the present study aimed to evaluate the protective effect of gallic acid on gastric mucosal lesions caused by ischemia-reperfusion (i/r) injury in rat. forty male rats were randomly divided into sham, control (i/r injury) and three gallic acid-pretreated groups. to induce i/r lesions, the celiac artery was clamped for 30 min and then the clamp was removed to allow reperfusion for 6 hr. pretreat...

considering that the effective yield of a panel is equal to its total number of hours of solar radiation and temperature, only the effects of temperature and solar radiation intensity at the maximum power point (mpp) are investigated in this article. by collecting temperature data, sun's radiation hours from six synoptic meteorological stations in kermanshah province over the course of an ...

basil (ocimum basilicum l.) belongs to the lamiaceae family as a medicinal plant used in traditional medicine in iran. the purpose of this test is to evaluate the effect of nano fe-chelate under salinity levels on the plant physiology and morphology characteristics. in this experiment  investigated the effect of nano fe-chelate and salinity stress on growth parameters, photosynthetic leaves rat...

a male patient in his 20s presented at our clinic with pain caused by bone metastases of the primitive neuroectodermal tumor, and sr-89 was administrated to palliate the pain. after receiving the injection, the patient complained of a slight burning pain at the catheterized area. slight reddening and small circular swelling (diameter, 0.5 cm) were observed at the catheterized area. sr-89 extrav...

abstract: according to the statistics over 30000 deaths occur annually in iran due to cancer with an incidence of over 70000 new cases; this growing rate is similar to the developing world. these figures do not take into account other chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart failure, gastro-intestinal disorders, chronic neurological disorders and lung disease, which all warrant palliative care. a...

new approach of breast cancer therapy is developed toward combination therapy with agent that have a specific molecular target. our previous study showed that citrus aurantifolia lime peels ethanolic extract (cpe) increased the sensitivity of mcf-7 cells againts doxorubicin. this study aims to observe the mechanism of combination cpe and doxorubicin in cell cycle modulation and apoptosis on mcf...

paraquat is a commonly used herbicide in many countries which can lead to systematic poisoning on exposure, in this study, paraquat (pq)-induced changes in the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) along with biochemical and histopathological changes in the lungs, liver and kidneys were studied. twenty four male wistar rats (180-200 g) were exposed either against saline as control group or var...

background: p e r io d ontal d i s e ase i s a c h ro ni c des t ructi v e d i s e a s e w h ich o ccurs in adults, young people, and children .   perio d ontal disease and periodontal pathoge n s ha v e been associ a ted with se v er a l syste m ic dise a ses and more recen t ly, se v e r a l stu d ies have sug g es te d the relat i o n ship bet w een p e rio d ontal d isease and cancer. stu d...

objective: epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder requiring long term therapy using antiepileptic medications. reports have incriminated long term antiepileptic drugs use in deficiency of vitamin d and bone diseases in all age groups. to investigate the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels and pediatric epilepsy in indian patients.           methods& methods: we prospective...

background: using human skin-fibroblast cell line hf2ff, the efficacy of some drugs was evaluated against sulfur mustard (sm) cytotoxicity. the drugs were the sulfhydryl containing molecule including n-acetylcysteine (nac), 2-oxo-thiazolidine-4-carboxylate (otc) and acetaminophen as glutathione (gsh) stimulator pathway. methods: the protective effects of nac (0.1 mm), otc (1.8 mm), and acetamin...