background: pregnancy is associated with unfavorable metabolic profile, which might in turn result in adverse pregnancy outcomes. the current study was designed to evaluate the effects of calcium plus vitamin d administration on metabolic status and pregnancy outcomes in healthy pregnant women. methods: this randomized double‑blind placebo‑controlled clinical trial was performed among 42 pregna...

objective(s) tuberculosis (tb) is the leading cause of mortality among the infectious diseases, especially in developing countries. one of the main goals in tuberculosis research is to identify antigens which have the ability of inducing cellular and/or humoral immunity in order to use them in diagnostic reagents or vaccine design. the aim of this study was to clone and express the tb'0.4 ...

background: alkyl hydroperoxide reductase (ahpc) of helicobacter pylori is considered as a diagnostic antigen. there­fore, this antigen can be used to detect h. pylori infection by stool immunoassays such as elisa. the aim of this study was to simplify the ahpc protein purification procedures. methods: for whole cell protein extraction, the bacterial cells were ruptured by octly-β-d glucopyrano...