With allusions to Nietzsche, violent anti-GM organisms groups, nefarious ‘parallel scientists’ and numerous other actors and actions, Marcel Kuntz manufactures a bizarre alchemy to cast postmodernism as an ‘assault’ on science [1]. Whilst one can dispute his use of the ‘postmodern’ label itself and the idea that tolerance of ambiguity and diversity of opinion is a twentieth century phenomenon, ...

The effect of acetone extracts of Foeniculum vulgare Mill., seeds at different dose levels (50/ug, 150/ug and 250/ug/100gm body wt.) on mammary glands and oviducts of castrated rats was investigated. The extract was found to increase nucleic acids and protein concentration as well as the organ weights in both the tissues. The medium and high doses were very effective. The results confirm the es...

Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease To the Editor: We appreciate the editorial by Drs Popma, Kuntz, and Baim1 highlighting the recently published comparison of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry and the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) study.2 In particular, it is gratifying to have them reco...

anise hyssop is a prennial herb belonging to the lamiaceae family. essential oil of this plant is used in food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics industries as well as flavoring liqueurs. since water stress affects the growth, productivity, as well influences the active principles governing medicinal plants, in this research the effect of different water deficit stresses on such morphological traits a...

net photosynthesis rate (pn), stomatal conductance (gs) and transpiration rate (e) of anise hyssop were measured during the four cloudless days, in reference to diurnal fluctuations of leaf temperature (tleaf), leaf vapor pressure deficit (vpd leaf) and photosynthetic photon flux density (ppfd) in well watered (ww), stressed (s) and recovered (r) plants. an analysis of measured data showed that...

BACKGROUND In the Chinese traditional medicine, plant of Agastache rugosa (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Kuntze (A. rugosa) has been used to treat nausea, vomiting and dispel damp. However, currently, few reports about the chemical constituents, especially the non-volatile components of A. rugosa are available. METHODS Through separation with various column chromatographies to elucidate the chemical co...

introduction: to assess the efficacy of foeniculum vulgar, menthe longifolia and garlic in iranian children. methods and matherials: nine databases such as medline, scopus and the cochrane central register of controlled trials as well as domestic  database (persian) such as sid, iranmedex, magiran, medlib, irandoc, and google scholar were searched using keywords such as  “child” and “complement...