The role of the intestinal microbiota in human health is gaining more attention since clear changes in the composition of the intestinal bacteria or environment are seen in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, allergy, autoimmune disease, and some lifestyle-related illnesses. A healthy gut environment is regulated by the exquisite balance of intestinal microbiota, metabolites, and the host...

Objective: The autoimmune diseases tend to coexist with diabetes mellitus type I (T1DM). The concomitance of these two types of diseases will lead to poor glycemic control beside their own complications. In this study the prevalence of thyroid disorder and celiac disease among T1DM patients in Yazd, Iran was evaluated. Materials and Methods: all the patients diagnosed as T1DM in Yazd younger t...

the role of microbiota in health and disease is the subject of rigorous investigation. several studies have demonstrated that microbiota and the pattern-recognition receptors contribute to intestinal tumourigenesis; the exact mechanism of which is still obscure. myd88 is the downstream effector of all toll-like receptors (tlrs) except tlr3. however, the alternative myd88-independent pathway is ...

hemorrhagic bowel syndrome is a highly fatal intestinal disease of adult dairy cattle with uncertain cause. in a dairy herd in khorasanrazavi province, northeast of iran, two cows showed depression, anorexia, decrease in milk production, ruminal hypomotility, bruxism and dehydration. at necropsy, massive hemorrhage and clot formation was observed within the jejunum and bacterial culture of the ...

materials for this study were consisted of 100 carcasses of broiler chickens aged 14 to 60 which had died from respiratory problems and/or gumboro disease with diarrhea. these carcasses were submitted from local poultry farms to the department of poultry diseases of the veterinary college of islamic azad university, tabriz branch for post mortem examination. intestinal faecal from colac and cec...