statement of problem: early diagnoses of oral malignancies and pre-malignancies have direct effect in the outcome of these lesions. therefore the techniques for early diagnosis have been considered as useful method in practice. purpose: the aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability of oratest and generic toluidine blue (gtb) in the detection of oral malignancy and premalignancy. materia...

blue nevi are uncommon, asymptomatic lesions of the uterine cervix. these lesions are not often detected clinically or on colposcopy. careful histopathological examination is required. the nevus cells are said to originate from the immature melanoblasts of the neural crest. these lesions need to be differentiated from malignant melanoma and melanosis of the cervix. we present here a case report...

Verticillium wilt is a serious disease of pistachio caused by Verticilliumdahliae. Control of the disease is difficult due to soil borne nature of the causal agent. Verticillium wilt has been biologically controlled by Trichoderma spp. In the present study, Trichoderma spp. was isolated from soils of pistachio orchards and their effect was investigated on radial growth of Verticillium dahliae b...

To rapidly treat a large amount of air containing trace volatile organic compounds, we previously developed an air cleaner consisting of a continuous adsorption-anddesorption concentrator with a honeycomb rotor loading zeolite particles and a photocatalytic reactor with a parallel array of nine 6W blacklight blue fluorescent lamps. In the present work, this air cleaner was miniaturized and its ...

This study was designed to investigate the clinico-haemato-biochemical, rumen fl uid and peritoneal fl uid alteration in buffaloes with peritonitis. Buffaloes with peritonitis had anorexia, dehydration, abdominal distension, ruminal atony, pain, fever, reduced milk yield and loss of defecation. Pungent smelling peritoneal fl uid was yielded on abdominocentesis. Hemato-biochemical alterations re...

The development of porphyrin-embedded mesoporous organosilicate materials for application to the detection of volatile hydrocarbon solvents is described. Design of the receptor and optical indicator construct begins with parallel selection of the porphyrin indicator and design of the mesoporous sorbent. For the porphyrin indicator, high binding affinity and strong changes in spectrophotometric ...

the biological activity and composition of the essential oil of sclerorhachis leptoclada rech. an endemic species from northeast of iran was studied. the essential oil was isolated from the aerial flowering parts of the plant and analyzed by gc and gc-ms. fifty-four compounds accounting for 95.9% of the total oil were characterized. the main constituents were (e)-nerolidol (14.5%), terpinen-4-o...

background development of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria motivates the researchers to search for newer antimicrobial agents. objectives in the present study, antibacterial effects of cuminum cyminum linn. essential oil against multidrug resistant (mdr) escherichia coli strains isolated from urinary tract infections were studied, using microdilution method. materials and methods...