Publications by authors named "Mohammad Ranaee"

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  • Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is a prevalent type of cancer, and this study focused on examining the relationship between galectin-3 expression and various clinical factors in RCC patients.
  • A total of 71 patient samples were analyzed for galectin-3 levels through immunohistochemistry, revealing that most patients were male and the majority had clear cell carcinoma.
  • The findings suggested that while there was a significant difference in galectin-3 expression between genders, other factors like age and tumor characteristics showed no significant associations, indicating the complexity of galectin's role and the need for more extensive research.
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Background: Having a weakened immune system can make patients easily get nosocomial infection (NI) with multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria and put them in a dangerous situation. It causes long hospital stays, disability, economic burden, and even death. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of NI in patients suffering from COVID-19.

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Introduction: Breast cancer is a severe life-threatening condition in which many women are involved yearly. One factor that has recently been noticed and investigated as a diagnostic predictor of this type of cancer is the number of tumor buds and the relation of this factor with a patient's survival rate.

Materials And Methods: This study includes 150 female patients over 18 years old with a mean age of 53.

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Placental mesenchymal dysplasia (PMD) is an uncommon placental lesion, which may mimic molar pregnancy at gross and microscopic examination. PMD can be associated with fetal growth restriction, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, intrauterine fetal death, and preterm delivery. Nonetheless, it may also be associated with a normal appearing fetus.

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In the worldwide medical literature, only one case of inlet patch shows a kissing pattern on endoscopy. This article describes a 69-year-old female patient who came to the gastroenterology clinic, Rohani hospital, Babol University of Medical Sciences (Iran) for an examination for indigestion. Endoscopy showed two polyps in the background of a maroon patch just below the upper esophageal sphincter, oppositely positioned in view of the kissing pattern, and extending into muscular mucosa and regional lymph nodes.

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Introduction: The microenvironment of solid tumors such as breast cancer is heterogeneous and complex, containing different types of cell, namely, cancer stem cells and immune cells. We previously reported the immunoregulatory behavior of the human immune cell in a solid tumor microenvironment-like culture under serum starvation stress for 96 h. Here, we examined the effect of this culture-derived solution on breast cancer development in rats.

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It is very rare for colorectal neoplasms to metastasize to the heart in the worldwide medical literature; only a single case of well-documented colorectal cancer metastasis to the left atrium was found. The case of a 66-year-old man is explained in this paper, who was suffering from metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon that included the left atrium. In transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, a large multilobulated mass was present in the left atrium.

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Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) is the cause of approximately 80% of Merkel cell carcinomas (MCC). The common types of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) including squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC) are histologically similar to MCC. In the present study, 58 NMSC formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue (FFPE) samples including 12 SCC, 46 BCC, and 58 FFPE samples of adjacent non-tumoral margins as the control were included.

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Introduction: Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-associated gastric cancer is a distinct molecular subtype of gastrointestinal carcinomas as defined by the Cancer Genome Atlas.

Methods: In the present study 237 samples from Iranian patients diagnosed with gastric cancer and gastroduodenal disease were retrospectively examined for EBV infection by quantitative Real-Time PCR.

Results: Of the 237 samples tested, EBV DNA was detected in 37 samples (15.

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Interleukin (IL)-35 and IL-37 are two anti-inflammatory cytokines. IL-35 inhibits the development of T-effector cells such as Th1, and Th17; while increasing regulatory T cells (Tregs). IL-37 causes the suppression of inflammatory cytokines.

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This study aimed to evaluate the possible protective effects of quercetin, a natural flavonoid, against nephrotoxicity induced by Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) in kidney tissue of rats and human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cell line. The HEK-293 cells were treated with different concentrations of quercetin 24 h before treatment with monoethylhexyl phthalate (MEHP). Male rats were treated with 200-mg/kg DEHP, 200-mg/kg DEHP plus quercetin (50 and 100 mg/kg), and 200-mg/kg DEHP plus vitamin E (20 mg/kg) for 45 days by gavage.

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The present study aimed to formulate atorvastatin niosome (Atrosome) through an ultrasonic technique and to determine its contribution to the extent of wound healing in an animal model. The optimized Atrosome formulation (Atrosome-2) was stable at 4 °C for 3 months. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), ATR-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) analysis revealed that atorvastatin (ATR) was well encapsulated within the niosomes either in a stabilized amorphous form or a molecularly dispersed state.

