shiftwork that affects diverse aspects of human life is arranged in various schedules. the main purpose of this study was to compare psycho-social problems among employees working in different 12-hour shift schedules of iranian petrochemical industries. this cross-sectional study was carried out at eight petrochemical companies in asalooyeh area. the study population consisted of 549 shift work...

{sl let $[n]={1,dots, n}$ be colored in $k$ colors. a rainbow ap$(k)$ in $[n]$ is a $k$ term arithmetic progression whose elements have different colors. conlon, jungi'{c} and radoiv{c}i'{c} cite{conlon} prove that there exists an equinumerous 4-coloring of $[4n]$ which is rainbow ap(4) free, when $n$ is even. based on their construction, we show that such a coloring of ...

background and aims: epigallocatechin-3-gallate (egcg) is a polyphenolic compound from green tea, which its anticancer effects on many types of cancers have been confirmed, but the molecular mechanism by which egcg induces apoptosis remains unknown. the aim of the present study was to investigate anti-proliferative properties and apoptotic signaling pathway of egcg on pc3 human prostate cancer ...

abstractparkinson’s disease (pd) is a neuropathological and debilitating disorder involving the degeneration of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons. neuroprotective effect of hesperetin has already been reported, therefore, this study examined whether the administration of this flavonoid would attenuate behavioral abnormalities in an experimental model of pd in rat. for this purpose, unilateral ...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a disease of the central nervous system (cns) characterized by multiple regions of demyelination and inflammation along axons with a t cell-mediated autoimmune etiology. while the cytotoxic t lymphocyte antigen 4 (ctla-4) gene seems to be a strong candidate gene in autoimmune diseases, we investigated its association with a group of patients with ms. one hundred and t...

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...

myeloperoxidase (mpo) and paraoxonase-1 (pon1) are inflammatory and anti-inflammatory enzymes, respectively that have been involved in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (cad). in this study we sought to evaluate the relations of mpo and pon1 with high density lipoprotein (hdl) mean size in patients with acute coronary syndrome (acs). collectively, 50 control subjects and 50 patients w...

background: insecticide poisoning is a major public health problem in the world, particularly in developing nations, its usage has increased in recent and past thus increased even its misuse to commit suicide. methods: this retrospective study was carried out at department of  forensic medicine & toxicology, govt. mohan kumaramangalam medical college  hospital  salem, tamil nadu, india with the...

the postharvest vase life of cut roses was studied to determine the effects of various physiological factors that influence the vase life of cut flower. cut roses were obtained from commercial area of siliguri. to assess the effect of preservatives on the postharvest life of rose, cut flowers were treated with following preservative solutions: fixed amount of citric acid (ca) (300 mg/ml) and 8-...

adsorption of 1-butanol, phenol, and p-nitrophenol on activated carbon havebeen studied. the results were used to testifying the validity of different modelsbased on thermodynamic principles: freundlich, langmuir and henry isotherms.the maximum capacity of adsorbent for three compounds was determined, theconstants of equilibrium were determined by freundlich isotherm and virialisotherm expressi...