bisphenol-a (bpa) is an industrial xenoestrogen used widely in our living environment. recently, several studies suggested that bpa has destructive effects on dna and chromosomes in normal body cells via estrogen receptors (er). therefore, bpa could be considered as an important mediator in many diseases such as cancer. however, there are still many controversial issues which need clarification...

in order to evaluate the effect of different mechanical treatments (application of sulphuric acid, boiling water and flooding) on seed dormancy breaking of licorice, an experiment was carried out in randomized complete block design in 2012. moreover, a factorial scheme in rcbd was performed to assess the application of giberalic acid and potassium nitrate treatment as well as stratification and...

we report herein the development of a highly sensitive colorimetric method for the detection of 4-hydroxy-2-mercapto-6-methylpyrimidine (mtu) which acts as an anti-thyroid drug utilizing citrate capped gold nanoparticles (au-nps). this thiol-containing molecule exhibits intriguing affinity with au-nps. the reactivity involves the displacement of the citrate shell by the thiolate shell followed ...

objective: periapical granulomas (pgs) and radicular cysts (rcs), as the most common odontogenic lesions have yet unclear pathogenesis. this study was aimed to compare pcna and ki-67 expression in pgs and rcs and evaluate their possible relationship with two lesions. methods: in this cross-sectional descriptive study, twenty pgs and twenty rcs were evaluated immunohistochemically using an anti-...

mercury is quantitatively retained with 1, 5-diphenylcarbazone (dpc) on microcrystallinenaphthalene in the ph range 6.5-8.5 from a large volume of aqueous solutions of various samples.after filtration, the solid mass consisting of the mercury complex and naphthalene was dissolvedin 5.0 ml of dimethylformamide (dmf) and mercury was determined by spectrophotometricmethod at 542 nm against the rea...

background: meict is the first chlorotoxin-like peptide isolated from the iranian scorpion mesobuthus eupeus. chlorotoxin (ctx) is a neurotoxin that specially binds to (mmp-2) on ma-lignant cells and now is used in treatment of glioma. in the present study, we have used homology modeling to propose the 3d structure of meictand analyze its interaction with mmp-2 and its snp types. methods:the st...

in order to investigate the effects of municipal waste compost and benefit fungi of trichoderma species on seedling emergence parameters, growth and some micronutrients uptake of garden cress a pot experiment was carried out in factorial arrangement based on randomized complete block design with 3 replications. treatments consisted of three levels of municipal waste compost (15, 30, 45 mg ha-1 ...