background and objectives: the wounds are still the health tribulations at the present time. in the present research the effect of a new herbal ointment (oppyheal) in treatment of rat’s wound has been investigated. the effectiveness of the ointment was compared with the fibrinolysin/dnase. methods: fifty four male wistar rats were used. the wound was created on the back cervical skin of the ani...

background echocardiography is widely used to diagnose or exclude cardiac disease. the reports on reference values based on an asian population are limited. objectives we conducted a study to determine normal values for two-dimensional, m-mode, and doppler echocardiographic measurements and evaluate the relationship between these parameters and age and gender in a large, healthy iranian populat...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: according to role of patient and family education in the process of patient care, joint commission on accreditation of healthcare organizations (jcaho) has considered the patient and family education standards in the hospital accreditation program; on the otherwise conducted researches show that the iran mini...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: providing free access to the latest research and more publishing channels, open access (oa) is hoped to decrease the south countries' information poverty and professional isolation. due to its particular importance, it is necessary to investigate how they exploit open access resources. methods: applying a cit...

after four years of publishing the iranian national laboratory standard and following a strategic plan to implement its requirements, it was decided to review the taken actions, evaluating the achievements and the failures, as well as analyzing the gaps and planning the interventional activities to resolve the problems. a thorough evaluation revealed that the progress of implementation process ...

We develop and test a model of social comparison in which individuals gain status through pro-social behavior (competitive altruism) and in which they endogenously choose the reference group and associated reference standard involved in signaling status (reference group selection). In our framework of private provision of environmental public goods, the optimal reference standard involves a bal...

Reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT‑qPCR) has become a frequently used strategy in gene expression studies. The relative quantification method is an important and commonly used method for the evaluation of RT‑qPCR data. The key aim of this method is to identify an applicable internal reference gene, however, there are currently no suitable reference genes for gene a...