b ackground: the main goal of present study was to detect polymorphism in msp-1 gene which is a major blood stage candidate for vaccine in plasmodium vivax by single strand conformational poly- morphism-polymerase chain reaction (sscp-pcr). m ethods: during 2008 to 2010 fifty samples were collected from iranian patients with p. vivax in hormozgan province, southern iran. all of the samples were...

honey and royal jelly are complex heterogeneous mixtures of flower s’ nectar sugars proteins and bees’ glandular secretions. royal jelly is the hypo-pharyngeal gland excretion of the young worker honeybees (apis mellifera). the wonderful effects of royal jelly on the sexual ability and maturity of the queen has been an interesting topic and controversial issue for researchers for many years. th...

hematopoietic cord blood (cb) stem cell transplantation has more advantages to other cell sources because of lower graft versus host disease (gvhd). interleukin-15(il-15) is an immunoregulatory cytokine, known to enhance cytolytic function of cord natural killer (nk) cells. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of il-15 on nk cytotoxicity simultaneously in different cell death sta...

pollen storage could facilitate the date palm hand pollination through saving time and space. the main concern is maintaining pollen viability, which is greatly cultivar dependent and is influenced by storage condition. in this study, to address this issue, the effects of cultivar, storage temperature, and time on pollen germination were investigated. a factorial experiment was laid out in a co...

the purpose of the current study was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory activity of tetramethlpyrazine on oxazolone-induced colitis mice. spleen mononuclear cells (smc), lamina propria mononuclear cells (lpmc) and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc) were isolated from oxazolone-induced colitis and normal mice. the colitis cells treated by oxazolone were randomly divided into model, low dos...

purpose the 1-repetition maximum (1-rm) test is the gold standard test for evaluating maximal dynamic strength of groups of muscles. however, safety of actual 1-rm testing is questionable in clinical situations such as type 2 diabetes (t2d), where an estimated 1-rm test is preferred. it is unclear if acceptable test retest reliability exists for the estimated 1-rm test in middle aged t2d patien...

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a simple and reproducible method for the rapid extraction and determination of trace amounts of copper(ii) ions using octadecyl-bonded silica membrane disks modified by 1-(2-pyridyl azo)2-naphtol(pan) and atomic absorption spectrometry was presented. the method was based on complex formation on the surface of the envi-18 disk tm disks followed by stripping of the retained species by minimum amo...

conclusions potent antifungal activity, make this plant an effective replacement treatment for fungal infections or fungal strains that are resistance to synthetic antifungals. results thirty-two components were identified in vitex agnus-castus eo. the main compound was alpha-pinene (19.48%). the total phenolic content of eo was determined as 82.26 ± 5.94 mg gallic acid equivalent (gae)/g eo. t...