eristalis tenax , belonging to order diptera, family syrphidae seldomly causes in­tes­tinal myiasis. intestinal myiasis caused by e. tenax larvae is a rare manifesta­tion found in both humans and other vertebrate animals. we report a 22-year-old woman presented with this myiasis. the larva in her stool sample was identified as e. tenax related to its typical morphology and authentic clues. lack...

Abstract Photodynamic therapy involves the concomitant action of three components, light with an appropriate wavelength, molecular oxygen, and a molecule, able to absorb electromagnetic radiation, called photosensitizer (PS). A fundamental aspect is bioavailability PS that directly related some physicochemical properties itself as it should feature certain degree lipophilicity easily cross cell...

medicinal plants were used from past to present. different small arthropods such as acari were found on these plants. therefore a study on the acari fauna associated with some medicinal plants (family: asteraceae) in hamedan region was carried out during 2008–2009. in this survey, 23 species belonging 18 genera from 15 different families of the subclass acari were collected and identified. two ...

the chloroform soluble fractions of ethanolic extracts of five inula belonging to the compositae family were evaluated for cytotoxic activity against five different cell lines including caco2 (human colon adenocarcinoma), mcf7 (human breast adenocarcinoma), hepg2 (human hepatocellular carcinoma), vero (green african monkey kidney) and wehi164 (balb c mouse fibrosarcoma). cytotoxicity was assess...

Family is one of the most important grounds of crime and crime victimization development. The experts, welfare workers, lawyers and sociologists argue that the factor or factors should be identified that provide the kind of conditions under which the individuals abuse, tolerate or accept the crime in order to secure the society, reduce the social harms and finally propose the procedures to refo...