Efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell transplantation on major adverse cardiovascular events and cardiac function indices in patients with chronic heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Background: The effects of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on heart failure (HF) have been controversial. This study was conducted to investigate whether the transplantation of MSCs after HF could help improve clinical outcomes and myocardial performance indices.

Methods: Using a systematic approach, electronic databases were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which evaluated the transplantation of MSCs after HF.

Worldwide association of the gender inequality with the incidence and mortality of cervical, ovarian, endometrial, and breast cancers.

Background: There is a huge disparity in cancer incidence and mortality around the globe. A considerable share of this disparity can be explained by human development. Particularly in many less developed countries, women have been hindered in their human development.

The predictive association between radiological findings and lung cancer development in patients exposed to sulfur mustard gas: 4 decades follow up of 719 victims.

Background: Respiratory diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the survivors exposed to Sulfur Mustard (SM). The late abnormalities can be present as chronic bronchitis, tracheobronchial stenosis, asthma, bronchiectasis, airway narrowing, lung fibrosis, and lung cancers. This study aims to investigate the association between radiological findings and lung cancer development in patients exposed to sulfur mustard gas.

COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance in Iran, a Nationwide Survey on Factors Associated with the Willingness toward Getting Vaccinated.

Background: In the name of extensive vaccine uptake, understanding the public's attitude, perception, and intent toward COVID-19 vaccination is a significant challenge for public health officials.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey via an online questionnaire rooted in the Health Belief Model and Integrated Behavioral Model was conducted to evaluate COVID-19 vaccination intent and its associated factors. Factor analysis and multivariate logistic regression were operated to be satisfactory.

The effect of personal protective equipment on thermal stress: An experimental study on firefighters.

Background: Various parameters can affect the performance of firefighters. Thermal stress in firefighters is one of the most important harmful factors, which causes impaired performance and subsequent occupational accidents. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of personal protective equipment (PPE) on thermal stress in firefighters.

Evaluating the additive effect of Persica and chlorhexidine mouthwashes on oral health status of children receiving chemotherapy for their hematomalignancy: A randomized clinical trial.

Background: No definitive protocol has been introduced for treatment or prevention of chemotherapy induced mucositis. The aim of this study was to assess the additive effect of Persica and chlorhexidine on chemotherapy induced mucositis of children with hematomalignancies.

Material And Methods: This randomized clinical trial was performed on 44 children aged 6 to 12 years who were under a similar maintenance chemotherapy protocol for their hematomalignancies.

Aryl hydrocarbon-estrogen alpha receptor-dependent expression of miR-206, miR-27b, and miR-133a suppress cell proliferation and migration in MCF-7 cells.

The underlying functions of miR-206, miR-133a, miR-27b, and miR-21, and their link to the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) and aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) signaling pathways remain largely unexplored. In this study, we detect the expression of miR-206, miR-133a, miR-27b, and miR-21 in MCF-7 through quantificational real-time polymerase chain reaction assay along with the activation/inhibition of ERα and AhR receptors. Aside from this, cell proliferation and migration as well as AhR-dependent CYP1A1 enzyme activity were measured.

Relationships Between Hoffman Reflex Parameters, Trait Stress, and Athletic Performance.

This study evaluated the relationships between trait stress, Hoffman reflex, and performance among 36 healthy amateur male athletes. We first obtained a trait stress questionnaire from participants and then assigned them to high- and low-stress groups. We next recorded Hoffman reflex data from the soleus and lateral gastrocnemius muscles and then examined their athletic performance on testing protocols separated by a 72-hour washout period.

Partial replacement of left hemidiaphragm in dogs by either cryopreserved or decellularized heterograft patch.

Objectives: Large diaphragmatic defects are still a challenging issue for reconstruction using either synthetic prosthesis or bioprosthesis. To evaluate the possibility of using diaphragm allograft as a natural bioprosthesis in humans, we conducted a two-group study and compared cryopreserved and decellularized diaphragmatic heterograft patched in a canine model.

Methods: At the end of organ harvesting from a human donor, the left hemidiaphragm was taken to the laboratory in phosphate-buffered saline solution.

Effects of static stretching of knee musculature on patellar alignment and knee functional disability in male patients diagnosed with knee extension syndrome: A single-group, pretest-posttest trial.

Background: Knee extension (Kext) syndrome is based on movement system impairments and is described as knee pain associated with quadriceps stiffness.

Objective: To investigate the effects of 3 times per week for 4 weeks static stretching of knee musculature on patellar alignment and knee functional disability in male Kext syndrome patients.

Design: A single-group, pretest-posttest clinical trial.

Accumulation of lignans by in vitro cultures of three Linum species.

Justicidin B, an arylnaphthalene lignan, has strong cytotoxicity on chronic myeloid and chronic lymphoid leukemia cell lines. The first report of the production of justicidin B in a Linum species concerned in vitro culture of Linum austriacum. Therefore, culture characterization and presence of arylnaphthalene-type lignans in calli and plantlets of Linum tenuifolium from section Linastrum, Linum bienne, and Linum glaucum from section Linum were studied.

Bag culture: a method for root-root co-culture.

A method named "bag culture" was developed for coculturing of Linum persicum (section Syllinum) and L. austriacum (section Linum) hairy roots. For this propose L.

Root cultures of linum species section Syllinum as rich sources of 6-methoxypodophyllotoxin.

Linum spp. from section Syllinum are promising for the production of aryltetralin lignans like podophyllotoxin (PTOX) and 6-methoxypodophyllotoxin (MPTOX). MPTOX is a PTOX congener that has cytotoxic activity comparable with PTOX.

Diarylbutyrolactone lignans from Linum corymbulosum in vitro cultures.

The arylbutyrolactone lignans (-)-hinokinin, 3,4 : 3',4'-bis(methylenedioxy)-lign-7( E)-en-9,9'-olide and 3,4 : 3',4'-bis(methylenedioxy)-lign-7( Z)-en-9,9'-olide, hitherto unknown for the genus LINUM, were isolated by HPLC from callus cultures of LINUM CORYMBULOSUM (Linaceae) and identified by spectroscopic methods.

Linum mucronatum: organ to organ lignan variations.

The percentage of podophyllotoxin (PTOX) and its congener lignans were measured by HPLC in Linum mucronatum ssp. mucronatum (Linaceae) fresh plant organs. The highest amounts of PTOX (0.

A study of the sympathetic skin response and sensory nerve action potential after median and ulnar nerve repair.

The purpose of this study was to compare SSR with sensory nerve action potential (SNAP) responses in regeneration of injured peripheral nerves after nerve repair. We studied 10 male patients with a mean age of 26.7 years.