The activation of nuclear transcription factor kappaB has now been linked with a variety of inflammatory diseases, including cancer, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, diabetes, allergy, asthma, arthritis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, psoriasis, septic shock, and AIDS. Extensive research in the last few years has shown that the pathway that activa...

in order to investigate the effects of fertilizer types and irrigation regimes on quantitative criteria of three medicinal plants: lavander, rosemary and hyssop, an experiment was conducted at research field of faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, during two growing years of 2007-2010. a split-split plot design with three replications was used. treatments were three irrigatio...

Case 1 Thirty one years old male that presented at age 15 allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and cutaneous pruritus after ingestion of honey and spices. Three years later, he had the same symptoms with ingestion of pepper. Skin prick tests were positive to grass, mugwort, dandelion and ragweed pollen, as well as pepper, curry, paprika and anise. Serum specific IgE was positive to carrot, pea, white b...

RadLex and Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) ontologies represent anatomic and image characteristics, and they are commonly used to annotate and describe contents of medical images independently of the image acquisition method (e.g., CT, MR, or US). We present ANISE, a framework that implements workflows to combine these ontologies and image characteristics into Transfer Functions (TFs) that ...

Foliar spraying of a small amount of micronutrients (iron and zinc) may increase the yield of anise(Pimpinella anisum L.), an anethole-rich important medicinal plant. In order to evaluate the effect of iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) spraying (0, 2, 4, and 6 g l-1) on the nutrient contents and the essential oils of anise, a factorial experiment was conducted based on a randomized complete block design ...