conclusions candida strains isolated from newborns, elderly patients, and intensive care patients, identified and isolates from blood cultures, should be studied for antifungal susceptibility for management of the treatment. our university hospital is a recently opened center and these are the first data of our center. gradually, as the number of patients increases, this data will be evaluated ...

background candiduria is one of the most common symptoms of urinary tract infections caused by several species of candida spp. several antifungals are available to treat such candidal infections. during the last decades, resistance to antifungal especially to non-albicans species has increased. objectives the present study aimed to evaluate the susceptibility to antifungal drugs of candida spec...

infertility is one of the most stressful conditions amongst married couples. male factor infertility is implicated in almost half of these cases. recent advances in the field of reproductive medicine have focused the attention of many researchers to consider reactive oxygen species (ros) as one of the mediators of infertility causing sperm dysfunction. although, ros is involved in many physiolo...

medicinal species of mountain’s kelavs, scientifically named (kelussia odoratissmia mozaffar.) is an endemic species in iran. kelussia odoratissima is a perennial species and belongs to the umbelliferae. from the ancient times, the local and nomad societies had believed that the species traditionally have anti-ache, anti-inflation and anti-cough effects. seed and root of this species are boiled...

incorporation of copper species into silica matrix was performed by the sol-gel method. copper ions and copper particles were doped using two different copper sources; cu(no3)2.3h2o and copper particles chemically synthesized.the particles of copper metallic, cuprous and cupric oxide were prepared and the synthesis and characterizations of copper species were compared together. on the other han...

medicinal use of the opium poppy (papaver somniferum l) has ancient history, but the isolation of morphine was not described until the early nineteenth century. morphine is the most important alkaloid of opium poppy in the last 50 years. in the morphine pathway has been reported to generate morphine in this species, codm has a crucial role as the gene coding the enzyme responsible for demethyla...

the germination power of orchids (orchidaceae family) seems to betoo weak due lack of albumen. the study carried out with various treatments including pollination time and ga3 for breaking dormancy and increasing seed germination of orchids. the effect of pollination time (8 periods from january to august) and gibberellic acid (0, 500, 1000 and 1500 mg l-1) were studied on germination of phalae...