Background: Osteoarthritis is the most common form of synovial joint diseases which affect old people all around the world and can lead to chronic pain and severe disability. The aim of present study was to investigate the therapeutic effect of swimming exercise on MIA-induced osteoarthritis in male rats’ knee joint. Methods: Eighteen Wistar male rats (weight of 173±1 g, 8 weeks old) w...

abstract the first purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consciousness-raising (c-r) activities on learning grammatical structures (simple present tense in this case) by iranian guidance school efl learners. the second one was to investigate the effect of gender on learning the simple present tense through c-r activities and tasks. finally, this study aimed to investigate the ...

Background: There is clear evidence to support the importance of regular physical activity and the use of antioxidants in the prevention or control of cardiovascular diseases, especially those that cause cardiac apoptosis. Our aim in this study was to determine the simultaneous effect of six weeks forced swimming and Crocin supplementation on the expression of 3 cardiomyocyte gene caspase in ma...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the effect of resistance and aerobic exercises with different intensities on BDNF & TrkB receptor gene expression in ovariectomized mice. Methods: Sixty 6 to 8-month old mice with average weight of 230 ±10 g were randomly divided into six 10-member groups: ovariectomized + high-intensity resistance exercises, ovariectomized + low-intensity resistan...

abstract the current study set out to address the issue as to whether the implementation of portfolio assessment would give rise to iranian pre-intermediate efl learner autonomy. participants comprised 60 female in pre-intermediate level within the age range of 16-28.they were selected from among 90 language learners based on their scores on language proficiency test -key english test. then, t...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingual teaching of cognate words (persian-english) on iranian upper intermediate efl learners’ knowledge of lexical development. for this purpose,100 subjects participated in this study out of which 40 learners were selected for this study and they were assigned into two groups, control and experimental. cross-language cognates (wor...

the present study aimed to investigate the possible effects of focused highlighted error feedback on grammatical accuracy of writing among iranian intermediate efl learners. after selecting 52 homogenous participants from among 70 university students attending azad university of rasht and randomly dividing them into two intact groups of 26 students, the researcher exposed the participants of th...

Background and aims: The use of herbal supplements along with exercise is common among people to treat chronic diseases and metabolic disorders. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of eight weeks of swimming training with CBD oil consumption on the expressions of NF-kB and 5-HT1A genes in the heart tissue of rats with myocardial infraction. Methods: In this experimental study, ...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...

the present research was conducted to explore the effect of employing two language teaching approaches, i.e. schema-based instruction (sbi) and translation-based instruction (tbi), on vocabulary knowledge, structure and reading comprehension ability of forty one female students learning english in grade one senior high school in rivash, kuhsorkh, iran. while sbi focuses on schemata, i.e. words ...