background: resistance to antiepileptic drugs as well as intolerability in 20-30% of the patients raises demand for developing new drugs with improved efficacy and safety. acceptable anticonvulsant activity, good tolerability, and inexpensiveness of docosahexaenoic acid (dha), make it as a good candidate for designing and development of the new anticonvulsant medications. methods: ten dha-based...

gracilariopsis persica (rhodophyta) is one of the most abundant algae, introduced newly from the indian ocean. in this study,   the main sterols of the algae have been isolated and identified. separation and purification of the compounds was carried out on silica gel and sephadex lh20 column chromatography (cc) and high performance liquid chromatography (hplc) to obtain five pure compounds 1-5....

vibration generated by vehicles during road transport has an important effect on the agricultural products damage process, particularly vegetable and fruit. modulus of elasticity is one of the most important mechanical properties of fruits and its variation can be described as one of the damage criteria during transportation. this research was conducted to evaluate the effects of vibration para...

Estimation and comparison of effective compounds (mineral contents, amino acids compositions, fatty acids distributions, protein, fat and total fiber contents) in two algae species Sirophysalis trinodis and Polycladia myrica collected from Qeshm Island were done. The samples washed up with tap water and then were dried in an oven at 40 ◦C for 3 days. The dried algae samples were pulverized and ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are associated with the conformational conversion of the prion protein from the cellular form (PrP(C)) to the scrapie form. This process could be disrupted by stabilizing the PrP(C) conformation, using a specific ligand identified as a chemical chaperone. To discover such compounds, we employed an in silico screen that was based on the nuclear magnetic ...