Publications by authors named "P Akhbari"
Background: A child health-friendly neighbourhood is defined as a neighbourhood where the child's health is provided, protected and promoted. Designing and validation of an assessment tool is required to identify the deficits and strengths of neighbourhoods within the context of each country. This study aimed to design and validate a child health-friendly neighbourhood assessment tool in Tehran.
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- Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) is a long-lasting inflammatory disease affecting the mouth, linked to a higher risk of cancer, and its current diagnosis methods are invasive, highlighting the need for non-invasive diagnostic markers.
- This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to explore salivary microRNAs as potential, non-invasive biomarkers for OLP diagnosis by analyzing various studies to identify specific, differentially expressed microRNAs.
- Results indicated that salivary microRNAs had a high pooled sensitivity (80%) and specificity (89%) for diagnosing OLP, with unstimulated saliva proving more effective than oral swirl samples in distinguishing patients.
Objectives: Creating health-supportive environments is one of the key strategies for health promotion. The WHO launched the Healthy Cities Initiative which has inspired other international organisations to develop settings-based health initiatives, such as the Child Friendly Cities by UNICEF. Our study aimed to explore the perspectives and experiences of experts, city council staff and mothers of children under 6 years of age in the city of Tehran, Iran regarding child health-friendly neighbourhoods for children of this age group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study compared the expression of TP53 in lymphocytes from malignant melanoma (MM) patients with positive sentinel nodes to healthy controls (HCs) following exposure to various doses of UVA radiation. The Lymphocyte Genome Sensitivity (LGS) assay indicated significant differences in DNA damage in lymphocytes between MM patients and HCs. qPCR data demonstrated an overall 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe evaluation of joint disease using synovial fluid is an emerging field of metabolic profiling. The analysis is challenged by multiple macromolecules which can obscure the small molecule chemistry. The use of protein precipitation and extraction has been evaluated previously, but not in synovial fluid.
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