issue 1 publication date 2019-01-01

• Happy New Year 2019, and welcome to Conference of Iranian Medical Journal Editors
• Pathophysiological mechanisms of gonadotropins– and steroid hormones–related genes in etiology of polycystic ovary syndrome
• Worldwide trends in scientific publications on association of gut microbiota with obesity
• Organ toxicity attenuation by nanomicelles containing curcuminoids: Comparing the protective effects on tissues oxidative damage induced by diazinon
• The therapeutic effect of ozonated olive oil plus glucantime on human cutaneous leishmaniasis
• Salidroside regulates the expressions of IL-6 and defensins in LPS-activated intestinal epithelial cells through NF-κB/MAPK and STAT3 pathways
• Molecular epidemiology of colistin-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing NDM-1 from hospitalized patients in Iran
• Protective effects of celecoxib on ischemia reperfusion–induced acute kidney injury: comparing between male and female rats
• Effects of citral on oxidative stress and hepatic key enzymes of glucose metabolism in streptozotocin/high-fat-diet induced diabetic dyslipidemic rats
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa keratitis: passive immunotherapy with antibodies raised against divalent flagellin
• Computational and pharmacological investigation of novel 1,5-diaryl-1,4-pentadien-3-one derivatives for analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anticancer potential
• Comparative volatile composition, antioxidant and cytotoxic evaluation of the essential oil of Zhumeria majdae from south of Iran
• The predictive role of toll-like receptor-4 genetic polymorphisms in susceptibility to and prognosis of prostatic hyperplasia
• Histone deacetylase inhibitory and cytotoxic activities of the constituents from the roots of three species of Ferula
• Hydrogen sulfide treatment protects against renal ischemia-reperfusion injury via induction of heat shock proteins in rats
• Detection of co-harboring OXA-58 and NDM-1carbapenemase producing genes resided on a same plasmid from an Acinetobacter pittii clinical isolate in China