background: we often see patients with a thin endometrium in art cycles, in spite of standard and adjuvant treatments. improving endometrial growth in patients with a thin endometrium is very difficult. without adequate endometrial thickness these patients, likely, would not have reached embryo transfer. objective: we planned this study to investigate the efficacy of intrauterine granulocyte co...

background: the present study was carried out to track and calculate biomagnification factor (bmf) of total mercury (t-hg) between two different trophic levels (i.e., plankton and a planktivorous fish) in a fresh water grazing food chain. methods: experimental organisms were planktonic biomass and silver carp (hypophthalmichthys molitrix) as a planktivorous fish. silver carp samples were obtain...

Bioaccumulation of Cu, Zn, Hg in muscles and liver tissues of stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) from the southern Caspian Sea was measured. Effects of condition factor (CF), age and hepatosomatic index (HSI) on metal accumulation were also determined. Some 40 stellate sturgeons were collected using gill nets in winter and spring 2007-2008 from the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. Total...

statement of the problem in recent years, amalgam has been considered a danger for dentistry personnel due to toxicity of mercury (hg) purpose this study aimed at investigating the relationship between scientific indices and dentists’ urine hg level through measuring its concentration rate among dentists with over four years of experience materials and methods thirty dentists with over four yea...

the purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of long-term low-dose administration of mercury (hg) on thyroid function in sheep. in this experiment, 10 clinically healthy, adult, male iranian sheep, aged approximately 1 year, were randomly allocated into the control (n=5) and mercury (hg-)-treated (n=5) groups. both groups were kept under identical conditions in terms of food and e...

hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (hspcs) which give rise to different blood cell types are present within the bone marrow microenvironment, especially in flat bones such as skull, vertebrae, pelvis and chest. interacting factors such as stromal derived factor-1/cxcr4, very late antigen-4/vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1/ intercellular adhesion molec...