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Background & Objective: The aim of this study was to measure serum pentraxin 3 (PTX3) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and compare it with the control group.

Methods: In this case-control study, 60 patients with MI (±ST-segment elevation) were included in the case group , and those with symptoms suspicious for coronary artery disease (CAD) and with no abnormal findings in angiography and troponin I level less than 99th percentile of normal population were included as a control group (=30). Serum PTX3 and troponin I were measured.

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Despite considerable progress in gastric cancer screening, prevention, and treatment, it remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Due to late diagnosis of the disease, early potential diagnostic biomarkers are needed. Accumulating evidence indicates that non-coding RNAs have potential applications as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in gastric cancer.

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  • - This study addresses the challenge of early diagnosis in gastric cancer by using next-generation RNA sequencing to examine gene expression in tumor and non-tumor tissue samples from patients with early-stage gastric cancer.
  • - The results showed that 5 genes were upregulated while 234 were downregulated in cancerous tissues, revealing significant alterations in various biological pathways related to gastric health and disease.
  • - The findings suggest that the identified genes and pathways could lead to new diagnostic biomarkers for early detection of gastric cancer, highlighting the potential of RNA sequencing in cancer research.
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Background: Bilateral synchronous testis germ cell tumors with different histopathology are not common.

Case Presentation: Here, a case of 27-year-old male who is reported presented with bilateral testicular swellings. There was a high α-fetoprotein level with bilateral lesions on scrotal Ultrasonography.

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The most common mesenchymal tumours of the uterine corpus originate from smooth muscle cells. Leiomyomas are commonly found in women of child bearing age; however, leiomyosarcomas occur later in life (50-55 years of age). Most uterine leiomyosarcomas occur de novo, but rare cases of leiomyosarcomas that arise from leiomyomas have been reported.

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Background: Despite decades of epidemiologic and histopathologic investigations, the association between JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) infection and colorectal cancer (CRC) remains controversial.

Objective: This study tested the presence of JCPyV sequences and determined the viral load in a series of colorectal samples from Iranian patients. In total, 223 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples from patients diagnosed with primary and metastatic CRC as well as with nonneoplastic inflamed colon mucosa were analyzed by quantitative real-time PCR for the presence of JCPyV large tumor antigen (LT-Ag) sequences.

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Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and its main metabolite, monoethylhexyl phthalic acid (MEHP), are a serious threat to human and animals' health in the current century. However, their exact mechanism to induce nephrotoxicity is not clear. In the current study, we addressed toxic effects of MEHP and DEHP on embryonic human kidney cells (HEK-293 cell line) and kidney tissue of rats, respectively.

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Background: Primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the kidney (MFH) is an extremely rare tumor which is indistinguishable from its' mimics in particular renal cell carcinoma (RCC) by clinical features and preoperative imaging evaluation. Due to its high predilection to local recurrence and distant metastases, early diagnosis has great value.

Case Presentation: Herein, we describe a 62 year-old man with a 3-month history of abdominal discomfort and a palpable right loin mass whom computerized tomography (CT) showed a large heterogeneous solid mass in the right kidney.

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Background: (HP) infection is one of the hypothesized infectious etiologies of gastric cancer (GC) and other gastroduodenal diseases. It was suggested that other infectious agents, including oncogenic viruses, may increase the risk of gastroduodenal diseases. A number of reports regarding JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) have shown that JCPyV could be implicated in colorectal cancer and gastrointestinal carcinogenesis.

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  • Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer death globally, linked to various genetic changes, including the CYLD tumor suppressor gene.
  • This study is the first to examine how the CYLD promoter's CpG island methylation affects its expression in gastric adenocarcinoma using tissue samples.
  • Results show that CYLD expression is significantly reduced in cancer tissues compared to normal ones, with further impacts from infections like H. pylori and EBV linked to changes in methylation levels and CYLD expression.
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Helicobacter pylori and Epstein-Barr virus are well established infections for gastric cancer development. However, the role of cytomegalovirus alone or in combination with other infections is unclear. In this case-control study, the prevalence of different infections was evaluated, and their frequency was compared with clinicopathologic features among gastric cancer patients and normal volunteers from 2012 to 2017.

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Introduction: Smoking is the most important etiologic factor of oral cancer. Exfoliative cytology is the best method for early detection of oral cancer. Toluidine blue staining is used for detection of oral premalignant and malignant lesions.

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