conclusions the study results showed that stimulation of the american cockroach’s immunity system lead to production of antibacterial proteins and peptides which had inhibitory effect on the bacteria, depending on the bacterial strains and their sensitivity. likely this feature of insects can be used as therapeutic strategies to produce natural antimicrobial compounds against the pathogenic bac...

background: iran is a land of great heritage of ancient medical scholars. herbal medicines, as a basement of treatment of diseases have been clearly described in the medical texts of these scholars including rhazes, avicenna, and others. numerous plants are introduced in these texts to treat those diseases likely to be infective ones. few attempts have been made to evaluate ethnopharmacological...

infective endocarditis is one of the most severe complications of parenteral drug abuse. the outstanding clinical feature of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers is the high incidence of right-sided valve infection, and the tricuspid valve is involved in 60% to 70% of the cases. we herein report a case of isolated pulmonic valve infective endocarditis with a native pulmonary valve.

background: yogurt is one of the most popular food diets with refreshing taste, nutritional, and health benefits. the objective of this study was to investigate the effect of three herbal essential oils (eos) including peppermint, basil, and zataria on viability of the probiotic bacteria in yogurt samples and to evaluate the antimicrobial activities of the produced probiotic yogurts against esc...

background: multidrug resistant enterobacteriaceae which was confined to the hospital environments is now emerging in the domestic food related environments as well. the main objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic resistant enterobacteriaceae in the domestic food related environments.  methods: resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, gen...

context to provide an updated review of published literature on the anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of honey. evidence acquisition cinahl, biomed central, cochrane library, medline and embase data bases and reference lists were used to find randomized controlled trials and review articles. randomized controlled trials using honey with a comparator were reviewed, al...

conclusions end stage renal disease (esrd) have accelerated inflammatory conditions. simvastatin clearly lowers the serum levels of crp and il-6, and the white blood cell count in dialysis patients. administering simvastatin to dialysis patients is safe. results at baseline, each of treatment and control groups had similar characteristics. during the study, the average level of crp decreased in...

In a single-blind, randomised, parallel-group study comparing the efficacy and tolerability of dothiepin (50-150 mg per day) and imipramine (50-150 mg per day) for 6 weeks, involving 60 adult patients with depression, it was observed that dothiepin was comparable to imipramine in terms of efficacy as assessed by Hamilton Rating Scale for depress ion, global scale for severty of illness and clin...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To identify and quantify a hypothesised collective effect of the neighbourhood on individual use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs (AHD). To analyse the general impact of neighbourhood social participation on use of AHD, adjusting for individual characteristics. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis performed by multilevel logistic regression with women at the first level and neighbourh...

In an attempt to design novel 5-HT(1A) agonists/partial agonists, based on an arylpiperazine nucleus, a series of N-{4-[4-(aryl)piperazine-1-yl]-phenyl}-amine derivatives were synthesized and biologically tested. The anxiolytic effect of the compounds was investigated employing the Elevated plus Maze (EPM) task. On the basis of in vivo functional test, compound 1c (3mg/kg) and 4c (3mg/kg) induc...