Vol. 9 Supplement2 2004

This issue contains abstracts of the lectures
and research communications presented during the conference

MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: TOWARDS A HEALTHIER WORLD

Its publication cost was covered by:
M. Reza Mozafari, Nader Rahnama and some of the authors.

Volume 9 (2004) pp 7
  Editorial

MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: TOWARDS A HEALTHIER WORLD
  M. Reza Mozafari Nader Rahnama
  The communications that are published here represent only a selection from the oral and poster presentations given at the Medical & Biological Sciences Researchers Conference in Europe (12th IRCE). The event was held in July 2004 at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the UK, an institution with a reputation for the excellence of its scientific research over many decades. We want to express our sincerely felt thanks and gratitude to the authors who submitted their articles to the 12th IRCE, the organising committee, the scientific committee for the extensive review process of all articles, and also all individuals who kindly supported us to develop and improve the quality of the conference. Finally, we hope that all our scientific work and research will constitute a valuable contribution towards providing a healthier world for all living on the face of the Earth and for the generations to come.
  27 July 2004 Liverpool John Moores University, UK
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Volume 9 (2004) pp 11-65
Abstracts
Abstracts List ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN DIHYDROCODEINE OVERDOSE
Reza Afshari, Catherine Kelly, Simon Maxwell and David Nicholas Bateman - p11

CO-PROXAMOL INDUCES QRSD PROLONGATION
Reza Afshari, Simon Maxwell, Catherine Kelly and David Nicholas Bateman - p12

EFFECTS OF WATER INTAKE ON HAEMORHEOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO RESISTANCE EXERCISE
Sajad Ahmadizad, Mahmoud S. El-Sayed and Donald P. M. MacLaren - p13

EFFECTS OF TIME OF DAY ON THE RESPONSES OF PLATELET ACTIVATION AND FUNCTION TO SUB-MAXIMAL EXERCISE
Sajad Ahmadizad, Mahmoud S. El-Sayed and Donald P. M. MacLaren - p15

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LENGTH OF HAMSTRING MUSCLES AND LUMBAR CURVATURE OF ATHLETES AND NON-ATHLETES
M. Hossein Alizadeh, Nader Rahnama and Esmail Sharifiyan - p17

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MILK AND SERUM ANTIBODIES TO FASICOLHEPATICA IN CATTLE
M. Reza Salimi Bejestani and Diana Williams - p19

ASSESSING THE PREVALENCE OF FASCIOLA HEPATICA INFECTION IN DAIRY CATTLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES USING BULK TANK MILK
M. Reza Salimi Bejestani, Peter Cripps and Diana Williams - p20

INTERACTION OF PRION PROTEIN WITH PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATION SYSTEM
Maryam Borumand and Vincent Ellis - p21

N.I.C.E. LESSONS FOR IRAN
Majid Davari, Alan Haycox and Tom Walley - p23

INTERFERON-b RESPONSES IN CELLS EXPRESSING THE FULL LENGTH HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) POLYPROTEIN
Masoud Sabouri Ghannad, Christopher McCormick, Andrew MacDonald, Najat Marraiki, David Rowlands and Mark Harris - p25

DOES PERSISTENT CONSUMPTION OF HIGH GLYCAEMIC INDEX DIET INCREASE CHROMIUM LOSS IN THE URINE?
Majid Haji Faraji and Anthony R. Leeds - p26

CHEMICAL AND MICROBIAL ASPECTS IN BIOPROCESSING OF CHALCOPYRITE
G. Reza Karimi, Christopher J. Hewitt and Neil A. Rowson - p28

RISK FACTORS FOR HOSPITALISATION DUE TO DIARRHOEA IN IRANIAN CHILDREN
Bahman Khalili, Luis Cuevas, Mahdi Khalili and Anthony Hart - p30

MICRONUTRIENTS DEFICIENCIES IN IRANIAN CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT ACUTE DIARRHOEA
Bahman Khalili, Luis Cuevas, Frank McArdle, Rouya Choupani and Anthony Hart - p32

