essential oils are volatile, natural, complex compounds formed by aromatic plants as secondary metabolites. in nature, essential oils play an important role in protecting plants in form of antibacterials, antivirals, antifungals, insecticides properties and also against herbivores. they also may attract some insects to use them in dispersion of pollens and seeds, or repel undesirable others. pr...

reovirus infections are actually related to a lot of disease conditions with different clinical manifestations. reoviruses have been isolated from a variety of tissues in poultry, suffering from different disease conditions including viral arthritis/tenosynovitis, stunting syndrome, respiratory disease, enteric disease, immunosuppression and malabsorption syndrome. economic losses related to re...

background: iran has a large group of patients with severe congenital factor xiii deficiency (fxiiid) and trp187arg mutation that is most disease causing mutation of fxiii in the world is only observed in southeast of iran with 352 patients with fxiiid. 743 patients with fxiiid was observed in 17 provinces of iran but tehran city with more than 12 million population has no any registered patien...

This study was carried out in south-west Tehran province to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices of men, Iranians and Afghan refugees, regarding reproductive health. A questionnaire was used for the assessment. Mean scores for knowledge, attitudes and practices for Iranians were 4.38/30, 13.89/20 and 12.99/31 respectively; for Afghans the scores were 3.79/30, 11.66/20 and 11.88/31. Alt...

All species of Filistatidae occurring in Iran are surveyed. Zaituniaakhanii sp. n. is described on the basis of female specimens collected in Tehran province, and the previously unknown male of Sahastatasinuspersica Marusik, Zamani & Mirshamsi, 2014 is described for the first time. Also, the endogynes of the holotypes of Zaituniaalexandri Brignoli, 1982, Zaituniamedica Brignoli, 1982 and Zaitun...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Kelishadi and her colleagues have done a great job for determining students' high risk behaviors (1) and have published part of this study as percentiles of aminotrans-aminases in Iranian children (2) These data are only from Iran, a country in Middle East and not children...

BACKGROUND AND AIM DAMA is a result of patient dissatisfaction, which increases the rate of readmission, mortality, and complications. In this study, the causes and predictors of DAMA in Shahid Labbafinejad Hospital of Tehran were determined. METHODS The descriptive and analytical study was conducted in 2016 from the information of 1,168 hospitalized patients in the period of 2015 and the fir...

Dr. Abass Alavi was born on March 15, 1938 in Tabriz, a city in Eastern Azerbaijan, north west province of Iran. After graduating from high school in 1957, he moved to Tehran and enrolled at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Following graduation from the medical school in 1964, and as part of the military obligation, he served in small communities in the outskirts of Tehran. In 1966, he tr...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala-azar mainly affects children in endemic areas. This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of VL using direct agglutination test (DAT) in children living in rural districts of Alborz Province located 30 km from Tehran capital city of Iran. Multi-stage cluster random sampling was applied. Blood samples were randomly collected from 1,007 children u...