abstractbackground and purpose nowadays, the application of antioxidants and plant growth regulators has discussed for decreasing the negative effect of different stresses. ascorbic acid and sodium nitroprusside have substance caused witch the resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. to evaluate the effect of ascorbic acid and sodium nitroprusside foliar application on some traits of safflowe...

fluoxetine, a widely used antidepressant, can affect the serum sodium level. the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare changes in the serum sodium level of depressive patients taking fluoxetine according to age.this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 126 patients with depression, dividing the patients into two age groups of 15 to 35 years, and above 55 years, who referred to psyc...

statement of problem: bacterial agents are the primary cause of pulpoperiapical diseases. therefore, an irrigating solution with proper antibacterial ability should be used to eliminate the bacterial agents during canal instrumentation. purpose: the aim of present study was to compare the antibacterial effect of 0.2% chlorhexidine to 0.5% sodium hypochlorite as canal irrigating solutions. mater...

backgrounds and aims: stroke incidence rate has increased during the past 2 decades. the question of whether calcium, chloride, potassium, sodium levels are associated with stroke has remained controversial. the present study aimed to evaluate the serum levels of potassium, sodium, calcium, and chloride within stroke patients. materials and methods: the study participants consisted of 53 cconse...

objective: to investigate possible immunological humoral correlates in newly diagnosed adult-onset generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy among iranian patients before and after sodium valproate treatment.   patients and methods: 72 adult patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy were recruited. serum antinuclear antibodies (ana), anti-cardiolipin antibodies (acl), a...

effects of sodium salt solutions on physicochemical and sensory characteristics of refrigerated persian sturgeon (acipenser persicus) fillets during 12 days of storage were investigated. fillets were dipped in solutions (2.5% w/v) of sodium acetate (sa), sodium lactate (sl), sodium citrate (sc) and distilled water (as control) for 10 minutes and then packaged. an assessment of tbars, ffa, ph, h...

results the level of gsh significantly decreased. in contrast, the plasma level of mda significantly increased in a dose dependent manner in crvi-treated rats, when compared to control animals. simv had no effect on the biochemical parameters when compared to control rats, but significantly increased gsh concentration and decreased mda level in crvi-treated rats. materials and methods sixty-fou...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the antimicrobial effects of 2.5% sodium hypochlorite (naocl), 2% chlorhexidine gluconate (chx) and biopure mtad (mtad) on enterococcus (e) faecalis -contaminated root canals of human extracted teeth. materials and methods: seventy human intact extracted single-rooted teeth with straight root canal randomly divided into 5 groups: positive contr...