The domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, is of high commercial importance as a silk producer and is also widely used for implementation of basic and applied research. It is important to understand its genome organization using molecular markers for genetic studies and for breeding purposes. In this study, a genetic linkage map using 204 amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers was d...

The current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of explicit instruction of metadiscourse markers on advanced, intermediate, and elementary EFL learners’ writing performance. The participants of the study were 94 undergraduate students majoring in English Literature at the University of Isfahan. To elicit the relevant data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check ...

Meta-discourse markers are an inevitable part of oral proficiency which improve both the quality and comprehension of learners’ speech. While studies of oral meta-discourse have been conducted since the 1980s in a European or US context, they have remained relatively untouched in Iran. Therefore, this study aimed to seek the impact of both explicit and implicit teaching of formal meta-discourse...

in this study, genetic diversity of 20 wheat genotypes was evaluated using 126 simple sequence repeats (ssr) alleles, covering all three wheat genomes. a total of 1557 allelic variants were detected for 126 ssr loci. the number of alleles per locus ranged from 4 to 19 and the allelic polymorphism information content (pic) varied from 0.66 (xgwm429) to 0.94 (xgwm212 and xgwm515). the high­est po...

objective: to determine the diagnostic value of blood cells surface markers in patients with acute appendicitis. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 71 patients who underwent appendectomy following a diagnosis of appendicitis were recruited during a one-year period. the patients were divided into two groups: patients with histopathologically confirmed acute appendicitis and subjects with no...

conclusions combination of creatine monohydrate and exercise attenuated inflammation and endothelial dysfunction markers among heart failure patients. patients and methods one hundred patients were prospectively randomized into two groups: intervention group which received 5 grams/day creatine monohydrate and exercised for 8 weeks; and control group which did not receive any interventions. inte...

Objective(s): Mutations in the UGT1A1 gene are responsible for hyperbilirubinemia syndromes including Crigler-Najjar type 1 and 2 and Gilbert syndrome. In view of the genetic heterogeneity and involvement of large numbers of the disease causing mutations, the application of polymorphic markers in the UGTA1 gene could be useful in molecular diagnosis of the disease. Materials and Methods: In the...

the extracts of piper sarmentosum, a medicinal plant, are being used to prepare phytopharmaceuticals while the information about chemical kinetics of constituents of the extract is unavailable to assign precise shelf life (t90) and find optimum storage conditions of the product for patient safety, and to avoid economic repercussions of launching an unstable product. the extract was exposed to t...