introduction: the aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of interaperitoneal injection of baclofen (gaba-b agonist) and cgp35348 (gaba-b antagonist) on serum testosterone concentration in aggressive rats exposed to electromagnetic field. methods: fifty five mature male rats weighing 200±20 grams were studied. animals were divided into 2 main groups and four subgroups. main groups...

background: fine-needle aspiration of breast cancer often provides moderate cellular material that is representative of the tumors. these samples can be used not only for cytological diagnosis but also to obtain information on the prognosis and likely response to therapy by using immunohistochemical staining studies. methods: we assessed the degree of correlation between prognostic biologic mar...

background: despite advances in the medical care of renal transplant recipients which have led to an improvement in allograft survival, renal allograft rejection is still a major ob-stacle to successful organ transplantation. understanding the mechanisms contributing to allograft rejection will be of great importance for the development of efficient antirejection strategies. objective: the aim ...

objective(s): herbal medicines are promising cancer preventive candidates. it has been shown that punica granatum l. could inhibit angiogenesis and tumor invasion. in this study, we investigated whether the anti-angiogenic effect of pomegranate peel extract (ppe) is partly attributable to peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (ppars) activation in the human umbilical vein endothelial cell...

baluchi sheep is considered as the most common breed in iran, constituting about 30% of total sheep population, approximately 15 million heads. this research was designed to study the incidence of mutation in two loci of igf-i (exon 3) and adrb3 (intron) along with their association with body weight traits in baluchi sheep population. following dna extraction from 190 baluchi sheep, two pairs o...

background and objectives: breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women in the world. the aim of this study was to assess estrogen receptor (er), progesterone receptor (pr) and her-2/neu of infiltrating ductal carcinoma (idc) with tumor size, histologic grade, lymph node metastasis and age. methods: this study was carried out on 300 tissue blocks ofpatients with idc who underwent mas...

background: the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease is complex and multifactorial. studies have led to the current concept that toll-like receptors represent key mediators of innate host defense in the intestine, and they are involved in maintaining mucosal as well as commensal homeostasis. we studied the possibility of simvastatin and antagonist of receptors of interleukin-1 for pharmac...

Introduction : The present study is aimed at investigation of the mechanism action a new 3-substituted thietane-1,1-dioxide derivative (N-199/1) exhibiting antidepressant properties, in several tests neuropharmacological interaction. Materials and methods To N-199/1, its effect on 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP)-induced head-twitch response (50 mg/kg 300 mg/kg), haloperidol-induced catalepsy (1 are...

Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs, [110]) (nomenclature as agreed by NC-IUPHAR sub-committee on Receptors, [20]) participate in the innate immune response to microbial agents, stimulation of which leads activation intracellular enzymes and regulation gene transcription. PRRs express multiple leucine-rich regions bind a range microbially-derived ligands, termed PAMPs or pathogen-associated mol...