Background: Finding scientific data from the Holy Qur’an is an old trend, which emerge newly with rise of modern science. In the literature, we have found that total number of medicinal plants cited in the Holy Qur’an varies author to author. Objective: The aim of this study was to indentify the plants mentioned in the Holy Qur’an and to confirm the botanical name with othe...

BACKGROUND According to traditional Persian medicine (TPM) resources, the human digestive system includes four steps. In the first step, gastric digestion, the ingested food pours into the stomach and changes into the leachate called chylous due to the heat produced in the stomach. In the second step, hepatic digestion, the chylous enters in the liver through mesenteric vessels and transforms i...

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One of the aims of evolutionary developmental biology is to discover the developmental origins of morphological variation. The discipline has mainly focused on qualitative morphological differences (e.g., presence or absence of a structure) between species. Studies addressing subtle, quantitative variation are less common. The Drosophila wing is a model for the study of development and evolutio...

Currently many women from families with a high risk of breast cancer due to a familial or genetic predisposition, including carriers of a BRCA1/2 germline mutation, opt for intensive surveillance [1]. Several guidelines advise screening by mammography and clinical breast examination. However, the value of this screening scheme in women that often start screening under the age of 40 has never be...