background and aims: influenza vaccination is one of the best way to prevent and control influenza worldwide. it is manufactured by who-licensed companies based on the who expertise committee annually. the aim of this study was partial quality control of the commercial human influenza vaccine 2008-9 and its matching with the circulating strains. materials and methods: the trivalent imported vac...

mercury is one of the three major environmental metal poisons, and mercuric chloride is a highly reactive compound which can harm cells by a variety of mechanisms including direct interaction with sulphydryl groups of proteins and enzymes, therefore affecting the enzymatic activity. this study focused on the effect of hg++ on horseradish peroxidase (donor: hydrogen peroxide oxidoreductase, ec 1...

the aim of the present work was to purify cysteine protease inhibitors from rapeseed (brassica napus l.), with potential activity on digestive protease of colorado potato beetle (cpb), leptinotarsa decemlineata (say). ammonium sulfate precipitated proteinaceous fractions; 30, 50, 70, and 100% showed 39.07, 57.03, 51.47, and 22.44% inhibition on the fourth instar larval gut general protease acti...

introduction: executive functions, including inhibition and flexibility are important for many of human behavior. hence, emphasis has led to interventions to improved executive function. the aim of this study was examination of impact of cognitive inhibition training on flexibility performance of student with learning disability. materials and methods: the design of this study was a pretest-pos...

neural mass models are computational nonlinear models that simulate the activity of a population of neurons as an average neuron, in such a way that different inhibitory post synaptic potential (ipsp) and excitatory post synaptic potential (epsp) signals could be reproduced. these models have been developed either to simulate the recognized neural mechanisms or to predict some physiological fac...

there are many evidences that human serum paraoxonase activity modifies plasma lipid profile and paraoxonase has an antiatherogenic property. non-selective beta-blockers affect plasma lipid profile too, but they have atherogenic property when patients take these drugs in long term. in this study the effect of propranolol, a non-selective beta-blocker, on paraoxonase activity was investigated. l...

the corrosion inhibition characteristics of two synthesized schiff bases, namely n, n´-bis(2-hydroxy-6-nitrobenzaldehyde) benzidine  and n, n´-bis(salysylaldehyde) benzidine, on the mild steel corrosion in 2.0 m hydrochloric acid have been investigated by weight loss, potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy techniques. these studies were carried out at different ...

a fundamental study of scale formation of calcium carbonate (caco3) for producing oil wells hasbeen carried out. this article presents the study of the prediction of salt deposition in two differentsynthetic formation waters and investigates the effects of temperature and pressure on calciumcarbonate precipitation. the dependence of the induction period of the precipitation of calciumcarbonate ...

vanillin offers interesting possibilities for corrosion inhibition because of its safe use and highsolubility in water. the effect of vanillin on the corrosion inhibition of aisi 304 stainless steel in0.5m h2so4 solution has been studied using potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemicalimpedance spectroscopy (eis). furthermore, this paper demonstrates that the electrochemical noise(en) tec...

a dot immunobinding assay ( dia) was used for a quantitative and qualitative assay of rubella antibody. purified antigen and conjugated anti-human immunoglobulin (rahlg) were prepared. nitrocellulose paper dotted with the antigen was added to serially diluted sera or blood samples. the reacting antibodies were visualized by a peroxidase system. development of a colored insoluble substrate was t...