background & aim: medicinal plants, since time immemorial, have been used in virtually all cultures as a source of medicine and ethnobotany has prevent to be a valuable method to find new herbal medicine and plant derived drugs. material & methods: this study determined medicinally important plants that are most frequently by the local inhabitants of sistan to treat human diseases. in ...

The region counting distances, introduced by Demaine, Iacono and Langerman [5], associate to any pair of points p, q the number of items of a dataset S contained in a region R(p, q) surrounding p, q. We define region counting disks and circles, and study the complexity of these objects. In particular, we prove that for some wide class of regions R(p, q), the complexity of a region counting circ...

introduction: there are suspended fungal spores in the air and in the nasal mucosa of adults, especially in areas with a humid climate. several studies have revealed the role of fungi in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis (crs) in recent years but it is a topic of controversy, especially in regions with low humidity. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of fungal species...

adult ureteroceles are generally known as simple ureteroceles with minimal obstructive effects 1 that can usually be managed endoscopically. such pathology presented with acute abdominal pain and fever in a 32-year-old man with left renal agenesia, a cranial blind left ureter and left obstructed ureterocele. the retained secretions were suppurative.

background: musculoskeletal disorders (msd) are concerned as costly health problems worldwide. rural people are more susceptible to musculoskeletal disorders. this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders and related factors among adult living in aq qalaian, iran. material and methods: this was a cross-sectional study which performed among 200 adult living in rural...

a recently described species of dysdercus, named dysdercus stehliki schaefer, 2013 (hemiptera: heteroptera: pyrrhocoridae), found in viçosa, minas gerais state, brazil, feeds upon the seeds of fallen fruits of sterculia chicha a. st. hil. (malvales: sterculiaceae). the biology and immature stages’ descriptions of d. stehliki were assessed in two environments: laboratory and field. individuals o...

nucleolar organizer regions (nor) are defined as nucleolar components containing a set of argyrophilic proteins which are selectively stained by colloidal silver nitrate staining. although studies have shown that the number of nor dots or particles is directly related to the rapidity of cell proliferation in cancer cells, prognostic or diagnostic value of nor remains controversial. the aim of t...