BACKGROUND Due to negligence, Persian (Iranian) traditional medicine has had a weak presence in the world of research for a long time. However, in recent years, a variety of activates by research and faculty centers have created awareness and a platform to introduce and promote Persian medicine to the world. The aim of this study is to present and analyze scientific achievements of Persian medi...

Abstract BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of Echinococcus granulosus in the definitive host particularly in dog is the significant complication in the endemic area. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is serological detection of E. granulosus in the infected dogs. METHODS: Dot-ELISA based on the copro-antigen and recombinant EPC1 antigen (rEPC1) for antibody detection was performed. Blood and fecal samples ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the pituitary gland dimensions due to age and weight using computed tomography (CT) in dogs and cats. The CT images of pituitary gland were assessed in 11 client-owned dogs (six males and five females; age range, 1 to 9 years) and 15 client-owned cats (eight males and seven females; age range, 1 to 14 years) with no evidence of pituitary diseases. The...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate if three-dimensional power Doppler (3DPD) ultrasound (US) can detect bacterial cystitis in dogs better than two-dimensional (2D) US. Animals: Six mixed breed dogs Procedures: Ten ml of 0.1% alcoholic solution of salicylic acid was entered into the urinary bladder of six male mixed-breed dogs by catheter. Twenty four hours later, culture sol...

the present study was carried out to determine whether helicobacter spp. infection in dogs could affect lesions caused by the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids), aspirin and celecoxib. thirty asymptomatic mixed-breed dogs were used for this study. gastric biopsies were taken via gastroscopy and evaluated by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and rapid urease tests (rut). helicobacter s...

the aim of the present study was to compare the effects of hypericin and fluoxetine in the treatment of companion dogs with tail chasing in ahvaz district. in the present survey, eighteen dogs with tail chasing were assigned into three equal groups for a three-year period. the dogs were randomly classified based on different treatment groups. during 15 weeks, dogs of group a were given 0.05 mg ...

in order to determine prevalence of echinoccocus and other intestinal helminths infection one hundred stray dogs were examined in mashhad area, khorasan province of iran. helminths were collected from intestinal contents obtained at the time necropsy. ninety one percent of the dogs were infected by different helminths. the prevalence of echinococcus granulosus was (22%). eighteen (81%) of infec...

the most frequent form of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in dogs is represented, histologically, by lymphoplasmacytic enteritis (lpe), a histological category, often associated with other morphologic alterations including lymphangiectasia (le). however, literature data on this latter topic are quite scarce and have mostly been obtained in single reports or in small series. currently, there ar...