Background: Aflatoxins (AFs), as secondary metabolites, are mainly produced by fungi of Aspergillus genus. The determination of contamination rate, dietary exposure, and health risk assessment for aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) was conducted aimed to estimate potential health risks for the population of North Macedonia. Methods: A total of 974 dairy samples, including 404 Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) mil...

It is the first time that biostratigraphic zonations of calcareous nannoplankton from Maestrichtian to Lower Tertiary deposits of Iran are reported. The required samples from the north-eastem and western parts of the country were selected from the stocks of the National Iranian Oil Company. Taxonomic descriptions were not the main objectives, although a new species and genus are apparently ...

Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) is one of the most important herbs and medicinal plants that allocate main part of medicinal plant export in Iran. This investigation was conducted to study the effects of drought stress on important agronomic traits of different cumin ecotypes from the major cumin cultivation of the country. Forty-nine ecotypes from different regions of Iran were planted in a simple ...

abstract angstrom-prescott equation is one of the most commonly used methods for the estimation of global solar radiation (rs) based on sunshine hours. the critical step in the application of this method's is the calibration of its coefficients for each region. although the coefficients of the equation have been calibrated in different parts of the world, the effect of different time scales has...

Background: Altered functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and altered melatonin production might modulate the circadian symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Objective: To investigate the influence of different winter photoperiods on the circadian rhythms of serum melatonin, cortisol, tumour necrosis factor a (TNFa), and interleukin 6 (IL6) in patients with rheumatoid...

BACKGROUND Altered functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and altered melatonin production might modulate the circadian symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of different winter photoperiods on the circadian rhythms of serum melatonin, cortisol, tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha), and interleukin 6 (IL6) in patients with rh...