background : spiritual well-being is one of the fundamental concepts in chronic diseases which create meaning and purpose in life and is an important approach in promoting general health and quality of life. this study performed to determine the level of spiritual health and its dimensions in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms). methods : 236 members of iranian ms society were volunteered to ...

abstract background: the study was established to define the prevalence of neonatal microcytosis and to estimate the incidence rate of alpha-thalassemia as its leading cause, in tehran, iran. materials and methods: overall, 800 neonates were selected from two populations of newborns and admitted neonates. three hundred and sixty-one cord blood samples were obtained from deliveries in mahdieh ho...

abstract background: childhood cancer as a life-threatening illness has negative consequences for both the patients and their family. the aim of this study was to examine the impact of child cancer on their mother's quality of life and to assess the association of quality of life with resilience among mothers of children with cancer. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a total...

introduction: gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (gnih) has been known as a key inhibitor of the secretion of gonadotropin releasing hormone (gnrh). ewe has estrous cycles comprising of follicular and luteal phases. follicular phase is in turn divided into proestrous and estrous phases. blood level of lh increases in follicular and decreases in luteal phases. the aim of the present study was to ev...

introduction: recent studies have shown the presence of cl- channels in heart and liver mitochondrial membranes. in this work, we have characterized the functional profile of a cl- channel from rat brain mitochondria. methods: after removing and homogenizing the rat brain, the supernatant was separately centrifuged in msedigitonin, h2o and na2co3 and mitochondrial inner membrane vesicles were o...

â  sayyed mohammad bagher hosseini * â  javad gholamalizade ** â  â  abstract â  â  the fourth and fifth centuries are known as the golden age of arab poetry in khorasan, in such a way that khorasan became a place for great poets and scholars from all over the islamic world. one of the poetic genres culminated in this period is usually created when human is faced with an affair that irritates h...

â  â  â  the image of women in shoghi’s poetry â  â  zahra soleymanpour * â  jafar delshad ** â  â  â  abstract â  â  from a long time ago, describing the woman as well as love and mania has allocated a large part of poets’ poetry to itself. it could be said that there is almost no poet some of whose poems are not related to women. moreover, love and affection are in fact common senses amon...

â  â  technical structure of complaint poetry until 3 a.h â  â  â  * gholam abbas rezai â  * * sherafat karimi â  â  abstract â  complaint refers to the poetic works in which the poet talks about the vehemence of his/her painful feeling. it is the description of pains, personal and social problems and in a way is confiding whatever has annoyed his/her soul and body. complaint can be categorized...

the cytoplasmic male sterile (cms) lines that are used in production of hybrid seeds in three-line system often get contaminated with their maintainer lines. using such impure cms lines in rice hybrid seed production lead to un-uniformity and yield loss in hybrid rice. laborious and time consuming phenotypic evaluations are used for elimination of off-type plants in cms multiplication farms. th...

abstract background and objective: it has been shown that oxidative stress increases in diabetes and it has an important role in its development and subsequent complications. thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acute resistance exercise on oxidative stress in skeletal muscle and cardiac tissues of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. materials and methods: twenty male ...