background: basic science studies evaluation is important feature for an effective implementation of diabetes research and funding policy. this study aimed to provide an evaluation of diabetes basic research output up to 2015 in iran. methods: data were retrieved from scientific search engine including pubmed, web of science, scopus as well as iranian science databases including sid, iranmedex,...

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

the purpose of this review is to bring together to the physiology and psychology of vision and to analyze, based on our own data and on the available literature, the relationship between sight loss and individual reactions. as recent treatments for depression are often effective and have few side-effects, ophthalmologists should consider referral for treatment of depression in patients sufferin...

tissue nutrient supply may be synchronized with endogenous physiological rhythms to optimize animal and human health. glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity have endogenous rhythms that are not essentially dependent on food type and eating. human glucose tolerance declines as day comes into night. based on such evolutionary findings, large evening meals must be avoided to reduce risks of vis...

Total abstention from food and water from sunrise to sunset during the month of  Ramadan, is practiced by hundreds of millions of Muslims throughout the world. This pattern of fasting during Ramadan is different from the usual fasting as people are allowed to eat and drink between sunset and dawn but not after dawn. The amount and type of food (rich in protein, fat and sugar) eaten during the n...

Medical physiology is one of the defining courses of the first year of medical school. One might argue that is the most "important" course in the first-year curriculum, for obvious reasons. It is also one of the most challenging. Finding a textbook is often difficult, as many professors prefer to use their own lecture notes, suggesting a textbook as an additional reference and giving little gui...