When Karim met Nelson Mandela for the second time in 2000, he had his camera in tow, ready to capture a photo of him shaking the hand of his hero. Mandela later wrote the foreword to Karim and his wife's book, HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Karim has witnessed the emergence and exponential growth of the AIDS epidemic in his country, along with the concurrent explosion of tuberculosis. To reverse the...

background: the association between helminthic parasitic infection and cognitive function has long been recognized, however there are few reports about giardia lamblia infection. this paper describes a study about the effect of g. lamblia infection on the cognitive function. methods: one hundred thirty two children infected with g. lamblia from robat karim south of western tehran, iran were com...

aftab cultivar originated from national cereal breeding programs .the new cultivar  was evaluated in international high rainfall wheat yield trial nursery at gachsaran and gonbad agricultural research stations (2008-2009). due to optimum grain yield and other agronomic traits, the new cultivar was tested in advanced yield trials in gachsaran, ilam, khoram abad and gonbad research stations (2009...

Current strategies for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) involve tackling the formation or clearance of the amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) and/or hyper-phosphorylated tau, or the support and stabilization of the remaining neuronal networks. However, as we gain a clearer idea of the large number of molecular mechanisms at work in this disease, it is becoming clearer that the treatment of AD s...

A major obstacle to the development of effective treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is successfully delivery of drugs to the brain. We have previously identified a series of benzothiazole phosphonate compounds that block the interaction of amyloid-β peptide with amyloid-β binding alcohol dehydrogenase (ABAD). A selective and sensitive method for the presence of three new benzothiazole ABAD i...