idiopathic chronic urticaria (icu), the most common form (70-80%) of chronic urticaria is supposed to have immune basis causes. it is speculated that the promoter polymorphism of tgf-β1 gene may be involved in icu. this condition is thought to affect at least 0.1% of the population and often can be severe and difficult to treat. a total of 40 patients with icu and 41 normal subjects were studie...

identification of genes with invariant levels of gene expression is a prerequisite for validating transcriptomicchanges accompanying development. ideally expression of these genes should be independent of themorphogenetic process or environmental condition.we report here the validation of internal control genei.e.tps (trehalose 6-phosphate-synthase) in cotton (gossypium spp), using taqman syste...

background: apoptosis is a process that plays an important role during early stage of implantation. the aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of apoptosis in mice endometrium after ovarian stimulation at implantation period. methods: nmri female mice were divided into two groups: 1) control group, which were rendered pseudopregnant by vaginal stimulation and 2) experimental group, ...

schizophrenia (scz) is a complex disorder with no clarified etiology or biological diagnosis.  symptoms of schizophrenia including positive, negative and cognitive deficits.the neurodegenrative and neurodevelopmental hypothesis are main views  about the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. neuregulin 1 is one of four proteins in the neuregulin family that act on the egfr family of receptors. nrg1 ...

p53 tumor suppressor gene, also known as “genome guardian” is mutated in more than half of allkind of cancers. in this study we have investigated the controls of environmental ph for p53 genemutation in point of specific sequence which is prone to mutagenesis. the most probable cancerousmutations occur as point mutations in exons 5-8 of p53 gene. the 175th codon of p53 is the thirdmost mutated ...

background : to determine the frequency of the single nucleotide polymorphism m287t in exon 9 of the as3mt gene in iranian population and to assess the difference in allele frequencies with other ethnicities. subjects and methods : genotyping analysis was performed on 150 healthy subjects using the pcr-rflp assay. we used chi-square analysis to check the deviation from hardy–weinberg equilibriu...

sheeppox virus (spv) and goatpox virus (gpv) belong to the capripoxvirus genus of poxviridae family. sheeppox and goatpox along with contagious ecthyma (ce) are endemic diseases in iran. capripox laboratory conformation based on virological and serological techniques are time consuming, laborious and most of them of low specificity, because of close antigenic relationship between capripoxvirus ...