background: while in the open air the amount of radon gas is very small and does not pose a health risk, in confined spaces, radon can accumulate to relatively high levels and become a health hazard. exposure to high levels of radon has been associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, depending on the time length of exposure. radon level in dwelling of shiraz with 1,200,000 populations ha...

background: exercise has positive and negative effects on immune system. herein, we would like to investigate the effects of incremental aerobic training and fish oil supplementation on the plasma levels of crp, cpk and il-17 in trained mice. one of the major roles of immune system is to produce soluble or cellular components that provide the immunity against inflammatory agent. the purpose of ...

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...

in this work, bsea-sba-15 was prepared for the first time, which was prepared by covalently anchoring schiff-base compound (n,n´-bis(salicylidene)ethylenediamine (bsea) on sba-15 by hydrothermal method. the structure and physicochemical properties were determined by elemental analysis, xrd, nitrogen adsorption–desorption, thermogravimetric analysis and ftir spectroscopy, sem, bet surface area a...

background and purpose: the aim of this research is to determine the factors contributing to academic attrition among day – course students of lorestan university of medical sciences. methods: in this case – control study all the day – course students who had at least one semester of an average mark under 12 in academic year 2000-2001 were chosen and then the same number of students with an ave...

introduction: for thousands of years, plants have been used as the main source of drug worldwide. recently, it has been found out that the plant artemisia annua and especially its derivatives such as artemether have anticancer properties. methods: in this study, the anticancer effect of artemether on mcf-7 breast cancer cell line was examined. mtt assay was used to assess the viability of cance...

objective(s): ten-eleven translocation (tet) family members have been shown to be involved in the development of many tumors. however, the biological role of the tet family and its mechanism of action in colorectal carcinogenesis and progression remain poorly understood. materials and methods:we measured the expression levels of tet family members in colorectal cancer (crc) specimens, in the co...

chemical constituents of the essential oil of flowers of lavandula officinalis chaix. growing in isfahan, iran, were studied by tlc and gas chromatography-mass specrtometery (gc-ms) methods. twelve components which constitute 94.8% of the examined oil were identified. the main constituents were linalool (34.1%), 1,8-cineole (18.5%), borneol (14.5%), camphor (10.2%), terpinen-4-ol (4.5%), linaly...

background and objectives: feline herpesvirus-1, feline calicivirus and chlamydophila felis are the main causes of feline upper respiratory tract disease. this study was conducted to identify of fehv-1, fcv and c. felis infections in domestic cat population and also to estimate the prevalence of each specific infection in iran. materials and methods: the ocular conjunctiva and oropharyngeal spe...

background and aims: during the last years a new foreskin cell line strain (rfsc) has been isolated, characterized and stored in a representative cell bank stock in liquid nitrogen as a part of hcb (human cell bank) development program in razi institute. materials and methods: the cell population was serially passaged for mass production purpose based on who schedule .the controls on pool sampl...