background: pre-eclampsia (pe) is one of the most important and life-threatening pregnancy disorders that affect at least 3-5% of all pregnancies. imbalance in helper t cell functions may play a role in predisposing to pe or severity of the disease. elevated frequencies of th17 cells in the peripheral blood of pe patients have been reported. several single nucleotide polymorphisms (snp) within ...

brassinosteroids are phytohormones possessing a wide spectrum of antistress activity. to seewhether this hormone is able to ameliorate the effects of water stress, the effects of 24-epibrassinolise onplant growth, accumulation of osmolytes (proline, sugars and ions), lipid peroxidation and electrolyte leakagewere investigated in colza (brassica napus l. cv. fusia) plants which were under water ...

heterocyclic systems are one of the most important classes of organic compounds present in nature or synthesized in laboratory. these compounds posses an array of biological activities and are employed in the treatment of commonly occurring diseases. keeping this in view, some new 2-amino-4,6-diarylpyrimidine from chalcones were synthesized. eight novel 2-amino-4,6-diarylpyrimidine derivatives ...

activated charcol phase loaded with 2-propylpiperidine-1-carbodithioate (ppcd) were synthesized based on chemical binding and physical adsorption approaches. the stability of a chemically modified ppcd especially in concentrated hydrochloric acid which was then used as a recycling and pre-concentration reagent for further uses of activated charcol immobilized ppcd. the application of this activ...

conclusions the rapid dissemination of non clonal multi-resistant ctx-m-1 producing e. coli isolates approved the need for further studies in our medical centers. results a total of 140(70%) non-duplicate esbl positive e. coli were determined. imipenem and amikacin were effective against 100% and 85% of all tested isolates respectively. co-resistance of esbl positive isolates to erythromycin, t...

objective(s): neuroinflammation in parkinson disease (pd) is associated with glial cells activation and production of different inflammatory cytokines. in this study, we investigated the effect of chronic administration of 8-oh-dpat on 6-ohda-induced catalepsy and levels of inflammatory cytokines in cerebrospinal fluid (csf).   materials and methods: catalepsy was induced by unilateral infusion...

this study was conducted to determine the effects of different levels and sources of copper supplementation on hematological values, ceruloplasmin and plasma copper, zinc and iron status in mehraban male lambs. twenty growing lambs were randomly allotted to four different treatments. treatments consisted of 1) 10 mg/kg cu in the form of cuso4, 2) 20 mg/kg cu in the form of cuso4, 3) 10 mg/kg cu...

physical activity has physiological, psychological, and social positive effects. however, the relationship between physical activities and depression of the elderly in the country is unknown. this study was designed to examine the relationship between physical activity and depression. the statistical population consisted of the elderly of arak city in 2013 and 263 subjects participate in the st...