Background & Aim: Today schizophrenia has a high incident in population and is developing among men and women. The purpose of present study is to evaluate effect of 8 weeks of HIIT on serum IL-4 in male schizophrenic patients. Methods: Present study is semi-experimental one with pre-posttest design. 28 male patients with schizophrenia with age range of 25-45 years old were divided into two gro...

Introduction: Patients with type 2 diabetes with high insulin resistance are also at high risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of 8 weeks of HIIT and combined training on serum levels of liver enzymes and insulin resistance index in women with type 2 diabetes. Methods: 54 women with type 2 diabetes (age 55.77 ± 5.92 years, BMI 28.98 ...

Background and Objectives: Oxidative stress from exercise, either injured muscles and reduces performance in athletes, or stimulates the production of cytokines from many cells. body respond to oxidative stress by activating antioxidant defenses and other protective devices to counteract these body pressures. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of 8  weeks of stren...

this study investigated (a) the learners’ existing reading strategy repertoire, (b) the effect of instruction in reading strategies on learners’ strategic performance, and (c) the effect of explicit instruction in top-down reading strategies on reading comprehension ability of intermediate learners. the study was conducted with 40 intermediate efl learners in two groups of experimental and cont...

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of using model essays on the development of writing proficiency of iranian pre-intermediate efl learners. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 55 pre- intermediate learners of parsa language institute were chosen by means of administering proficiency test. based on the results of the pretest, two matched groups, one as the expe...

 Background and purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of endurance training and resistance programs on sperm parameters and spermatogenesis in diabetic rats. Materials and methods: In this experimental study, in one group, 24 healthy male Wistar rats were assigned into three subgroups (control, endurance training, and resistance training). The next group (n=24) c...

Background: Obesity increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes with regard to the hormones involved. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to investigate the effect of aerobic exercise on Dpp-4 and GLP-1 in obese women with type 2 diabetes. Methods: From among obese women with type-2 diabetes mellitus 35-50 years old referred to the Diabetes Association of Saveh, 20 people wer...