Publications by authors named "Koroosh Ahmadi"

Background: In recent years, the prevalence of poisoning has increased dramatically due to population growth and access to drugs and toxins. Today poisoning is one of the important reasons for visiting hospitals.

Aim: The present study aimed to investigate the effect of magnesium sulfate on organophosphorous toxicity.

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Background: Renal stones are the third common disease of the urinary system after infections and diseases of the prostate. One of the most common manifestations of this disease after acute pain is nausea and vomiting.

Aim: To compare the efficacy of metoclopramide and ondansetron in improving nausea and vomiting in patients referred to the emergency department with a chief complaint of nausea and vomiting.

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Current evidences have indicated that osteosarcoma is strongly associated with abnormal genetic and epigenetic changes that lead to the abnormal expression of oncogenes or methylation of tumor suppressor genes. In the present study, MACC1 and CDC5L mRNA levels in the patients with osteosarcoma were evaluated using quantitative real-time PCR. Our results demonstrated that CDC5L mRNA levels were higher in tumor tissues than in adjacent normal tissues (2.

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In order to evaluate the correlation of B7-H4 and B7-H1 with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), we analyzed B7-H1 and B7-H4 expressions and their clinical significance by immunohistochemical method. Our result indicated that B7-H4-positive staining was detected in 58.13 % of RCC tissues (25 tissues tumors), and there were 18 tissues of patients without detectable B7-H4.

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