although candida albicans is the most common etiologic agent of candidiasis, c. dubliniensis, has been emerged, as another pathogen resembles c. albicans in many phenotypic aspects and noted for its in vitro potential for fluconazole resistance. since there was no evidence of any report about detection of this organism in iran, this study was designed to use of five different tests for identifi...

background due to a recent alarming increase in the number of hiv-hcv co-infected patients in romania. objectives a cross sectional study was conducted to assess the baseline predictors of liver disease evolution. patients and methods 83 hiv-hcv co-infected patients, untreated for hcv infection, were evaluated for viral replication, liver fibrosis (estimated by a noninvasive marker - fib4), and...

Background: Quantitative fluorescence-polymerase chain reaction (QF-PCR) is an inexpensive and accurate method for the prenatal diagnosis of aneuploidies that applies short tandem repeats (STRs) as a chromosome-specific marker. Despite its apparent advantages, QF-PCR is not applicable in all cases due to the presence of uninformative STRs. This study was carried out to investigate the efficienc...

background: in recent years, the success in management of thalassemic patients, has allowed for some previously unrecognized complications including renal abnormalities to emerge. this prospective study aimed to investigate kidney iron overload by means of mri t2* and also renal function based on laboratory tests for early markers of glomerular and tubular dysfunction among adult iranian transf...

bread-making quality in hexaploeid wheat is a complex trait for breeding programs. high molecular weight glutenin subunits (hmw-gs) have an important effect on dough stability and elasticity. the glu-1 loci that are encoded these subunits are located on the long arms of group-1 homologues chromosomes of the a, b and d genomes. in this work we used pcr-based dna markers to distinguish wheat brea...

In this work, an untargeted and pseudotargeted metabolomics combination approach was used for authentication of three shrimp species (Litopenaeus vanmamei, Penaeus japonicus, monodon). The monophasic extraction-based enabled comprehensive-coverage high-throughput analysis tissue revealed 26 potential markers. confirmed 21 markers (including 9 key markers), which realized at least putative ident...

Apricot is grown in a wide range of climatic conditions in Iran, however, it is frequently damaged by late spring frost. In this case, identification of new genotypes tolerant to cold stress is indispensably needed. The objective of this study was to evaluate the genetic population and relationships among 27 apricot accessions (Prunus armeniaca) by 30 microsatellite markers and 11 morp...