Background Exposure to glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone (Dex) leads to numerous changes in various biological systems including the reproductive system .The present study investigates the efficacy grape seeds , source of the most useful groups of plant flavonoids, phenolic procyanids, to attenuate Dex-induced spetmatogenic defects in the mouse testicles. MaterialsAndMethods A total of 32 m...

this study compared the effects of two annotation modalities on the reading comprehension of iranian intermediate level efl learners. the two experimental groups under study received treatment on 10 academic l2 reading passages under one of two conditions: one group received treatment on key words in the reading passages through a multimedia environment providing textual annotations. the second...

Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato larvae cause cystic echinococcosis, a highly contagious zoonotic illness that poses worldwide threat to human health and development. The purpose of this study was determine the therapeutic effectiveness albendazole praziquantel, each alone in combination, vivo estimate serum levels interleukin-2, interleukin-9 interleukin-10 as biomarkers evaluating responsiv...

BACKGROUND Postoperative recurrence of the liver hydatid disease befalls approximately 10-30% of patients. Preoperative or postoperative therapy with albendazole in single therapeutic protocol (800 mg/d, within 28 days) indicated the need to evaluate the hydatid cyst liquid protoscoleces viability. Morphological changes of protoscoleces following the treatment with drugs are not well known. A...

Efficacy of albendazole against early and late stage of Trichinella spiralis infection in mice was determined. To determine the efficacy of albendazole against the early stage (enteral phase) of trichinosis, mice experimentally infected with T. spiralis were treated with albendazole 20 mg/kg at 7 days post infection for 15 days. Larvae were recovered from the infected mice 7 days after the trea...