Objective: Individuals suffering from hoarding disorder tend to collect objects, belongings, and riches excessively. They are not able to or do not want to throw away the throng of worthless and useless items they have aggregated. Some psychological factors, especially maladaptive schemas and immature defense mechanisms can play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of hoarding diso...

one of the best strategies to control bacterial wilt caused by ralstonia solanacearum (smith) is generally based on breeding resistant cultivars. the information obtained from the expression of plant defense genes will provide new insight for improving plant resistance against pathogens. this study was to identify inducible genes under defense no death (dnd) reaction of tobacco (nicotiana tabac...

objective: this study aimed to compare irrational beliefs, defense mechanisms and marital satisfaction in fertile and  infertile women. materials and methods: this study was a causal comparative survey performed on 30 fertile and 30 infertile women chosen by available and simple random sampling out of the whole clients referred to vali-e-asr reproductive health research center from february 200...

The Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an infectious disease caused by coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) and has affected people's lives globally, since first case was detected in Wuhan, China December 2019. pandemic turned the world’s attention to immune system, body’s defense mechanism against disease. Concept of Ojas well explained all ayurvedic classics, modern persp...

G. gynandra extract was found to potentially diminish the rate of lipid peroxidation, with a significant increase in the levels of enzymatic (superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione peroxidase) and non-enzymatic (reduced glutathione vitamins E and C, and uric acid) antioxidants, which were found, altered during aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) injection. The result confirmed that G. gynandra extract ...

animal models for h.pylori infection have been developed to clarify the pathogenesis, testing new therapies and developing vaccines against human h.pylori infection. although rats have been used extensively for gastric ulceration and acid secretion studies, the animal is not normally infected with h.pylori.several chemicals such as ethanol and ammonium hydroxide can induce gastric erosion and i...

protection of the mammary gland against mastitis-causing pathogens is mediated by many factors in thegland and blood circulation. the professional phagocytic cells of bovine udder, polymorphonuclearneutrophils (pmn) and macrophages, comprise the first line of defense against invading mastitis pathogens.most researchers now accept that the pmn is a key factor in the cows’ defense against intrama...