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Direct and indirect medical costs of functional constipation: A population-based study
(2011)
Background Constipation causes a large number of medical visits each year and imposes significant financial toll on healthcare systems worldwide. So the present communitybased study was conducted in order to estimate ...
Profile and frequency of p53 Gene alterations in gastritis lesions from Iran
(2010)
Background: It has been frequently shown that p53 alterations have an important role in the development of gastric cancers but there is no data on p53 alteration in gastric cancer and its precancerous lesions from Iran ...
Seroepidemiology of hepatitis A and E virus infections in Tehran, Iran: A population based study
(2012)
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) are enteric hepatotropic viruses and their prevalence is related to the sanitary conditions of the region under investigation. There are only a few studies on the ...
NOD2 exonic variations in Iranian Crohn's disease patients
(2011)
Purpose The NOD2 gene is known to have a strong association with Crohn's disease, but different trends were reported in occurrence of NOD2 variants in distinct ethnicities. The aim of this study was to assess all exonic ...
Prevalence of multiple drug-resistant helicobacter pylori strains among patients with different gastric disorders in Iran
(2015)
Emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of Helicobacter pylori is a global health concern. This study was aimed to determine the frequency of MDR H. pylori strains in Iran. H. pylori isolates were obtained from ...
Mucins in neoplastic spectrum of colorectal polyps: Can they provide predictions?
(2010)
Background: The significance of expression of different mucins in succession of malignant transformation of colorectal polyps is not determined yet. The aim of the present study was to determine the pattern of expression ...
Impact of EXO1 polymorphism in susceptibility to colorectal cancer
(2010)
Background and Aim: One candidate gene for colorectal cancer (CRC) susceptibility is exonuclease 1 (EXO1). It is a member of RAD2 nuclease family, which plays a major role in mismatch repair, DNA replication, and recombination. ...