BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic and usually asymptomatic infection. This study was carried out to investigate the seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma infection in women referred to Arak Marriage Consulting Center during 2012-2013. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, serum samples were collected from 400 women referred to Marriage Consulting Center in Arak City, Markazi Province, central ...

Plant-based diets contain a plethora of secondary metabolites that may impact on health and disease prevention. Much attention has been focused on the potential bioactivity and nutritional relevance of several classes of phytochemicals such as flavonoids, carotenoids, phytooestrogens and glucosinolates. Less attention has been paid to simple phenolic acids that are widely found in fruit, vegeta...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a worldwide concern and it is the major cause of liver disease. Several genotypes of the HCV have been reported from different regions of the world. The determination of the HCV genotypes is important for the prediction of response to antiviral treatment and clinical outcomes. So, HCV genotyping in each region is of great importance...

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is a supramolecular assembly that is inserted in the nuclear envelope (NE) and mediates nucleocytoplasmic transport (Fahrenkrog and Aebi, 2003; Tran and Wente, 2006). The NPC scaffold is characterized by distinct substructures that are arranged with an eightfold rotational sym­ metry (Stoffler et al., 1999; Beck et al., 2007). The NPC in the yeast Saccharomyces ce...

The transcription factor AraR controls utilization of L-arabinose in Bacillus subtilis. In this study, we combined a comparative genomic reconstruction of AraR regulons in nine Clostridium species with detailed experimental characterization of AraR-mediated regulation in Clostridium acetobutylicum. Based on the reconstructed AraR regulons, a novel ribulokinase, AraK, present in all analyzed Clo...

1 Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 14588, Iran 2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Arak University, Arak 38156-8-8349, Iran 3 Department of Physics, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 4 Luminous! Center of Excellence for...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Young Researcher and Elite Club, Arak-Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this work, partial answers to Reich, Mizoguchi and Takahashi’s and Amini-Harandi’s conjectures are presented via a light version of Caristi’s fixed point theorem. Moreover, we introduce th...

áeñ = 2.22 in the infiltrated one (reducing the contrast at the same time). After inversion the mean dielectric constant decreases to áeñ = 1.41 and, accordingly, the L pseudogap energy shifts upwards (see Fig. 5). The peak width is a function of both the dielectric contrast and the filling factor of the structure. Bare opals present a contrast eSiO2/eair = 2.1 that shifts to epolymer/eSiO2 = 1...

The worldwide prevalence of overweight and obesity in the adult population is estimated to be 35%. These trends are reflected in childhood obesity prevalence, and the potential impact of early-onset obesity is of great concern. The aim of this review was to investigate the long-term implications of childhood obesity for metabolic and cardiovascular health, focusing on the independent contributi...

The Convention on Biological Diversity commits the 177 signatory countries to conserve and sustainably use biological diversity. The long-term conservation of biodiversity requires an understanding of the processes that allow species to persist in natural as well as human-dominated ecosystems. During most of the 20th century, nature reserves and national parks have been a cornerstone in the pre...