sheeppox virus (spv) and goatpox virus (gpv) belong to the capripoxvirus genus of poxviridae family. sheeppox and goatpox along with contagious ecthyma (ce) are endemic diseases in iran. capripox laboratory conformation based on virological and serological techniques are time consuming, laborious and most of them of low specificity, because of close antigenic relationship between capripoxvirus ...

obesity is currently considered as a serious global health problem which is influenced by environmental and genetic factors. association of genetic variants with obesity is widely scrutinized in recent years. the aim of this study was to evaluate present data on genetics of obesity in iranian population in a systematic review study. to obtain all related studies, google scholar, pubmed, and per...

background: ovarian tissue cryopreservation is an alternative strategy to preserve the fertility of women predicted to undergo premature ovarian failure. this study was designed to evaluate the expression of folliculogenesis-related genes, including factor in the germline alpha (figla), growth differentiation factor-9 (gdf-9), follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (fshr), and kit ligand after v...

endo-derived nitric oxide (no) is synthesized from l-arginine by endothelium nitric oxide synthase (enos). since reduced no synthesis has been implicated in the development of coronary atherosclerosis; we hypothesized that polymorphisms of nos gene might be associated with increased susceptibility to this disorder and coronary artery disease (cad). we studied the 27 base pair tandem repeat poly...

introduction: association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in mu opioid receptor gene and drug addiction has been shown in various studies. here, we have evaluated the existence of polymorphisms in exon 3 of this gene in iranian population and investigated the possible association between these mutations and opioid addiction.  methods: 79 opioid-dependent subjects (55 males, 24 fe...

conclusions: it was concluded that increasing the concentration of zinc in the agricultural soil is harmful to beneficial microorganisms and reduces the soil fertility. a 20-ppm zinc concentration in soil is suggested to be optimal. background: zinc is an essential micronutrient used in the form of zinc sulfate in fertilizers in the agriculture production system. nitrogen-fixing microorganisms ...

Mutations in >50 genes, including spastin and atlastin, lead to hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). We previously demonstrated that reduction of spastin leads to a deficit in axon regeneration in a Drosophila model. Axon regeneration was similarly impaired in neurons when HSP proteins atlastin, seipin, and spichthyin were reduced. Impaired regeneration was dependent on genetic background and w...

Objective(s): The aim of this study was to investigate the methylation status and mRNA expression levels of P15, death-associated protein kinase (DAPK), and suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS1) genes in multiple myeloma (MM). Materials and Methods: The bone marrow samples of 54 MM patients were collected and the methylation status of the P15, DAPK, and SOCS1 gene promoter regions was dete...

conclusions the analysis of the pro-apoptotic gene to anti-apoptotic gene expression ratio (bad /bcl-xl) confirmed that expression of the pro-apoptotic gene significantly decreased (p value ˂ 0.001) under the ischemia/reperfusion condition. in contrast, the expression of the anti-apoptotic gene increased after administration of fk-506 (p value ˂ 0.001). results the quantitative results of real-...

background: spinal muscular atrophy (sma) is the second most common lethal autosomal recessive disease. it is a neuromuscular disorder caused by degenerative of lower motor neurons and occasionally bulbar neurons leading to progressive limb paralysis and muscular atrophy. the smn1 gene is recognized as a sma causing gene while naip has been characterized as a modifying factor for the clinical s...