THE RISK OF TRANSMISSION OF BLOOD BORNE INFECTIONS IN WRESTLING (A PILOT STUDY)
Ramin Kordi and W. Angus Wallace - p34

DIET ANALYSIS IN A HIGH CARIES CHILD POPULATION
T. Malek Mohammadi and Elizabeth J. Kay - p36

THE EFFECT OF PLURONIC ACID ON THE TAG AND CHOLESTEROL PROFILES OF PLASMA LIPOPROTEINS
Mahnaz Mardani and Joan A. Higgins - p37

PREVALENCE OF ACNE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE IRANIAN PROVINCE OF YAZD
Mahta Mazaheri, S. Kazem Sabbagh and Ali A. Akaberi - p38

OBESITY IN ADULTS: PREVENTION MEASURES
Mahmoud Mobasheri, Edwin Van Teijlingen and W. Cairns S. Smith - p39

OBESITY AND THE RISK TO HEALTH: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF REVIEWS
Mahmoud Mobasheri, Edwin Van Teijlingen and W. Cairns S. Smith - p41

DIVERSITY AND GENE FREQUENCIES OF BOVINE LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGENE DRB3.2 LOCUS IN MONGOLIAN CATTLE
M. Reza Mohammadabadi and Galina Efimovna Sulimova - p42

EFFECT OF DEPOLARIZATION AND CALCIUM ION DEFICIENCY ON COPPER AND ZINC DISTRUBTIONS IN FIVE REGIONS OF MALE RAT BRAIN
S. Moazam Mortazavi and Mohsen Ani - p43

MICRO AND NANO CARRIER TECHNOLOGIES: HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTION WITHIN PHARMACEUTICAL STANDARDS
M. Reza Mozafari - p44

USING THE TOAST CRITERIA FOR RETROSPECTIVE CLASSIFICATION OF ISCHAEMIC STROKE PATIENTS
Alireza Pasdar, David St. Clair and Mary J. MacLeod - p46

GENOTYPE AND HAPLOTYPE ANALYSIS OF ABCA1 GENE IN ISCHAEMIC STROKE
Alireza Pasdar, David St. Clair and Mary J. MacLeod - p47

RAPID EFFECTS OF ALDOSTERONE IN THE RAT KIDNEY
Abolfazl K. Rad, Richard J. Balment and Nick Ashton - p48

CATIONIC AND ANIONIC LIPOSOMAL VECTORS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Obydur E. Rahman and Ahmed Ayedur E. Rahman - p49

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF CHEK2 AND EMAST IN COLORECTAL CANCER
Sadegh Rezapour, George Xinarianos and Mark Meuth - p51

DEVELOPMENT OF A PEPTIDE-BASED SUB-UNIT VACCINE BY SELECTING PEPTIDES FROM THE ESSENCIAL SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINES OF LEISHMANIA PARASITES, GP63, USING TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODEL
Hossein Rezvan, Robert C. Rees and Selman A. Ali - p52

NO-NSAIDs - A NOVEL APPROACH TO REDUCTION OF NSAID GASTROTOXICITY
Christopher Rostron - p53

USING SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY TO SHAPE THE DEFINITION OF ADVERSE EVENT
Ali Baba-Akbari Sari - p54

AN IMPROVED MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR THE SIMULATION OF MEDICAL LINEAR ACCELERATORS
Abbas Shafaei, Golamreza Raeisali, Bijan Hashemi Malaieri, Parvaneh Shokrani and Anooshirvan Kazemneghad - p56

CARDIAC RHYTHM DISTURBANCE IN THE ATHLETES WITH CONNECTIVE TISSUE OF HEART DYSPLASIA SYNDROME AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON A LEVEL OF PHYSICAL WORKING CAPACITY
Shahnaz Shahrjerdi and Andray Vadimovich Smolenski - p58

PREDICTION OF SUFRACE TENSION FOR NONELECTROLYTE BINARY ORGANIC AND AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
Reza Tahery, Elham Hekmat, John Satherly and Hamid Modarresi - p59

CORNEAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY, A NEW PARADIGM OF UNDERSTANDING THE CORNEA
Mitra Tavakoli and Nathan Efron - p61

