Background: Statins have been effective medications in lowering serum total cholesterol (TC) concentrations across populations over time. The aim of this study was to estimate national and provincial trends in atorvastatin sales in Iran, to systematically quantify its relationship with socio-economic indicators, and changes in TC level.   Methods : In this retrospective ecological study, cond...

The effect of nano silica (50 mL L−1) and melatonin (75 µM) individually or in combination foliar applications on the morphophysiological, biochemical yield properties pea plants under salinity stress conditions was evaluated. Salt caused a remarkable decrease growth characteristics; for example, plant dry weight, height, number flowers plant−1, pods weight 100 green seeds protein concentration...

Nano-fertilization is an emerging technology to improve agricultural productivity under diverse ecosystems. Our study was conducted investigate the effects of foliar fertilization silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on growth, enzyme activities and water use efficiency (WUE) lettuce (Lactuca sativa, L.) drought conditions. A pot culture with 4 AgNPs rates × 2 stress levels in a factorial combination r...

The combined effect of residential wood combustion (RWC) emissions with stable atmospheric conditions, which is a frequent occurrence in Northern Sweden during win-tertime, can deteriorate the air quality even in small towns. To estimate the contribution of RWC to the total atmospheric aerosol loading, the positive matrix factorization 5 (PMF) method was applied to hourly mean particle number s...

background: statins have been effective medications in lowering serum total cholesterol (tc) concentrations across populations over time. the aim of this study was to estimate national and provincial trends in atorvastatin sales in iran, to systematically quantify its relationship with socio-economic indicators, and changes in tc level.   methods : in this retrospective ecological study, conduc...

Salinity is a significant barrier to the healthy germination of seeds, development seedlings and ultimately yield crops. tolerance can be effectively induced through seed priming exogenous application various treatment agents. The vegetable crop okra well-liked one worldwide. Literature shows that salt stress negatively disturbs growth plants. In present research, we investigated effects citric...

The purpose of the present investigation was to study the effects of Ca 2+ on water relation of two wheat cultivars (Akbar and Kanchan) under salt stress. The two wheat cultivars were grown in pots with 0 and 150 mM NaCl salinity. Calcium was applied in the form of gypsum in 0.12, 0.24 and 0.36g pot -1 (that is 20, 40 and 60 kg ha -1 ) respectively. Salinity decreased RWC, WRC, exudation rate a...

objective(s): this study aims to investigate joint association between cholesterol ester transfer protein (cetp) polymorphisms and body mass index (bmi) or birth weight with the risk of dyslipidemia in iranian children and adolescents. materials and methods:this study was conducted as a sub-study of the “school-based nationwide health survey” (caspian-iii). we randomly selected 750 samples from...