objectives this study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of afcl in improvement of hand photoaging in 25 patients. patients and methods a prospective, before- after, single blind study was conducted in 25 patients who presented for desired treatment of hand photoaging. patients received three treatments sessions with afcl. results all enrolled patients were female and received three treatment sessi...

based on experiments showing immunomodulatory effects of garlic (allium sativum l.), we sought to see whether allium hirtifolim boiss., belonging to the same genus of garlic, has any effect on immune responses. hydroalcoholic extract and polyphenolic fraction of a. hirtifolium bulbs were prepared. allicin (diallyl thiosulfinate), a biologically active component, was identified in plant bulbs by...

objective: leishmaniasis is one of the six most common parasitic infections in tropical regions. there are different therapeutic modalities. however therapeutic resistance is developed and resulted in numerous problems. so evaluation of other therapeutic modalities is performed extensively. we compared the therapeutic response of cutaneous leishmaniasis with glucantime and garlic extract and it...

conclusions male gender, history of hypertension, high nyha score, and the presence of cad predict lvef deterioration in patients with lbbb. objectives the present study aimed to identify underlying factors that predict left ventricular ejection fraction (lvef) deterioration in patients suffered from complete lbbb. patients and methods in a retrospective case-control study, the data of 220 cons...

background: increasing the complexity in modern radiotherapy techniques have increased the delivery time lowering consequently the treatment efficacy. through simulating the delivery time delay encountered in such techniques, its’ effect on two cancer cell lines and the compensating doses given to prevent such effect was investigated. materials and methods: f10b16 and 4t1 cancer cell lines were...

avicennia marina (avicenniaceae) is a species of mangrove tree used for treatment of small pox lesions in persian folk medicine. the antiviral activity of methanol, ethanol, water, chloroform and n-hexane extracts was evaluated against hiv-1 and hsv. methanol extract had the highest antiviral activity and the most polar fraction of this extract (fraction d) inhibited hsv with ti and si values o...

abstract soilless culture of greenhouse vegetables has been a fast developing section in iran during recent years. most growers use hydroponics systems with artificial substrates. some of the used substrates have low water retention which results in wasting a great deal of solution. on the other hand, low vigor of cucumber root in water and fertilizer absorption, especially in low media tempera...

background: this study aimed at estimating the proportion of diabetes as a risk factor to the attributable burden of cardiovascular diseases in iran. methods: comparative risk assessment methodology was used to calculating potential impact fraction (pif). to calculate pif, data on the prevalence of newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus (ndm) and known diabetes mellitus (kdm) were obtained from 3rd ...