DOES ACUTE AND CHRONIC ARM CRANKING EXERCISE INDUCE ALTERATIONS IN BLOOD RHEOLOGY IN SPINAL CORD INJURED INDIVIDUALS?
Ali Younesian and Tim Cable - p62

RECENT ADVANCES IN MICRO- AND NANO-ENCAPSULATION OF FOOD INGREDIENTS
Seyhun Yurdugul and M. Reza Mozafari - p64

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Invited Lectures
Abstracts List EFFECTS OF RESISTANCE EXERCISE INTENSITY ON THE MAIN DETERMINANTS OF BLOOD RHEOLOGY
Sajad Ahmadizad, Mahmoud S. El-Sayed, Minoo Bassami and Donald P. M. MacLaren - p69

RELATIONSHIP OF THORACIC KYPHOSIS DEFORMITY TO DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AGGRESSION AND INTROVERSION
M. Hossein Alizadeh, Ahmad Farokhi, M. Ali Yasrebi and Nader Rahnama - p73

A STUDY ON THE DEATH CAUSES OF FORMER IRANIAN WORLD CLASS ATHLETES
M. Hossein Alizadeh, Nader Rahnama and Majid Vahedizadeh - p77

A COMPARISON OF DIURNAL VARIATION IN MUSCLE STRENGTH BETWEEN ACTIVE AND INACTIVE EUMENORRHEIC FEMALES
Effat Bambaeichi, Thomas Reilly, Tim Cable and Magali Giacomoni - p81

DETERMINATION OF URINARY CHROMIUM AS AN INDICATOR FOR AVAILABLE CHROMIUM FOLLOWING 75G GLUCOSE ORAL INGESTION
Majid Haji Faraji and Anthony R. Leeds - p85

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE VARYING QUALITY OF SCOTTISH LIFESTYLE SURVEYS WHEN ATTEMPTING TO MEASURE OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT
Mahmoud Mobasheri, Edwin Van Teijlingen and W. Cairns S. Smith - p89

CAN WE PREDICT CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN
Hamid Mohebbi, Nader Rahnama, Farhad Rahmani-Nia and Mahbanou Gaderi - p93

FORMATION OF THE INITIAL CELL MEMBRANES UNDER PRIMORDIAL EARTH CONDITIONS
M. Reza Mozafari, Celia J. Reed and Christopher Rostron - p97

ULTRASTRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE OF LIPOSOME-ENTRAPPED GLUTATHIONE: A CRYO-SEM STUDY
M. Reza Mozafari, Celia J. Reed and Christopher Rostron - p101

IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HEIGHT-WEIGHT TABLE, STANDARD FORMULAE AND BODY COMPOSTION ASSESSMENT IN THE ESTIMATION OF OPTIMAL BODY WEIGHT?
Farhad Rahmani-Nia and Nader Rahnama - p105

EFFECTS OF WARM-UP ON DELAYED ONSET MUSCLE SORENESS
Farhad Rahmani-Nia, Nader Rahnama and Khosrow Ebrahim - p109

DOES MUSCLE PERFORMANCE CHANGES DURING A SOCCER GAME
Nader Rahnama, Thomas Reilly and Adrian Lees - p113

EFFECTS OF TRAINING ON ESTRODIOL, PROGESTRONE, LUTEINZING HORMONE AND FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE IN FEMALE
Nader Rahnama, Effat Bambaeichi and Thomas Reilly - p117

CHORONIC EFFECTS OF EXERCISE ON MALE REPRODUCTIVE HORMONE PROFILES
Nader Rahnama and Effat Bambaeichi - p121

SURFACE TENSION AND ADSORPTION FROM A BINARY SOLUTION
Reza Tahery, Elham Hekmat, Hosein Atashi and Hamid Modarress - p125

SCALED PARTICLE THEORY: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMPRESSIBILITY, SURFACE TENSION, AND MOLECULAR DIAMETER
Reza Tahery, John Satherly and Hamid Modarress - p129

HAEMATHOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYERS BEFORE AND AFTER 90MIN MATCH
Ali Younesian, Morteza Mohammadion and Nader Rahnama - p133

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