background: macrophages have important role in defense against herpes simplex virus type-1 (hsv-1). the present study was performed to determine the viability and nitric oxide (no) production by hsv-1 infected mouse peritoneal macrophages (him).   method: the viability of macrophages was evaluated using mtt reduction assay and the production of nitrite using griess method.   results: the abilit...

majd al-islam kermani was an intellectual clergyman and outstanding journalist of constitution period who spent his life on serving his country. he fought qajar despotic government, writing several articles in newspapers especially adab, even to be exiled to kalat. but after the constitutionalists got victory and the new government established, he published four newspapers in the name of nedaye...

A healthy policeman was prescribed bupropion in 2002 to help him stop smoking. It worked but after 18 months he relapsed. Though it had given him headaches and insomnia he tried using it again in 2009, [corrected] taking 150 mg/day. Three days after starting the tablets he took his wife out for dinner. They shared a bottle of wine and he also had other drinks. After walking home they quarrelled...

A previously healthy 5-weekold boy who was born at term is brought to the emergency department. His mother reports that she had placed him on his side with a support pillow after breast-feeding him before she went to take a shower. Upon returning to check on him, she found him in prone position, with his nose and mouth in the mattress, “struggling” to breathe; his face was red. The mother thoug...