this study aimed to determine biological activity and phytochemical study of scutellaria platystegia (family labiatae). methanolic (meoh) extract of aerial parts of s. platystegia and spe fractions of methanolic extract (specially 20% and 40% methanolic fractions), growing in east-azarbaijan province of iran were found to have radical scavenging activity by dpph (2, 2-diphenyl -1- pycryl hydraz...

toxoplasmosis is an important zoonotic diseases in human and animals. the disease caused by the protozoan toxoplasma gondii. to determine the infection rate of toxoplasmosis in sheep and goats in east azarbaijan province of iran a total of 186 sera, 13 fetal brains, 13 cotyledons and 34 whole blood samples were collected from sheep and goats in tabriz abattoir during the year 2010. serum sam...

an entomopathogenic nematode was isolated by galleria baiting technique from soil samples collected near marand, east azarbaijan province, north-west of iran during 2003. based on morphological and morphometric characters, as well as molecular data it was identified as steinernema bicornutum tallosi, peters & ehlers, 1995. morphometrics comparison of the isolate with the type species showed no ...

in order to possibility of improving physiological traits, yield and yield components of safflower (carthamus tinctorius cv. sina) by anti-transpiration application in rainfed condition, a research was carried out in factorial based on randomized complete block design (rcdb) with three replications in miyaneh region (east azarbaijan province - iran) in 2011. the treatments antitranspirant rate ...

background: lactic acid bacteria play a key role in sourdough fermentation. lactobacilli are the most important group of lactic acid bacteria in sourdough. therefore, the main objective of this study was to identify lactobacillus strains in iranian traditional wheat sourdoughs as a basis for further studies on the technological applications in the production of typical breads. methods: fourteen...

On 26 May 2015, an imported Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was identified in Guangdong Province, China, and found to be closely related to the MERS-CoV strain prevalent in South Korea. The full genome of the ChinaGD01 strain was sequenced and analyzed to investigate the epidemiology and evolution of MERS-CoV circulating in South Korea and China.

the aim of this study is to assess the concentration of nitrate in groundwater resources of the kordkandi-duzduzan plain and to evaluate the vulnerability of the groundwater using avi and gods methods. kordkandi-duzduzan plain is located in east azarbaijan province in the northwest of iran, which groundwater is important for drinking and agriculture in the region due to scarcity of suitable sur...

The objective of this study was to identify Acinetobacter in a traditional cheese from west Azarbaijan, Iran, and to study the lipolytic and proteolytic activities of these bacteria in ripening of white brine cheese. Acinetobacter is a gram negative bacteria which can be found in different sources as dairy products. Lypolysis and proteolysis characteristic of this bacteria and...

During January 2013-August 2014, a total of 1,800 patients in Iran who had respiratory illness were tested for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. A cluster of 5 cases occurred in Kerman Province during May-July 2014, but virus transmission routes for some infections were unclear.