conclusions in conclusion, toxicological studies showed that, although contamination level in caspian sea fishes was relatively low, the present status might pose a risk about food chain contamination. results the review showed that nine studies were recorded in databases about pesticide residues in caspian sea fish tissues. these studies reported that there is limited evidence of organochlorin...

makrān or mukrān was a vast region in the south eastern plateau of iran, whose border extended from kerman on the west to sind on the east. this extended area was limited to sistan on the north and makrān sea (sea of oman) on the south. makrān, mākā, mīkā, mukrān, gidruziyā, zhidruziyā, etc. are the names applied to this region in different historical periods. the expanse of this region’s borde...

caspian sea is the largest enclosed body of water on the earth. since the collapse of soviet union in 1991 and discovering large oil and gas fields, some issues such as political, economic and environmental events, made the caspian sea important. the ecology of the sea are being endangered due to several issues such as petroleum extraction, river and sea pollutions, water level rise, biological...

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) enzyme catalyses the first step in pentose phosphate pathway (conversion of glucose-6-phosphat to 6-phospho gluconat) which provides cells with pentoses and reduction power in the form of nadph. in the present study we have analyzed the g6pd gene mutations in 76 patients with a history of favism in khorasan province in iran. dna samples were analyzed for...

in the current attempt, the relation between precipitation change in southern coasts of iran and sea level pressure data of ncep / ncar database were investigated through correlation method using environment to circulation approach in the period of 1960-2004. after calculating the correlation matrix between the percipitation amount and pressure, the precipitation-pressure correlation map for ea...

orography plays a substantial role in the formation and evolution of many atmospheric phenomena. observations indicate that two mountain ranges to the southwest of the red sea and west of iran (zagross mountain range) play a crucial role in the formation, evolution and activities of synoptic weather systems over iran. observations also, indicate that there are considerable differences between t...