objective: perovskia abrotanoides karel, belongs to the family lamiaceae and grows wild alongside the mountainous roads inarid and cold climate of northern iran. the anti-tumor activity of p. abrotanoides root extract has been shown previously. this study was designed to examine in vitro anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects of flower extract of p. abrotanoides on mcf-7 and hela cell lin...

an investigation of chlorophyll quick fluorsence variations was made in the reaserch field of islamic azad university- karaj in 2007. the experimental design was a split plot one in form of a complete randomized block design with 4 replications. drought stress was cosiderded in three levels of 40%, 60%, and 75%, on the basis of depletion of soil moisture as the main factor and the factor of mic...

the physico-chemical characteristics and physiological qualities of palm (phoenix dactylifera) fruit strongly depend on the storage conditions. storage environment and packaging type are the factors most influencing on the quality of dates during their storage. date fruits were packed within an aerobic atmosphere, vacuumed in pa/pe pouches and stored at different temperatures (-20, 4, 25 and 40...

introduction: staphylococcus aureus (s. aureus) is a bacterium found on the skin and hair of people and animals. s. aureus could product some extracellular protein. materials and methods: one hundred and fifty s. aureus isolates that were collected from different resources were screened for the meca, tst-1, eta and etb genes by pcr. 50 isolates were selected from human staphylococcal isolates a...

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sugar beet is one of the most important crops in khorasan razavi, iran, which plays an important role in the economy of this province. so, it seems to be important to study the efficiency of the crop. to analyze the sugar beet efficiency information, two methods including data envelopment analysis (dea) and stochastic frontier analysis (sfa) methods were used. required data were collected from ...

this was a study to investigate quantitative and qualitative characteristics of fiber extracted from crossbred goats derived from female hair goats indigenous of qom and male cashmere goats of south of khorasan. from a total of 75 indigenous and cross goats aged 1-3, qualities such as the percentage of cashmere in fleece, percentage of hair in fleece, hair staple length, cashmere staple length,...

background: the pathogenesis of gestational trophoblastic disease (gtd) is not clearly known. objective: in this study, immunoexpression of proteins bcl-2 and beclin-1 in trophoblastic lesions and normal trophoblastic tissue was conducted to study the mechanism of apoptotic and autophagic cell death that is expected to complete the study of gtd pathogenesis. materials and methods: bcl-2 and bec...

architectural programming, as a realm in the design process, is considered to be one of the most valuable assets of the design research. through the use of architectural programming, a designer becomes familiar with different issues of the project and establishes his/her goals to produce an appropriate design solution. an ideal design solution requires a thorough understanding about the needs o...

the study of biochemical characteristics and metabolic activity of lactobacilli is necessary for selecting strains to be used as starter cultures for bread production. in this study, biochemical characteristics, acidification and probiotic properties of lactobacillus strains (lactobacillus plantarum, l. curvatus, l. paralimentarius) isolated from traditional sourdoughs were evaluated. all three...