The Effectiveness of Home Water Purification Systems on the Amount of Fluoride in Drinking Water.

Statement Of The Problem: Water purification systems for domestic use have drawn significant attention over the past few years. This can be related to the improvement of public health and concern for water contamination.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether home water purification systems eliminate the essential materials such as fluoride besides filtrating the heavy ions and other unwanted particles out of water.

Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) involvement in human endometrial remodeling during the menstrual cycle.

Background: Endometrial remodeling occurs during each menstrual cycle in women. Reports have shown that, in a variety of cell types, processes such as proliferation, signaling complex formation and extra cellular matrix remodeling require a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase, focal adhesion kinase (FAK). The present study has focused on the expression pattern of FAK in human endometrium during the menstrual cycle.

The management of oral pemphigus vulgaris with systemic corticosteroid and dapsone.

Background And Aims: Oral pemphigus vulgaris is a chronic autoimmune mucocutaneous intraepi-thelial disease that primarily affects patients over the age of fifty, resulting in mucosal ulceration and is a potentially life-threatening disease. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of dap-sone in combination with systemic corticosteroids to treat the oral lesions of oral pemphigus.

Materials And Methods: Twenty patients diagnosed with oral pemphigus were selected.

The comparison of efficacy of adcortyl ointment and topical tacrolimus in treatment of erosive oral lichen planus.

Background And Aims: Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a common chronic mucocutaneous disease. Patients with atrophic and erosive lichen planus often have symptoms of soreness and need proper treatment. The main therapy of OLP has been the administration of topical or systemic corticosteroids.

Arterio-arterial prosthetic duct (AAD) as a vascular access in hemodialysis.

Vascular access (VA) is mainly a problem confronting patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). In some cases, peripheral veins are damaged or thrombosed because of repeated vein punctures and subsequent thrombophlebitis or accompanying ailments like diabetes or other kinds of vasculitis, making the use of conventional VA methods unsuitable. In this study, we present our experience using a synthetic vascular graft as an arterio-arterial duct (AAD) in the upper arm of patients undergoing HD, in whom other procedures had failed.