Urtica dioica is an ethnobotanically and medicinally important Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) plant worldwide and in Turkey; 90 % of herbal CAM applications depend on it in Turkey. It has a wide range of habitats in nearly all continents. It is found in all three phytogeographical regions in Turkey (Euro-Siberian, Irano-Turanian, Mediterranean) with high adaptivity to heterogeneou...

Teucrium (Lamiaceae) is a large and polymorphic genus distributed mainly in Europe, North Africa and in the temperate parts of Asia. In this study, the anatomical features of the leaf and stem of Teucrium polium are investigated. Teucrium has 19 taxa in Iran, which mainly grow in the Irano-Turanian region between 700 and 2000 m above sea level. T. polium belonging to sect. Polium, is a perennia...

Responding to an enquiry concerning the geographic population structure (GPS) approach and the origin of Ashkenazic Jews – a reply to Flegontov et al. Abstract Recently, we investigated the geographical origins of Ashkenazic Jews (AJs) and their native language Yiddish by applying a biogeographical tool, the Geographic Population Structure (GPS), to a cohort of 367 exclusively Yiddish-speaking ...

This study assessed the floristic composition, biological spectrum, and phytogeographical elements of Bin Dara western boundary Pakistan. The flora consisted 140 plant species belonging to 47 families. most dominant family was Poaceae (with 14 species), followed by Asteraceae (11 species). spectrum showed therophytes (71 species, 50.71%) as life form class, mega-phanerophytes (27 19.28%), nano-...

fish biodiversity investigation in urmia basin which is a part of irano-anatolian hot spot aimed to determine the state of fish in this endorheic basin. based on the obtained results, freshwater fish species of the urmia basin comprise 29 species in 25 genera, 7 families, 5 orders and one class. the most diverse order is the cypriniformes with 23 species (79.31%) followed by salmoniformes and p...

Abstract Background Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR)2 overexpression on glioblastoma endothelia serves as a target for VEGFR2 primed T cells using VXM01 DNA vaccine encoding VEGFR2. is delivered in bacterial Ty21a carrier suitable oral administration. A previous phase I/II study 14 patients with progressive showed positive correlation of specific well altered intra-tumoral im...