the freshwater crayfish of the aras reservoir is an important economic fisheries resource of west azarbaijan, iran. this study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of parasitic infestation of crayfish seasonally in this area in 2010. among 390 different sizes of astacus leptodactylus which were examined,  a range of ectocommensals or ectosymbionts from a number of different phyla including ...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous angioplasty (PTA) and stenting is an established procedure for the treatment of hypertension caused by atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. However recently, the decision whether or notto perform this procedure has raised considerable debate. OBJECTIVES To examine the association between the basic clinical and radiological characteristics of candidates for renal arte...

INTRODUCTION Systemic sclerosis (SSc) (scleroderma) is a complex autoimmune disease that clinically manifests as progressive fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. Anti-centromere antibodies (ACAs), anti-topoisomerase antibodies (ATAs), and anti-RNA polymerase III antibodies (ARAs) are three mutually exclusive SSc-associated autoantibodies that correlate with distinct clinical subsets charac...

Bu çal??mada 2005-2018 dönemi G-20 ülke grubu için insani geli?me endeksi, ticari d??a aç?kl?k ve ekonomik büyüme aras?ndaki ili?kilerin panel veri analizi kapsam?nda incelenmesi amaçlanm??t?r. Çal??mada, yatay kesit ba??ml?l???, homojenlik, e?bütünle?me nedensellik testleri yap?larak geni?letilmi? ortalama grup tahmincisi ile hata düzeltme modeli tahmin edilmi?tir. Çal??ma sonucunda ki?i ba?? ...

water user cooperatives were formed due to consideration to people's empowerment and participation in water investment and management. the purpose of this study was to investigate the mechanisms of development and strengthening of water user cooperatives in the aras river basin. the study population consisted of the management board members of the water user cooperatives in the aras basin in th...

some 190 specimens of sefidrud loach, oxynoemacheilus bergianus , were collected from aras river (northwestern iran) and age, size, and some biological characteristics of the samples were investigated from march to july 2013. the maximum age was 3 + years. the specimens ranged in size from 42 to 64mm for males and 45 to 61mm for females in total length, weighing from 0.62 to 2.03g for males and...

this study was conducted in order to investigate genetic diversity and population structure of pike-perch in the northern part of iran. for this purpose, 207 adult pike-perches from four regions of the caspian sea watershed (talesh coasts, anzali wetland, chaboksar coasts and aras dam) were collected. dna was extracted and by using 15 pairs of microsatellite primers, polymerase chain reaction (...