INSPIRATION Investigators; Saeideh Mazloomzadeh; Shiva Khaleghparast; Behshid Ghadrdoost; Mostafa Mousavizadeh; Mohammad Reza Baay; Feridoun Noohi; Hamidreza Sharifnia; Arezoo Ahmadi; Sasan Tavan; Nasser Malekpour Alamdari; Fathi; Mahshid Soleimanzadeh; Mostafa; Navid Davoody; Maryam Zarinsadaf; Sara Tayyebi; Fahimeh Farrokhzadeh; Faeze Nezamabadi; Esmaeil Soomari; Parham Sadeghipour, MD; Azita...

The built environment exhibits a strong connection to novel diseases and viruses. Diseases have been hugely influenced in shaping cities. Nonetheless, now cities are on the front lines of COVID-19 crisis. However, impact has, so far, geographically socially diverse; with high concentration urban poor deep inequalities potentially more vulnerable than those that better resourced, less crowded, i...

background: studies concerning ticks were of interest to evaluate the distribution and composition of species affecting live stock, thus it was a main step in our knowledge of the pathogens that they may transmit by tick. methods: a collection of 21 adult female and 15 male hard ticks, all is representing a single species of tick collected under the tail of wild goat. the specimens preserved in...

Introduction Pakistan it was that first drew the attention of the world to the madrassas – Islam’s most enduring institution for the reproduction of a class of the custodians of Islamic learned tradition – and Pakistan it is that continues to hit the international headlines implicating these madrassas in radical religiopolitical rhetoric, sectarian violence, militancy, and even outright terrori...

YggB and MscL are the major mechanosensitive channels in Escherichia coli, and each can rescue the double knockout mutant from osmotic downshock. However, the role of MscL in wild-type bacteria is in question, not only because cells without MscL survive severe osmotic downshocks, but because 1.8 times more suction is required to gate MscL than YggB under patch clamp. Here, we extend previous ev...

BACKGROUND Nearly 18,000 candidates securing 60% and above marks in Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) examination contest for admission in Medical Colleges, in Punjab, Pakistan by sitting in the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) each summer. This cross-sectional study was conducted to identify patterns related to demographic, economic and educational backgrounds, over a two-year-pe...

Introduction and Aim: Repetition and imitation are among the oldest second language (L2) teaching approaches and are frequently used in the context of L2 learning and language therapy, despite some heavy criticism. Current neuroimaging techniques allow the neural mechanisms underlying repetition and imitation to be examined. This fMRI study examines the influence of verbal repetition and imitat...

Defects in the photoreceptor-specific gene encoding aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein-like 1 (AIPL1) are clinically heterogeneous and present as Leber Congenital Amaurosis, the severest form of early-onset retinal dystrophy and milder forms of retinal dystrophies such as juvenile retinitis pigmentosa and dominant cone-rod dystrophy. [Perrault, I., Rozet, J.M., Gerber, S., Ghazi, I.,...