Background Infertility has long been a common problem in our human history and still continues to be a problem in the modern era. Fortunately Western Medicine has developed various treatment methodologies ,especially the new assisted reproductive technology, which does increase the success rate . Despite this, nearly half of the couples among these who get treated by WM still fail conceive. The...

This study investigates the impact of social and cultural factors on the patterning of western patterns in Isfahan city and presents some strategies to deal with it. The objectives of this study were: 1- Determining the effect of social and cultural factors on the patterning of Western models from the perspective of the children of martyrs and victims; 4) Determining the difference between the ...

background: prostate specific antigen (psa) is an important laboratory marker for diagnosis of prostatic cancer. thus, development of diagnostic tools specific for psa plays an important role in screening, monitoring and early diagnosis of prostate cancer. in this paper, the production and characterization of a panel of murine monoclonal antibodies (mabs) against psa have been presented.  metho...

ticks are important ectoparasites which are a considerable threat to human beings and to animals all overthe world. enormous economic losses annually occur in livestock production around the world as a result oftheir existance. one of the ways to control ticks and tick-borne diseases is to introduce resistance to theseectoparasites through immunization. for identification of the putative protec...

background: a study on the migration characteristics of 238u, 210po, 232th and 40k within the soil to the wild plants in the western ghats were carried out. materials and methods: concentrations of these radionuclides were measured in different depths of soil and from different species by employing gamma ray spectrometer and alpha counter. results: the activity concentration of these radionucli...

background: a field study on the transfer of primordial radionuclides 238u, 232th, 40k and fallout radionuclides 210po in different plant species in tropical forest of western ghats environment is presented. material and methods: the top storey, second storey, shrubs and epiphytic plant species were chosen and concentration of these radionuclides in plant and soil were measured by employing gam...

background: echinococcosis is a parasitic disease with worldwide distribution which is caused by the tapeworms echinococcus granulosus . diagnosis of the disease relies on imaging techniques, but the techniques are not able to differentiate the cyst from benign or malignant tumors; hence, appropriate serologic methods are required for the differential diagnosis of the infection. materials and m...

tional Center for Biotechnology Information basic local alignment sequence tool, BLAST (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ blast/Blast.cgi). To determine whether R. felis occurs on another Caribbean island, we tested 32 C. felis fl eas from Dominica and found 1 (3%) to be positive by PCR when primers targeting ompA were used. The sequence obtained was also identical to that of R. felis URRxCal2. Our study p...

SKG or BALB/c T cells (3.0 £ 10) were stimulated for 72 h with plate-bound anti-CD3 mAb (2C11) in the presence or absence of plate-bound anti-CD28 mAb in RPMI-1640 medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and 50 mM 2-mercaptoethanol. Cells were also stimulated with TPA (1.4 ng ml) and ionomycin (0.14 mM). KJ1.26þ T cells from DO or DO.SKG mice were stimulated with ovalbumin (323–339) pepti...

The recent boom in the demand for off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation has created an important policy issue for public land managers who are concerned with the impacts of OHV use on environmental quality. Within the past few years, the U.S. Forest Service has recognized the need for greater authority in managing these recreation areas and has proposed to amend OHV regulations. However, not muc...