (controls) in Sanandaj, Iran.